MONMOUTH, Ill. — Petra Kuppinger, Monmouth College assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, will be the featured speaker at an International Luncheon on March 31 at noon in the Whiteman-McMillan Highlander Room in the college’s Stockdale Center.

Entitled “Alleys and Arcades: An Afternoon in Cairo,” Kuppinger’s lecture will chronicle half of a day of her return to Cairo, Egypt, last summer. She had the opportunity to revisit the community where she had conducted years of fieldwork in the 1980s and 1990s.

Her presentation, which is free and open to the public, will take the form of a stroll from one of Cairo’s small back alleys to one of its most fancy and glittering shopping malls.

A buffet lunch, featuring international foods, is available. A meal ticket may be purchased for $5 at the Stockdale Center’s Scan Plus office. Lunch reservations must be made in advance by contacting professor Sue Holm at 309-457-2150 or susan@monm.edu.