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For Immediate Release
October 23, 2006
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Contact: Amy Armstrong
Director of University Relations
Tel: 830-792-7405
Email:
anarmstrong@schreiner.edu
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A Trio of November Events to
Showcase Schreiner University‘s Diverse
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Margaret Syers Lecture Series |
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Three events early in November will offer a
sampling of the diverse programming sponsored by
Schreiner University’s
Center for Innovative Learning. As always,
all events sponsored by the CIL are free
and open to the public. |
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On Monday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. in the
Cailloux Campus Activity Center, Dr. Terry
Doody, professor of English at Rice University,
will present the second Margaret Syers lecture
series entitled, “Why Can't Virginia Write Like
Jane?” Doody’s lecture will explore the
differences between Jane Austen's "Pride and
Prejudice" and Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway.”
Close social relations and conversation define
Austen’s world—everything can be said out loud.
Woolf's is a more difficult fictional world
because it is located both in the city and in
the characters' consciousness. There is very
little conversation—none at all between the two
principal characters—and the inexpressible
reaches of consciousness, difficult by
definition, rely on Woolf's free indirect
discourse for their revelation.
The
Margaret Syers Lecture Series was endowed by
Susan Stark and William Syers, children of
longtime Kerrville educator, Margaret Syers, who
passed away in 2005. Syers was an English
teacher in Kerrville for many years. Her
children established the endowment in order to
bring to Schreiner outstanding speakers on
topics of literary interest for the benefit of
the campus and the community.
Schreiner University’s inaugural Margaret Syers
Lecture in October 2005 featured noted
Shakespeare scholar Dr. Dennis Huston, a Rice
University English professor. |
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Monday Night Fiction |
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Three days after the Syers series, on
Thursday, Nov. 9, Bret Johnston, author of
“Corpus Christi: Stories” will speak about
his award-winning book.
“Corpus Christi: Stories” was named a Best Book
of the Year by The Independent of London and The
Irish Times.
The collection has received the Southern
Review's Annual Short Fiction Award, the Glasgow
Prize for Emerging Writers, the Texas Institute
of Letters' Debut Fiction Award, the Christopher
Isherwood Prize, the James Michener Fellowship,
and was short-listed for Ireland's Frank
O'Connor International Short Story Award,
called, "the richest short story prize in the
world." His work appears in magazines such as
The Paris Review, Oxford American, and Tin
House, and in various anthologies.
Johnston is a graduate of Miami University and
the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the recipient of
a National Endowment for the Arts Literature
Fellowship. He has written essays for Slate.com
and National Public Radio's All Things
Considered, and he’s been a skateboarder for
almost twenty years. Currently, he is a
professor of creative writing at Harvard
University.
Monday Night Fiction meets in the Scarle-Philips
Room in the William Logan Library on the
Schreiner campus, beginning at 7 p.m.,
and lasts a couple of hours. Participants are
encouraged, but not required, to read the book
that is the evening’s topic for discussion.
The featured book may be obtained in the
Schreiner University Book Store or at your local
bookstore or library. |
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Labatt Speaker Series |
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Rounding out the events
will be a
Labatt Speaker Series
featuring a public forum and discussion on
Tuesday, Nov. 14 at 7
p.m. in the
Cailloux Campus Activity
Center ballroom.
Dr. Ron Hatchett and Dr.
Bill Martin will
present, “Transforming
the Middle East: Plans
and Prospects.” |
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Hatchett is the director
of
Schreiner’s Center for
Global Studies and a
former senior civilian
official in the
Department of Defense
working arms control and
international security
issues during the
administration of
President Ronald Regan.
From 1983-1986, he was
the Secretary of Defense
Representative to the
Mutual and Balanced
Force Reductions Talks (MBFR)
negotiating NATO and
Warsaw Pact conventional
force levels in central
Europe. In 1986 he
became the Secretary of
Defense Representative
to three other
multi-national security
organizations in Europe:
the Organization for
Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE)
concerning security,
economic, and human
rights issues; the
mandate talks for
NATO-Warsaw Pact
negotiations on
Conventional Forces in
Europe (CFE); and the
NATO High Level Task
Force on conventional
arms control.
Prior to taking his
position in the Office
of the Secretary of
Defense, Hatchett served
for 20 years as an Air
Force officer working
intelligence and
politico-military
affairs. Hatchett's academic
specialties are foreign
policy, European Studies
and Middle Eastern
Affairs.
He also frequently
appears as a commentator
on local and national
television and radio
news programs.
Martin is the Harry and
Hazel Chavanne emeritus
professor of sociology
and Chavanne Senior
Fellow for religion and
public policy at the
James A. Baker III
Institute for Public
Policy at Rice
University, where he
taught from 1968 until
2005. He is a graduate
of Abilene Christian
University and Harvard
Divinity School and
received his Ph.D. from
Harvard in 1969. During
his years at Rice, he
has received numerous
teaching awards,
including a Lifetime
Award for Excellence in
Teaching. His articles,
most dealing with
various aspects of
religion, have appeared
in such publications as
The Atlantic, Harper's,
Esquire, and Texas
Monthly, for which he
writes a monthly column,
“Faith Bases,” about
religion in Texas. He is
also a frequent guest on
national and local news
and discussion programs.
This will be a great
opportunity for members
of the community to
benefit from Hatchett’s
perspectives on the
political and military
implications of recent
developments in the
Middle East, as well as
Martin’s observations on
the social and religious
components of
contemporary events in
the volatile region.
There will be a question
and answer session
following the
discussion.
For more information,
contact Martha York,
director of the
Center for Innovative Learning, at
830-792-7352 or
mlyork@schreiner.edu. |
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