Brief: Nobelist Morrison to be symposium topic

A symposium on the 1993 Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison will be
held Friday at the UI.

"Toni Morrison, Literature and the Curriculum" is scheduled for 2 to 5 p.m.
in the third floor lounge of the Education Building. The symposium is free
and open to the public.

Presentations by authorities on Morrison's work will be followed by a
discussion among them and other academics who have taught Morrison's work.
Presenters and their topics: Susan Edgerton, professor of curriculum,
instruction and evaluation at the UI at Chicago, "'Mother of the Dust':
Toni Morrison, Julie Dash and the Curriculum"; and Philip Richards,
professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
"The Cultivated and the Folk: Toni Morrison's 'Sula' and the African
American Literary Tradition."

UI faculty members who will join Edgerton and Richards for the discussion:
Alice Deck and Stephen David, English; and K.E. Supriya, speech
communication. Cameron McCarthy, a UI professor of curriculum and
instruction, will moderate the symposium, which he organized.

Students for Cultural Understanding in Education, a UI organization, is
sponsoring the symposium. Co-sponsors include the Afro-American Studies and
Research Program, the Center for African Studies and many other UI units.

More information is available from Lillie Albert, an officer of the
Students for Cultural Understanding in Education, at 244-3389, or
McCarthy, the organization's faculty adviser, at 333-3754.