Fanfare: October at SLU

Lectures                                                 (Apollo 13
Astronaut
James Lovell)
Violence: the Plague of the 90s
Not so very long ago, America's collective nightmare was the Cold War with its chilling threat of lost liberty and world annihilation. Today, a new fear troubles our sleep and worries our days. The nightmare of the 90s is violence. In a series of special lectures, Fanfare spotlights this modern day plague and explores possible solutions.

Robert Hale
Southeastern criminal justice professor Robert Hale has studied causes of violent behavior and published articles on serial murder, juveniles and the death penalty, and community characteristics that encourage crime. In "Youth Violence: Causes and Solutions," Hale focuses on factors that lead to violence and programs designed to combat the problem. The lecture introduces ideas that will be discussed in depth by distinguished Fanfare guests.
Oct. 2, 2pm, Music Recital Hall, SLU. Free.

Jack Levin & James Alan Fox
As an authority on homicide, James Alan Fox, Dean of the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University in Boston, appears regularly on television and radio programs around the country, and is often invited to give lectures and expert testimony. His Northeastern colleague, sociology and criminal justice professor Jack Levin, is equally well-known as an authority on social problems such as prejudice and violence. The two, who have written two dozen books between them, will examine "The Young and the Ruthless: Teenagers and Violence."
Oct. 15, 7:30pm, Music Recital Hall, SLU, Free.

Sister Helen Prejean
Baton Rouge native Helen Prejean, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille for almost 40 years, is known throughout the nation as an opponent of the death penalty and an advocate for murder victims' families. Her fame increased when her 1993 book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. The book was an outgrowth of her prison ministry at Louisiana State Penitentiary, where she counseled death row inmates and witnessed executions. As a special Fanfare guest, she will present a lecture about her experiences titled "Dead Man Walking: A Journey."
Oct. 16 7:30pm, Pottle Music Building Auditorium, SLU
$10 general admission; $7 seniors, non-SLU students, SLU faculty & staff; SLU students free.
Sr. Helen Prejean will sign books at 6:15pm in the Pottle Music Auditorium lobby.

Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.
Southeastern history professor Samuel Hyde looks at the Florida Parishes' history of violence and anarchy in "Amid the Tears of Widows and Orphans: The Violent Legacy of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1899." Hyde, whose book on the subject will be published by LSU Press, will examine the social, political and cultural circumstances that combined in eastern Louisiana to produce some of the highest murder rates in the nation throughout the late 19th century. When law and order failed in the region after the Civil War, "blood feuds emerged as the principal means of society regulation," says Hyde. "What resulted were some of the fiercest and most enduring feuds in American history."
Oct. 22, 2pm, Music Recital Hall, SLU. Free.


Regional Research Lectures
Southeastern professors share their knowledge of topics researched under the auspices of Southeastern's Center for Regional Studies. English professor Thomas Fick examines "Regional Identity and National Literacy Culture in Alice Ilgenfritz Jones' Beatrice of Bayou Teche" (Sept. 30). Foreign language professor Jeanne L. Gillespie illustrates "Work, Music and Geography: A study of Isleno decimas" (Oct. 7). English professor William Dowie will discuss satire in the works of Hammond-born novelist James Wilcox (Oct. 21) and English professor Mary Sue Ply will look at "The Depiction of the Experience of Vietnamese Immigrants to New Orleans in Robert Olen Butler's A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain." (Oct. 28)
All Regional Research lectures will be presented at 2pm in the Music Recital Hall, SLU. Free.

Booksignings: Kim Howes Zabbia, Julia Sims and John Kemp
Two Ponchatoula residents introduce the new books that document their unique artistic talent. In Painted Diaries: a Mother and Daughter's Experience through Alzheimer's Ponchatoula artist and teacher Kim Howes Zabbia has documented through paintings her mother's struggle with "the cruelest disease," Alzheimer's. Julia Sims' Manchac Swamp: Louisiana's Undiscovered Wilderness is a collection of her extraordinary photographs illustrating the beauty of the flora and fauna of the threatened Manchac Swamp.
Oct. 4, 6-9pm, downtown Ponchatoula
Zabbia's will autograph her book and display her paintings at 174 S. 6th St. Sims' booksigning will be held at her Gateway Gallery, 129 E. Pine St.

William Ferris
Internationally renowned folklorist and anthropologist Dr. William Ferris, director of the University of Mississippi's Center for the Student of Southern Culture, has been called the South's most inclusive biographer. His quest is to preserve every thread of culture that has woven the South into what he considers to be the dominating influence on Western culture. "The South," says Ferris, "is where the two great cultural streams from Africa and Europe converge." At Fanfare, Ferris, who has been named one of the top ten professors in the country by Rolling Stone magazine and is co-editor of the Ole Miss Center's Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, will address "Memory and Sense of Place in the American South."
Oct. 8, 2pm, Music Recital Hall, SLU. Free.

Capt. James Lovell
One of Fanfare 1996's brightest stars is astronaut James Lovell, commander of the dramatic 1970 Apollo 13 mission. Lovell's 1994 book Lost Moon chronicled the perilous flight that never made it to the moon, but did make it home thanks to the courage and ingenuity of Lovell and his crew. The book inspired the Academy Award winning movie Apollo 13. Lovell will share the experiences he has gained and lessons he has learned in space in a lecture entitled "Apollo 13: A Successful Failure."
Oct. 9, 7:30pm, University Center, SLU.
$15 general admission; $10 seniors, students, SLU faculty & staff; SLU students free w/I.D.
James Lovell will sign books at 3:30pm, Oct. 9, at Bayou Booksellers, Inc., 204 E. Thomas St.

David Rosen
Psychiatrist and Texas A&M professor David Rosen bridges East and West in a powerful presentation of Carl Jung's own life journey as an expression of the Way of the Tao. Author of The Tao of Jung: the Way of Integrity, Dr. Rosen's presentation provides an illuminating account of both Taoism and Jungian thought--a spiritual resource for contemporary followers of the Path.
Oct. 11, 2pm, Music Recital Hall, SLU. Free.

Frances Rauscher
According to an article in Newsweek magazine, "The experiences of childhood, pioneering research shows, help form the brain's circuits--for music and math, language and emotion." University of Wisconsin psychology professor Frances Rauscher has been part of the important research into how experiences wire the brain's neurons into a mind. She and other researchers have shown that studying and listening to classical music enhances children's reasoning skills and performance in mathematics. Rauscher will talk about her work in "The Effect of Musical Experience on Preschool and Adult Intelligence."
Oct. 14, 2pm, Music Recital Hall, SLU. Free.

Robert Mann
Robert Mann, press secretary to Louisiana's U.S. Senator John Breaux and author of a well- received biography of Louisiana's Sen. Russell Long, will talk about the issues, incidents and individuals in his latest work, The Walls of Jericho: The Story of Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell and the Strugle for Civil Rights. Kirkus Reviews called the book "an absorbing story of the 16-year Senate seige to break the seemingly impregnable wall of resistance to civil rights for blacks--and of the three Democratic titans at the heart of that battle."
Oct. 22, 7:30pm, Music Recital Hall, SLU. Free.



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