Sept. 19 Panel Discussion Features Dissent About 9/11

Contributors to "Dissent from the Homeland: Essays After September 11" will take part in a panel discussion Sept. 19 on the war on terrorism and the causes and consequences of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The seven panelists will address the issues raised in "Dissent from the Homeland," a journal that includes writings by theologians, philosophers and literary critics that call into question the U.S. military response to the attacks.

The discussion will be held from 1-4 p.m. at the Griffith Film Theater in the Bryan Center on Duke's West Campus.

Panelists include Michael J. Baxter of the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame; Stanley Hauerwas of Duke's Divinity School; Fredric Jameson of the Duke Literature Program; Catherine Lutz of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's anthropology department; John Milbank of the department of theology at the University of Virginia; Anne R. Slifkin, a civil litigation lawyer in Raleigh; and Susan Willis of the Duke Literature Program.

"Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11" is a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly published by Duke University Press (http://www.dukeupress.edu) and co-edited by Duke professors Hauerwas and Frank Lentricchia. Copies will be available for $12 at the event and at local bookstores.

Duke's special 9/11 Web site, http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/911site/, contains excerpts from "Dissent from the Homeland."