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Lake Forest, Ill.— Lennard J. Davis, will present a talk titled, “After Identity Politics: Race, Disability, and the New Genomics” at Lake Forest College on Tuesday, February 17 at 4 p.m. in Meyer Auditorium, located in Hotchkiss Hall on the College’s Middle Campus. The public is welcome to attend and there is no charge for admission. The presentation is part of the College’s On the Run Reading Series. For more information please contact 847-735-6010. Lennard J. Davis is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), professor of Disability and Human Development in the School of Applied Health Sciences at UIC, as well as Professor of Medical Education in the College of Medicine. He is director of Project Biocultures, a think-tank devoted to issues around the intersection of culture, medicine, disability, biotechnology, and the biosphere. He is the author of two works on the novel--Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel (1983, rpt. 1996) and Resisting Novels: Fiction and Ideology (1987, rpt. 2001) and co-editor of Left Politics and the Literary Profession. His works on disability won him the 1996 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights' annual award for the best scholarship on the subject of intolerance in North America. His memoir My Sense of Silence (2000), was chosen Editor's Choice Book for the Chicago Tribune, selected for the National Book Award for 2000, and nominated for the Book Critics Circle Award for 2000. He has written numerous articles in The Nation, The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and other journals. Lake Forest College is a private, liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,300 students representing 46 states and 50 other countries.
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