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Timothy Gautreaux
Southeastern writer and English professor Tim Gautreaux has earned critical acclaim and a national following for his ability to make southeast Louisiana come alive in his fiction. His stories, which have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and GQ, and have been collected in Same Place, Same Things, capture the strength, resiliency and joy of life found in the lives of "ordinary" modern-day Cajuns. For Fanfare, Gautreaux will read from his unpublished novel, Black Bayou.
Oct. 1, 2pm, Music Recital Hall, SLU.
Free.Howard Nichols
Veteran Southeastern history professor Howard Nichols is the author of four books and many articles on the region, including Tangipahoa Crossings: Excursions into Tangipahoa History, Centennial Souvenir, A Hammond History Source Book, and Mandeville on the Lake: A Sesquicentennial Album and his new Gathered at the River: One Hundred Fifty Years of Christ Episcopal Church. Nichols will speak on "Rivers, Rails and Roads: Historical Development of Eastern Florida Parishes."
Oct. 6: 2pm, Music Recital Hall, SLU.
Free.Sam Hyde
According to Southeastern history professor and author Sam Hyde, no other class of Americans are as subject to institutionalized ridicule as the Southerners. In "In Praise of the South: Dispelling the Myth of Southern Backwardness," Hyde traces the historical emergence of this stereotyping, explaining the sources of misunderstanding and contempt for the South and demonstrating the fundamental contributions of Southerners to a distinct American identity.
Oct. 7, 2pm, Music Recital Hall.
Free.The Honorable Ann Richards
When former Texas Governor Ann Richards was a child, her father told her that she could be anything she wanted to be. During a lifetime of public service and leadership, she has proven him right. Richards captured national attention in 1988 with a dynamic keynote address to the Democratic National Convention and two years later was elected Governor of Texas. A gifted inspirational speaker, she continues to address causes she believes in and to transfer to others the confidence her father gave to her.
Oct. 8, 7:30pm, University Center,
SLU Tickets: $15 general admission, $10
senior citizens/SLU faculty & staff/non SLU students, SLU students free with
I.D.Kenneth Holditch
Retired University of New Orleans English professor Kenneth Holditch has spent years researching and writing about the literary legacy of the Crescent City, delving into the works of authors such as Anne Rice, John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy and Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner and Lillian Hellman. He expands upon those themes in "Lust and Languor in the Big Easy, the Literary Mystique of New Orleans."
Oct. 13: 2pm, Music Recital Hall, SLU.
Free.Lucienne Simon
Artist and teacher Lucienne Bond Simon is a passionate supporter for "the transformational powers of the arts." In response to proposed cuts in arts funding in Louisiana, she and her Hammond Eastside Primary School students created an "arts advocacy primer," Dear Governor Foster, that has received national acclaim. Simon's multi-media presentation, "The Big A or the Arts Educator," focuses on contributions art teachers can make by being community activists and arts advocates.
Oct. 14: 2pm, Music Recital Hall, SLU.
Free.Cols. Gerald P. and Nancy Jaax
Colonels Jerry and Nancy Jaax, veterinarians at the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, played major roles in a reallife nightmare depicted in the New York Times bestseller The Hot Zone and in the movie, Outbreak. The book describes how a potentially disastrous virus entered the United States in 1989 with a group of Asian monkeys, and was contained by U.S. Army personnel in Reston, Va. Nancy was almost infected by the lethal virus in her lab and Jerry led an Army team into the Ebola-infested monkey facility. With humor and savvy, the Jaax's lecture, "Lethal Viruses, Ebola and The Hot Zone," educates their audience about Ebola and describes their own harrowing experiences.
Oct. 15, 7:30pm, Pottle Music Building
Auditorium, SLU $8 general admission, $6 senior
citizens/SLU faculty & staff/all studentsRandolph Delehanty
New Orleanian Randolph Delehanty, author of popular and award-winning historical and architectural guides, including In the Victorian Style and New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, speaks on "Spirits, Signs, and Souls in Southern Art."
Oct. 20, 2pm, Music Recital Hall, SLU.
FreeErnest Gaines
As a teenager, Ernest Gaines began to write "because no one was telling me the story of my people." Fifty years later, the acclaimed Louisiana author is still telling stories about living poor and black in the South an earlier part of this century. He writes "for the black youth of the South, because I'd like him to realize his life is worth literature." In Fanfare's annual "Tom Matheny Lecture," Gaines will read from his most recent book, A Lesson Before Dying, which received the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Oct. 27, 7:30pm, Pottle Music Building
Auditorium,
SLU $6 general admission, $4 senior citizens,
SLU faculty/staff, all students