Start making plans for our 50th anniversary conference in Barcelona, July 11-13 2019.  The Call for Papers has now been posted here.

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Committees for the Bishko Prize, the Oliveira Marques Prize, and the Association Best First Book Prize are now accepting submissions.  Follow the links to each page for submission information.

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The Association is greatly saddened to learn of the death of Helen Nader, who was an influential early member of the Association and served as its General Secretary from 1998-2000. Helen was an accomplished scholar, a generous mentor, and a kind and gracious person, and she will be greatly missed. (A full obituary will be posted here shortly.)

Valentina Tikoff is in contact with Helen’s niece; if you would like to pass along a message to her family, please contact Valentina at vtikoff@depaul.edu.

Clinton Young, the editor of the ASPHS newsletter, is also gathering memories and remembrances of Helen for the newsletter.  If you would like to contribute, please contact Clint at young@uamont.edu no later than October 25.

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Clinton Young is working on this year’s edition of the Newsletter. If you are planning something unusual and interesting in teaching or research or have an idea for an opinion essay, please contact Clint at young@uamont.edu.  In particular, with the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Society, please get in touch with him if you have memories of the early years of ASPHS that you would like to write up for the newsletter. 

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ASPHS provides members with small subventions for regional and local gatherings for activities related to our mission to promote the scholarly study of Spain and Portugal through History and related disciplines.  Proposals are evaluated twice each year, in March and October. Go to our Prizes & Subventions page for more information.

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The Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, the official journal of the ASPHS, has published its latest issue, 42:2 (2017) here: http://digitalcommons.asphs.net/bsphs/.

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The ASPHS site now has an online member directory, under “Membership” at the top of the page.  If you have joined since spring 2016, you will have established a username and password to log in.  If you were a current member in spring 2016, you are probably already in the directory; go to the Membership Directory page and click on the “Lost your password?” link to set up a new password.