Toni Morrison: New Directions – University of Durham, UK

by BWIE

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Hat tip: Lorraine Spencer

Toni Morrison: New Directions
University of Durham, UK
Thursday 25th June 2009

This one day international symposium seeks to assess, revisit and reflect on the work and position of the contemporary African American novelist and critic Toni Morrison. There will be particular emphasis on the author’s most recent publications as well as on new theoretical, critical and comparative approaches to her oeuvre.

Keynote speakers: Dr. Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire) and Prof. Justine Tally (Universidad de la Laguna)

Evening Reading by Laura Fish, author of Strange Music (2008)
http://www.dur.ac.uk/english.studies/events/?eventno=5252
For registration and programme details contact Jenny Terry j.a.terry@durham.ac.uk"> j.a.terry@durham.ac.uk Registration will close at the end of May.

This event is supported by the British Association for American Studies, the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham and the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin.

Angela Shaw

Thanks for sharing this. Justine did a fabulous presentation at the CAAR conference on Morrison's latest book "A Mercy". Alan did a very stimulating keynote address on the history behind a new statute to those that died in the slave trade. The piece was commissioned by the town of Lancaster and it's very moving. If I could be in Durham instead of Paris on this date, I would definitely attend this. Enjoy