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The Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies: A Silver Anniversary Assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Robert A. Hayes
Robert A. Hayes*
Affiliation:
Texas Tech University
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The silver anniversary of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS) provides a good opportunity for an assessment of that organization. Much of the following analysis focuses upon annual meetings since they are the major activity of the organizational membership. Programs and minutes of past meetings as well as organizational newsletters and correspondence were examined for patterns in the areas of program participation (numbers, institutional affiliation, academic discipline, and sex of participants), topics favored (as concerns discipline and theme), the general political orientation of the organization, openness to participation from the outside, and organizational publications; an attempt is also made to provide some appreciation for the subjective side of the organization's life.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , 1978 , pp. 161 - 167
Copyright
Copyright © 1978 by the University of Texas Press

References

Notes

1. Ernest K. Chamberlin, “The Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies: The First Twenty Years” LARR 10, no. 2 (Summer 1975):168.

2. For the years 1957–59, Theo Crevenna of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the Pan American Union served as official representative at RMCLAS meetings. In 1960, David Heft served in that capacity. Francisco Cespedes was the delegate for the years 1963–65. Since 1965 there has been no official sponsorship or representative from the Pan American Union.

3. The figures on program participants since 1973 are as follows:

Year From Within From Without
1973 26 19
1974 42 23
1975 47 55
1976 41 26
1977 43 41

4. RMCLAS Newsletter, 20 February 1960, p. 1.

5. The three meetings where a thematic approach was attempted and the themes adopted were as follows: 1960—Unity and Diversity in the Americas; 1962—The Alliance for Progress; 1970—Problems of Modernization in Latin America.

6. Previous Newsletter editors were Michael Jost, University of Texas at San Antonio, and Richard Bath, University of Texas at El Paso.