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    Date: 10/28/99
      Contact:                           Carol Dotson 56

SOUTHEASTERN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL SET NOV 1-11
     HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University celebrates International Week
November 1-11 with lectures, films, a cooking demonstration and guest speakers.
     Astrid Fischel, vice-president of Costa Rica, will speak on "The Role of Latin American
Women for the Next Century," at Nov. 8 in the Pottle Auditorium. Fischel also plans to meet with
Southeastern administrators and students to explore academic and cultural exchanges and other
initiatives between Southeastern and Costa Rican institutions of higher education
      Dr. Pierre Kaufke, a native of Alsace, France, will spend three days at Southeastern
during International Week. Kaufke, an associate professor of English and Foreign Languages at
the University of West Florida, will give a lecture on Nov. 3, a cooking demonstration on Nov. 4
and join Southeastern's Meg Marshall, head of the Foreign Languages and Literatures
Department, and Brad O'Hara, director of the Master of Business Administration program, for a
Nov. 4 presentation on the university's French Study Tour 2000.
     All International Festival events are free and open to the public. The week's schedule
includes:
  Monday, Nov. 1
     Noon -- Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Altar and Celebration, Sims Memorial
Library.
     2:30 p.m. -- Guest speaker, Michel Foucqueteau of Marseille, France, R. Norval Garrett
Building (College of Business) Room 14
  Tuesday, Nov. 2  
     7 p.m. -- "Chocalat" (French film), Music Recital Hall 
  Wednesday, Nov. 3
     4 p.m.-- Lecture, "Art Nouveau," Dr. Pierre Kaufke, University of West Florida, R.
Norval Garrett College of Business Building, room 37
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  Thursday, Nov. 4
     2 p.m.-- Cooking demonstration, Dr. Pierre Kaufke, Choux a la creme (cream puffs),
White Hall room 28-149
     4 p.m. --Lecture and Film, "French Study Tour 2000 Paris-Provence," Kaufke, Dr. Meg
Marshall, Brad O'Hara, Garrett College of Business Building, room 37
  Friday, Nov. 5
     2 p.m. -- Lecture, "Creole French in Louisiana: Origins and Present Status," Meg
Marshall, Garrett College of Business Building, room 37
  Monday, Nov. 8
     10 a.m. --Lecture, "The Role of Latin American Women for the Next Century," Dr.
Astrid Fischel, vice-president of Costa Rica, Pottle Auditorium
     2 p.m. -- Lecture, "Online French," Dr. Frederic Pallez, Garrett College of Business
Building, room 14
     Exhibit -- "Hats Off to Costa Rica," Alumni Center. Presented by students of Luz
Escobar
  Tuesday, Nov. 9
     3:30 p.m. -- Film, "Jour-de-Fete," Student Union Theatre
     Exhibit -- "Hats Off to Costa Rica," Alumni Center. Presented by students of Luz
Escobar
  Wednesday, Nov. 10
     7:30 p.m. -- Caf‚-Theatre (Amateur Night in French) skits, poetry readings, song, dance
Southeastern students and high school students, Twelve Oaks
  Thursday, Nov. 11
     3:30 p.m. -- "International Perspectives Series-France," Rachida Gouvanic, Katia Belhadj,
Laetitia Dufour, Alain Bouvard. Garrett College of Business Building, room 37
     For more information call the department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 549-2152. 
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