Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Graham will read poetry at Liberal Arts Faculty Colloquium
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Wendy Knipe Bredhold Media Relations Specialist, News & Information Services 812/461-5259 Graham will read select poems from his three books - New World Architecture, 1946, and A World Without End from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. Graham's colloquium will trace his development as a poet over 25 years. He also will read new work from his book in progress, 1964. Award-winning poet Lynn Emanuel has said of Graham's poetry, "Beneath the beautifully modulated images, beneath the insouciance which is Graham's brand of stoicism, the bottom has fallen out of the world and the serpents of history hiss. In poem after poem, one is lulled by the beauty and surprised by the brutality." The other colloquia will be held in Liberal Arts Center Room 1016. Dr. Denise Lynn, assistant professor of history, will present, "Destroying the 'Waves Metaphor': The Women's Charter and Equal Rights Amendment in the 'Doldrums,'" from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. Friday, March 19. In an abstract, Lynn wrote, "Much of my research has focused on women in the American 'Old Left,' specifically those individuals in and around the American Communist Party at its peak in the 1930s. These women's rights activists rejected the label 'feminist' and believed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was an instrument of class warfare. Nevertheless, they belong in the feminist narrative on 20th century women's rights activism. Communist women's support for the Women's Charter, an alternative to the ERA, demonstrates that activists seeking women's equality in the doldrums period (1920-1963) believed that sexism was one among many oppressions that needed to be addressed. These activists suggest that the traditional 'waves metaphor' used to describe women's rights activism fails to account for radical working-class activism." Dr. Mary Lyn Stoll, assistant professor of philosophy, will present the last program in the series, "Green Marketing or Green Wash: Moral Guidelines for Marketing Corporate Sustainability Initiatives," from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. Friday, April 23. "While business efforts to achieve corporate sustainability are indeed laudable," Stoll wrote in an abstract, "businesses must also be careful to market those efforts in ways which are themselves morally acceptable. By examining cases of green marketing gone awry as well as more successful cases, I hope to suggest how companies can continue to develop corporate sustainability with the support of their consumers and investors while at the same time meeting their moral duties to be honest with stakeholders and to remain competitive in the marketplace." For more information, call Dr. Wes Durham, assistant professor of communication studies, at 812/464-1739. |
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