April 09, 2002

WKU To Host Robert PennWarren
Symposium April 21

Bowling Green, Ky. - The Robert Penn Warren Center at Western Kentucky University will host its 15th annual Robert Penn Warren Symposium at 2 p.m. April 21 in room 103 of the Garrett Conference Center.

This year's speaker is Professor William Bedford Clark, noted Warren scholar from Texas A&M University. His topic will be "Letters from Home: Some Speculations on Filial Guilt in Robert Penn Warren."

Also at the symposium, Paul V. Murphy, author of "The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought," will receive the 2001 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award, presented by the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western. Murphy is an assistant professor of history at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Mary Ellen Miller at (270) 745-5721.

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