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    Date: 3/31/98
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple  22

SLU  ARTS & SCIENCES WEEK  SPOTLIGHTS MIDDLE AGES
     HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University's College of Arts and Sciences will
examine the Middle Ages during the college's second annual celebration of "Arts and Sciences
Week," April 13-16.
          The week will feature lectures by Arts and Sciences faculty members and a concert by the
Collegium Musicum, an ensemble of Southeastern faculty and students performing on antique
musical instruments.
     All events are scheduled for Sims Memorial Library and free and open to the public. Arts
& Science Week is a project of Southeastern s Cultural Resource Management Program.
     As a special feature, Arts & Sciences week will also salute English professor Jack Bedell,
whose first collection of poetry,  At the Bonehouse,  recently was published by the Texas
Review Press after winning the press's prestigious Breakthrough Award for Southern and
Southwestern Poets.
     Arts and Sciences week begins on April 13, with history professor William Robison's
lecture on  William Wallace: Braveheart, Cinema and Reality" at 11 a.m. At 1 p.m.,
mathematics professor David Gurney will discuss  The Arabic Contribution to Mathematics in
the Middle Ages."
     The April 14 schedule includes an 11 a.m. lecture by English professor Margo Kennedy on
"Views of Clergy from Two Medieval Works: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Dante's Inferno--
Can the Reformation be Far Behind?" Kennedy will be followed by  1 p.m talk on  Dante s 
Divine Comedy  and the Medieval Study of Optics  by English department faculty member Joan
Faust and history professor Andrew Traver's 2 p.m. lecture on  The Medieval Agricultural
Revolution." The Collegium Musicum, an ensemble of Southeastern faculty and staff who
perform on antique 
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instruments, plan at concert of Medieval music at At  3:15 p.m.
     English professor Annabel Servat's topic at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 15, will be
 Houpelands and Chastity Belts: What Clothing Signified in the Middle Ages." Bedell's poetry
reading will follow at 1 p.m.
     On Arts & Sciences Week's final day, Thursday, Arpil 16, social work professor Peggy
Pittman-Munke will speak on  Dependency and Charity in the Middle Ages: the Role of Social
Ideals and the Catholic Church in Caring for the Poor  at 11 a.m. and English professor James
Walter, director of the university's Honors Porgram, will discuss  Dante s Recognition of
Beatrice in  The Divine Comedy   at 2 p.m.
     For additional information about Arts & Sciences Week, call Cultural Resource
Mangement Program director Don Marshall, 504-549-2193.
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