Around the Ring

UVSS repeats noteworthy recycling idea
Since the recycled notebook program was so successful last year, the UVic Students’ Society has decided to do it again. The UVSS is asking each university department to collect its 8 x 11, one-sided, non-confidential paper in a separate bin from all other recycling. Every two weeks, someone from the society will pick up the paper and turn it into notebooks. The notebooks will then be given to UVic students free of charge. For more information, contact Joanna Groves or Glenys Verhulst at 472-4288.

Author to give Lansdowne lectures
Celebrated historian Dr. Natalie Zemon Davis will deliver three public lectures this month as a Lansdowne visitor. A professor emeritus at Princeton University and professor of medieval studies at the University of Toronto, Davis is most widely known as the author of The Return of Martin Guerre, which has been translated into 20 languages and made into a popular film and opera. Her research and many publications have been on the social and cultural history of 16th-century France and early modern Europe. Recently, her transnational historical investigations have involved North Africa, colonial Quebec, and Suriname. Her Lansdowne lectures are: “Can Film Tell Good History?” at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 24 in Fine Arts Building, room103; “Trickster Travels: A 16th-century Muslim Between Worlds” at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 25 in the Centre for Innovative Teaching, room 105; and “The Knot of Slavery: A Mulatto Woman in Colonial Suriname” at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 26 in the Centre for Innovative Teaching, room 116. For more information call 472-4677.