Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Southeastern Medieval Association will hold its Sixteenth Annual Meeting September 27-29, 1990, at Meredith College, Raleigh, NC. For further information , contact Brent A. Pitts, Department ofForeign Languages, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC 27607-5298. The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies will hold its 1990 Summer Institute in the English Archival Sciences July 9 through August 17, 1990, directed by Diana E. Greenway and Jane Sayers. The Institute will provide six weeks of intensive training in the reading, transcribing, and editing ofEnglish manuscript books and documents from the late medieval through the Early Modern periods, as well as an orientation in the archives and manuscript collections available for work in the English tradition. NEH stipends are available . The application deadline is March 1, 1990. For application forms and further information, write to the Center for Renaissance Studies, the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610; (312) 943-9090. The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies and Northwestern University will hold a conference on "The Future ofthe Middle Ages: Medieval French Literature in the 1990s" March 9-10, 1990. This conference will take the decade marking the end ofthe twentieth century as the context for examining the future of the study of medieval French literature. For more information , contact Peggy McCracken, Center for Renaissance Studies, the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610; (312) 943-9090. The Editorial Board of Medievalia et Humanística invites submission of articles for preparation of a special volume, scheduled for publication in 1990, to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's voyage to the New World. Topics may include the expansion of European civilization through the efforts of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns; the establishment of new societies and cultural expression through encounters among native American, European , and African peoples; the ideas that shaped the processes of exploration, settlement, and cultural conflict and transformation set into motion by Columbus 's voyage. Scholarly articles in English, prepared according to the 13th edition of the Chicago Manual ofStyle, should be submitted by April 15, 1990, to Paul Clogan, Editor, P. O. Box 13827, Denton, TX 76203. Inquiries regarding subscriptions should be addressed to Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 8705 Bollman Road, Savage, MD 20763. The following speakers will address the 19th Wyoming Conference on English entitled "Who's Teaching What to Whom and Why?" to be held at the University ofWyoming June 25-29, 1990: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Gerald Graff, Jasper Neel, Richard Sterling, and Marcie Wolfe. For more information, contact Tilly Warnock, Department of English, University of Wyoming, P. O. Box 3353, Laramie, WY 82071-3353; (307) 766-6486. 195 The University of Arizona Press is the new distributor of books from the UA Mexican American Studies & Research Center. Included among the Center's publications are "Perspectives in Mexican American Studies," a new series of research articles and essays on Americans of Mexican descent; "De la vida y del folclore de la frontera," a Spanish language anthology of work by Miguel Méndez M.; and monographs in the Renato Rosaldo Lecture Series. For more information, write to the University ofArizona Press at 1230 North Park, #102, Tucson, AZ 85719. The International Society for Humor Studies will hold its Eighth International Humor Conference July 29-August 4, 1990, at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England. Abstracts for the conference are due February 15, 1990. The estimated cost ofthe conference is $440, which includes registration and room and board, exclusive oftransportation to Sheffield. For more information on the conference and the format for abstracts, contact Mark Glazer, President, International Society for Humor Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Texas at Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539; (512) 381-3551; E-Mail MG6BE8@PANAM (BITNET). 196 ...