CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 19 -- The final conference of
the University of VirginiaŐs Commonwealth Center for Literary and
Cultural Change will be held April 22.  Co-sponsored with the
Faculty Senate, the meeting will concentrate on one of the centerŐs
aims over its six-year existence, according to director Ralph Cohen
-- the interdisciplinary study of knowledge.
	Featuring U.Va. faculty and guest speaker and noted
humanities scholar Denis Donoghue among others, the all-day seminar,
free and open to the public, will focus on how to make collaboration
effective among departments and what the different groups involved
should contribute to that end.  The participants represent almost
every constituency of the University community:  faculty members
from different schools and departments, students, and
administrators.  Margaret Miller, associate director of the State
Council of Higher Education for Virginia, will participate.
	Attached is a complete schedule of speakers.  For more
information, call Elizabeth Denton at (804) 982-2705.
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April 18, 1995