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Suddenly Last Summer

The Garden District proves to be a predatory ecosystem when Violet Venable (Big Easy Theatre Award Winner Gwendolyne Foxworth), a formidable matriarch, sets out to exact revenge on Catharine Holly (Elizabeth McCoy). Truth, deceit, and horror intermingle in an overgrown jungle of a garden where Catharine struggles for her life. What horrible secrets are locked Suddenly Last Summer

Sigma Tau Delta’s Open Mic Poetry Night at Loyola

Sigma Tau Delta hosts an open mic poetry night at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 6, at Satchmo’s Lounge (Loyola University New Orleans). Come by and read your work or listen and support your peers. If you would like to reserve your reading slot, sign up here: http://doodle.com/poll/3df6t83rfwucsxvq

This is actually an inkling of a truly anti-anthropocentric thought: Five questions for Timothy Morton

By Nathan C. Martin and Christopher Schaberg Timothy Morton, an author and intellectual whose work largely examines ecology through the lens of posthuman philosophy, will give a talk at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4, in the Whitney Presentation Room in Thomas Hall on the campus of Loyola University New Orleans (6363 St. Charles Ave.). This is actually an inkling of a truly anti-anthropocentric thought: Five questions for Timothy Morton

Still Lost in the Cosmos: Loyola’s Walker Percy Center hosts its second bi-annual conference this weekend

The Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing at Loyola University New Orleans will host its second bi-annual Percy-themed conference this weekend: “Still Lost in the Cosmos: Walker Percy and the 21st Century.” The conference takes place Friday and  Saturday, with a keynote speech by author Paul Elie on Friday evening and a performance based Still Lost in the Cosmos: Loyola’s Walker Percy Center hosts its second bi-annual conference this weekend

Confounding or Stimulating a Lot of Great Minds: John Glassie on Athanasius Kircher at Loyola April 22

By John Sebastian Athanasius Kircher, a seventeenth-century German Jesuit and self-styled “master of a hundred arts,” is credited with inventing the megaphone, a pre-cursor to the computer, and (perhaps) a cat piano. His intense curiosity about the world around him motivated him to pursue studies in fields as disparate as magnetism and magic, optics and acoustics, Confounding or Stimulating a Lot of Great Minds: John Glassie on Athanasius Kircher at Loyola April 22