VENITE!
2004 MEETING

Friday October 22 &
Saturday October 23
on the campus of 
Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond, LA

This will be a joint meeting of the 
Louisiana Classical Association
and the 
Louisiana Consortium of Medieval and Renaissance Scholars

Advance registration deadline: Sept. 15, 2004
click here for registration form (pdf)

click here for Paper Proposal form (pdf)

LCA Theme: Classics Renaissance in Louisiana




The provisional format for the meeting, subject to changes needed to facilitate actual presentations and actual time requirements:

Friday, Oct. 22, 2004:  joint activities for both organizations 

  • 5:00: Reception, Hammond Regional Arts Center: drinks and dinner type foods
  • 7:00 The Fab Four Concert at Columbia Theater has free tickets available for participating members of each group.
 Information on overnight accommodations will appear soon.

Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004

  • 8:00-8:45:  LOUISIANA PURCHASE BALLROOM
    • registration
    • reg., $10.00; meal, $15.00; LCA dues, $20.00
  • 8:45-9:00 LOUISIANA PURCHASE BALLROOM:
    • Welcome
      • Tammy  Bourg, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Southeastern Louisiana University
      • Wade Heaton, President, Louisana Classical Association
      • William B. Robison, Host, Louisiana Consortium of Medieval and Renaissance Scholars
  • 9:00-10:15:  SOUTHEASTERN ROOM: LCA
    • business meeting
    • including inforomation on state standards by Tiffany; presentation of website by Alexis; presentation on new scholarship details; need for information on ALL Latin programs in the state, middle, high school and college by Lora
  • 10:15-10:30: LOUISIANA PURCHASE BALLROOM:
    • coffee
    • 10:30-11:45: Norah Jones, representitive of Cambridge University Press, on the Cambridge Latin series.
  • 11:45-1:30 (Joint Session) LOUISIANA PURCHASE BALLROOM:
    • Lunch
      • Chair, Robert Norris, Asst Professor of English, Southeastern Louisiana University
      • Wade Heaton, Instructor of English, Southeastern Louisiana University
      • William B. Robison, Professor of History, Southeastern Louisiana University
      • Terence Tunberg, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Kentucky
      • Lisa Verner, Assistant Professor of English, University of New Orleans
  • 1:30-2:45: SOUTHEASTERN ROOM:
    • Angelle Stringer, Ph.D, Program Director of the Teach Louisiana Consortium on new state certification of teachers
    • Lucia Harrison, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Southeastern Louisiana University
  • 2:45-3:00: LOUISIANA PURCHASE BALLROOM:
    • coffee.
  • 3:00-4:15:  (Joint Session) SOUTHEASTERN ROOM
    • Chair: Lucia Harrison, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Southeastern Louisiana University
    • Guest Speaker, Terence Tunberg, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Kentucky
      • "What Is the Study of Latin?"
  • 4:30-5:00: SOUTHEASTERN ROOM
    • A last opportunity to discuss issues of import to LCA.
For more information, contact
Wade Heaton, Dept. of English
SLU 10861
Hammond, LA 70402
wheaton@selu.edu 

Dr. Lucia Harrison, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures
SLU 10710
Hammond, LA 70402
lharrison@selu.edu