Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS Casper College invites applications for the ninth annual lecture in the Margaret Demorest Lectures in the Humanities to be held in Casper, Wyoming, spring semester, 1994. The honorarium is $1,000 plus travel expenses . Humanities scholars are invited to submit lecture proposals that examine the role of the humanities in producing change in all aspects of society. Proposals with multi-cultural aspects are especially encouraged. The Demorest Lecturer will present a keynote speech around which Casper College will organize a two-day humanities festival. By January 31, 1993, applicants should submit vita, 500-word proposal, sample bibliography, and three references to: Marianne North, Chairperson, The Margaret Demorest Lecture Series, Casper College, 125 College Drive, Casper, WY 82601. An association has been formed to encourage study of the works of Sinclair Lewis. The members of the coordinating committee are Sally Parry, Roger Forseth, Robert Fleming, Clara Lee Moodie, Alice Hall Petry, and Barry Gross. Individual dues, which include a subscription to the Sinclair Lewis Newsletter, are $10. For more information, write to the Sinclair Lewis Society, Department of English (4240), Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61761. The National Endowment for the Humanities 26th Annual Report is now available. It contains brief descriptions of Endowment programs as well as a complete listing of all Endowment grants, entered by the division and program in which they were funded, for fiscal year 1991 (October 1, 1990, through September 30, 1991). The report is free while the supply lasts. Single copy requests should be sent to NEH 1991 Annual Report, Room 406, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20506. The Tenth Annual Wichita State University International Conference on Foreign Literature is scheduled for April 1-3, 1993. The topic of the conference will be "Continental, Latin American, and Francophone Women Writers." For information write to Servanne Woodward (French, Francophone, Italian, and German literatures), or to Eunice Myers (Spanish and Latin American literatures), Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Box 11, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67208; (316) 689-3180. Providence College in Providence, RI, has announced the publication of a new scholarly journal, Providence: Studies In Western Civilization. Providence will include interdisciplinary articles in history, literature, philosophy , sociology, politics and economics, art and law which treat the fundamental issues in Western Civilization. For further information on subscriptions and manuscript submissions write to: Leonard P. Hindsley, Editor, Providence: Studies in Western Civilization, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918-0001. 177 The Journal of the Short Story in English, co-edited by Belmont University and Université d'Angers, France, invites articles on short fiction written in English. Please send two copies and SASE. JSSE reaches an international audience of readers and critics of the short story. The Spring 1992 double issue focuses on Short Stories of the American South ($20). Other issues are $16. U.S. address: Corrinne H. Dale or J.H.E. Paine, JSSE, Department of Literature and Language, Belmont University, Nashville, TN 37212. 178 ...