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News from Lane Community College, Eugene, OregonPublic information officer: Joan Aschim, (541) 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
Source: Ellen Cantor, English instructor and Reading Together coordinator, 463-5749 cantore@lanecc.edu
for release October 7, 2003
Forum offers a chance to discuss privilege, power and difference
EUGENE - An educational forum, "Reading Together: Stories, Secrets, And Lies," will be presented Wednesday, October 15, from 1-3 p.m. in the Student Activities Center, second floor of Building 1 (Student Services), Lane Community College main campus. The forum will include a presentation followed by open discussion focused on two books, the novel "Montana 1948" by Larry Watson, and the text "Privilege, Power, and Difference" by Allan Johnson.
Discussion will look at how story engages us with characters who wrestle with the realities of privilege, power, and difference. How does the use of story impact our willingness to discuss these sensitive issues? "Privilege, Power, and Difference" gives us an entree to Watson's novel, provides a vocabulary and conceptual frame to identify and analyze the motives, acts, and consequences of characters and plot. Paths of least resistance, trust, betrayal, assumptions, constructions of morality - these subjects and more will be explored in a vigorous discussion of these two provocative books.
The forum is an activity of the Reading Together project at Lane, a year-long collegewide effort to examine racism and related issues, with activities for students, staff and the community. The two books are available in the Lane Community College bookstore and in the Lane library.
The forum is open to members of the community interested in reading and discussing the books, as well as Lane faculty, students in classes using one or both of the books, and staff.
For more
information, contact instructor and project coordinator Ellen Cantor at
463-5749 or e-mail cantore@lanecc.edu
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