This Week's Stories: $1.2 Million Grant for Environmental Sciences Picture: Alter Ego Rare Medieval Manuscripts Examined Via the Internet Reunions Raise $2 Million New Faculty Profile: Shannon Jackson New Chair for Western European Studies Center for Western European Studies: What it Does Former Regent Brophy Talks on UC History Report Documents Latino Demographics and Voting Behavior in California Halloween Corrupts Day of the Dead Examining Multicultural Contributions to America Lecture and Reading by South African Novelist Baas Resigns from Berkeley Art Museum Picture: Rider in the Storm New Doctoral Program in Dramatic Art Debuts Two Management Positions Open to Campus Candidates Berkeley Dean Addresses World Bank Workshop Human Rights Fellows Report on Summer Projects Nov. 12 Celebrating a Century Regular Features Awards Campus Memos News Briefs Staff Enrichment		Lecture and Reading by South African Novelist posted November 4, 1998 South African author J.M. Coetzee will present a lecture and a reading during his weeklong visit as the Townsend Center for the Humanities' Una's Lecturer. On Wednesday, Nov. 11, Coetzee lectures on "The Novel in Africa" at 8 p.m. in 315 Wheeler Hall. He will read from his recently published book, "Boyhood," Thursday, Nov. 12 at 4 p.m. in 220 Stephens Hall. Born of Afrikaans and English parentage and educated in both South Africa and the United States, Coetzee writes from within a modern context of colonialism and imperialism. His novels and essays have made a major contribution to passionate debates raised by racial politics in South Africa. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages and his novel "The Life and Times of Michael K," won the Booker Prize in 1983. Una's Lectures in the Humanities are endowed in the memory of Una Smith Ross, class of 1911 and are administered by the Townsend Center.

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