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Peterson to speak in Oxford Indira Peterson, professor of Asian studies, recently gave a lecture titled "Postcoloniality and Human Rights in Two Modern Indian Writers: Rabindranath Tagore and Mahasweta Devi" at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, in connection with Creighton's year-long core course on world literature. Since 1995, the entire student body of Creighton's College of Liberal Arts (more than 800 students a year) has been studying, along with other literatures, the literature of India, edited by Peterson for the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces.

In May, Peterson will deliver an invited lecture titled "King Serfoji's Cabinet of Experimental Science: The German Kunstkammer in Eighteenth-Century India," at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science (Oxford, England), as part of the museum's seminar series "Collection and Comparison." Peterson will present her recent research on the transmission of European science to India by German Pietist missionaries in the eighteenth century.

In Memoriam The College community learned last week of the untimely death of Jill Golembewski, a member of the class of 1998 who had been on medical leave since spring 1996. After a long personal struggle, Jill took her own life at her home in Pennsylvania on March 10.

Golembewski had declared a major in biochemistry and had been accepted for a study abroad program in Kenya, where she was to study health care in African cultures. She had intended to become a physician. At MHC, she was instrumental in organizing the Newman Club, was a member of the volleyball team, and was a student adviser in 1837 Hall. She was known as a hard worker who was committed to helping others, always there when you needed her, and dedicated to her family and her faith.

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