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2012 – 2013 Enrichment committeeJT Hannan ‘99Kathryn Holten ’79, Ph.D.Allison HotardRuth Katz ‘82Elizabeth Manshel ‘89David Moore ’67, Ph.D.Michael Plaisance ’00, J.D. ‘07Darla RushingMary Jo Sapp ‘85Claire Simno ‘72Renny Simno ‘98Amy Sins ‘98Ted Stacey ‘70Raymond Steib, Jr. ’79. J.D. ‘82 Sharonda Williams, J.D. ‘01

Office of Alumni RelationsMonique GardnerLisa Adams ’82Sarah GelfandLaurie Leiva ’03Allison WaldronSemaj Riley

Over a three-day weekend, you will have the opportunity to attend classes taught by Loyola’s outstanding current and retired faculty and alumni. When you are not in class, you will have a chance to mingle at meals and social events with fellow alumni, Loyola faculty, and administrators.

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Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends,On behalf the Loyola Alumni Association and University President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., we invite you to join us at our second annual Alumni College Experience Loyola Again! Over a three-day period, you will be able to attend classes taught by some of our top professors, revisit the Loyola campus, and enjoy mingling with your fellow alumni.

This year we will provide four study tracks, Global Issues, Louisiana, Spirituality, and 101 Refresher Courses. You can attend all the courses in the track of your choice or simply attend any class you choose, regardless of track.

The classes begin Friday afternoon, continue all day Saturday, and conclude Sunday morning with a class conducted by Fr. Wildes. In addition to the classes, you will also have the opportunity to take a special class or tour on Friday morning and to join everyone for dinner Friday night. On Saturday night, you will be on your own to enjoy a New Orleans restaurant or to hit Bourbon Street.

Blocks of rooms at various New Orleans hotels have been reserved, or you can stay on campus in one of our residence halls.

Last year’s inaugural Alumni College was a big success. Please join us in June for an educational—and fun—adventure.

Sincerely yours,

Alfred “Ted” Stacey, IV ’70 Amy Cyrex Sins ‘982012 – 2013 Enrichment President, Alumni AssociationCommittee Chair

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this brochure. The sessions offered are grouped into tracks to help you identify topics of particular interest:

Global IssuesThe social, political, economic, and environmental issues that affect us all

Louisiana A glimpse of our history and culture

Spirituality An extraordinary blend of theological insight and historical perspective

101 Refresh Introductory courses that you may have missed, were not available at the time, or are so interesting that you might want to take again


You have a choice of one of two complimentary field trips, traveling by chartered bus, or stay on campus for a private piano lesson or a hands-on art class.

TouR of Three Irish Channel Churches

No visit to New Orleans is complete without a tour of the Garden District and neighboring Irish Channel. There you will find the magnificent remnants of the area known as Ecclesiastic Square. View the historic St. Alphonsus and St. Mary’s Assumption churches, built for the Irish and German congregations in those areas. The National Shrine to Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, CSsR, is also located in beautifully restored historic St. Mary’s Church. Our guest speakers will be Bill Murphy, a local historian, Fr. Richard Thibodeau, CSsR, Pastor of St. Mary’s Assumption Church, and Fr. Byron Miller, CSsR, Postulator for the Cause of Canonization of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos.

The WoRLd of “CReoLe ITaLIan:” a Tour of Sicilian new orleans

Did you know that Sicilian-descended people make up the single largest ethnic group in New Orleans? Loyola Professor Justin Nystrom, Ph.D., leads this tour explores the rich history and culture of the city’s Italian immigrant experience from the corner grocery and fruit stand to the colorful world of Louis Prima.

pRIvaTe pIano LeSSon with donald Boomgaarden, ph.d.

Sign up for a special one-on-one 45-minute piano lesson with Dean Boomgaarden. He will be happy to work with you on whatever piano pieces you are currently studying or wish to study. If you are not a pianist, but would like to begin to learn, he can show you the basics and talk about how you can begin your own private study of the piano. This opportunity will be available to five participants on a first come, first serve basis.

9 – 9:45 a.m. ...................Lesson 1 11:45 – 12:30 a.m. ............ Lesson 49:55 – 10:40 a.m. ............Lesson 2 12:40 – 1:20 a.m. ............. Lesson 5 10:50 – 11:35 a.m. ..........Lesson 3

Call Monique Gardner at 504-861-5752 or 800-798-ALUM to register.

SCuLpTuRe CLaSS with professor Mark Grote

Each student is requested to bring with them one shoe box filled with small collected materials from their home and office. Some materials can be repeated such as rubber bands, paper clips, or pill bottles. We will assemble materials into sculpture using a variety of other materials (supplied by the class). The final sculpture object will then be presented in an exhibition in the outer space gallery. Class will begin at 9:30 a.m. until 1 p.m., meeting in room 124 St. Mary’s Hall Broadway Campus.

CoCKTaILS/dInneR at Redemption orleans Revival Cuisine

For an additional fee, you are invited to join us and celebrate at Redemption in Mid-City. Raised from the ruins of Hurricane Katrina, this landmark and historic church built in 1914 was also formerly the home of Christian’s Restaurant for more than 30 years. In honor of the “Rebirth” of New Orleans, the Delaune family has reopened this location and dedicated themselves to restoring and preserving the culinary arts that have distinguished our city and made it famous. Chef Greg Picolo and his talented staff will create a seasonal menu with the freshest local ingredients to create a Revival Creole Cuisine just for us. Leave Loyola’s horseshoe at 6 p.m. and return at 9:30 p.m.

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9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Extra-Curricular Activities

12:15 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch Faculty/Staff Dining Room

2 – 3:15 p.m. Session 1 Miller Hall

3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Break Miller Hall

3:30 – 4:45 p.m. Session 2 Miller Hall

4:45 – 5:45 p.m. Wine and Cheese Reception Thomas Hall

6 – 6:10 p.m. Meet Bus

6:30 – 10 p.m. Reception and Dinner Redemption

SaTuRday, June 88 – 12 p.m. Registration C.C’s Lounge

8 – 9 a.m. Continental Breakfast C.C.’s Lounge

9:15 – 10:30 a.m. Session 3 Miller Hall

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break Miller Hall

10:45 a.m. – 12 p.m. Session 4 Miller Hall

12:15 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch Audubon Room

2 – 3:15 p.m. Session 5 Miller Hall

3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Break Miller Hall

3:30 – 4:45 p.m. Session 6 Miller Hall

5 – 6 p.m. Reception with local cocktails Monroe Library

6 p.m. Dinner on your own

Sunday, June 97 – 9 a.m. Continental Breakfast CC’s Lounge

8 – 9 a.m. Mass Holy Name of Jesus

9:30 – 10:45 a.m. Joint Session Miller Hall

11 – 11:45 a.m. Closing Ceremony Miller Hall

12 – 1 p.m. Lunch Faculty/Staff Dining Room


FridayCybercriminals and Threats of the Information age David N. Khey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

Do you think you have what it takes to secure your personal information and data from hackers and cybercriminals? Have you been following the news about what the president and our government deem as the next great threat to face our country since the Cold War? We have always been told information is power, and now that we are in the information age, it seems that we can barely fathom just how powerful that information is. This seminar exposes you to the current tactics of cybercriminals from around the world, explores current high-profile cases, and lets you know just how behind we really are in protecting ourselves and our country. The weakest link is us, the public. Find out how, and how to change it.

Civil Rights in LouisianaDavid Moore ’67, Ph.D., Rev. James J. Pillar, OMI, Distinguished Professor of History, and Chair, Department of History

This title suggests a concentration on the desegregation struggles in Louisiana after the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954—the so-called “Second Battle of New Orleans.” Rightly so, yet in New Orleans and Louisiana civil rights, even if just applied to race relations, means so much more. In this brief overview, we will glance at 18th-century Louisiana then spend a bit more time on the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries in Louisiana before focusing more intently on the last 60 years. Our history of having a sizable population who were “neither black nor white, neither slave nor free” would create a situation in Louisiana that would make its civil rights struggles unlike most of the rest of the country. Yes, the rest of the U.S. is different from Louisiana—or is it vice versa?

feasts and Seasons: praying with the Liturgical Calendar Daniella Zsupan-Jerome, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Liturgy, Catechesis and Evangelization, Loyola Institute for Ministry

Prayer is an activity that can take a great variety of forms and find expression in our lives in a multitude of ways. It is also an activity that might be difficult to sustain or experience with consistency. Many of us struggle with integrating a regular, real, and meaningful experience of prayer into our day to day lives. This course seeks to explore the meaning and value of prayer as practiced by the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar. This rich tradition of prayer follows a cyclical pattern of time as celebrated in the feasts and seasons of the Church year. This course invites learners into a deeper understanding of the liturgical year, exploring how the Church’s calendar understands time and the posture of prayer that we can experience through its passing. The course also offers a practical introduction to engaging in a regular practice of prayer as facilitated by the liturgical year.

open Rehearsal: ChopinDonald Boomgaarden, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Music and Fine Arts

Join Dean Boomgaarden in an open rehearsal of some of Chopin’s most beloved works, the Mazurkas! He will perform a number of these works and also discuss with the audience the style of Chopin, and approaches to piano performance in general.

SESSION 1 | 2 – 3:15 p.M.

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violence in the Middle east: Religious or political?Behrooz Moazami, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Middle East History and Director of Middle East Peace Studies

The course’s central puzzle is what has caused the volatility of the Middle East’s contemporary history, and what role, if any, religion plays in this ongoing violence. While the focus will be more on the waves of political and religious violence since the 19th century and the region’s intense interaction with the West, we will also discuss the recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa and speculate about the possibilities of transformation of the Arab Spring to an Arab Winter.

a Sociological Look at Gender and new orleans Mardi GrasSue Mennino, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Sociology

Gender is one of the most basic organizing mechanisms in society. Gender is much more than a personal characteristic of individuals; it is also a system of inequality, one that interacts with other forms of social inequality, particularly race/ethnicity and class. Mardi Gras is deeply woven into the cultural fabric of New Orleans. It is an urban celebration, similar in many ways to Carnival celebrations throughout the world. In this session, we look through our sociological lens consider what gender is, how gender inequality is built into the structures of society, and how participants actively reconstruct as well as challenge the system of gender relations during Mardi Gras.

Millennialism in the World’s ReligionsCatherine Wessinger, Ph.D., Rev. H. James Yamauchi, S.J., Professor of the History of Religions, Department of Religious Studies

The patterns of belief and behavior that scholars term “millennialism”—belief in an imminent transition to a collective salvation, which may be earthly or heavenly or both—are important in many of the world’s religions. Millennial beliefs are found at the beginning of a number of the world’s major religious traditions, and are preserved in their scriptures to become resources for future millennialists. Millennial beliefs are also important to many smaller “new religious movements.” Millennial movements may have “prophets” and/or “messiahs,” but not necessarily. A range of behaviors is associated with millennialism. Knowledge of millennial religious patterns increases understanding of events and conflicts in history and in the world.

The Investment outlook for the last half of 2013 and for 2014Ronald Christner, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Finance

This course will evaluate the near term outlook for the U.S. Stock Market, Bond Market, and Real Estate Market. Although no one can predict the future of these three markets, there are valuation metrics related to market trends, interest rate predictions, and economic growth prospects. The economic analysis can be influenced by political considerations and legislation on both the national and local level. We will examine the likely consequences of interest rate changes that directly affect bond prices and indirectly can affect stock and real estate values. Finally, we will suggest an investment strategy for these three markets over the next 12 months, while considering diversification benefits from investing across all three markets. This session will be limited to 18 people on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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eu, euRo, and International financeMehmet F. Dicle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Finance

A common currency for EU nations is an historic effort. In the past few years, EU faced an unprecedented challenge to its efforts of a unified economy and its EURO. The partnership with Greece was questioned and doubted. The unionization of EU is now at stake. On one side, Germany, France, and the U.K. are bearing the burden of bail outs. On the other side, individual economies are suffering due to the common currency. Economic and political consequences cannot be predicted easily. Risks posed by Italy and Spain may not be easily contained. We are now facing a situation of “too big to bail out.” We will be talking about the risks surrounding the EURO and the EU. Possible consequences of failure and success of EURO for international portfolios will be discussed. Risks posed by EURO instability on U.S. investments will also be explored. Steps toward recovery and failure will be identified.

What will happen to my assets (and my debt) when I die?Sandi Varnado, J.D., Assistant Professor of Law

If you have ever contemplated this question, this class is for you! In it, we will explore the current Louisiana laws governing the transfer of one’s estate upon his or her death. We will discuss the default rules of Louisiana intestate law and learn how one can supplant many of those rules simply by executing a valid testament. Our discussion will include an overview of the two types of testaments recognized by Louisiana law (the olographic and the notarial), along with an assessment of the pros and cons of each.

flannery o’Connor and the Communion of SaintsElizabeth McGowan Montgomery, Ph.D., Facilitator, Loyola Institute for Ministry Extension

This session will cover O’Connor’s preoccupation primarily with the Communion of Saints and the saving power of grace and secondarily with the value of suffering and the theological concept of free will accounts for a pattern which appears in her short stories. In this pattern of spiritual passage, characters separated from the Communion of Saints encounter saving grace in a shocking or often violent manner. They can either accept this grace to become changed human beings incorporated into the Mystical Body of Christ, or they can deliberately reject it and continue to separate themselves from participation in the Communion of Saints. This pattern of spiritual passage parallels the anthropologic structure of rites of passage—separation, transition, and incorporation. O’Connor uses this pattern to present a concrete depiction of the way the Communion of Saints functions in a society that in O’Connor’s words rejects the doctrine as “idolatry.”

Welcome Back to political Science a100: Introduction to american GovernmentPeter Burns, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science,

Political Science A100 introduces the basic concepts of American government and politics. This course is designed to increase your knowledge of the following areas: the theoretical underpinnings of this government, the operation of American institutions and politics, and the roles citizens play in American governmental processes. This course will provide an overview of the U.S. Constitution.

saturday SESSION 3 | 9:15 – 10:30 a.M.

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saturdaySESSION 4 | 10:45 a.M. – noon

drugs, Terrorism, and democracy in the americas Maurice Brungarht, Ph.D., Professor of History

This presentation seeks to explain the three most important issues in that relationship today—drugs, terrorism, and democracy—from the widely divergent perspectives of the two cultures. These issues often mask other overriding concerns of the United States and of the individual Latin American countries, such as oil and trade, and the changing nature of the United States’ dominant but receding role in hemispheric and world affairs. The U.S. public views drugs as the most important of the three issues. The U.S. does have a “drug problem,” and much of what it consumes does come from Latin America. Latin America has had a long, ambiguous, and contentious relationship with the U.S. and tends to view the U.S. rather than drugs as the main problem. Latin Americans often resent the dominant role the U.S. has played in the Western Hemisphere and have sometimes rebelled against the “leadership” of the U.S. to the extent that they have sided with the “enemies” of the U.S. Witness the lack of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba for almost 50 years.

Louisiana Women Writers: Kate Chopin, alice dunbar-nelson, and Grace KingBarbara Ewell, Ph.D., Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English

Louisiana has produced many notable women writers, but these three contemporaries helped to define the image of the state in the national imagination at the turn of the 19th century. Two were natives of the state, two were white, two were married, two wrote history as well as fiction, and all were gifted storytellers. This session will explore the life and times of these writers, with a reading and discussion of examples of their fiction.

Smells and Bells: Western Liturgy from ca. 100 B.C. to 2013 a.d.Marcus St. Julien, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Organ, Music Theory, and Voice

This class will be a necessarily concise survey of western liturgies beginning with the Jewish liturgy just before the time of Christ continuing through the present day. While the primary focus will be the development of the Roman Catholic Mass, many services that developed as a result of the protestant reformation will also be described in some detail.

faith and politics 101Christopher Wiseman ’88, Ph.D., Political Science

Religion, politics, and sex are purported to be three topics too dangerous to bring up in polite company. This seminar will focus on at least two of those topics. Many Americans take for granted a great accomplishment of their political culture: compared with other societies in human history, the religiously diverse United States has had remarkably few incidents of citizens doing violence to one another in the name of God or religion. On the other hand, religious faith informs and shapes the political views of many Americans. How have Americans accomplished this balancing act? What are the threats to this ongoing success story? This seminar will discuss the constitutional, theoretical, and historical underpinnings of the ways citizens deal with the insights and imperatives of faith in the context of a religiously diverse political context.

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International Women’s RightsNancy Fix Anderson, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of History

In this class, we will discuss the women’s rights movements in diverse cultures, including the Islamic Middle East, India, China, and western Europe. We will analyze the often quite different goals, challenges, and opposition to women’s rights in each culture, and will assess the impact of imperialism, nationalism, and religion. We will examine the role of women and the efforts for change in such areas as political and legal rights, economic opportunity, education, marriage and the family, and violence against women. Even as we develop understanding of differences between women’s rights movements, we will assess the commonalities across cultures. The class will conclude with a study of the efforts of women to unite internationally, to promote common goals throughout the world. We will necessarily be selective in our discussions, with focus on the issues of particular interest among the class participants.

Louisiana Creole heritageAngel Adams Parham, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology

What is “Creole”? Is it black, is it white? Is it urban, is it rural? Does it apply most appropriately to people, or is it best used to describe a culture and heritage? The answer is “yes”, depending on the social and historical context. The term Creole has undergone many changes from the 18th century to the present. As cultural and racial politics have changed, understandings of what is Creole have changed. Through all the transformations, however, there is a thread that continues to tie together the different aspects of Louisiana Creole heritage. We will examine and discuss the social, cultural, and historical factors that make up Louisiana’s distinctive Creole experience.

The parables of Jesus: What do They do?Evelyn R. Thibeaux, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sacred Scripture, Loyola Institute of Ministry

We are used to thinking of Jesus’ parables in the Gospels as tales having moral lessons that are easily grasped. Research on the parables has revealed, however, that this understanding of them misses their central meaning, which is to reveal God’s encounter with us, to transform us, and to lead us toward decisions that reflect a wholly changed way of thinking and living. This session will reflect on several of Jesus’ parables to show how He used them to open His listeners to the Reign of God coming among us and within us.

Social Media 101Michael P. Olson, M.L.S., Ph.D., Dean of Libraries and Professor

This course provides an overview of several leading social media applications: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Skype, and Tumblr. Course participants will examine social media’s typical ecosystem: from start-up and its basic requirements, to initial maintenance, and finally to a decision of whether to continue or quit one social media app or another. Other topics include: assessing costs/benefits and risks/rewards of social media; staying in touch most efficiently with family and friends; enhancing your company’s profile and business opportunities; and protecting your online identity. The course is designed for individuals new to social media as well as to intermediate users, with the objective of participants leaving the course with a refined appreciation of the value of social media.

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Global Climate Change: ecological and human dimensionsPaul Barnes, Ph.D., Professor of Biology

This session will examine the scientific basis of global climate change, including an overview of the principles of the greenhouse effect and the major biogenic and anthropogenic drivers of climate change, the ecological and human consequences of ongoing and future changes in our climate system, and options for mitigating and adapting to climate change.

Spirit of Louisiana: how new orleanians deal with disastersLisa Martin, M.A., Instructor of Mass CommunicationDirector, Center for the Study of Intercultural Understanding

There’s a saying, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. In New Orleans, that saying might read, what doesn’t kill you makes you joke about it. New Orleans has seen three major disasters in a short span of time: Hurricane Katrina, the BP Oil Spill, and Roger Goodell’s Bounty-Gate. A lesser city might have been ruined by the onslaught of negativity, but not New Orleans. While the national media were portraying us as needy, helpless crybabies, the citizens were fighting their way through the muck with hard work and humor. We’ll show you how the city survived.

Spiritual Knighthood from Chrétien to IgnatiusSylvester Tan, S.J., Department of Languages and Cultures

In the first chapter of his autobiography, Ignatius of Loyola explains how, at a crucial point in his life, he was faced with a choice between the worldly honor that had so inspired him in the knightly romances that he loved and the spare, hidden nobility that he found in the lives of the saints that followed Christ in the world. Even though Ignatius renounces worldly knighthood, the idea of spiritual knighthood continues to hold pride of place in his writings and spirituality. This class will examine the Christian values inscribed in the 12th-century chivalry of Bernard of Clairvaux and Chrétien de Troyes and trace their subsequent influence on the spiritual nobility that Ignatius holds up as an example for those who wish “to serve as a soldier (knight) of God beneath the banner of the cross in our Society.”

What does Genesis 2-3 Really Say?Robert Gnuse, Ph.D., Department of Religious Studies

Dr. Gnuse will ask the class to read Genesis 2-3 to observe how the usual interpretations of these stories do not agree with a simple reading of the text.

saturday SESSION 6 | 3:30 – 4:45 p.M.

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JOINT SESSION | 9:30 – 10:45 a.M.

Shakespeare had It Right: The Rising Cost of health CareKevin Wm. Wildes, S.J. , University President

Long before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, there has been ongoing concern in the United States about the cost of health care. The United States far outspends any other nation on health care. Yet, the United States has some of the worst health outcomes in the world, ranking 51st in the world on life expectancies. When we ask why do we spend so much and get so little, we need to look no further than ourselves to answer the question.

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dr. nancy fix anderson is professor emerita of history at Loyola university New Orleans. She received her B.A. from Stanford university, her M A. from the university of California, Irvine, and her Ph.D. from Tulane university. During her many years at Loyola, she taught English history, women’s history, and the history of India. She was a co-founder of the Loyola Women’s Studies Program, and served as director of the university Honors Program. She has written extensively on Victorian history, including three books: Woman against Women in Victorian England, Lives of Victorian Political Figures: Annie Besant, and The Sporting Life: Victorian Sports and Games. She retired from Loyola in 2006, and lives in San Antonio, Texas.

dr. paul W. Barnes is professor of biology and J.H. Mullahy Endowed Chair in Environmental Biology at Loyola University. A native of South Dakota, Barnes has taught at St. Olaf College and Texas State University and served as a research scientist at the USEPA Environmental Research Laboratory in Oregon prior to coming to Loyola in 2004. Barnes is a plant physiological ecologist who has more than 100 published scientific papers, book chapters, and abstracts and has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other private and public sources. He served as the chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Loyola from 2005 – 2012 where he led efforts to develop new interdisciplinary majors in Environmental Science and Environmental Studies.

dr. donald R. Boomgaarden, dean of the College of Music and Fine Arts and David P. Swanzy Distinguished Professor of Music at Loyola University New Orleans, is a noted historian of 18th-century opera, music aesthetics and harmonic theory. His writings include his book on the philosophy and aesthetics, of music, Musical Thought in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Germany, articles in The New Grove Dictionary and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the British Dictionary of National Biography, as well as articles and reviews in many scholarly journals including the Journal of Musicological Research, Journal of Music Theory, Ad Parnassum, and the Journal of Education and Learning. Professor Boomgaarden attended the Eastman School of Music and the University of Vienna, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He is also a graduate of Harvard University’s Institute for Management and Leadership in Education. His teaching career has included positions at Ithaca College, St. Mary’s College in Maryland, the Institut für Musikwissenschaft at the University of Salzburg, and Loyola University Maryland. Boomgaarden has performed at masterclasses with Gustav Leonhardt and Paul Badura-Skoda, and continues to perform frequently as a soloist and accompanist in Europe and the U.S. Most recently, he performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete Goldberg Variations in Baltimore, Maryland, Corpus Christi, Texas, and New Orleans.

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dr. peter Burns is the author of Electoral Politics Is Not Enough: Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Urban Politics (State University of New York Press, 2006) and Success in College: From C’s in High School to A’s in College (Rowman Education, 2006). Recently, Burns and co-author Matthew O. Thomas of California State University Chico are writing a book about the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. His research on these subjects has appeared in, among other places, Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Education, and Marion Orr’s edited volume entitled Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change (University Press of Kansas, 2007). In the 2007 – 2008 academic year, Burns served as a research fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. In 2003, Burns received Loyola University Senate’s outstanding teaching award. In 2012, the Princeton Review named Burns as one of the top 300 professors in the country. Burns has also won awards from Loyola’s College of Social Sciences for research and advising. He holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, and M.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of Connecticut.

dr. Maurice p. Brungardt, professor of history, member of Loyola’s Department of History since 1971, was chair of the department from 1980 to 1984. He received his Ph.D. in Latin American History at the University of Texas at Austin in 1974. He was Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1994. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript titled All the King’s Men: The New World & Global Empire the Iberians Made.

dr. Ronald Christner received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Finance. He is an associate professor of finance and currently holds the Merl Hutsinger Professorship in investments at Loyola University. He previously held the Stan Rosenthal Professorship in Risk, Insurance, and Entrepreneurship at Loyola, where he has taught for more than 25 years, has served as a national securities industry arbitrator for more than 20 years, and was awarded a Fulbright professorship at the University of Zagreb in the capital city of Croatia. He has taught finance courses at Loyola’s summer program in Brussels, Belgium, and taught invited lectures at Peking University in Beijing. He also taught graduate ginance courses for 15 summers at the University of San Francisco, investments courses at Regent’s College in London, and finance courses at the CIMBA, a consortium of 30 U.S. universities in northern Italy. He has published many research articles on Investments in professional journals and has served as an expert witness in many court cases and securities arbitrations.

dr. Mehmet dicle has earned his bachelor’s degree from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1995. After his graduation, he has worked in different banks and financial institutions in the treasury, correspondent banking and trade financing operations. He came to University of New Orleans for his Ph.D. in financial economics in 2004 and graduated in May, 2008. He has been teaching at Loyola since 2007. Dicle’s research focuses on market efficiency, market microstructure, market failures, and liquidity. Using high frequency data sets to evaluate individual securities around the world, his main line of research is to evaluate market efficiency.



dr. Barbara ewell earned her Ph. D. in English literature from the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Kate Chopin, a bio-critical study, as well as many articles in areas as diverse as Renaissance poetry, North American writers, and feminist pedagogy. She has co-edited two collections, Louisiana Women Writers: Critical Essays and Bibliography and Southern Local Color: Stories of Region, Race and Gender. A native of Baker, Louisiana, she attended the University of Dallas and taught at Tulane and at the University of Mississippi before coming to Loyola’s City College in 1984. She has taught online courses since 1997. Committed to adult learning, she continues to instruct and advise adult students in the humanities program and also teaches in the women’s studies program. She received Loyola’s highest faculty honor, the Dux Academicus Award, in 2003.

dr. Robert Gnuse is the James C. Carter, S.J./Chase Bank Distinguished Professor of the Humanities. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1980 and has taught at Loyola since that year. Prior to that time, he taught at the University of Virginia and North Carolina Wesleyan College. He teaches Bible and World Religions on the undergraduate level and has taught Old Testament on the graduate level. He is the author of 15 books and more than 100 journal articles, primarily in biblical studies. His most recent work is a forthcoming commentary on Genesis 1-11.

Mark Grote earned a B.F.A. from Dayton Art Institute and an M.F.A. from Washington University. He has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally. He received a Fulbright to England in 1992 and has received numerous grants from the National Endowment of the Arts. His work is placed in many public and private collections, including the K & B Collections New Orleans, La.; Virlane Foundation New Orleans, La.; Pan American Life Insurance Company New Orleans, La.; Museum of Art in Alexandria, La.; West Texas Museum in Beaumont, Texas; Museum of Art in Jackson, Miss.; Dayton Museum of Art, Dayton, Ohio; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Ala.; Meadows Museum, Shreveport, La.; Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, La. He also exhibited his work at the Gallerie Christian Siret in Paris, France; Gasworks Gallery, London, England; and Sculpture House Gallery, London, England. He has lectured at several universities throughout the U.S.and England.

dr. david n. Khey is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Loyola University and recent recipient of the William L. Simon Outstanding Paper Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Khey also directs the Master of Science in Criminal Justice Administration, the largest online program of its kind in the region. His research interests include campus security, drug policy, computer crime, and forensic science technology. These interests are reflected in the 21 peer reviewed articles and dynamic courses he teaches for Loyola, including cybercrime drug chemistry, drug policy, deviant behavior, geospatial crime analysis, and criminalistics.



Ms. Lisa Martin is an Emmy Award-winning television producer. She worked in TV news at WWL (CBS) New Orleans and WTVJ (NBC) Miami for 10 years. Martin studied journalism at Loyola and has taught in the School of Mass Communication for the last 18 years. Martin is also the director of Loyola’s diversity office, the Center for Intercultural Understanding. Martin covers the news for ABC, NBC, CBS and other news outlets. She also does celebrity interviews with the likes of Jude Law, Brittney Spears, Jay-Z, Jet Li, and Brad Pitt. She’s worked for everyone from the Discovery Channels to NBA and NFL Networks, to Oprah, Rachel Ray and Dr. Phil.

dr. Sue falter Mennino has been a member of Loyola’s sociology department since 2003 and has served as chair of the department since 2009. She received her B.A. degree in psychology from the University of North Florida in 1997 and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Tulane University in 1999 and 2003 respectively. Mennino’s teaching interests include stratification, culture, family, and gender issues. Her primary research focus is on gender and job-family balance, especially workplace culture. Mennino is actively involved with the Women’s Studies interdisciplinary minor and the First-Year Experience.

dr. Behrooz Moazami is assistant professor of Middle East history and director of Middle East Peace Studies at Loyola University New Orleans. Moazami has two doctorates: the first is in political science (University of Paris VIII, 1998) and the second in sociology and historical studies (New School for Social Research, 2004). Before joining academia, Moazami was a political activist for more than two decades and has worked as a journalist, essayist, writer and editor of different Iranian dissident publications. He has published in various academic journals and his book on state, religion and revolution in Iran, from 1796 to the present, is forthcoming with Palgrave-MacMillan (2013).

dr. elizabeth “Betty” Montgomery facilitates the LIMEX program in Tupelo, Mississippi. A 2008 graduate of LIM, she recently retired from teaching English in Northeast Mississippi for more than 30 years. A former president of the Mississippi Association for Gifted Children as well as advisory board president for the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, she completed the Leadership Mississippi program in 2012. She holds a B.A. and a M.A. from Mississippi University for Women, and a Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi. She currently teaches in the “Senior College” at Itawamba Community College and is available through the Mississippi Humanities College.

dr. david Moore, Rev. James J. Pillar, OMI, Distinguished Professor of History, received his undergraduate degree at Loyola, served two years in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, and taught two years in high school before receiving his Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Maryland. His areas of expertise are American cultural and intellectual history in the late 19th and the 20th centuries, American popular culture, and Louisiana history. Recently, most of his research and writing has been on aspects of Louisiana (and New Orleans) cultural and social history. He has been the department chair since 1989. In 1998, Dr. Moore won the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching award.



dr. Justin nystrom first came to New Orleans in the spring of 1999 to do research for his master’s thesis on the White League. Like so many who now live in the city today, he has been consumed by this most interesting town ever since, particularly with its life and culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 2004 and, before coming to Loyola, taught at Virginia Tech, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of Mississippi. His book, New Orleans after the Civil War: Race, Politics, and a New Birth of Freedom, was published in 2010, and he is currently working on a combined book and documentary film project titled Making Groceries: Corner Markets and the Food Culture of Italian New Orleans. Nystrom joined the Loyola faculty in 2009 as a specialist in the Civil War Era, fulfilling a long-held dream of working in the city and at a job that he loves.

dr. Michael p. olson became dean of libraries in 2012. He had been a senior-level administrator at Harvard, UCLA, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Clark University. He has collaborated successfully with the U.S. Department of State, embassies, and consulates around the world, a former chancellor of Germany, and four Nobel Laureates in Literature. He has written two books and produced more than 100 articles or conference presentations. To date, he has raised more than $3 million for libraries and received awards from the American Library Association, Harvard, the Librarians Association of the University of California, UCLA, the Goethe-Institut, and the Association of the German Book Trade. His Ph.D. in Germanic studies is from UCLA.

dr. angel adams parham is associate professor of sociology at Loyola University-New Orleans. Her research centers on Haiti and Louisiana. Her current book project, American Routes: Legacies of St. Domingue/Haiti in Louisiana, examines how migration from colonial St. Domingue/Haiti to Louisiana following the revolution has shaped understandings of race and culture in Louisiana. This work connects interviews with current Louisiana residents to their ancestors’ experiences in St. Domingue/Haiti. Parts of this research have been published in the journal Social Identities and in the edited volume American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South.

dr. Marcus St. Julien holds the bachelor of music degree in organ perfor-mance from Loyola University, and the master of music degree in music theory from Indiana University. He earned the doctor of musical arts degree in organ performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, under the direction of Clyde Holloway. From 1983 to 2004, St. Julien was organist-choirmaster at the Church of St. Thérèse of Lisieux in Sugar Land, Texas. His recording of the St. Joseph’s Abbey Dobson organ dedication program was released in 2004 by Raven Records. St. Julien is an assistant professor of organ, music theory, and voice at Loyola. He is also the organist and choir director of Temple Sinai Reform Congregation. He has presented the complete organ works of César Franck in a three-part recital series.



fr. Sylvester Tan, S.J. teaches courses such as Arthurian Legend, Ignatius Loyola, and Analysis of French Texts in Loyola’s College of Humanities and Natural Sciences. After obtaining a B.A. in English (with a concentration in environmental studies) from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, Tan travelled through Africa and Asia for a year as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow studying “the changing face of Catholicism.” He continued on to Rome, Italy, where he resided for five years, studying Christian letters and spirituality at the Casa Balthasar and obtaining a bachelor’s degree in philosophy (Ph.B.) from the Pontifical Gregorian University. Tan has also studied French literature at the University of Toronto and completed a M.A. in medieval studies there. His thesis, “Perceval’s Sin: Theological Controversy in Chrétien’s Conte del Graal?,” proposes to re-examine the notion of sin in Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval in the light of the 12-century controversy between monastic and scholastic theologians.

dr. evelyn Thibeaux is assistant professor of sacred Scripture in the Loyola Institute for Ministry. Her previous experience includes teaching Scripture in several other academic and ministry education programs, working as a pastoral associate in a Catholic parish (Jackson, Miss.), and serving as an associate director for RCIA and evangelization in the Office of Religious Education (Archdiocese of New Orleans). Her ongoing interest is in how the Scriptures nourish the prayer and spirituality of believers, deepening their faith and fostering ongoing conversion. Thibeaux’s degrees include an M.A. in religion and the arts, a licentiate in sacred theology, and a Ph.D. in biblical studies, with a focus on the New Testament and an abiding passion for the parables of Jesus.

Sandi varnado, J.d., is an assistant professor of law and teaches Louisiana civil courses, specifically Successions, Donations and Trusts, Persons, and Obligations. She publishes in the area of American Family law. Her most recent publications have addressed topics such as parental alienation and online infidelity. Prior to joining the Loyola faculty in 2010, she served as law clerk to Judge James L. Dennis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced at Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz. She received her J.D. from Louisiana State University in 2006 where she served as Articles Editor of the Louisiana Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.

dr. Catherine Wessinger is Rev. H. James Yamauchi, S.J., Professor of the History of Religions. Her publications on millennialism include: How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate (2000); Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Perspectives (2000, edited); and The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism (2011, edited). Beginning in 2004, she conducted an oral history project with Branch Davidian survivors of the 1993 conflict between the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas, and federal law enforcement agents. The oral history project culminated in the publication of three edited autobiographies (2007, 2009, and 2012). She has published articles on a variety of topics relating to the study of religious movements. She has served as co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions since 2000.



fr. Kevin Wm. Wildes. S.J., is the 16th president of Loyola University New Orleans. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1976 after graduating from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. He holds advanced degrees in theology and in philosophy and received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1993. His scholarly work is in the field of bioethics. He serves as associate editor to and on the editorial board of a number of ethics and medicine journals and book series, and is a founding editor of the Journal of Christian Bioethics. He was a member of the department of philosophy and a Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, where he also held an appointment at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. At Loyola, he teaches undergraduate and law students each year. Wildes is the author of Moral Acquaintances: Methodology in Bioethics, is the editor or co-editor of four additional books, and is currently working on a new book on organizational ethics in health care. He has lectured internationally on medicine, ethics, and health care. He is a member of the boards of Loyola University Chicago and St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, a member of the New Orleans Business Council, and serves as the vice chair of the Board of Directors of Friends of New Orleans. He is a founding member of the New Orleans Ethics Review Board that oversees the Office of the Inspector General in New Orleans and served as its chair for four years.

dr. Christopher Wiseman returned to Loyola, his undergraduate alma mater, in 2004. During his graduate education at the University of Virginia, he worked as a teaching assistant and as an editorial assistant at the Miller Center for the Public Affairs. His research interests include Catholic social thought and liberal political theory. After graduate school, he served as a teacher, department chair, campus minister, and development director at Archbishop Hannan High School in Meraux, Louisiana. Now, as Loyola’s associate vice president for development, he works with alumni and friends of Loyola to garner philanthropy in support of the work of Loyola’s students and faculty. Wiseman also serves as an instructor in Loyola’s Department of Political Science, for which he has taught courses on American Government, Faith and Politics, and other areas of political theory. Chris received his B.A. with honors from Loyola in 1988, his M.A. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia in 1990, and his Ph.D. in government from the University of Virginia in 1999.

dr. daniella Zsupan-Jerome is assistant professor of liturgy, catechesis, and evangelization at the Loyola Institute for Ministry. She holds a bachelor’s degree in theology from the University of Notre Dame, a master’s degree in liturgy from St. John’s University in Collegeville, a master’s degree in religion and the arts from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in theology and education from Boston College. Her research explores media and ministry, especially digital media and its potential for catechetical formation. She has published a number of practical and devotional resources, including Daily Prayer 2013 (Liturgy Training Publications) and regularly contributing to Liturgical Press’ Give Us This Day series. Her current research focuses on synthesizing the Roman Catholic Church’s approach to social communication from Vatican II to present day for her forthcoming book, Proclaiming Good News: Exploring the Church’s Documents on Social Communication and Digital Media. (Liturgical Press)

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exTRa-CuRRICuLaR aCTIvITIeS Campus Tour

5 Individual Private Piano Lessons with Donald Boomgaarden (see page 3). 9 – 9:45 a.m. Private Lesson 1 9:55 – 10:40 a.m. Private Lesson 2 10:50 – 11:35 a.m. Private Lesson 3 11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Private Lesson 4 12:40 – 1:20 p.m. Private Lesson 5

Hands-On Visual Art Class with Mark Grote

Tour of the Irish Channel Churches

Tour of Sicilian New Orleans

TRaCKS and SeSSIonSTrack 1: Global Issues

Session 1: Cybercriminals and Threats of the Information Age – David Khey Session 2: Mideast Violence: Religious or Political? – Behrooz Moazami Session 3: EU, EURO, and International Finance – Mehmet Dicle Session 4: Drugs, Terrorism, and Democracy – Maurice Brungardt Session 5: International Women’s Rights – Nancy Anderson Session 6: Global Climate Change: Ecological and Human Dimensions – Paul Barnes

Track 2: Louisiana

Session 1: Civil Rights In Louisiana – David Moore Session 2: A Sociological Look at Gender and Mardi Gras – Sue Mennino Session 3: What will happen to my assets (and debt) when I die? – Sandi Varnado Session 4: Louisiana Women Writers – Barbara Ewell Session 5: Louisiana Creole Heritage – Angel Parham Session 6: How New Orleanians Deal with Disasters – Lisa Martin

Track 3: Spirituality

Session 1: Praying with the Liturgical Calendar – Daniella Zsapan-Jerome Session 2: Millennialism in the World’s Religions – Catherine Wessinger Session 3: Flannery O’Connor/Communications of Saints – Elizabeth Montgomery Session 4: Smells and Bells: Western Liturgy – Marcus St. Julian Session 5: The Parables of Jesus: What Do They Do? – Evelyn Thibeaux Session 6: Spiritual Knighthood from Chrétien to Ignatius – Sylvester Tan, S.J.

Track 4: 101 Refresh

Session 1: Open Rehearsal – Donald Boomgaarden Session 2: The Investment Outlook – Ronald Christner (limited to 18 students) Session 3: Introduction of American Government – Peter Burns Session 4: Faith and Politics 101 – Christopher Wiseman Session 5: Social Media 101 – Michael Olson Session 6: What Does Genesis 2-3 Really Say – Robert Gnuse

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Shakespeare Had It Right: The Rising Cost of Health Care – Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., President

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The Office of Alumni Relations at Loyola University New Orleans offers the following list of hotels near campus for accommodations. Please mention the special group rate for Loyola University Alumni College before May 10, 2013. The block of rooms is for June 7 and 8 only. All rooms are based upon availability. Each hotel charges additional fees for valet parking. The Alumni Office is not responsible for room rates or availability.

Courtyard Marriott New Orleans Downtown (near the French Quarter)910 St. Iberville St., New Orleans, LA 70112(504) 523-2400$149 per night, King/Double Standard

hotel Indigo2203 St. Charles Ave(504) 522-3650Julie Pelto, Sales Manager: [email protected]$149 per night, King/Double Standard Wyndham Riverfront new orleans 701 Convention Center Boulevard New Orleans, LA 70130(504) 681-1001 Tiffany Kilbourn, Sales Manager: [email protected]$105 per night, King/Double Standard

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