Revisiting Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart' - Bard College - 11 April 2008
50th Anniversary of Chinua Achebe's Internationally Acclaimed Novel Things Fall Apart
Panel Discussion:
Revisiting Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
A 50th-Year Retrospective
Panelists
Chinua Achebe, Bard College
Ifi Amadiume, Dartmouth College
Simon Gikandi, Princeton University
Christine Griffin, Red Hook High School
Jesse Weaver Shipley, Bard College
Moderator
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Dartmouth College
Friday, April 11, at 7:00 p.m.
Sosnoff Theater, Fisher Center
Free and open to the public
Chinua
Achebe, Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of
Languages and Literature at Bard College since 1990,
is one of the most important international figures in
contemporary literature. This year marks half a
century since the publication of his first and most
influential novel,
Things Fall Apart.
Bard College sponsors this event in honor of Achebe's
seminal work. "In
Things Fall Apart and
his other fiction set in Nigeria, Chinua Achebe
inaugurated the modern African novel. He also
illuminated the path for writers around the world
seeking new words and forms for new realities and
societies," says Elaine Showalter, literary scholar
and 2007 Man Booker International Prize chair.
With funding from the New
York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of
the National Endowment for the Humanities (any views,
findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in
this program do not necessarily represent those of
the NEH).
Reserved seating and
post-event reception available for a donation of $35
per ticket.
Call 845-758-7900.