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Some of you may be interested in this free public lecture upcoming at the UO in Portland. You can find more information here: <a href="http://osherblog.uoregon.edu/category/portland/">http://osherblog.uoregon.edu/category/portland/</a><BR>
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We hope to see you there!<BR>
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All best wishes,<BR>
Karen Munro<BR>
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Karen Munro<BR>
Head, UO Portland Library and Learning Commons<BR>
Associate Professor<BR>
University of Oregon<BR>
70 NW Couch Street<BR>
Portland, OR 97209<BR>
503-412-3673<BR>
<a href="kmunro@uoregon.edu">kmunro@uoregon.edu</a><BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18pt'><B>Open House—To Cut or Not to Cut: Censorship in Literature <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>Tuesday, November 8, 1:30–3:00 p.m.<BR>
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Recent efforts to remove the “N” word in literature—from the new edition of Mark Twain’s <I>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn </I>in which the word is changed to “slave” to the attempt to halt a high school production of August Wilson’s <I>Joe Turner’s Come and Gone </I>because of its “offensive” language—raise questions about censorship. Is censorship ever a good thing? Should accommodations be made considering the difference between a character’s and author’s point of view?<BR>
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“To Cut or Not to Cut: Censorship in Literature” is the focus of a free conversation with Reed College Professor Pancho Savery. The discussion takes place on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. at the University of Oregon in Portland White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch Street. The conversation, sponsored by Oregon Humanities, is hosted by the University of Oregon Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Portland and the University of Oregon Library and Learning Commons.<BR>
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Savery is professor of English, humanities, and American studies at Reed College. He also teaches in Reed’s freshman humanities program on the Ancient Mediterranean World (focusing on Greece, Egypt, Persia, and Rome). For the last eleven years, he has worked with Oregon Humanities on the Humanity in Perspective program.<BR>
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Through the Conversation Project, Oregon Humanities offers free programs that engage community members in thoughtful, challenging conversations about ideas critical to our daily lives and our state’s future.<BR>
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Hosted by the UO Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the UO Portland Library and Learning Commons<BR>
Sponsored by Oregon Humanities Conversation Project<BR>
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