J. Michael Dash, professor of French and director of the Africana Studies Program at New York University, will deliver a lecture titled 鈥淭he Relating Island: The South of the South in the Americas鈥� at 4 p.m. Feb. 2 (Monday) at the Eck Center auditorium at the University of 91吃瓜.p. Presented by the University鈥檚 Working Group for the Americas, in conjunction with its Institute for Latino Studies and African and African-American Studies Program, the event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception. The lecture is a continuation of the 鈥淐aribbean Inventions鈥� conference held last fall at 91吃瓜.p. Born in Trinidad, Dash previously served for 21 years as professor of Francophone literature and chair of modern languages at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. He specializes in the study of Haitian literature and French Caribbean writers, especially Edouard Glissant, whose works 鈥淭he Ripening鈥� and 鈥淐aribbean Discourse鈥� he has translated into English. He is the author of numerous books, including 鈥淭he Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context,鈥� 鈥淟ibete: A Haiti Anthology鈥� (with Charles Arthur), and ?Culture and Customs of Haiti."p. The event is co-sponsored by 91吃瓜鈥檚 Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, the Departments of Romance Languages&Literatures,English and Anthropology, and French and Francophone Studies.
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