UWP Lecturers AMMIEL ALCALAY TALK ON TUESDAY APRIL 13, 3-5PM

[John Ganim]

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>COLD WAR POETICS
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>A LECTURE BY
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>AMMIEL ALCALAY
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>4043 INTN
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>3-5 PM, TUESDAY APRIL 13
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>**Selections from a forthcoming book, a little history, which will 
>be a point of departure for the talk, are available from Jeff Sacks 
>@ <http://jeff.sacks.ca>jeff.sacks.ca@<http://gmail.com>gmail.com
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>AMMIEL ALCALAY is poet, translator, critic, scholar and activist; he 
>teaches in the Department of Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian 
>Languages & Cultures at Queens College and is a member of the 
>faculties of American Studies, Comparative Literature, English, and 
>Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center where is also Deputy 
>Chair of the PhD Program in English. He was the first holder of the 
>Lannan Visiting Chair in Poetics at Georgetown University and has 
>been a visiting professor at Stanford University. His latest book, 
>Islanders, a novel, is out from City Lights in 2010. Scrapmetal: 
>work in progress came out with Factory School in 2007. from the 
>warring factions, a book length poem dedicated to the Bosnian town 
>of Srebrenica, came out in 2002, and is due for a 2nd edition in 
>2010. Poetry, Politics & Translation: American Isolation and the 
>Middle East, a lecture given at Cornell, was published in 2003 by 
>Palm Press. Other books include After Jews and Arabs: Remaking 
>Levantine Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1993), the cairo 
>noteboooks (Singing Horse Press, 1993), and Memories of Our Future: 
>Selected Essays, 1982-1999 (City Lights, 1999). He has translated 
>widely, including Sarajevo Blues (City Lights, 1998) and Nine 
>Alexandrias (City Lights 2003) by the Bosnian poet Semezdin 
>Mehmedinovic, Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing (City Lights, 
>1996), and the co-translation of a Hebrew novel (with Oz Shelach), 
>Outcast, by Shimon Ballas (City Lights, 2007). A Little History, a 
>book of essays on politics and poetics is due out in 2010 from 
>Beyond Baroque. He has also been involved as an activist on many 
>domestic and international issues. He has been a regular contributor 
>to the Village Voice and his poetry, prose, reviews, critical 
>articles and translations have appeared in The New York Times Book 
>Review, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, al-Ahram, The New Republic, 
>Grand Street, Conjunctions, Sulfur, The Nation, and various other 
>publications in the United States and abroad. Along with Anne 
>Waldman and others, he was one of the initiators of the Poetry Is 
>News Coalition, and he organized, with Mike Kelleher, the OlsonNow 
>project. Most recently, he is the founder and general editor of Lost 
>& Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative 
>(<http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/lostandfound>http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/lostandfound).
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>SPONSORED BY THE DECOLONIZATION STUDIES MELLON WORKSHIP, THE CENTER 
>FOR IDEAS AND SOCIETY, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF CREATIVE WRITING
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John M. Ganim
Professor of English
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
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