Hélène Cixous’s Open Letter re UAlbany LLC

November 29, 2010 Open Letter to : George Philip, President University at Albany-SUNY Dear President Philip, In April 2007 I visited the University at Albany, extremely happy to have been invited by Professor David Wills to participate in a conference organized around my work. I had the distinct impression that the university was an institution focused on intelligence and culture, a place open toward the future, thriving on new … Read more Hélène Cixous’s Open Letter re UAlbany LLC

Letter from the U Albany French Department

Here the letter Eloise Brière, who has taught for many years in the French Department at the University at Albany, SUNY, sent to Silvia Nagy Zekmi, a former colleague in Spanish, now chair at Villanova University, after she got the devastating news of the imminent retrenchment of her department. It should be noted that there are some 6,123 students enrolled in language courses through the dept of LLC. Check … Read more Letter from the U Albany French Department

SUNY Albany Cuts French Department

The email below — a real shocker — was forwarded to me by a friend in Paris, France on Sunday morning. It is true that I hadn’t read the letter the President of SUNY Albany sent out late on Friday afternoon (what timing!?) in great detail, putting it away after the first half dozen paras giving the usual details about the financial problems of the University. But the info … Read more SUNY Albany Cuts French Department

Tengour Reading @ Albany U

Below, a YouTube’d snippet of the poetry reading Habib Tengour gave at the University at Albany on 31 March. He is reading the opening section of the poem sequence “Café Marine”:

Habib Tengour @ U Albany

HABIB TENGOUR  : TWO EVENTS ALGERIAN POET HABIB TENGOUR, NOTABLE NORTH AFRICAN LITERARY FIGURE, WILL BE FEATURED IN A DOUBLE PROGRAM ORGANISED BY THE NEW YORK STATE WRITERS INSTITUE & THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT IN COLLABORATION WITH LLC. Mar. 30 (Mon.): 3:00-4:00 p.m., HU 354: “THE CURRENT STATE OF LITERATURE IN NORTH AFRICA.” A presentation by the Algerian poet novelist & sociologist Habib Tengour in dialogue with Pierre Joris. Mar. 31 … Read more Habib Tengour @ U Albany

Rhetorics of the Plague

The University at Albany’s Department of English And College of Arts and Sciences Presents Rhetorics of Plague: Early / Modern Trajectories of Biohazard February 26-27, 2009University at Albany The Standish Room, Science Library Building for details, time-table of events & locations click here. Keynote Speakers: Kathleen Biddick, Temple University Graham Hammill, University at Buffalo John Kelly, Visiting Writer Robert Markley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign * on Friday from 12:30-1:30 … Read more Rhetorics of the Plague

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