Those who live near Baltimore may want to go to the sessions on Western Sephardim at this year's AJS conference Dec. 14-16. You can search the schedule of talks for "Sephardic" to see what is happening that interests you: http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ajs/ajs14/ You can also follow the conference on twitter via https://twitter.com/jewish_studies #AJS14