ASU - GSEA
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives
that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
13th Annual
2007 Southwest Graduate English Symposium
A Violent Return to Ethics?
Implications, Complications, and Situations
February 16th - 18th, 2007
Keynote Address: R. Clifton Spargo
"Violence and the Ethical Event"
Author of
The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)
&
Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
Sponsored by The Graduate Scholars of English Association and
The Department of English in conjunction with
The Graduate Student and Professional Association
Office of the Associate Dean for Research
The ASU Creative Writing Program
The Graduate College