Marc Conner will give the Jo and James Ballengee Professorship lecture on Monday, October 21, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. in Northen Auditorium. The title of the lecture is "The Identities of Ralph Ellison." In this lecture, he will investigate the unpublished and posthumously published writings of Ralph Ellison, the great African-American novelist and essayist of the mid-20th century.