DAYTONA BEACH, FL (Feb. 19, 2010) - A colloquium, presented by the Center for Interdisciplinary Writing and Research (CIWR) at Daytona State College, on the topic of “Economic Crisis and Focalization in Ellen Glasgow's Vein of Iron,” will take place Tuesday, March 2, at 6 p.m. in the Madorsky Theater located in building 1200 on the Daytona Beach Campus at 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd.
Dr. Ashley Lear, assistant professor, College of Arts and Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, will discuss the novelist Ellen Glasgow and her novel, "Vein of Iron," looking particularly at the narrator’s rendering, or focalization, of the main character’s perspective and its larger relationship to economic and gender issues. The colloquium is free and open to the public, and concludes with a wine and cheese reception.
Mark your calendar for upcoming colloquiums:
Tuesday, April 6, 6 – 7:20 p.m. – A roundtable discussion lead by Dr. Perry Ballard and Chris Whitaker that examines Francis Fukuyama’s shocking pronouncement in 1989 that we had come to “the end of history,” that after the fall of the Berlin wall, the world was destined to become more westernized and questions whether other theories and/or systems of governance have emerged since 1989 that challenges Fukuyama’s hypothesis.
Tuesday, April 20, 6 – 7:20 p.m. – “Marketing Fictions: Product Branding and Late 19th-Century American Literature,” presented by Dr. Ben Graydon.
Colloquiums are co-sponsored by the Southeast Museum of Photography and the Office of Leadership Development. For more information call Dr. Richard Grego, associate professor, School of Behavioral and Social Sciences, at (386) 506-3342.
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