UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 10, Page 4
November 3, 1994
Up and coming

Concert series set for Arsht Hall
     The first in a series of Sunday afternoon concerts sponsored by
the Academy of Lifelong Learning will be held at 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov.
6, in Arsht Hall, featuring the Summit Trio consisting of Charles
Forbes on cello, Hirono Oka on violin and Louis Menendez on piano. The
group will perform the music of Mozart, Ravel, Chopin and Brahms.
     Guests are invited to join the artists for refreshments and
conversation around the fireplace after the performance.
     Tickets are $10 per person and may be reserved by calling 573-
4433.

Reading Nov. 9 by Irish author
     Mary Rose Callaghan, one of Ireland's most significant
contemporary writers, will present a reading at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday,
Nov. 9, in 124 Memorial Hall.
     She will read from her play, The House For Fools, and from one of
her short stories.
     A native of Dublin, Callaghan is the author of the novels
Mothers, Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter, The Awkward Girl and Has
Anyone Seen Heather?, a murder mystery for young adults. In addition,
she has written a biography of Kitty O'Shea and is a contributing
editor to The Journal of Irish Literature.
     Sponsored by the University's Department of English, the reading
is free and open to the public.
     For more information, call 831-1974.

Women writers focus of lecture
     Elaine Showalter, Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at
Princeton University, will present a lecture on "Women Writers of the
Fin De Siecle" at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 16, in 110 Memorial Hall.
     A visiting professor of English and women's studies at the
University of Delaware in 1976, Showalter is a pioneer in feminist
studies and is internationally known for her work in feminist theory.
Her published work includes A Literature of Their Own (1977) and
Authority and the Shadows of Little Dorrit (1979). Her many awards
include both a Guggenheim fellowship in 1977 and a Rockefeller
fellowship in 1981.
     Sponsored by the Department of English, the Faculty Senate
Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events and the Office of
Women's Affairs, the lecture is free and open to the public.
     For information, call 831-1974.

Literacy in video age is talk subject
     A colloquium on "Literacy in the Age of Video" will be presented
from 1:30-3 p.m., Monday, Nov. 14, in 124 Memorial Hall.
     Leading the colloquium will be Gregory L. Ulmer, editor of
Postmodern Culture, an electronic journal. His publications include
Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph
Beuys (1985), Teletheory: Grammatology in the Age of Video (1989) and
Heuretics: The Logic of Invention (1994). He is co-editor of Textbook.
     Sponsored by the Department of English, this colloquium is free
and open to the public.
     For more information, call 831-1974.

Homosexuality is topic of program
     James T. Sears, professor in the Department of Educational
Leadership at the University of South Carolina, will discuss "Teacher,
Student and Homosexuality" at 7:30 tonight, in Room 208 of the Willard
Hall Education Building. The discussion is free and open to the
public.
     Sears is one of several multicultural educators nationwide who
have met resistance when seeking to integrate lesbian and gay cultural
issues into multicultural education curricula.
     In explaining the issue, a spokesperson for the University's
Center for Intercultural Teacher Education, one of the cosponsors of
the event, said, "Multicultural advocates have challenged the validity
of homosexuals' 'minority status' claim because of the group's
presumed influence and wealth. Others feel that the inclusion of such
controversial issues in multicultural education will lead to the
defeat of all multicultural efforts in the public schools or will
diminish the power of the racial minorities for whom multicultural
education was originally created."
     Sears has written several books about sexuality and education,
including: Growing Up Gay in the South: Race, Gender and Journeys of
the Spirit, Sexuality and the Curriculum: The Politics and Practices
of Sexuality Education and his forthcoming book, Teaching Sex in
America: Cultures, Communities and Identities.
     Sears has received several awards for his contributions to
education, including an appointment as visiting scholar in the Center
for Feminist Research, University of Southern California, 1993-94; the
American Educational Research Association's Lesbian and Gay Educators'
Award in 1992; and the American Civil Liberties Union's First
Amendment Award in 1993.
     Other cosponsors of the program include MOSAIC, the College of
Education's intercultural student organization, and the College of
Education's Colloquium Series.
     For more information, call 831-3649.