Biever Guest Lecture Series
Loyola continues its distinguished Biever Guest Lecture series, bringing renowned scholars and authors from across the disciplines and across the world to campus. All lectures are free and open to the public. Lectures for fall 2004 include:
Spanish lecture: "Teatro español ayer y hoy"
Sunday, October 10, 3 p.m.
Octavia I (Danna Center)
The Spanish dramatist Jerónimo López Mozo has been an active force in the theatre in Spain since the mid 1960s, when he was involved in the Underground Theatre movement during the Franco dictatorship. His plays contain elements of various innovations through the years: Brechtian epic theatre, happenings, theatre of the absurd, documentary theatre, film projections, and structural fragmentation. A prolific author, he has more than 40 published plays, some done in collaboration with other playwrights and/or university theatre groups. A true promoter of Spanish theatre, his involvement reaches to countless published reviews of the plays of young Spanish playwrights in Madrid, conferences and invited lectures in Spain, Venezuela, Portugal, the United States, and Italy. A few of his works have been performed internationally. Of particular note, Guernica, his anti-war play, was performed in a bilingual version in New York City's Thalia Theater in the year 2000. His one-act play, El escritor y su biógrafo or The author and his biographer, tells the story of a famous author who dictates his biography based on his autobiographical novels. The biographer begins to doubt the veracity of the information and so confronts the author, after digging up information about the author's youth that contradicts what is about to be published. In addition, López Mozo has received numerous theatre awards, including five major awards for his plays (national awards in Spain). Since the 1990s, his theatre has received even more critical and popular notice.
Cultural Night from Spain: Music and Theatre
Monday, October 11, 7:30 p.m.
Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall
A bilingual dramatic reading of the one-act play, The Author and his Biographer/El escritor y su biógrafo, by Jerónimo López Mozo, will be presented with David Dahlgren directing Loyola drama students. Featured guitarist John Lawrence is a specialist in Spanish Flamenco guitar, and also performs classical and contemporary pieces.
"Evolutionary genetics and molecular epidemiology of pathogens:
The Trypanosoma Cruzi Story"
Tuesday, October 12, 12:30 p.m.
Monroe Hall, Room 157
Dr. Michael Tibayrenc is president and co-founder of the society Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases (MEEGID) and originator and editor-in-chief of the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution. Tibayrenc will discuss his research, "Evolutionary genetics and molecular epidemiology of pathogens: the Trypanosoma Cruzi Story," and "The ecological niche of infection, genetics, and evolution: why is it so timely?" Tibayrenc has served as a physician and conducted research in French, Guyana, Algeria, Bolivia, France, and the United States. He has been head of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases in Montpellier, France, since 1988 and the director of research for the Institute for Research for Development since 1989.
"Educating Citizens: Schools as Practice Grounds for Democracy"
Wednesday, October 20, 7 p.m.
Monroe Hall, Room 127
Richard Battistoni, Ph.D., is professor of political science at Providence College and a Campus Compact Engaged Scholar for Civic Engagement. Author or editor of five books, and author of numerous journal publications, Battistoni is the foremost authority in the United States on experiential education and political learning. His book, Public Schooling and the Education of Democratic Citizens, was selected as an "Outstanding Academic Book" by both Choice magazine and the American Education Association. He is also a leader in the Campus Compact movement, and is the founder of Project 540, an innovative civic education program for high school students.
"Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History"
Friday, October 22, 7 p.m.
Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall
Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich will assess the implications of the widespread idea that only non-conforming women make history. Ulrich is the Phillips Professor of Early American History and director of the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University. She is the author of many articles and books on early American history, including A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990), which won the Pulitzer Prize. Her latest book is The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (2001).
"A Covenant with Death?: Slavery's Role in the United States
Constitution"
Thursday, November 11, 7 p.m.
Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall
Paul Finkelman, one of the nation's leading experts on slavery and law, will discuss the debates about slavery that took place during the framing of the United States Constitution, and assess slavery's impact on American constitutional law. Finkelman is the Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa where he teaches constitutional law and legal history. He has published more than a dozen books and 70 articles on the law of American slavery, the First Amendment, and American race relations. He also has appeared in numerous historical documentaries including Ken Burns' Thomas Jefferson.
