Fall 2006 Languages and Literatures Faculty Seminars

October 18, 2006

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater department of languages and literatures continues its fall faculty seminars with Lecturer Karen Buckley's presentation, "Tradition and Modernity in Present-Day China," at 3:45 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 19 in Heide Hall, room 313. She will discuss the ways in which increasing tourism in China has corrupted its tradition making it uncontrollably exploited and altered due to the encroachment of Western culture and capitalism.

Remaining seminars include:

• "That Terrible Legacy of Blood: Women, Race and Power in E.D.E.N. Southworth's Novels" - Beth Lueck, Thursday, Nov. 2, 3:45 p.m. Lueck will focus her lecture on how American writer E.D.E.N. Southworth uses the element of curses in her domestic fiction to give powerless individuals ascendancy over stronger characters who are privileged by race, gender and class.
• "Literacy Among World of Ideas Students" - Jonathan Ivry, Thursday, Nov. 16, 3:45 p.m. Ivry will discuss recent studies on the decline in literacy levels in American adults as well as young adults.

All seminars will be held in Heide Hall, room 313.  UW-Whitewater faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.  For more information, contact Julie Smith at (262) 472-5048 or smithj@uww.edu.