IUPUC faculty member Terry Dibble, Ph.D., will lead a public lecture on Friday, November 20.

The lecture, “Novels, Symmetry, and Memory: from Marcel Proust to Toni Morrison,” will begin at noon in Room CC176 (MBA/Executive Education suite).

“Novels tell us what to remember. By investigating both the arrangement of a novel (which structures our memory of the text) and the passages within it that concern reminiscence, we can begin to discern its theory of memory: memory’s ‘why’ and ‘how,’” Dibble said. “A review of the scientific and philosophical writings on memory available to the author, and of the mathematics and psychology of form, will help us to make sense of the memory theories embedded in novels.”

The lecture is part of the IUPUC Faculty Colloquium Series. It is free and open to the public.

Dibble is an English lecturer for the Division of Liberal Arts.