Scholar Panel Discussion

Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 08:56

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Join us for a Scholar Panel Discussion of Amy Tan’s “The Joy Luck Club," featured work of the PLS Big Read, 7 p.m. Monday, April 16 at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave. on the University of Oklahoma campus.

The panelists will be:

• Dr. Jonathan Stalling, Deputy Editor in Chief of Chinese Literature Today and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma
• Dr. Wayne Stein, Assistant Professor of English, University of Central Oklahoma
• Dr. Sidney Watson, Professor of English, Oklahoma Baptist University
• Shel Harrington, local attorney and author, will be the moderator for the discussion.

Preceding the panel discussion will be a special performance by a quartet of local students from Norman North High School. Their presentation will be a 10-minute Reader’s Theatre depiction based on “The Joy Luck Club.”

For more information, check out the PLS Big Read website.