Posted on Monday, October 3, 2005
David Griffith, author of "A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America," will read and discuss his work as part of the Bleasby Colloquium series Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater located in the McKelvey Campus Center.
"In the wake of Abu Ghraib, Americans have struggled to understand what happened in the notorious prison and why," said Dr. Suzanne Prestien, assistant professor of English and public relations at Westminster College. "In 'A Good War is Hard to Find' an elegant series of essays inflected with a radical Catholic philosophy, Griffith contends that society's shift from language to image has changed the way people think about violence and cruelty, resulting in a disconnect between images and reality."
Griffith, an award-winning author, teaches writing at the University of Notre Dame and St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, and is the chair of creative writing at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts. He is a contributing writer for "Godspy" magazine and associate editor of "The Sign of Peace," the publication of the Catholic Peace Fellowship.
This colloquium is the second in a series of events scheduled for the George Bleasby Colloquia, a series of literary events in honor of Dr. Bleasby, who chaired the Department of English at Westminster from 1954-75.
Contact Prestien at (724) 946-7029 or e-mail prestos@westminster.edu for more information.
