SOUTHEAST LECTURE ON MARY MAGDALEN

British author Susan Haskins will present a lecture titled "Much Maligned Magdalen" at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 4 in the Southeast Missouri State University Museum. The museum is located in Memorial Hall.

Haskins is the author of "Mary Magdalen: Myth and Metaphor."

The book explores Christianity's long-term and variable construction of Mary Magdalen's character, history and meaning, and its diverse effects on religious and worldly life, and on art and popular culture all over Christendom, according to Anne Hollander of The New Yorker.

Haskins' lecture is being sponsored by the departments of art, philosophy and religion, and the College of Liberal Arts at Southeast. A reception will immediately follow the lecture, which is open to the public.