ANNOUNCEMENTS

COLLOQUE DU CENTRE MERIDIONAL D’HISTOIRE SOCIALE, DES

MENTALITES ET DES CULTURES

Theme: l’kvknement’: Renseignements pratiques. Le colloque se tiendra les vendredi 16, samedi 17 et dimanche 18 septemhre 1983 ?r

Ia Baume Ies Aix, a proximite immediate d’Aix-en-Provence. Les conditions financieres d’inscription, de r~stauration et de logement seront

precisees ulterieurement. D’ores et deja on peut indiquer que Ies repas seront pris sur place et qu’il y a possihiiite de lager a la Baume en chambre individuelie 2 des prix abordables.

Les communiquants disposeront d’une vingtaine de minutes pour presenter leur communication ceci afin de laisser la plus large place aux debats et echanges. En vue d’en faciliter la publication. le comite d’organisation envisage de limiter k une tren- tame le nombre de communications.

Les projets de communication (titre et dix lignes d’explication) doivent parvenir au Centre meridional avanf le ler mars. Courant mars VOW reFevrez la liste des com- munications retenues et un bulletin d’inscription. Les auteurs des communications devront adresser un resume dactylographie de 5000 signes maximum (deux pages en simple interligne) uvanf le ler jbn. Ces resumes seront adresses aux participants debut juillet. Enfin le texte dkfinitif de la communization sera remits par l’auteur & l’issue du colloque en vue de publication. I1 comportera au maximum vingt-cinq mille signes, notes comprises.

The organisers hope that the participants in the colloquium will offer a contribution on one of the following themes. 1. The relation between the notion of even? and the development of history as an intellectual discipline. 2. The function of historiography in the understanding of the notion of event. 3. The relation between the long duration and the event: the study of the causes and development of long durations of which the event is the spectacular and ultimate expression, 4. The Iinguistic and behavioural expressions of the e~tnt and its creative function.

Address for communications: Centre Meridional d’Histoire

29 Avenue Robert Schuman 13621 Aix-en-Provence, France.

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FORTHCOMING MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES OF GENERAL INTEREST

International Conference on Working Class History The Conference will be held in September 1983, in Linz. Austria. The Conference themes are: (a) The Working Class Movements and the Question of Peace, 1017-1939, and (b) Spontaneity and Organisation in Working Class Movements as a Methodolog- ical Problem. Address for enquiries: Helmut Gruber

425 Riverside Drive New York NY 10025 U.S.A.

European Studies Conference The eighth Annual European Studies Conference will be held on 6-8 October 1983. in Omaho, Nebraska. Address for enquiries: Julia Curtis

Department of Dramatic Arts, or Karen Soukup Department of Foreign Languages University of Nebraska at Omaho Omaho, NE 68182 U.S.A.

Congress of Basque Studies The ninth Congress will take place in Bilbao during the last week of October 1983. The focus will be on ‘Near Antecedents of Basque Present Society: XVIII and XIX Centuries’. The Congress will be interdisciplinary and papers will be organised under four rubrics: Political History and Law; Economics and Social Life; Conceptions and Beliefs; Education, Culture and Art. Address for enquiries: Sociedad de Estudias Vascos

Secretaria de1 IX Congreso de Estudios Vascos Palacio de la Disputacibn Plaza de Guipuzcoa 1 Donostia-San Sebastian 4 Spain.

Sixth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women The Conference will be held on l-3 June 1984, at Smith College. The theme is ‘Reassessing our Past: Women’s History After Fifteen Years’. The Conference will discuss current debates in women’s history, new research directions and methodology. Address for enquiries: Carol Groneman

History Department John Jay College 445 W 59th St. New York, NY 10019 U.S.A. or Mary Beth Norton History Department McGraw Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 U.S.A.