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3/17/03

POET/NOVELIST OFFERS 2003 MACKAY LECTURE AT SLU

CANTON - The 2003 Kathryn Fraser Mackay Memorial Lecture in Philosophy 
and Religion at St. Lawrence University will be given by Édouard 
Glissant, distinguished professor of French at the City of New York 
Graduate Center, on Monday, March 24, at 4 p.m. in Hepburn Auditorium. 
His topic is "When A Voice Is Missing In The World," and the event is 
open to the public, free of charge.
	Born in Sainte-Marie, Martinique, Glissant studied philosophy 
at the Sorbonne in Paris and ethnology at the Musée de l'Homme. A 
celebrated poet and novelist, he has written extensively in French 
about the colonial experience in the Caribbean. Works translated into 
English include Monsieur Toussaint; The Ripening; Caribbean Discourse: 
Selected Essays; The Indies; Poetics of Relation; Black Salt: Poems; 
Faulkner, Mississippi; and The Fourth Century.
	The Mackay Lectures were established in memory of Kathryn Fraser 
Mackay '77 by her family, to honor her interests and spirit. Traditionally, 
coordination of the lectures alternates between the departments of 
philosophy and religious studies.

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