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NOTE–FUTURE JOURNAL ISSUES OF OMETECA AND THE INSTITUTE’S CONFERENCES CANCELED, AS EXPLAINED IN THE “FAREWELL” NOTICE BELOW AND ELSEWHERE ON THE WEBSITE

Submissions for volume 26 (2022-23) of the Ometeca journal that were announced previously on social media by David Dalton, Editor, as well as future conferences of the Ometeca Institute are hereby canceled, due to our “farewell.”

Farewell to the Ometeca Institute on Dec. 31, 2023! 

The Directors of the Ometeca Institute have conferred, and we have decided to celebrate its completion of 34 years as a leading academic institute focusing on the relations of the humanities, mainly literature, and the sciences in the Luso/Hispanic world. 25 volumes of the Ometeca journal have been published and 14 conferences/working sessions have been sponsored in the US, Latin America, and Europe. We feel that it is best to close down this long, fruitful project at the end of 2023, which Rafael began in 1989, and to retire from this endeavor. Thus, no more conferences will take place and there will be no more volumes of the Ometeca journal published henceforth. We sincerely believe it is time to move on and we wish you the very best.

With warm appreciation to all of our supporters and participants, 

James D. Anderson, Treasurer & Managing Editor (thyjim3@juno.com), and Rafael Català, Founder, Editor Emeritus & Advisor

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Archived: In Memoriam

The Ometeca Institute mourns the loss of our President/Director, Dr. Jerry Hoeg (2015-2020), who passed away in 2020. Jerry was also an Editor of our journal, Ometeca (2001-2016), in addition to being a dear friend, valued colleague, and mentor to many. He was a Professor Emeritus of Spanish at Penn State University, Fayette campus.  Jerry published on science and Hispanic studies in many book chapters, numerous articles, etc. His relevant books include: Interdisciplinary Essays on Darwinism in Hispanic Literature and Film: The Intersection of Science and the Humanities, co-edited with Kevin S. Larsen (Edwin Mellen); Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape, co-authored with Beatriz Rivera-Barnes (Palgrave/Macmillan); Science, Literature, and Film in the Hispanic World (Palgrave/Macmillan); Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the 20th Century and Beyond (Lehigh UP/Associated University Presses). The Ometeca Institute extends our deepest condolences, especially to Jerry’s family.