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8/25/03

'HUMANISM' IS TOPIC FOR SLU'S CRIMMEL COLLOQUIUM

CANTON – Edward Said, a seminal theorist on the relationship between culture 
and imperialism, is the keynote speaker of the 2003 Hays and Margaret Crimmel 
Colloquium at St. Lawrence University. Said's talk, "Humanism and the Liberal 
Arts: A Contemporary Perspective," will be given on Thursday, September 4, at 
8 p.m. in Gulick Theatre, with a reception to follow in the Richard F. Brush 
Art Gallery. It is open to the public, free of charge.
	Said is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia 
University, where he has taught for four decades.  He is the author of 22 books, 
which have been translated into 35 languages. Among these are works of literary 
and music criticism; cultural studies theory; commentaries on the 
Palestinian/Israeli conflict and the influence of the U.S. in the Middle East; 
and a memoir about his youth in Jerusalem and Cairo and his schooling in the 
United States. Said's contributions to post-colonial studies, most notably in 
Orientalism (1978) and Culture and Imperialism (1992), have had a profound 
influence on scholars and readers for the past quarter-century.   
	The Hays and Margaret Crimmel Colloquium on Liberal Education was 
established in 1996 by Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Henry H. Crimmel to 
advance the cause of liberal education and to honor the memory of his parents. 
Its purpose is to provide a forum for addressing issues of fundamental 
importance to the liberal arts college and to liberal education, and especially 
those that are thematic in Crimmel's book, The Liberal Arts College and the 
Ideal of Liberal Education. Crimmel retired and was named to emeritus status 
in 1999.

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