The event will inaugurate Emory University's Year of Reconciliation, a series of lectures, performances and programs during the 2000-2001 academic year to encourage conversation on the theme of reconciliation as it relates to society's most pressing issues, from peace in the Middle East and justice in South Africa to race relations and the environment. Parking is available at the adjacent Fishburne Parking Deck on Fishburne Drive. In his talk, Booth will focus on the science versus religion debate, suggesting that the two fields overlap much more than public controversy might suggest, and that the rhetoric used by each side of the debate provides insight into this overlap. Booth is the Distinguished Service Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Chicago and associated with The Chicago School, a group of pluralist, formalist American literary critics who had significant influence on the development of modern American criticism. But Booth's impact reached far beyond the classroom to affect the way contemporary literary criticism has evolved.
People are out there working on it.