How Do We Keep Knowing?

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University is pleased to announce a symposium, “Troubling Truth: How Do We Keep Knowing?” on the September 7-8, 2007, organized by the Glasscock Center’s 2006-2007 Internal Faculty Fellows. The event is a two-day symposium exploring how cultures know what they (think they) know.

The symposium begins September 7 at 1:30 p.m. when Texas A&M’s Diego von Vacano (political science) and Joan Wolf (women’s studies) will make presentations on their research. They will be followed at 3:45 p.m. by Eric Oliver, professor of political science, University of Chicago, speaking on “What is Fat?”

The second day’s events will start at 9:00 a.m. with presentations by Katherine Kelly (English) and Eric Rothenbuhler (communication) both from Texas A&M. To conclude the symposium, Lisa Gitelman, professor of media studies at The Catholic University of America will deliver her speech titled “Knowing by *.pdf” at 11:15 a.m.

All presentations will be held in the Glasscock Center Library, Melbern G. Glasscock Building, Room 311. This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, see our flyer or contact the Glasscock Center at 979.845.8328.