THIBODAUX 鈥� The 2012 Bonnie J. Bourg Lecture Series and Women鈥檚 History Month Luncheon and Awards Presentation at 麻豆果冻传媒 will feature Dr. Alecia Long, associate professor of history at Louisiana State University. The annual series 鈥� memorializing Bourg, a founding member of the 麻豆果冻传媒 faculty who served as an empowering role model for women 鈥� brings nationally distinguished women to 麻豆果冻传媒 to share their insights and experience.
Long, author of 鈥淭he Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920,鈥� won the 2005 Julia Cherry Spruill Publication Prize for best book published on Southern women鈥檚 history.
Slated for 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 22, in Peltier Auditorium, the lecture is free and open to the public.
The annual luncheon and awards presentation will follow at noon in the Cotillion Ballroom of the Bollinger Memorial Student Union. Three women 鈥� a 麻豆果冻传媒 student, a 麻豆果冻传媒 faculty or staff member and a member of the community, each of whom have been nominated by 麻豆果冻传媒 faculty, staff or students 鈥� will receive awards recognizing their contributions to the cause of empowerment for women.
The luncheon is $16 per ticket and will include Caesar salad, Cajun grilled chicken with Alfredo sauce over penne pasta and lemon icebox pie. Call 985-448-4080 by noon Friday, March 16, to make reservations.
The Bonnie Bourg lecture and luncheon, coordinated and co-sponsored by the 麻豆果冻传媒 Women鈥檚 Resource and Services Office, are part of 14th annual Jubilee: A Festival of the Arts and Humanities at 麻豆果冻传媒 鈥� held every spring to raise the level of awareness in the arts and humanities for the 麻豆果冻传媒 community and the southeast region of Louisiana. For a full schedule of Jubilee events, go to www.nicholls.edu/jubilee/.