University of Louisiana - Lafayette, Student Organizations

EK Long Gym

Intended Audience: Student Athletes

Bob Holmes is a volleyball player who competes against his entire audience and has never lost. He is an inspirational speaker who speaks about the power of an individual.

Contact: Jessica Clarke 337-482-5195

Student Union Ballroom Intended Audience: University Students, Faculty, and Staff

Involvement with the Campaign for Real Beauty: Stacy Nadeau is a brave Dove "Real Woman" who stood proudly along with 5 other women in her underwear in the summer of 2005 as part of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. This campaign and the “Real Women” ads which celebrated the diversity of body shapes and sizes generated national attention when they hit billboards from coast to coast. Stacy and the other women truly brought the mission of the Campaign for Real Beauty to life which is to make more women feel beautiful everyday by widening today’s stereotypical view of beauty and inspiring women to take great care of themselves. The campaign has received unprecedented national media coverage and has been included in more than 85 national stories! Stacy has appeared on everything from a ten minute Today show segment, to CNN and a talk show circuit normally reserved for movie stars: Ellen, Dr. Phil, Tyra and even Oprah, twice!

Contact: Kristy Fusilier 337-482-6480

Dr. Virginia Burkett - Chief Scientist for Global Change Research

Angelle Hall One of the major issues confronting society is Global Change. Dr. Burkett will discuss the science behind this issue.

Intended audience: Students and general public

Contact Dr. Glen Watson at 337-482-6263 for more information

The panel participants will include:

Dr. Sharon Ridgway, Head, Dept. of Political Science Dr. Robert Grambling, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology Dr. Griff Blakewood, Dept. of Renewable Resources Date of lecture

CLIMATE CHANGE: PERSPECTIVES ON A GLOBAL ISSUE. Faculty members provide brief presentations followed by audience Q & A

Intended audience: University Community

HL Griffin Hall Room 147

For more information contact Dr. Jack Ferstel 337-482-5499

Dr. Brent Woodfill will present findings from his archaeological research in early classic Maya sites, especially Candelaria Caves and the cave of Hun Nal Ye, as well as his new investigations at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, a major Maya site and the principal salt producer in the ancient Maya world during the 2000 years before the Classic collapse around A.D. 900

Dr. Brent Woodfill, a researcher/lecturer with the University of Louisiana, Lafayette's Department of Anthropology and Sociology, received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Vanderbilt University, where he studied under the direction of Prof. Arthur Demarest. Dr. Woodfill's presentation is sponsored in part by the Lyceum Committee.

Students, Staff, Faculty, and the Greater Lafayette public are welcome to attend.

215 H.L. Griffin Hall

For more information call Dr. Mark Lentz 337-482-5423

HGL 315 (Griffin Hall Faculty Lounge)

Joshua Caffery: “On Which I Cast an Eye”: Lomax in Louisiana, 1934”: Medieval lays! Nineteenth-century romantic balladry! Bloody British broadsides! Haitian lullabies! Juba, juré, and jazz. The roots of Cajun and zydeco music. This presentation will survey Joshua Caffery’s work on the Library of Congress recordings made by John and Alan Lomax in Acadiana in 1934.

John Greene: “Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820”: In this presentation John Greene will discuss his multi-volume project entitled Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820 and Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances, including the evolution of these works and the publication process.

James McDonald: “The Spirit and Influence of the Wyoming Resolution: Looking Back to Look Forward”: The 1986 Wyoming Resolution has been a rallying cry to improve composition teachers’ working conditions and a symbol of the discipline’s serious attention to late 20th-century labor problems. This oral history of the Resolution is a dramatic one of cross-generational and cross-rank collaboration and social action, and of academic class tensions and conflicts.

For more information Dr.Jennifer Vaught 337-482-5481

Dr. Glenn Starkman a professor of physics and astronomy, Director of the Institute for the Science of Origins, and director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve.

The Shape of the Universe Space is big. Very big. But what shape does it have? Is it flat like a three dimensional sheet of paper? Or curved like a giant ball? Does it go on forever? Or if you go far enough in one direction do you come back to where you started? These sound like the musings of science fiction or fantasy, but they are real scientific questions that have definite answers.Answers that we are in the process of learning.

Intended audience: directed to a general audience

Broussard Hall, room 116 For more information call Dr Natalia Sidorovskaia at 337-482-6274

Tété and Eric John Kaiser, guitar and vocal duo, with accordeon accompaniment; Kirby Jambon, local author and poet; emceed by Louisiana legend Barry Ancelet.

International French-language music performance and poetry reading, followed by a discussion with the audience.

Tété and Eric John Kaiser will perform songs in French, as part of a series of events celebrating international Francophone culture in the month of March. Free.

318 Griffin Hall

For more information contact Dr. Zan Kocher at 337-482-6811

Scholarship Opportunities for Study Abroad with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and the Gilman Scholarship Program Description of lecture: This presentation will provide information about the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and the Gilman Scholarship Program, encouraging ULL students to apply for scholarships that finance study abroad.

For more information contact Dr. Zan Kocher at 337-482-6811

Intended audience UL students

Griffin Hall 405

The Developing Child: Six speakers will address issues in the wide topic of child development from language to gender.

Intended audience: anyone interested in psychology

Bayou Bijou For more information call Rachel Heath 504-615-6847