[CCC] Reminder-tomorrow!

[Mary Pines]

Dear all,

A reminder that the Canadian studies lecture is tomorrow evening - that'd 
be Monday, May 14th! Please see below for more information.

I'd like to encourage anyone who can to attend to please do so - go show 
your support, as there will be a few VIPs there and we want to demonstrate 
that there is indeed strong interest in and support for Canadian studies 
and related issues here at Cambridge. ...Asides that, it should be a very 
interesting lecture anyway.

Cheers,
Mary

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Monday 14 May, 5:00 pm: The Canadian Studies 2007 Lecture
Little Hall, Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge. All Welcome.

"Jazz/Opera, Ideologies of Race: The Example of George Elliott Clarke." A 
public Lecture by Linda Hutcheon & Michael Hutcheon.

Linda Hutcheon is University Professor English and Comparative Literature 
at the University of Toronto. She is the recipient of numerous major 
fellowships, honorary degrees and awards, and was the first Canadian woman 
to be elected President of the Modern Language Association of America. Her 
publications include Narcissistic Narrative, A Theory of Parody, Irony's 
Edge, The Politics of Postmodernism, The Canadian Postmodern, and with 
Michael Hutcheon, Opera: Desire, Disease, Death; Bodily Charm: Living Opera 
and Opera: The Art of Dying.

[Who is George Elliot Clarke? FYI - from Wikipedia: George Elliott Clarke 
(born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet and playwright. Born in Windsor 
Plains, Nova Scotia, he has spent much of his career writing about the 
black communities of Nova Scotia and served for a time in the 
African-American Studies department at Duke University. He earned a B.A. 
honours degree in English from the University of Waterloo (1984), an M.A. 
in English from Dalhousie University (1989) and a Ph.D. in English from 
Queen's University (1993). In addition, he has received honorary degrees 
from Dalhousie University (LL.D.), the University of New Brunswick 
(Litt.D.), the University of Alberta (Litt.D.), and the University of 
Waterloo (Litt.D.). He is currently an English professor at the University 
of Toronto. In 2001 he won the Governor General's Award for poetry for his 
book Execution Poems. Clarke's work largely explores and chronicles the 
experience and history of the Black Canadian community of Nova Scotia and 
New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography that Clarke often refers to as 
Africadia. Clarke's Whylah Falls was one of the selected books in the 2002 
edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by Nalo Hopkinson. Clarke 
is a great-nephew of the late Canadian opera singer Portia White, 
politician Bill White and labour union leader Jack White. Clarke will be a 
featured writer/instructor at the 2007 Maritime Writers' Workshop & 
Literary Festival in Fredericton, New Brunswick.]