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The Americas 60.3 (2004) 447-448



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Inter-American Notes

Fellowship and Research Grant

The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies in the Department of History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas offers three research fellowships to applicants from any field in the humanities or social sciences doing research on Southwestern America. These fellowships are designed to provide time for senior or junior scholars to bring book-length manuscripts to completion, with Fellows expected to spend the 2004-05 academic year at SMU and to participate in Clements Center activities. Fellowships carry a stipend of $37,000, a $2,000 allowance for research and travel expenses, and a publication subvention. The Clements Center also offers research-travel grants for applicants who live outside the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area to take advantage of the extensive holdings and special collections of the DeGolyer Library. Grants of $500 a week may be used to defray costs of travel, lodging, and research materials.

Deadline for Fellowship applications is January 12, 2004. Applications for research grants are accepted throughout the year. For more information, please see the center's website: www.smu.edu/swcenter or email at swcenter@smu.edu. You may also call the center at (214) 768-1233.

Reports on International Conferences

This past October 29-31, the Chilean Academia Nacional de Historia and the Franciscan Provincia de la Santísima Trinidad, in collaboration with the History Faculty of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, hosted a symposium "450 años de presencia franciscana en Chile." This conference brought together scholars from Chile, the United States, Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia to discuss the history and impact of the Franciscan Order in Chile. The first Franciscans arrived in Chilean territory in 1553, and since then have played an important role in the cultural development of the region. The Provincia de la Santísima Trinidad came into being in 1565 and organized the missionary and parochial efforts of the Franciscans. Symposium [End Page 447] papers ranged from studies of the early Franciscan missionaries, to the importance of the Third Orders in Chilean History, to various biographies of important Franciscans.

John F. Schwaller

The XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses met this past October 1-4 in Monterrey, Mexico, thereby returning to the site of the meeting's original gathering in 1949. Assembling once every four years and rotating between locations in Mexico and the United States, the conference brought together some three hundred scholars of Mexican history principally from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, although some of our more distantly located colleagues were also present. The organizing rubric was "Las instituciones en la historia de México: Formas, Continuidades y Cambios" and as with past meetings, these themes remained open enough to encompass a diversity of papers that ranged from colonial administration and religious practices, to caudillismo and contemporary student movement politics. In all, there were seventy-five panels. At an unforgettable cena de clausura—held under the open stars of the ex-Obispado overlooking the city of Monterrey—it was announced that the 2007 Reunión will have for the first time a Canadian host: the University of British Columbia.

Eric Zolov


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