The first issue of the Latin American Research Review appeared in the fall of 1965. It will be published three times a year, and each issue will include three or four articles on the state of research in various areas of study, a comprehensive tabulation of on-going research projects, and reports on conferences, institutional developments, and grants. The Review is sponsored by 21 universities with major Latin American programs and by the Hispanic Foundation of the Library of Congress. Richard P. Schaedel, of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, is the Managing Editor. Subscriptions for individual scholars are $6.00 a year.
The University of London has established an Institute of Latin American Studies to come into full operation in 1966. The Chairman of the Committee of Management is Sir Miles Clifford, K.B.E., C.M.G., E.D. The Director of the Institute is Professor R. A. Humphreys, O.B.E., Professor of Latin American History in the University, and Dr. Harold Blakemore has been appointed Secretary. The Institute will be principally concerned with the promotion of Latin American studies at the graduate level in the University, more especially in connection with the new M.A. degree in Latin American area studies. It has accepted the obligation to act as a center for the collection and distribution of information about Latin American studies in British universities generally and to provide coordinating services. As one of its first tasks it will undertake the formation of a Union Catalogue of books and pamphlets relating to Latin America in London libraries. Correspondence should be addressed to the Secretary, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, W.C.1.
The Ford Foundation has announced grants for international training and research to the American Universities Field Staff ($360,000 for its program of field studies by foreign-area specialists), the University of New Mexico ($275,000 to strengthen its program of Latin American Studies), the University of Texas ($40,000 to support the Latin American Research Review), and Tulane University ($575,000 to strengthen its program of Latin American Studies). Also to the University of Buenos Aires ($110,000 to support the Faculty of Engineering), the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in Argentina ($250,000 to improve science instruction in the secondary schools), the Federal Technical School of Guanabara ($800,000 to develop a center for vocational technical education), the Institute of International Education ($1,500,000 for educational collaboration between the University of Chile and the University of California), the University of the Andes ($500,000 for development of the School of Engineering), Monterrey Institute of Technology and Advanced Studies ($410,000 to develop the Graduate School of Management), the Center of Studies on Population and Development ($282,000 for training Peruvians in demography), and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru ($567,700 to improve academic, administrative, and fiscal programs in cooperation with the University of Notre Dame).
The Organizing Committee for the 1966 Extraordinary Congress of the International Council on Archives has announced that it will invite a limited number of observers in addition to the official delegates. The Congress will meet in Washington, D. C., from May 10 to 13 to discuss the overall theme “Archives for Scholarship: Encouraging Greater Ease of Access.” Four working sessions are to be devoted to the following aspects of the theme: liberalization of restrictions on access to archives; national documentary publication programming; microreproduction of archives for reference and publication purposes; and international cooperation in facilitating access to archives. A final session will consider and decide on resolutions for concrete action growing out of the working sessions. Persons wishing to attend the Extraordinary Congress as observers should apply at once to Robert H. Bahmer, Chairman, ICA Extraordinary Congress Organizing Committee, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D. C. 20408.
The Group of Academic Researchers in Brazil has issued a Guide to Research in Rio by Robert M. Levine of Princeton University. Any one planning to do research in Brazil before the end of 1966 is invited to write to one of the co-chairmen:
John D. Peterson or Frank McCann Research Group
c/o Dr. Diogo Bordello de Mello, EBAP
Fundação Getulio Vargas
Praia de Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
