Humanities Writer-in-Residence Ann Pancake will deliver a lecture titled "Double Vision: Imagining Forward through the Binocular Lens of Appalachia and Academia." The talk will be held Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Milano Reading Room of the Downtown Campus Library. It is free and open to the public.
Pancake's talk asks: in an era of disintegration, how do we as West Virginians recognize, affirm and share life-sustaining qualities of our culture for radical regeneration in our region and beyond? What values from academic culture are critical for supplementing and balancing Appalachian ones? We’re all familiar with regressive Appalachian values, but are there academic values that interfere with imagining forward? Pancake will approach these questions from her own twin identities, West Virginian and humanities academic.
This event is part of the WVU Humanities Center's Quality of Life lecture series.
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