Release Date: March 19, 2007

MONMOUTH, Ill. — Monmouth College English professor Mary Bruce will present the next International Luncheon lecture on March 28 at noon in the Whiteman-McMillan Highlander Room of the college’s Stockdale Center.

Titled “Russia: Flavorful and Complicated as Borscht,” Bruce’s talk will highlight her recent semester there as a Fulbright Scholar. It will include slides of Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as a few rural towns and Russian universities. Bruce will discuss the nation’s complex culture, as well as its “rapid and brutal” transition to capitalism.

A buffet lunch, featuring international foods, is available. A meal ticket may be purchased for $6.50 in the food service office in Stockdale Center. Lunch reservations must be made in advance by contacting professor Sue Holm at 309-457-2150 or susan@monm.edu.

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