The Salon: Megan Havard

The Salon is a weekly gathering of students, faculty, staff, and administrators from across campus each Thursday. It is a time and place for discussion of interdisciplinary ideas and shared experiences; everyone is welcome to participate.

The theme for this term: What are the limits of what we can know?

Megan Havard (Spanish) will lead this week's discussion on culture-free knowledge: What are the limits of what we, as readers, can learn from a particular text? How does authorial or narrator bias, both in fictional and nonfictional works, impact our ability to interpret a text and draw independent, reliable conclusions?