[PC-12] Randall Chair Conference

 
Dear All,

On Saturday, February 28th, Providence College will be holding its annual Randall Chair Conference in Aquinas Lounge from 10:00 to 4:00.
 
This year’s theme is "After Exodus: Exile, Flight, and the Promised Land in the American Literary Tradition".
 
Robert Kiely, this year’s Randall Chair in Christian Culture, will speak on the theme of exodus in the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Martin Luther King,Jr. In addition, there will be presentations on John LaFarge, S.J., an early Catholic champion of Civil Rights, and Jack Kerouac’s rocky relationship with Roman Catholicism.
 
All are welcome to one or all three of the talks. Just show up.
 
Here is the schedule
 
10:00-11:30 Robert Kiely (Harvard): Anxious About Exodus: Zora Neale Hurston and Martin Luther King
Response: Tuire Valkeakari (Providence College)
 
 
11:45-1:00 Lunch break
 
1:00-2:30 Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi: "The View from Pisgah: John LaFarge, S.J. and the Civil Rights Movement"
Response: Patrick Breen (Providence College)
 
2:30-4:00 Albert Gelpi: "Jack Kerouac: The Road to the Promised Land"
Response: William Hogan (Providence College)
  
4:00 Wrap-up discussion
 
If you have any questions, please contact me, James Keating, at jkeating@providence.edu
 
 
James F. Keating

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Received on Sun Feb 22 06:41:03 2009