ANN ARBOR—Edward W. Said, university professor at Columbia University and internationally renowned literary and cultural critic, will speak at 4 p.m. Sept. 22 in the University of Michigan’s Rackham Auditorium on the critical problems faced by scholars who undertake research across disciplines and cultural boundaries. Said’s widely influential publications include, “Orientalism,” “The World, the Text and the Critic,” and “Culture and Imperialism,” which won Columbia University’s 1994 Lionel Trilling Memorial Award. His lecture, titled “Imperialism and the Clash of Civilizations,” will be the keynote speech in a symposium celebrating the D’Arms Awards for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities. Established in 1995 to honor John H. D’Arms, the awards recognize the importance of excellent faculty mentoring for graduate students in the humanities.

D’Arms, the Gerald F. Else Professor of Humanities and professor of classical studies and of history at U-M, is president of the American Council of Learned Societies. He served as chair of the Department of Classical Studies, dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies and as vice provost for academic affairs at the U-M.

The recipients of the D’Arms Award will be Anne Ruggles Gere, professor of education and professor of English; Cedomil Goic, professor of Spanish-American literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literature; and Patricia Simons, associate professor of history of art and of women’s studies.

The symposium is part of the Rackham Graduate School’s 1997-1998 series, “Conversations on American Values.” It is co-sponsored by the Graduate School in cooperation with the Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. Funding is from the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation. For more information, call Kathy Holmes at (313) 647-4572.

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