March 2-May 28 (Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center) Pondering the Folly: Le Désert de Retz, an 18th Century French Garden, an exhibit sponsored by the Newcomb Art Department and the Committee on Visual Culture.  For more information, send mail to smain@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

March 9-12 (Registration at the University Center) MELUS 2000: Multi-ethnic Literatures and the Idea of Social Justice.  MELUS features a keynote lecture, titled, "Toward a More Meaningful Dialogue on Race for the New Century" by Professor Mari Matsuda of the Georgetown University Law Center on March 9 at 6:15pm in Dixon Hall.  For more information, call 862-3550.  The MELUS event also features plenary sessions with Louisiana Writers Brenda Marie Osby, Jason Berry and Kalamu Ya Salaam and guided tours of the archives and art collection of the Amistad Research Center.  Co-sponsored by Tulane College, Newcomb College, Tulane University Center for Scholars, Office of the Dean, Liberal Arts and  Sciences, Tulane Law School, Amistad Research Center, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Program in American Studies, Program in African and African Diaspora Studies, Program in Women's Studies, Departments of English, French and Italian, Spanish and Portuguese and Sociology.  For more information, visit http://www.tulane.edu/~adst/melus2000/index.html or send mail to gaurav@tcs.tulane.edu.

March 13 (12pm - Woldenberg Art Center, Room 209) Michael Zimmerman (Department of Philosophy) "Mandala Symbolism: The Architecture of Enlightenment in Vajrayana Buddhism," 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. 

March 16 (12-2pm - Newcomb Faculty Lounge, Room 114, Newcomb Hall) "Conferences/Publishing: Gaining Scholarly
Recognition," a workshop for graduate students sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and GSSA.  A light lunch will be provided.  For more information, visit http://www.tulane.edu/~isn/Spring2000.htm  or send mail to caccili@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu

March 16 (4pm - Norman Mayer Hall) Jay Bolter (Professor of New Media at Georgia Tech), "Remediating Education: Rethinking the Role of Words and Images in an Age of New Media."  Sponsored by the Foreign Language Instructional Technology Environment.  For more information, send mail to Marcel O'Gorman at  ogorman@tcs.tulane.edu. Visit http://www.tulane.edu/~flite/speakers/bolter.htm for more information on Jay Bolter.

March 16 (4pm - Stone Auditorium, Room 210, Woldenberg Art  Center) Mary Ellen Miller (Vincent Scully Professor of the History of Art, Yale University), "Re-reading the Maya Murals of Bonampak."  Professor Miller will show how the latest imaging technology is bringing us closer to the original Maya expression.  Reception to follow.  Sponsored by the Newcomb Art Department and the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies.

March 16 (7:30pm - Nunemaker Auditorium, Loyola University) Julie Gustafson (Independent Filmmaker) will show excerpts from her work in progress, "Desire," a film about the lives of nine teenage girls from three economically and racially diverse New Orleans neighborhoods.  Four of the girls will participate in the discussion following the screening.  Admission is free.  Sponsored by the Loyola Women's Studies Program.  For more information, call Leslie Parr at 865-3649 or send mail to parr@nadal.loyno.edu.

March 16 (8-9pm - Rogers Memorial Chapel) Peter Storey (Former Bishop of the Methodist Church of South Africa, now Professor of Divinity, Duke University), "Resistance and Reconciliation: The Church's Ecumenical Role in Ending Apartheid."  Sponsored by the Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies. For more information, please call 866-8793.

March 17 (3pm - Newcomb Hall, Room 403) Jay Bolter (Professor of New Media at Georgia Tech), "Research and Pedagogy in the New Media Center at Georgia Tech."  Sponsored by the Foreign Language Instructional Technology Environment. YOU MUST RESERVE SPACE FOR THIS EVENT.  Please send mail to Marcel O'Gorman at  ogorman@tcs.tulane.edu if you plan to attend or if you would like more information on this event.  Visit http://www.tulane.edu/~flite/speakers/bolter.htm for more information on Jay Bolter.

March 17-18 (Location and time TBA) Environment 2000: A Conference on Environmental Law and Policy, featuring 24 panel discussions and 6 field trips.  Sponsored by the Tulane Environmental Law Society and the Tulane Institute for Environmental Law and Policy. For more information, visit http://www.law.tulane.edu/events.htm or send mail to jthomas@law.tulane.edu, jspeir@law.tulane.edu, or  cwilson@law.tulane.edu. 

March 20 (12pm - Woldenberg Art Center, Room 209) Bodo Gotzkowsky (Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages) "The Founding of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg: Catherine the Great and the Purchase of the Gotzkowsky Collection in Berlin in 1764," with a round table discussion by George Cummins, Jessie Poesch and Gail Feigenbaum.  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. 

March 20 (4pm - University Center, Kendall Cram Room) The Honorable Zell Miller, "The Dilemmas of Modern Southern Politics: The Democratic Governors," part of the Andrew W. Mellon Lecture Series. Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, the LAS Dean's Office, and the Department of History.  Reception will follow.  

March 20 (7:30pm - Newcomb Faculty Lounge) Poetry Reading by Poet William Greenway (Ph.D. from Tulane, currently Professor of English at Youngstown State University).  Reception to follow.  

March 21 (4:30-7pm - Jones Hall, Room 204) Jorge Hernandez (University of Havana and Director of the Centro de Estudios Sobre Estados Unidos), Armando Fernandez (University of Havana), and Yolanda Wood (Dean of the School of Arts and Letters at the University of Havana) present "Cuba Today: Society, Culture, Environment and International Relations," a workshop with reception to follow.  Co-sponsored by the Cuban Studies Institute and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.  For more information, visit http://cuba.tulane.edu, send mail to mahumad@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu or call Senior Program Coordinator Margarita Ahumada at 862-8629. 

March 22 (7:30pm - Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center) David Halberstam (Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author), "Vietnam: Then & Now."  Second annual Ron Ridenhour Memorial Lecture.  Free and open to the public.  For more information, call Randy Fertel at 862-0707 or visit www.fertel.com. 

March 23 (3-4:30pm - University Center, President's Room A and B) Adriann Verheul (UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Specialist on Sierre Leone), "Contemporary Issues in Africa."  Sponsored by Charles El Dunbar Fund of the Department of Political  Science, and the LAS Center  for Scholars.  

March 23 (6:30pm - Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center) Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University), "Hamlet in Purgatory," the eleventh annual Josephine G. Ferguson Lecture.   Professor Greenblatt is one of the preeminent literary scholars in the world and widely credited with inventing the "New Historicism" in literary and cultural studies. A reception will follow.  Sponsored by the Charles A. Ferguson, Sr. and Barbara Ferguson Ginsberg endowment in honor of their mother Josephine G. Ferguson, by the Tulane University Center for Scholars and the Murphy Institute of Political Economy.  For more information, contact Gaurav Desai at gaurav@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

March 23 (7-9pm - Anna Many Lounge, 2nd floor, Caroline Richardson Building) Elvira Diaz (Founder of Women's Studies at the University of Havana),  "Cuban Women and National Identity: Changing Portrayals, Changing Realities." A reception will follow.  Co-sponsored by the Cuban Studies Institute and the Newcomb Center for Research on Women's Studies.  For more information, visit http://cuba.tulane.edu, send mail to mahumad@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu or call Senior Program Coordinator Margarita Ahumada at 862-8629. 

March 24 (1pm - Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Arts Center) Third Annual "Cultural Encounters" Conference (March 24-26) on the cultures of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds.  Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Graduate School Student Association and the Center for Scholars. The conference begins at 1pm Friday afternoon (March 24) with an opening ceremony featuring a play by members of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the keynote address by Jorge Volpi, a distinguished Mexican writer who is currently a Visiting Professor at Emory University.  A small reception will follow.  On Saturday, March 25th, panel discussions commence at 10am, followed by the presentations of  Carlos Cortes, editor and chief of the Costa Rican newspaper, "La Nacion," writer, poet and critic and Maria Lourdes Cortes, Costa Rican film scholar, who will host a multimedia presentation treating Latin American Cinema.  More panel discussions will be held on Sunday afternoon from 12pm-5pm.   For more information, send mail to culturalencounters@yahoo.com, lgutier@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu or dabreu@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

March 24 (4pm - Anna E. Many Lounge, 2nd floor, Caroline Richardson Hall) Ellen Dubois (Professor of History, UCLA) "The Class of 1848: American Women's Many Routes to Emancipation 150 Years Ago."  Co-sponsored by the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women and by the New Orleans Chapter of the League of Women Voters. For more information, send mail to Crystal Kile at ckile@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu.

March 24-25 (Location and time TBA) "Architecture, Ethics and Globalization," part of the Fourth Annual Harrison Symposium on Professionalism sponsored by the Tulane University School of Architecture.  The conference will take place over two consecutive weekends: march 24-25 and March 31-April 1).  For more information on speakers and the conference, visit http://www.tulane.edu/~isn/Harrison.htm and/or send mail to Project Co-ordinator Michelle Rinehart.

March 24 (4pm - MARI, 4th floor Dinwiddie Hall) Judy Maxwell, "Kaqchikel Chronicles," 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. 

March 24 (4pm - Newcomb Hall, Room 115) Martha Driver (Pace University) "Illustration from MS to Print: An Introduction."  Reception will follow lecture.  Sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program and the Department of French and Italian.

March 24 (4:30pm - 201 Hebert) Gayle Murchison (Department of Music, Tulane University), "William Grant Stills' Association with W.C. Handy as Performer, Composer, Arranger, and Friend."  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.

March 24 (5pm - Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center) Bennet Schaber (Professor of English, SUNY Oswego) "High School Madness: An Education in Teensploitation."  Reception to follow.  Sponsored by the English Graduate Organization and the Graduate School Student Association.  For more information, visit http://www.tulane.edu/~english/ego/schaber.htm.

March 27 (11am-12:30pm - Jones Hall 100) Elizabeth McQuerry (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), "The Banking Sector Rescue in Mexico."  Papers are available at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.  For more information, contact Brian  Potter (Political Science) at bpotter@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

March 28 (4pm - Anna E. Many Lounge, 2nd floor, Caroline Richardson Hall) "You Can't Get Lost in Capetown,"  a reading and book signing by Zoe Wicomb.  Wicomb's new novel, titled, "You Can't Get Lost in Capetown" is part of the Feminist Press' Women Writing Africa project that aims to restore African women's voices to the public sphere.  Co-sponsored by the  Women's Center at the University of New Orleans and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.  For more information, send mail to Crystal Kile at ckile@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

March 29 (4pm - Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center) Dr. Carlos Lleras De La Fuente (Colombian statesman, President and Editor of EL ESPECTADOR) "U.S. and Colombia Relations: Drug Trafficking and Guerrillas."  He is a former candidate to the Presidency (1997-98) and has been Colombian Ambassador to Washington. Sponsored by Tulane's Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer.

March 30 (3pm - Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center) George Yudice (New York University), "Culture and Performativity."  Lecture 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. 

March 30 (4pm - Newcomb Center for Research on Women, Caroline Richardson Hall) The Andrew Mellon Lecture series presents Julian Bond (Chairman of the NAACP). A reception will follow the lecture.  Sponsored by the History Department.  For more information, call Dr. Anthony Badger, Visiting Mellon Professor at 865-5162.

March 30 (7:30pm - University Center, Chastant  Room) Bob Fitch (New York writer), "Why Johnny Can't Organize?: the Union Bureaucracy, the Democratic Party, and Rebuilding the US Labor Movement."  Sponsored by GSSA, the Sociology Department, and the Tulane Politics Club.  For more information, send mail to John D. Arena at jarena@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. 

March 31-April 1 (Location and time TBA) "Architecture, Ethics and Globalization," part of the Fourth Annual Harrison Symposium on Professionalism sponsored by the Tulane University School of Architecture.  The conference will take place over two consecutive weekends: march 24-25 and March 31-April 1).  For more information on speakers and the conference, visit http://www.tulane.edu/~isn/Harrison.htm and/or send mail to Project Co-ordinator Michelle Rinehart.

March 31-April 1 (Location and time TBA)  Class Actions in the Gulf South sponsored by the Tulane Law Review and the Tulane Law School.  for more information, visit http://www.law.tulane.edu/events.htm. 

March 31 (3pm - Center for Latin American Studies, Conference Room) Round Table on "Artes Plasticas, Arquitectura, Ficcion."  Panelists include Willy Thayer (Arcis University, Chile), Federico Galende (Arcis University, Chile), Francisco Foot Hardman (Unicamp, Brazil), and respondent George Yudice (NYU).  The round table will be conducted in  Spanish.  Event 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. 

March 31 (4pm - MARI, 4th floor Dinwiddie Hall) Jessica Deckard,  "Short and Sweet: A Discussion of Apiculture in the Maya Area," 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. 

March 31 (4pm - Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center) Chris Horvath (Departments of Biology and Philosophy, Illinois State University), "Current Debates in Evolutionary Biology and Psychology: Sexuality and  Sexual Orientation."  The talk includes a Powerpoint slide presentation.  Sponsored by the Office of Lesbian,  Gay and Bisexual Life at Tulane University and the Department of French and Italian at Tulane.  For more information, contact Vaheed Ramazani at ramazani@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu or Chris Daigle at cdaigle@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu.