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First Friday Lecture: “Time Made Manifest: Haunting and Possession in Toni Morrison’s Beloved”

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Online

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This talk will explore the ways in which Morrison portrays psychological time in concrete supernatural forms, and uses the physical manifestations of such time to open up and confront the effects of personal and communal traumatic experience. It will also delve into what it means to heal such experience, concentrating on the role of community in breaking the grip of the past.

About First Friday Lectures

Offered remotely via Zoom, these free online public lectures complement the curriculum of the Basic Program. Each month, an instructor or guest lecturer discusses texts and ideas explored in the four-year program or from our wider range of course offerings. First Friday lectures allow the public and our students to hear instructors speak on their own scholarship or interpretation of a text, in contrast to the discussion method of our classrooms. A period of question and answer follows the talk.

February Lecturer

Clare Pearson, Basic Program Instructor
Clare Pearson

Pearson joined the Basic Program staff in 1997, after 10 years of undergraduate teaching at the University of Chicago and the Honors College at Valparaiso University. She did her undergraduate work as well as graduate work (with the Committee on Social Thought) at the University of Chicago, where she worked on the intersections of literature and philosophy, with special attention to the interrelationship of literature and ethics. From 2004 to 2008, she chaired the Basic Program and co-designed the Asian Classics program, which she also chaired from 2006 to early 2009. She is the 2008 recipient of the Graham School Excellence in Teaching Award for the Basic Program.

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