Bonnie Wheeler Delivers the 1st Annual Mary McLaughlin Memorial Lecture

The Mediveal Studies and Renaissance Program hosted the first annual Mary Martin McLaughlin Memorial Lecture the week of October 11. The lecture, "Traces of Memory of Heloise: Woman, Love, Abbess, Philosopher," given by Bonnie Wheeler, was held at the UNL Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. The lecture, as with subsequent lectures in the Medieval and Renaissance Studies series, was free and open to the public.

Mary Martin McLaughlin, author of the critically acclaimed Portable Medieval Reader, was quite simply "a woman before her time," Willa Cather Professor of History Carole Levin states in an Interview with the "Daily Nebraskan." Receiving both her BA and MA from UNL, she went on to receive her PhD. from Columbia University. McLaughlin came back to her home state of Nebraska however--she was committed to the University of Nebraska. Bonnie Wheeler, director of Medieval Studies at Southern Methodist University, who is finishing some of McLaughlin's manuscripts, gave the opening lecture of the series. We would like to congratulate Drs. Levin and Wheeler for an enthralling and engaging opening lecture in what promises to be an excellent series in memory of the late McLaughlin.