Events
| November |Book Signing for Tom Kennedy's A History of Southland College
November 18, 2009
- 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- Giffels Auditorium
On November 18 in Giffels auditorium, Special Collections and the University of Arkansas Press will host a reception, program, and signing for Professor Emeritus Tom Kennedy of the Department of History on the occasion of the publication of his book, A History of Southland College: The Society of Friends and Black Education in Arkansas.
Professor Kennedy's book recounts another chapter of the history of the Quakers, but this time looks into the ways they touched Arkansas and its history. His book explores the "difficult and sometimes dangerous decades" that followed the 1864 founding of Southland College in Helena, Arkansas by Alida and Calvin Clark, abolitionist members of the Religious Society of Friends from Indiana. Southland College would be the first institution of higher education for blacks west of the Mississippi.
The Concept of Human in Chinese Culture
November 19, 2009
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- 105 Kimpel
On Thursday, November 19, Dr.Hui Wu Professor of Rhetoric and Compositions and Comparative Studies Chair from the Department of Literature and Languages at the University of Texas Tyler, will present a lecture to the university community on "The Concept of Human in Chinese Culture."
Dr. Wu, a specialist in rhetoric/composition and comparative studies, served as Director of the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Education Project funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the Founding Executive Director of the UCA Confucius Institute for Arkansas at the University of Central Arkansas, before taking her current position.
Dr. Wu’s scholarship encompasses history of rhetoric, comparative studies of rhetoric, global feminist rhetorics, and archival research in rhetoric and writing. Her writing appears in scholarly anthologies and journals, such as College English, College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Her Chinese translation of C. Jan Swearingen’s Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western Lies offers Chinese academics an alternative perspective of the history of Western rhetoric. Her critical anthology in translation, Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women, is forthcoming in December 2009 from Lexington Books. Currently, she studies post-Mao Chinese literary women’s feminist rhetoric, while writing about and translating China’s first book on the art of persuasion, Guiguzi (Master of the Ghost Valley, 400-320 BCE).