[Discussion] Languages of Imperialism: The Cultural Dimensions of Conquest

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Kathryn Barlage <kmbarlage@msn.com>

The Fifth Annual Ropes Lecture Series will begin on January 27, 2004.
Sponsored by the University of Cincinnati's McMicken College of Arts &
Sciences, Department of English and Comparative Literature and the
Charles Phelps Taft Memorial Fund, this year's topic is Languages of
Imperialism: The Cultural Dimensions of Conquest.  The topic was chosen
in response to world events and provides an opportunity to look at the
issues and conditions of empire from a variety of perspectives.

The 2004 Ropes Lecture Series offers six evening lectures, all of which
are free and open to the general public - no tickets or reservations
required.  *Please note time changes from an earlier mailing.  Times in
this announcement are correct.

Languages of Imperialism: The Cultural Dimensions of Conquest brings
together a unique collection of speakers representing diverse
disciplines and viewpoints:


Tuesday, January 27 - 8pm, 127 McMicken Hall
Norman Rush . Invisible Empires
Novelist . Winner of the 1991 National Book Award and International
Fiction Prize for Mating . Author of the recently released Mortals - the
last element in a trilogy on the Western presence in contemporary
southern Africa

Tuesday, February 10 - 8 pm, 127 McMicken Hall
Austin Clarke . Narratives in the Face of Imperialism
Novelist and Essayist . Recipient 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for
The Polished Hoe . Recipient Toronto Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement
in Literature . Author of nine novels, five short-story collections, and
three memoirs

Tuesday, February 17 - 7:30 pm, 427 Engineering Research Ctr.
Susan Hegeman . Culture/Globalization
Associate Professor of English, University of Florida . Author of
Patterns for America
Modernism and the Concept of Culture . 1996 William S. Vaughn Visiting
Fellow, Vanderbilt University's Robert Penn Warren Center for the
Humanities

John Carlos Rowe . Culture, Nationalism, and U.S. Imperialism
Professor of English, University of California, Irvine . Author of
Literary Culture and US Imperialism and The New American Studies .
Editor of The Vietnam War and American Culture and Post-Nationalist
American Studies

Tuesday, March 2 - 8 pm, 427 Engineering Research Ctr.
Marilyn Young . Sending a Message: America Speaks to the World
Professor of History, NYU . Director of the International Center for
Advanced Studies Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict . Recipient
Berkshire Women's History Prize for The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990

Tuesday, April 13 - 8 pm, 127 McMicken Hall
Paul Theroux . Lecture TBA
Renowned Novelist and Travel Writer . Recipient Whitebread Prize for
Picture Palace and James Tait Black Award for The Mosquito Coast .
Author of the recently released Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to
Cape Town

For more information, call 513.556.3906 or visit the UC English
Department website at http://www.artsci.uc.edu/english.

For directions to campus and detailed maps, please visit
http://www.uc.edu/directions.

Supported by McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, Department of English
& Comparative Literature and the Charles Phelps Taft Memorial Fund.

Kathryn Barlage
<kmbarlage@msn.com>