• Professor Bernd Renner was recently named Bernard H. Stern Professor in Humor Studies (2007-2009) at Brooklyn College.
• On April 13, 2007, Professor Eve Sourian was awarded a Palme Academique by the French Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
• Professor Jerry Carlson was awarded a City Council of New York Citation for work on Canapé in March of 2007.
• The Institut du Tout-monde was founded in Paris and Martinique at the initiative of Distinguished Professor Edouard Glissant. Please click here to visit the Institute's website.
• A selection from Distinguished Professor Mary Ann Caws's recent book, Surprised in Translation (University of Chicago Press, 2006), entitled "Greeting, Slippage, and Shaping" has been published on the PEN America's website. To visit the webpage, please click here.
• As producer of Canapé, Professor Jerry Carlson has been nominated for an Emmy award in the category of Arts Programming. This is his third nomination.
  Since 1996, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and CUNY TV have produced together one of the few French programs to appear on American television: Canapé.
  Stylish and modern, Canapé is the only program entirely devoted to French cultural events in New York and the United States. This monthly half-hour show includes film releases, book translations, exhibitions, festivals, ballets, concerts and theater productions.The series premieres on CUNY TV in New York and is distributed nationally to PBS affiliates, media centers, and educational networks.
• In March of 2007, Professor Julia Przybos presented a paper entitled, "Vivre ou prier: le vitalisme et le catholicisme dans "L'Ami Fritz" d'Erckmann-Chatrian" at The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes Fifth Annual Colloquium at Fitzwilliam College, University Of Cambridge. The title of the conference was "Institutions and Power".
• On February 21, 2007, Professors Lucienne Serrano and Thomas Spear, and doctoral student Sophie Saint-Just, participated in the second international Kreofolies videoconference, entitled "Rassemblement pan-créole: écoutons la voix des jeunes." Professor Spear organized the New York component of the conference at the Lehman College campus of CUNY, hosting students, faculty, and members of CUNY organizations, including ethnomusicologist Prof. Dominique Cyrille (from Lehman) and Jude Piquant, representing Habetac (based at Brooklyn College). Other participants included students, faculty and organization leaders (such as Pierre-Roland Bain of the Mois du Créole à Montréal) at the University of York in Toronto, and secondary teachers and the coordinator of the Mauritian Prevokbek programme, Jimmy Harmon, at the Centre de Formation Pour Educateurs at the Bureau de l'Education Catholique in Mauritius.
  Participants in Australia, Martinique and Saint-Lucia joined the three video sites through audio connections. Moderated from Toronto by Paul Comarmond of the International Organisation of Creole People (the conference sponsor), the animated debate raised many linguistic, political and social questions concerning Creole language, its regional variants and standarization, definitions of Creole identity, and ties with communities of the Creole diaspora. The two-hour conference is available to view online, with a blog for follow-up information and discussion at the Kreofolies web site. Click here to visit the Kreofolies web site.
• The Modern Language Association of America awarded its fourteenth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies to Professor Evelyne Ender, for her book Architexts of Memory: Literature, Science, and Autobiography, published by the University of Michigan Press. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding scholarly work that is written by a member of the association and that involves at least two literatures.

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• Distinguished Speaker Edouard Glissant was an invited author at the Sixth International Literature Conference in Berlin in September. He was invited to give the conference's opening address. Please click here to visit the conference website.
• On July 6, Professor Hermann Haller was elected as a Socio Corrispondente Straniero (Foreign Corresponding Member) of the Accademia della Crusca.
• The University of Minnesota Press has published the English translation of the complete poetic oeuvre of Distinguished Professor Edouard Glissant. He was recently honored at an event at the Graduate Center which featured musical accompaniment and readings from the book. Please click here to read the press release.
• Distinguished Professor Edouard Glissant was invited to the l'Elysée in Paris by President Jacques Chirac on the occasion of the announcement of May 10th as Journée Commémorative de l'Abolition de l'Esclavage. For the text and video of the speech, click here.
• Gallimard Publishers sponsored a lecture celebrating the publication of Distinguished Professor Edouard Glissant's new book, La cohée du Lamentin on June 13 in Paris. The event is also sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture.
• On May 30, the Université de Paris 8 held an event awarding the Prix Edouard Glissant to Alain Borer for his work on Rimbaud. This international award, created and named after our own Distinguished Professor, is conferred annually. To view the program, click  here.
• The Museum of Jewish Heritage sponsored an event entitled,  "Reflections on Identity, Language, and Loss" which featured a discussion by Professor Andre Aciman. For the program for this event, which took place on May 18, click here.
• Distinguished Professor Mary Ann Caws received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to go to Bellagio's writers' retreat to write her book, Eight Eccentric Women Artists (tentative title), to be published with Palgrave Macmillan. This is the second time Professor Caws receives this prestigious award, which requires a ten-year waiting period between applications.
• In Carthage, Tunisia, the Tunisian Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters sponsored a three-day colloquium entitled, "Edouard Glissant, pour une poétique de la Relation : limites, épreuves, dépassement" on the work of Distinguished Professor Edouard Glissant. For a complete program and related publications for this event, which took place April 26-28,  click here.
• Professor Royal Brown was the curator for a program sponsored by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, held at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center on April 15. This program, on Prokofiev and Eisenstein, was part of a series of seminars entitled, "Sound Effect: How Music Changed the Movies."
• La Maison de l'Amérique latine, along with the publisher Gallimard, sponsored an event celebrating the publication of Distinguished Professor Edouard Glissant's new book La Cohée du Lamentin at the museum in Paris on April 15.
• On March 16, 2005, Professor Thomas C. Spear was awarded the Trophée de la diversité culturelle by the French Ministry of Culture for his website, île en île. The awards ceremony was held in Amiens, France, and was widely broadcast on French television.
• The Centre Georges Pompidou held an event honoring the work of Distinguished Professor Edouard Glissant, entitled Edouard Glissant: Politique, poétique des langues, on March 24, 2005, in Paris.
• Professor Marilyn Hacker will receive the Prix Max Jacob Étranger at the Maison des Écrivains 53, rue de Verneuil, in Paris, on February 16th for her book, La rue palimpseste, Éditions de La Différence, 2004. She was recently interviewed by Canal U in Toulouse. Click here to view and listen to the interview on-line.