Drs. Dean Louder (Laval University), Barry Rodrigue (USM's Lewiston-Auburn College), and Eric Waddell (Laval University) have been appointed to the Comitée Scientifique of the Second International Grand Conference of the Année Francophone Internationale (the first conference was held at the Sorbonne in Paris in 2001). For more information, please see http://www.francophone.net/AFI/. This conference will be a four-day event (26-29 May 2003) in Quebec City that is entitled Francophonie en Amérique: Quartre siècles d'échange - Europe, Afrique, Amérique (The French-Speaking World of America: Four Centuries of Exchange - Europe, Africa, and America). It will include participation by Francos from Maine and a tour of Maine for the international delegates.