April 20, 1995 Contact: Barbara McKenna (408/459-2495)

PUBLIC TALK ON MEMORIALIZING WARS WILL EXAMINE THE WORKS OF ANCIENT GREEK POET AND VIETNAM MEMORIAL ARTIST

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CRUZ, CA--Dartmouth College professor James Tatum will be the featured speaker for the Carl M. Deppe Memorial Lecture, presented annually for the past eight years at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His talk and slide show, "Homeric Maya Lin," takes place on Friday, April 28, at 4 p.m. in the Cowell College Provost's House. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is designed for general audiences.

Tatum will discuss the ways in which cultures memorialize wars and those who die in them, looking specifically at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., designed by artist Maya Lin, and the works of Homer, the ancient Greek poet best known for his epic poems on the Trojan War.

Tatum holds the distinguished post of Aaron Lawrence Professor of Classics at Dartmouth. He is currently writing a book on the topic of war memorials and memorialization of the dead. His research has taken him to Vietnam, where he has visited battlefields and memorials of the Vietnam War.

The annual lectures are presented in memory of a UCSC student who was majoring in classics at the time he died. A reception will follow the talk. For more information, call (408) 459-2487.

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