Southeastern NEWS

                                                       Southeastern Louisiana University
                                           Public Information Office
                                           publicinfo@selu.edu
                                           SLU 880, Hammond, LA 70402
                                           504/549-2341/fax 504-549-2061
    Date: 3/26/99
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple   46

Editors: Photo accompanies release -- Please note local interest
SOUTHEASTERN CO-HOSTS CORE TEXT AND COURSES CONFERENCE
     HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University will co-sponsor the Association for
Core Texts and Courses fifth annual conference in New Orleans April 8-11.
     The conference, scheduled for the Pontchartrain and Avenue Plaza hotels, is expected to
attract approximately 200 participants from throughout the United States and Canada.
Conference sponsors also include Louisiana State University and Temple University.
     ACTC is a professional organization of professors, scholars and administrators dedicated
to the integrated study in colleges and universities of world classics and other texts of major
cultural significance.
     The three-day conference will include 33 panels on topics including "Problems in the
Theory and Practice of Liberal Education," "Can We Integrate Arts and Sciences in Today's
Curricula?" and "the Idea of the City and the Focus of the Liberal Arts."
     Guest speakers include Stephen Zelnick and Scott Lea, founders of ACTC at Temple
University, and four distinguished scholars.
       Eva Brann, past Provost of St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., and author of
Paradoxes of Education in a Republic, will speak on "Uniting Students' Learning."
       University of Santa Cruz professor Peter J. Euben, author of Corrupting Youth:
Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory, will discuss "Fighting the Wrong
Battles: Multi-culturalism is the Least of Our Worries." 
       Catherine Zucker of the University of Notre Dame, author of Postmodern Platos:
Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, and Derrida, will speak on "Montesquieu   at the Core
of the Social Sciences."
                            (MORE) 
ACTC CONFERENCE   Add One
       Joan Rivers of Brown University, author of Mathematical Visions: The Pursuit of
Geometry in Victorian England, will speak on "Euclid and the Thread of Reason through the
Ages."
     Southeastern English professor James Walter, director of the university's Honors
Program, has helped recruit new ACTC members and plan conference events. Eleven
Southeastern professors will make presentations at the conference: Eva Gold, George Dorrill,
Tom Fick, Joan Fuast, Annabel Servat, Cyril Lagvanec, Jeff Bell, Andrew Traver, Matt Rossano
and Marjorie Rhine.
                            - SLU -
     This press release is available on the World Wide Web:
      www.selu.edu/NewsEvents/PublicInfoOffice/newsp99.htm