Mailer will be available to sign copies of his book following the reading. The colloquium will be moderated by Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication. Other participants include Dr. Carolyn Marvin, associate professor of communication, and Dr. Joseph Turow, professor of communication. A closing reception will immediately follow the colloquium. The Steinberg Symposium is funded by Gayfryd and Saul Steinberg.
All events are free and open to the public.
Call 898-5262 for more information. This month the Department of English welcomes Dr. Malcolm B. Parkes, reader in palaeography of the University of Oxford and the world's leading authority on reading and writing in the Middle Ages, to lecture on his work, and to offer the University community an opportunity to explore the implications of the past on the present. Parkes comes to the University as the first James L. Rosier Lecturer on the Diane Hunter Fund, which was established in memory of Diane Hunter, a Ph.D. candidate and acting director of Freshman English, who died in 1991. In addition to the James L. Rosier lecture, the fund supports a prize awarded each year for the best doctoral dissertation in English. For more information, call 898-7341.