The Institute for Southern Studies will host a symposium on the late novelist and short story writer Flannery O'Connor at 5 p.m. Jan. 25 in Gambrell Hall, Room 428.

"Sixty Minutes with Flannery O'Connor" will feature comments by experts on O'Connor, several of whom knew the late writer. Panelists will include Marion Montgomery from the University of Georgia; Jack Ashley and Ashley Brown from USC; Jan Nordby Gretlund from Odense University in Denmark; and Karl-Heinz Westarp from Aarhus University in Denmark. The event will launch a collection of scholarly essays about O'Connor, titled Flannery O'Connor's Radical Reality, published by USC Press.

A reception will follow the symposium.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Bob Ellis at 7-2340 or bobellis@sc.edu

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