Vol. 17, No. 20	Feb. 19, 1998

Civil War topic of March 5 lecture

Drew Gilpin Faust, Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 5, in Room 125 of Clayton Hall.

Her lecture, "A Riddle of Death: Mortality and Meaning in the American Civil War," is part of the UD history department's Huthmacher Lecture Series.

Faust is the recipient of this year's Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians and author of many influential books on Southern history. One work, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, was named a New York Times' Notable Book of the Year.

Next year, Faust will assume the presidency of the Southern Historical Association.

Admission is free and open to the public. The lecture series is funded in part by the J. Joseph Huthmacher Memorial Fund and the UD Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events.

For more information, call 831-2371.

Comedy, music & more in Hen Zone

Theatre weekends, comedy nights and band nights are all part of the fun scheduled this spring in the Hen Zone on the lower level of the Perkins Student Center. Free and open to the public, February and early March events include:

Stand-up comics from the best area clubs, performing at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Feb. 24 and March 10;

Band nights, featuring the most popular in local bands, at 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Feb. 19 (Juliet's Wishing Well, with Mary Arden Collins), Feb. 26 (The Upstanders) and March 12 (Spendthrift); and

The first of the season's theatre weekends with Harrington Theatre Arts company's production of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins on Feb. 20, 21, 22, 27 and 28.

For more information about these and other Hen Zone events, call UD1-HENS.

Prize-winning author to speak

David Bradley, author of South Street and The Chaneysville Incident, will read from his works at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 23, in Room 006 of Kirkbride Lecture Hall. His talk is free and open to the public.

Bradley received his bachelor's degree in creative writing from the University of Pennsylvania and his master's in U.S. studies from the University of London. The Chaneysville Incident earned him a PEN/Faulkner Prize and an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

His nonfiction has appeared in such publications as Esquire, Redbook, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker. He has been a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Bradley is currently at work on a nonfiction book, The Bondage Hypothesis: Meditations on Race, History and America. His Newark appearance is sponsored by the UD Department of English and the Delaware Humanities Forum.

For more information, call 831-1974.

Film festival on campus March 3

Since 1981, the annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival Tour has been bringing the poetic and insightful vision of independent film and video makers to audiences at museums, libraries, film societies, colleges and community institutions from coast to coast.

On Tuesday, March 3, the festival comes to Room 100 of the Kirkbride Lecture Hall, where award-winning films and videos will be shown from 4:30-6 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Both screenings are free and open to the public.

The festival exhibits works that are not typically available anywhere else. This year's selection of 47 films and videos, chosen from 850 entries, include actor Morgan Freeman in Mississippi: Power of Place, in which six artists reflect on their experiences growing up in a segregated Mississippi; Linear Dreams, a 7-minute, color film of syncopated hand-etched images dancing across the screen; Ground Zero, Sacred Ground, a 9-minute animated film exploring the contrasting value systems that created the world's first atomic bomb site and a look at the site of ancient Native American petroglyphs.

The Black Maria's Newark appearance is sponsored by the Department of Art and the Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events.

For more information, call 831-2244.

Series will focus on leadership

Shaping one's future by becoming an effective leader is the theme of the spring Leadership 2000 series, coordinated by Nina Harris, student activities and programs.

This certification program is open to all undergraduates. Students will engage in interactive sessions to develop effective communication skills and to learn to lead with confidence.

All four sessions will be held from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursdays, Feb. 26, March 12, April 16 and May 7, in the Rodney Room of the Perkins Student Center.

Students interested should submit an application and letter of interest to the Activities and Programs Office, 218 Trabant University Center. The application deadline has been extended to Feb. 23.

For more information, call Deborah Vidmar at 831-6491 or send e-mail to deborah@udel.edu

Bassoonist recital in Loudis hall

Bassoonist Jon Gaarder will present a free chamber music recital at 8 p.m., Monday, March 9, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. Also performing will be Lloyd Shorter and Timothy Clinch, oboes, Douglas Mapp, bass, and Julie Nishimura, piano.

The program will feature Bassoon Concerto, K. 191 by Mozart, Three Pieces, Op. 34 by Loechlin, Sonata by Cascarino and Zelenka's Sonata #5 in F Major.

For information, call 831-2577.

Poetry reading in Art House

Fleda Brown Jackson and Marisa de los Santos will be reading their poetry at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Art House on East Delaware Avenue, Newark. The reading is sponsored by the Winter Institute for the Study of the U.S.

De los Santos, who teaches in the Parallel Program, is the recipient of this year's Individual Artist's Fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts.

Jackson is a professor of English at the University and an award-winning author.

More than 190 of her poems have been published. Among her awards are the James Wright Prize, University of Delaware General Research Grant, Delaware Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowship and President's Award from the National Marine Education Association.

German consul to speak Feb. 23

"German-Jewish Relations: Futility, Possibility or Necessity?" is the topic of a program to be presented by Hans Heinrich von Stackelberg, German consul general in New York, at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 23, in Clayton Hall. For several years, von Stackelberg represented the German government in Israel.

The program is an effort to promote a dialog and strengthen the relationship between the American-Jewish and German-American communities. The lecture is part of a series of programs sponsored by the International Council of Delaware and the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation.

Alumna talks on product retailing

The Department of Consumer Studies' Culture and Marketplace Dynamics Lecture Series will present guest lecturer Sandra Vanwetering Jorgensen, '80 HP, from 2-4 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 24, in the Collins Room of the Perkins Student Center.

The fashion merchandising graduate was head of product development for Federated Stores, and her topic is "Product Development: National and International Implications for Retailing in the United States."

The program is free and open to the public.