Week Eight: BOOK TALK at the Brooklyn Campus
This week, the class will attend a mandatory book talk given by Dr. Norman Loftis, who recently published an introduction to D.H. Lawrence's "Women in Love." His lecture will be held at the Brooklyn Campus, 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11216. The talk will take place from 6pm to 8pm. To get to the Brooklyn Campus, take the A/C train to Nostrand Ave. Then, walk 2 blocks east on Fulton Street.
Here is a flyer with more details:
- JOURNAL 8 -
Post a reaction to the talk. Include at least ONE of the theories discussed in class thus far. Use this theory to analyze one or more of the following: the purpose of the talk; the organization(s) promoting and/or attending the talk; the structure of the communication informing the talk; the worldview/culture promoted in the talk.
posted by Jen at Friday, March 10, 2006
6 Comments:
melissa said
On March 15, 2006 I attended a book talk at the Brooklyn Campus for The College of New Rochelle. The book talk was to talk about a novel called “Women in Love” by D.H. Lawrence. The book talk was lead by Dr. Loftis who is an instructor of the Brooklyn campus. I am asked to write a reaction to this book talk which would show how the theory human relation fits this approach. This book shows how one communicates with the audience or readers though speaking about a common interest.
To me Dr Loftis fail to successfully attract my eyes or ears to this book. I believe Dr. Lofis is not a person likes or knows how to present very efficiently. He lacks the act of public speaking. He made the book talk seem so boring that it turn me off from the book. Though it seem at the end of the book talk people were interested in the book that they wanted to purchase the book.
March 21, 2006 11:16 PM
On Wednesday, March 15, 2006 I attended a Book Talk sponsored by the College of New Rochelle. I was glad that I was familiar with the author D. H. Lawrence because I really didn’t understand what the speaker was saying and the tone in which he spoke was boring and uninteresting.
Lawrence is a writer who excites great passions - which is entirely appropriate, since that is how he wrote. He is the first really great writer to come from the (more or less) working class, and much of his work deals with issues of class, as well as other fundamentals such as the relationships between men, women, and the natural world. At times he becomes mystic and visionary, and his prose style can be poetic, didactic, symbolic, and bombastic all within the space of a few pages. He also deals with issues of sexuality and politics in a manner, which is often controversial.
March 22, 2006 5:03 PM
- Gretha said -
Our class on March 15th 2006 met at the Brooklyn campus of the college off New Rochelle. This was the opportunity to promote the book" Woman in Love" D.H.Lawrence. The Book talk did not have much to do with the class original communication. In reality what was the purpose or function of our attendance. The Book talk lead by DR. Loftis. At the end of the talk people seem interesting and wanted to buy. In essence the book talk sold that book.
March 25, 2006 12:53 AM
While the material and intent of CNR's Book Talk given by Dr. Loftis was clearly only peripherally related to the subject of Organizational Communication, the lecture gave the class a unique opportunity to analyze the function and role of organizational culture within their education experience.
The talk served as a sort of social event to promote a unified CNR culture in a number of ways: 1) it introduced a faculty member who had achieved literary success outside of the college environment; 2) it showed that his success was valued and encouraged by the college faculty and students; 3) it unified CNR's School of New Resources by comingling faculty and students from multiple campuses; 4) it it advertised and promoted a number of classes taught by Dr. Loftis, while simultaneously promoting a literary images of the college as a whole (to the outside world); and 5) it connected the value of education to a monetary value by promoting the sale of Dr. Loftis' book.
The combination of these goals, though pursued indirectly, serve to create a concrete idea of CNR's culture for faculty, staff and the realm of education outside of CNR.
April 28, 2006 7:42 AM
I found this man to be boring, I feel that he has a deep fasanation with the gay community. All he kept talking about were two women who found each other. He kept talking about how one sister was in love with anothr woman. He made me not want to be there. There was a man that I was sitting next to that kept asking questions that were not realted to the lecture or that were already answered.
I feel like it was unfair to make us come to this lecture.
Tonya Woodruff
May 10, 2006 7:40 PM
STEPHANIE SAID:
While attending the book talk at the College of New Rochelle, Brooklyn Campus. Dr. Norman Loftis discussion on the Book WOMAN IN LOVE.The book focus on two sister. Dr. Loftis used the human relations approach to capture the audience. he lost my attention,and i found myself drifting off from time to time. it was a boring lecuture.HARLEM USA STEPHANIE
May 11, 2006 8:04 PM
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