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Spring Faculty Colloquia |
| 12:00, room 242 Providence/Feinstein Campus |
Friday Nov. 13: Prof. Jean Walton, "Catchments: Memory, Geopolitics and Environmentalism in British Columbia"
Click here for the flyer (pdf.)
Friday Nov. 20: Prof. Travis Williams, "Procrustean Marxism: Early Modern Arithmetic and Its Readers”
Parking passes will be provided to people attending these events. You are welcome to bring your lunch to the presentations, though the format of these events will be formal: faculty presentations of between 30-40 minutes followed by Q and A. Please join us at Tazza Cafe afterwards for further informal conversation and celebration of the work of Professors Walton and Williams.
Questions? Contact: Mary Cappello, Professor of English and Creative Writing, mcapp@uri.edu |
Screening of "RiP: A Remix Manifesto"
with Director Brett Gaylor |
| Monday November 23rd, 7:00 p.m., Swan Auditorium |
In RiP: A Remix Manifesto, web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
Photo credits: Bridget Maniaci © 2008 EyeSteelFilm. All rights reserved. |
If you would like to see a trailer, follow this link:
http://nfb.ca/film/rip-remix-manifesto |
Mary Cappello on Book Tour |
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In this sensuous and intelligent memoir, Mary Cappello, Professor of English and Creative Writing, wonders aloud for us what breast cancer awareness really makes us aware of, and responds as if for the first time to the deceivingly simple command: tell me what you’re feeling. Her new book, Called Back, looks through the lens of cancer to discover new truths about intimacy and essential solitude, the fact of the body, and the impossibility of turning away.
Click here for tour dates.
To read and view an interview with the author, and read the first chapter, go to: www.alyson.com.
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The 2010 Conference will take place June 24, 25, 26
Mark your calendars, more info to come.
Click here to visit last year's website.
You can also stay updated by joining the Ocean State Writing Conference's facebook group.
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Professor Naomi Mandel to teach in Israel |
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The English Department congratulates Associate Professor Naomi Mandel, who has been honored by the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies with an appointment of Visiting Professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem during Spring 2010. While in Israel, Mandel will teach a course on "The Canadian Extreme" in the Department of Comparative Literature of the Institute of Arts and Letters.
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URI Center for Humanities
Fall 2009 Speaker Series
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2009 WRITING CONTEST
Congratulations to recipients of the English Department's writing awards and scholarships, and the winners of the Rumowicz Maritime essay contest!
Click here for details. |
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