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9/9/02

MANNING MARABLE TO KEYNOTE SLU CRIMMEL COLLOQUIUM

CANTON - Manning Marable, one of America's most influential 
historians and political interpreters of the black experience, 
is the keynote speaker of the 2002 Hays and Margaret Crimmel 
Colloquium at St. Lawrence University. Marable's talk, "Liberal 
Education in a Democratic Society," will be given on Tuesday, 
September 17, at 8 p.m. in the auditorium of Hepburn Hall, Room 
218. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
	Since 1993, Marable has been professor of history and 
political science at Columbia University, where he also serves 
as the founding director for the Institute for Research in 
African-American Studies. He has authored and edited nearly 
20 books and anthologies, including Let Nobody Turn Us Around: 
Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal - An African-American 
Anthology (2000), Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals 
Confront the African-American Experience (2000); Black Leadership 
(1998); and Beyond Black and White (1995). In 1999, Marable 
initiated Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture 
and Society, a quarterly journal examining key theoretical issues 
within black America, Africa and the Caribbean. 
	Marable also initiated, in 2001, "The Malcolm X Project" 
at Columbia University. It includes development of an electronic 
course; a multi-media version of Alex Haley's The Autobiography 
of Malcolm X; editing Malcolm X: A Political Reader; editing 
Malcolm X in the Black Imagination: A Cultural Studies Anthology 
and a biography of Malcolm X.
	The Crimmel Colloquium was established at St. Lawrence 
in 1996 by Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Henry H. Crimmel, 
in memory of his parents. Its purpose is to bring to campus speakers 
to address issues of fundamental importance to the liberal arts 
college and to liberal education, especially those articulated 
and examined in Crimmel's 1993 book The Liberal Arts College and 
the Ideal of Liberal Education: The Case for Radical Reform.

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