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For immediate release
During a presentation, titled “In Defense of Inappropriate Laughter: Reflections upon Suffering, Hope, and Faith,” Bussie will provide insight on how laughter functions as a form of ethical and theological resistance as noted in the works of acclaimed writers Shusaku Endo, Toni Morrison, and Elie Wiesel. She will also discuss her more recent work on hope. An associate professor of religion at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, Bussie will base the lecture on her 2007 Trinity Award-winning book “The Laughter of the Oppressed: Ethical and Theological Resistance in Wiesel, Morrison, and Endo.” The Trinity Award recognizes an emerging writer or scholar whose work offers new perspectives on biblical, cultural, ethical, theological or religious issues and has broad applications for a general audience. The lecture is sponsored by King’s College Center for Ethics and Public Life, in cooperation with the Office of Academic Affairs, and is funded in part by a grant from the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund, Inc. The late William G. McGowan, founder and CEO of MCI, was a 1952 graduate of King's College. For more information, contact Dr. Regan Lance Reitsma, department of philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics and Public Life at King’s College, at 208-5900, ext. 5781 or e-mail reganreitsma@kings.edu
Dr. Jacqueline Bussie King's College is a Catholic College sponsored by the Congregation of Holy Cross. |
