#2688: KOSANBA (fwd)

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From: P D Bellegarde-Smith <pbs@csd.uwm.edu>


	
				KOSANBA
		     The Congress of Santa Barbara
		(A scholarly Association for the Study of	
			    Haitian Vodou)

Dates: 		March 22nd and 23rd, 2000
Venue: 		Trinity College
		in Hartford, the capital of Connecticut
site:		Mather Hall Student Center, Rittenberg Lounge
	
Theme: 		Ancestors and Progeny/Zanset ak Timoun
aegis:		the Marasa/Ibeji
	
Site Coordinator:	Dr. Leslie A. Desmangles, Chair
			Department of Religion
			Trinity College
	
Conference
Committee Chair		Dr. Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
			Department of Africology
			University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
	
Hotel Reservations:	Ramada Inn Capitol Hill
			440 Asylum Avenue
			1-800-2-RAMADA
	
			Specify THAT Ramada Inn, and that you are
			attending the KOSANBA meeting at Trinity
			College, to get the special hotel rate.
			
			Trinity has established a shuttle van between 
			hotel and conference site.

Airport:	Hartford, CT. (and Springfield, MA) Bradley
		International Airport, 20 miles north of downtown.
	
Other Hotels:   (which do not have the conference rate)
		Hilton Hartford 860-728-5151
		Susse Chalet 860-524-2538
		Days Inn 860-247-3297
		Goodwin Hotel 860-246-7500

Check with the RAMADA INN CAPITOL HILL FIRST!!!!
	
Ethnic restaurants: Haitian, Italian, Portuguese/Brazilian, Mexican,
Chinese, Afgan, Indian, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese.