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9/10/07

'CULTURE WARS' TOPIC FOR CRIMMEL COLLOQUIUM AT SLU

CANTON - Noted social and cultural anthropologist Renato Rosaldo is the keynote speaker for the 2007 Hays and Margaret Crimmel Colloquium at St. Lawrence University. His presentation, titled "Lasting Lessons of the Culture Wars: A Possible Dialogue with Professor Henry H. Crimmel Jr.," will be on Tuesday, September 25, at 8 p.m. in the Eben Holden Center on campus; it is open to the public, free of charge.

Rosaldo is a professor of cultural and social anthropology at New York University and director of the program in Latino studies. He is formerly the Lucie Stern Professor in the social sciences at Stanford University. Rosaldo is the author of Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (1989) as well as Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History (1980). His first collection of poems, Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña (2003), won an American Book Award in 2004. Rosaldo has edited collections on creativity; globalization; cultural citizenship; the Incas and the Aztecs; and Latino studies. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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. Crimmel retired and was named to emeritus status in 1999.

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