NEWS OF THE PROFESSION CONFERENCES August 10-17, 1972: Twenty-second Inter­ June 20-26,1971: American Library Asso­ national Geographical Congress, in ciation Meeting, in Dallas, Texas. Montreal, Canada. Contact: Congress Secretariat, Room B345, No. 8 Building, August 30-September 2, 1971: American Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Can­ Sociological Association Annual Meeting, ada. in Denver, Colorado, at the Denver Hil­ ton Hotel. August 20-26, 1972: Twelfth International Congress of the International Federation September 7-11, 1971: American Political for Modern Languages and Literatures Science Association Annual Meeting, in (FILLM) in Cambridge, England. Chicago, Illinois, at the Conrad Hilton Theme: "Expression, Communication, Hotel. and Experience in Literature and Lan­ guage." Contact: The Congress Secretary, March 16-18, 1972: AAASS National Twelfth International FILLM Congress, Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, at the Dallas Faculty of Modern and Medieval Lan­ Hilton Hotel. Program: George Hoff­ guages, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, man, Department of Geography, Univer­ CBS 9DA, England. sity of Texas at Austin. Contact: Edward Richards, Department of Political Sci­ PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT ence, University of Texas at Austin. REGISTER INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES The Association solicits information on August 9-15, 1971: International Geo­ vacancies in all disciplines touching upon graphical Union: European Regional Slavic and Eastern Europe from educational Conference, in Budapest, Hungary (For and research institutions, government Slavic-type geographers and economists). agencies, and private employers. This listing Contact: George Kish, Department of service is performed without charge to the Geography, University of Michigan, prospective employers, and the information Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. is then made available to members through the pages of the AAASS Newsletter August 18-24, 1971: Thirteenth Interna­ mailed to members quarterly. Other indi­ tional Congress of the History and viduals may receive this information by Philosophy of Science, in Moscow, placing subscriptions to the Newsletter USSR. Contact (for geography): ($4.00 per year). Lists of new job openings, George Kish, Department of Geography, when available, are also distributed at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, annual national meeting. The central office Michigan 48104. of the Association regrets that owing to a shortage of clerical staff it cannot at August 26-28, 1971: International Union this time provide placement assistance to of the History and Philosophy of Sci­ nonmembers. ence Symposium on Kepler's 400th Anniversary, in Leningrad, USSR. INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS September 1-5, 1971: International Dosto- Those Slavic departments in colleges and evsky Sesquicentennial Meeting in Bad universities which are lacking the publica­ Ems, West Germany. Contact: Nadine tion Novyi mir for the years 1925-34 can Natov, Department of Slavic Languages obtain a set of Xerox facsimiles as a gift and Literatures, The George Washington from the Xerox Corporation. The original University, Washington, D.C. 20006. price was $750.00. Departments should make a formal request to Bruce L. Crisman, September 6-12, 1971: Fourteenth Inter­ Manager, Xerox Fund, Xerox Corporation, national Congress for Byzantine Studies, Stamford, Connecticut 06904. in Bucharest, Rumania. Contact: D. A. Zakythinis, University, Masialias 4, The Austrian Microfilm Project is a Athens, Greece. cooperative undertaking of the Library of News of the Profession 467 Congress and a consortium of research ciation for the Advancement of Slavic libraries to film documents in the Austrian Studies, since the scholarly endeavors of State Archives. The first phase includes these two organizations tend to overlap. the filming of the files pertaining to EDGAR ANDERSON Prussia and the beginning of those pertain­ San Jose State College ing to France. Upon its conclusion the Russian and British files will be processed The McMaster Conference on "Current and the project completed over the next Problems of Socialist Economies," the two years. The material dealing with fourth of an annual series organized and Russia will include events of major sponsored by the Interdepartmental Com­ importance in European history, covering mittee on Communist and East European the period 1848 to 1918. Affairs, and supported by the Canada The Center for the Coordination of Council, was held at McMaster University, Foreign Manuscript Copying at the Library Hamilton, Ontario, on October 23 and 24, of Congress, which had played an active 1970. Six papers were presented: Leon role in the project, has now been dissolved Smolinski (Boston College) "Technocratic and henceforth its reference work will be Elements in Soviet Socialism," Harry G. conducted by specialists on the permanent Shaffer (Kansas) "Economic Performance staff of the library's Manuscript Division. Under the Plan," Paul M. Sweezy (Monthly Review) "Alternative Concep­ Rumanian Studies, a new journal published tions of Socialist Development," Z. M. under the auspices of the Russian and East Fallenbuchl (Windsor) "External Eco­ European Center and the Graduate Re­ nomic Relations: Growth through Trade," search Board of the University of Illinois, Robert W. Campbell (Indiana) "The was launched in 1970 with an initial issue Dynamics of Socialism: Problems and numbering 225 pages. It will be devoted Reforms," and Gilles Paquet.and Richard to articles by American and Rumanian L. Carson (Carleton) "The Convergence scholars on Rumanian history, archaeology, of Two Systems: Theory and Practice." literature, and art. Orders for subscriptions The principal discussants were Abram and single numbers should be sent directly Bergson (Harvard), Atif A. Kubursi and to the publisher. E. J. Brill, Leiden, The James R. Williams (McMaster), Alan Netherlands. Manuscripts and other cor­ Abouchar (Toronto), and Morris Bornstein respondence should be directed to Keith (Michigan). Hitchins, Editor, Department of History, About thirty universities, equally divided 309 Gregory Hall, University of Illinois, between Canada and the United States, Urbana, Illinois 61801. were represented at the meetings, and the CONFERENCE REPORTS individual attendance approached ISO. Plans for the next conference, to focus The Conference on Baltic Studies, a on the theme of "Dissent in the Socialist scholarly organization with chapters in Bloc," are already under way, and further Canada, Australia, Sweden, Germany, and notices concerning it will be issued in due the United States, held its Second Interna­ course. tional Conference at San Jose State College WILLIAM D. G. HUNTER in California, November 26-29, 1970. Some McMaster University four hundred persons from universities and research institutions in sixteen countries An international colloquium on "Les were in attendance for the four days of Peuples de l'Europe du sud-est dans la sessions. In addition to panels devoted to politique Internationale a la fin du XVIe Baltic law, linguistics, literature, and siecle et au debut du XVIIe siecle" was sources for Baltic studies, developments in held in Bucharest, Rumania, December the modern period received special attention 20-22, 1970, under the joint sponsorship with sessions devoted to "Early Post-World of the Institute for Southeast European War I Baltic Relations with Neighbors," Studies of the Rumanian Academy and the "The Baltic Communist Parties, 1918- Center for East European Affairs of the 1940," and "The Baltic Role in the Soviet University of Colorado. Papers were pre­ Union After World War II." Baltic sented by Professors Mihai Berza (Ru­ theater, folklore, and mythology were also mania), Bistra Cvetkov (Bulgaria), the focus of separate sessions. It was Stephen Fischer-Galati (United States), noteworthy that many of the participants J. Gierowski (Poland), T. Gokbilgin were also members of the American Asso­ (Turkey), Walter Leitsch (Austria), 468 Slavic Review Eugen Stanescu (Rumania), and R. John Carroll University: George J. Prpic Veselinovic (Yugoslavia). Other American promoted to professor of history. scholars who participated at the conference University of Manitoba: Josef Petach of included Professors Samuel Baron (Uni­ the University of Ottawa and Semen versity of California at San Diego), Pohorilyj of New York University ap­ Gustav Bayerle (Indiana University), and pointed lecturers in Slavic languages and Radu Florescu (Boston College). literatures. STEPHEN FISCHER-GALATI Marquette University: Robert Owen University of Colorado Freedman of the U.S. Military Academy appointed assistant professor of political APPOINTMENTS AND STAFF science. CHANGES University of Maryland: Clifford Foust of the University of North Carolina ap­ Arizona State University: Rudolph M. pointed professor of history. Susel of Indiana University appointed Michigan State University: Robert assistant professor of history. Slusser of the Johns Hopkins University Association of Research Libraries: appointed professor of history; Alan W. Murray Howder of the Slavic Bibliographic Fisher promoted to associate professor of and Documentation Center appointed as­ history. sistant director. University of Nebraska: Richard E. Auburn University: Oleh S. Pidhainy Lonsdale of the University of North Caro­ appointed associate professor of history. lina appointed professor and chairman of Bowling Green State University: Glenn the Department of Geography. A. Janus of Ohio State University ap­ Ohio State University: James P. Scanlan pointed