April 1 (10am - Center for Latin American Studies, Conference Room) Workshop with Willy Thayer (Arcis University, Chile), Federico Galende (Arcis University, Chile), Francisco Foot Hardman (Unicamp, Brazil) and George Yudice (New York University).  Event is sponsored in part by the Colloquium in Cultural Studies, Performance and the Arts.  For more information, send mail to Idelber Avelar at iavelar@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

April 3 (4pm - Newcomb Hall, Room 403) Gregory Ulmer (Professor of English and Media Studies, University of Florida), "Electracy: An Introduction."  Part of FLITE's Post-Millennial Pedagogy Guest Speaker Series.  Sponsored by the Foreign Language Instructional Technology Environment (FLITE) at Tulane University.  For more information, contact Marcel O'Gorman at ogorman@tcs.tulane.edu. or call extension 2319.

April 4 (4pm - Newcomb Hall, Room 403) Gregory Ulmer (Professor of English and Media Studies, University of Florida), "Mystory/Choragraphy: Invention and Memory in Electracy,"  a hands-on worksho.  Please contact FLITE to guarantee a space.  Part of FLITE's Post-Millennial Pedagogy Guest Speaker Series.  Sponsored by the Foreign Language Instructional Technology Environment (FLITE) at Tulane University.  For more information, contact Marcel O'Gorman at ogorman@tcs.tulane.edu. or call extension 2319.

April 4 (6:30pm - Jones Hall, Room 204) Pedro Monreal (Senior Research Associate, Centro de Investigaciones de Economia Internacional at the University of Havana), "Cuba's Economic Transitions Today."  Sponsored by Tulane University's Cuban Studies Institute, the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Murphy Institute of Political Economy.  For more information, contact Margarita Ahumada at mahumad@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

April 5 (12pm - Woldenberg Art Center, Room 209) Viola Konig (Ubersee Museum, Bremen) "Indomestizan Colonial Pictorial Documents from Mexico and the Andes," part of the
Spring 2000 Newcomb Colloquium in the Visual Arts. Sponsored by the Department of Art. Drinks will be provided; bring lunch. For more information, please call William Tronzo at 862-8000, x2208. 

April 6 (6:30-7:30pm - Jones Hall, Center for Latin American Studies, Conference Room) Moses Mercado (Richard Gephardt's Chief of Staff), "Cuba and Capitol Hill: The Legislative Process and Foreign Policy."  Sponsored by the Cuba Studies Institute.   For more information, call Margarita Ahumada at 862-8629 or send mail to mahumad@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu.  

April 7 (12-2pm - Newcomb Faculty Lounge, Room 114, Newcomb Hall) "The Job Search: How to Market Yourself," a workshop for graduate students sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and GSSA. A light lunch will be served.  For more information, visit http://www.tulane.edu/~isn/Spring2000.htm  or send mail to kgracki@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu.

April 7 (2pm - President's Room A, University Center) "Race, Gender and Class: Building Bridges  Across University Communities, Southern University at New Orleans and Tulane University."  For more information, send mail to Sanda Spicmiler at sspicmi@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

April 7-9 (2:30pm - Jones Hall, Room 102) "Jewish Experience in the Southern Americas," a three day conference event co-sponsored by Tulane's Jewish Studies Program and by the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience.  The conference is open to the public and includes a companion exhibition, "Bagels and Grits: Exploring Jewish Life in the Deep South," photography by Bill Aron with archival documents from the Southern Jewish Archives.  For information on the sessions and panelists, visit http://www.msje.org/events/tulane_conference/JESA.html.  Further information may be obtained by phone: 865-5349 or by e-mail: jewishst@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu.

April 7 (6:30pm - Amistad Research Center, Tilton Hall) Paulette Richards (Department of English, Loyola University), "He Said/She Said: Blues Romance in Terry McMillan's Disappearing Acts."  Sponsored by the Amistad Research Center.  For more information, call 865-5535.

April 7 (7pm - Thomson Hall, Richardson Memorial Building) Architecture Preservation Lecture by Jose G. Buenfil Burgos (Campeche World Heritage Site).  Sponsored by the School of Architecture.  For more information, call 865-5389.

April 10 (12pm - Woldenberg Art Center, Room 209) Thomas Bayer (Ubersee Museum, Bremen) "The Economics of Change: Transformations in History Painting in Late Eighteenth-Century England" part of the Spring 2000 Newcomb Colloquium in the Visual Arts. Sponsored by the Department of Art. Drinks will be provided; bring lunch. For more information, please call William Tronzo at 862-8000, x2208. 

April 10 (3-5pm - Room 110, Law School) Professor Detlef Leenen (Germany), Professor Cornelius van der Merwe (South Africa) and Professor Kosimboy Mamurov (Uzbekistan), "Developments and Perspectives from Three Civil Law Jurisdictions,"  a panel discussion moderated by Professor Joachim Zekoll.  Reception to follow in the West Courtyard.  Sponsored by the Tulane Law Clinic.

April 10 (4pm - Boggs 104) Charles Cantor (Sequenom Industrial Genomics) "Fully Automated MALDI-MS." For more information, please call 865-5573.

April 11 (4pm - Anna E. Many Lounge, Caroline Richardson Building) Rosalind Hinton (Visiting Scholar) "'There Will Be a Grand Concert Tonight,' Alma Lillie Hubbard in New Orleans in the 1920s." Sponsored by the Newcomb College Center for Research, http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/text/spring2000sked.html 

April 11 (7pm - Jones Hall, Room 204) Screening of "Buena Vista Social  Club,"  a film by Wim Wenders.  Screening is in connection with the Julio Ramos (UC Berkeley) lecture on Thursday, April 13th.  For more information, send mail to Maria G. Alemain at malemai@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

April 11 (7:30 - Rogers  Chapel) A Reading by  Lee Grue, fiction writer, poet, and Visiting Writer-in-Residence for Spring 2000.  A reception will follow in Newcomb Faculty Hall.  Sponsored by the Tulane Literary Society.  For more information, visit http://www.tulane.edu/~english/writers.htm. 

April 13 (11am to 1pm - Multimedia classroom 1, Loyola University Library) "Designing Classrooms for Technology Integration and Accessibility."  An interactive satellite conference focusing on technology friendly, learner-accessible design.  Sponsored by the Instructional Media Center.  For more information, please call 862-8000, x 2531.

April 13-15 (1pm - Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center) "Classical Unities: Place, Time, Action," the North American  Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature's 2000 conference.  Sponsored by the Florence Gould Foundation, the Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust, the LAS Center for Scholars at Tulane University, the Newcomb Foundation, the Department of French and Italian at Tulane University and the French Consular Services.  For more information on sessions and panelists, visit http://www.tulane.edu/~fren_it/nasscfl2000.html.    For any additional information, send mail to erkoch@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu.  

April 13 (3pm to 6pm - Rogers Chapel) Ezekiel Pajibo-Ezekiel (President, Liberian National Students Union) and other speakers from Rwanda,  Sudan and Algeria, "African Peace Tour."  Sponsored by the Multicultural Affairs Office.  For more information, call 865-5181.

April 13 (3:30pm - Newcomb 115) Professor Jack Zupko (Emory University), "Knowledge and Certainty in Buridan."  Seating is limited for this talk.  Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program and the Philosophy Department.  Visit http://www.tulane.edu/~phil for abstracts and further details. 

April 13 (6pm - Jones Hall, Room 204) Professor Julio Ramos (University of California, Berkeley), "Buena Vista Social Club: Wim Wender's Gaze in Havana."  Light refreshments will be served following the lecture.  For more information, send mail to Maria G. Alemain at malemai@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

April 13 (5:30pm - Hunt Room, University Center) Professor M. Kuczynski (Chair of English, Medeival Studies Scholar, Tulane University), "How I Learned to Read."  Refreshments will be served.  Sponsored by the Tulane Literary  Society.  For more information, send mail to lirvine@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

April 13 (8pm - Rogers Memorial Chapel) Anthony M. Matteo (Philosophy, Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania) "The Promise and Perils of Evolutionary Ethics." Sponsored by the Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies.  For more information, please call 866-8793.

April 14 (9am to 5pm - Richardson) "World Heritage Sites, Fortification and Cultural Tourism in the Gulf-Caribbean Region."  Tulane School of Architecture Preservation Studies Symposium 2000.  For more information, please call 865-5389.

April 14 (12pm - Hunt-Anderson Room, UC) Stacy Overstreet (Psychology, Tulane) "Understanding the Effects of Exposure to Community Violence on Children."  Sponsored by the Department of Psychology.  For more information, please call 865-5331.

April 14 (2pm - Boggs 243) Dr. Eugene Wilusz (U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center) "Development and Evaluation of Selectively Permeable Membranes for Chemical/Biological Protective Clothing."  Sponsored by the Department of Chemical Engineering 1999-2000 Kyocera Lecture Series.  Refreshments will be served before the seminar.  For more information, please call 865-5772.

April 14  (4pm - MARI, 4th floor Dinwiddie Hall) Rainbow Willard, "The Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club: An Ethnography of  Speaking" part of the Tulane Anthropology Student Association's 1999-2000 Colloquia Series, "From Neandertals to Nahuas: Anthropology the World Over." Sponsored by the Tulane Anthropology
Student Association. Refreshments served at 3:30pm before the event. For
more information, send mail to srennar@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

April 14 (4pm - Newcomb 207) Professor Jack Zupko (Emory University), "Allocating Infinite Good: Duns Scotus and the Theology of Distributive Justice."   Sponsored by the Medeival Studies Program and the Philosophy Department.  Visit http://www.tulane.edu/~phil for abstracts and further details. 

April 14 (4pm -  Center for Research on Women, Anna Many Lounge, Caroline Richardson Building) Ruth Behar (Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan), "Taking Feminist Ethnography Beyond the Limit: A Cuban Story of African Spirits, Jewish Memory and Desires that Cannot Converge."  Sponsored by the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women.  For more information, call 865-5238 or send mail to ckile@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

April 14 (4:30pm - 201 Hebert) Richard Turner (Religious Studies, DePaul University), "In Rhythm with the Spirit: Religion, Music and Identity in Black New Orleans."  Part of the African and African Diaspora Studies' Spring 2000 Lecture Series.  Light refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the lecture.  For more information, send mail to adst@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu or call 862-3550.

April 17 (11am-12:30pm - Jones Hall, Room 100) Robert T. Deacon (UCSB Department of Economics), "The Political Economy of Environment-Development Relationships."  Papers are available at the Stone Center.  For more information, contact Brian Potter (Political Science) at bpotter@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

April 17 (4pm - Boggs 600) Dr. Rosenfield (Center for Climate Solutions), "More Efficient Use of Energy, a Lucrative and Under-utilized Resource."  Sponsored by the Green Club.  

April 17 (5:30pm - Thomson Hall, Richardson Memorial Building) Dell Upton (Professor of Architectural History, University of California, Berkeley), "The New Orleans Lecture."   Sponsored by the School of Architecture.  For more information, call 865-5389.

April 17 (7-8:30pm - Stibbs A and B, University Center) Professor Omoniyi Afolabi (Department of Spanish and Portuguese), "Strategic Planning and the Rest of Us," a discussion on the tragic death of Mamadou Diallo and other issues concerning Africanism in the U.S.  Refreshments will be served.  Sponsored by the Tulane African Student Association.  

April 19 (12pm - University Center,  Stibbs Room B) "Herbs, Vitamins and 'Alternative' Therapies," part of the Women's Wellness Lunch Series.  Sponsored by the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women.  For more information, call 865-5238.

April 19 (3:30pm - Aron Common Room, Cudd Hall) The Dean's Colloquium with Muhamed Sacirbey (A&S '77, L '80) features a discussion with Sacirby (Ambassador to the United Nations from Bosnia-Herzegovina).  Sponsored by Tulane College.  For more information, call 865-5728.

April 20 (7pm - Women's Center, Caroline Richardson Hall) Women's Center Panel Discussion, "Exploring Fan Fiction as a Gendered Cultural Practice: the X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Star Wars: the Phantom Menace."  Sponsored by the Center for Research on Women.  For more information, call 865-5238.

April 20 (8pm - Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center) Michael Ghiselin (California Academy of Sciences), "Evolution of Chemical Defenses in Opisthobranch Gastropods."  Sponsored by Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University.  For more information, call 865-5191.

April 21 (2-3:30pm - Jones Hall, Room 100) Albert Fishlow (Department of Economics, Yale University), "Brazil in the 21st Century: A Repeat of the 20th?"  A copy of Dr. Fishlow's paper should be available at the Stone Center a week before the lecture.  For more information, contact Brian Potter (Political Science) at bpotter@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

April 26 (4:30pm - Freeman Auditorium, Room 205, Woldenberg Art Center)  Dr. Everett Rogers (Visiting Professor, Population and Family Health Sciences Department, John Hopkins University), "Diffusion of Innovations: Applications in International Development."  Sponsored by the Payson Center.  For more information, send mail to mtruill@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

April 26 (4:30-5:30pm - Cudd Hall, Room 203) Dr. Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge) "The Authority of the Academy: Intellectuals and Their Publics."  The Mary C. Parker Yates lecture, sponsored by the Murphy Institute of Political Economy.  

April 26 (7-9pm - Tulane Law School, Room 110) Cuban Women: Branded by Paradise, a documentary film by Mari Rodriguez Ichaso.  The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.  Sponsored by La Alianza del Derecho (Latin American Organization at Tulane Law School).  For more information, call 862-9545.

April 27 (4-5pm - location TBA) Anthony Badger (Visiting Mellon Professor at Tulane University, Professor of American History at Cambridge University) "'When I Took the Oath of Office, I Took No Vow of Poverty': Race, Corruption, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1928-2000."  Sponsored by the Mellon Colloquium.  For more information, call 865-5162.

April 27 (6-7pm - Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center) Ronald J. Filson (Architect and Collaborator, New Orleans' Piazza d'Italia), "Piazza d'Italia, from Development to Preservation."  Sponsored by the Newcomb Art Gallery.  For more information, call 865-5328.

April 28 (4:20pm - Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center) Professor Dudley Andrew (University of Iowa), "Aspirations of National Cinema," the Charles Oscar Maas Lecture in French Studies.  Reception to follow in Woodward Way, Woldenberg Center.  Professor Andrew's talk follows Escapades, a performance by the students in FREN 474/674 and the announcement of the Henry Award and the Maas Prizes for the year 2000 at 4pm.  For more information, send mail to Dr. Hope Glidden at hopeglid@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu or call 865-5115.