Tue, March 24, 2009 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Perkins Library, The Link. Jacques Roubaud will be visiting Duke University and speaking in LINK Classroom 2 in Perkins Library on March 24. He is a French poet and mathematician, a mathematics teacher at the University of Paris-X Nanterre and a member of the Oulipo (the workshop for experimental literature founded by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais in 1960). He is well traveled and well versed on the Middle ages, as well as on English and Japanese literature. He has published poems, plays and novels and has also translated books such as Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. The speaker's US tour was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Jacques Roubaud, "Oulipian Times: future pasts/retrospective anticipations"

When: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:00 PM - 6:00 PMWhere: Perkins Library, The Link (Perkins Library, Lower Level)
Description: Jacques Roubaud will be visiting Duke University and speaking in LINK Classroom 2 in Perkins Library on March 24.He is a French poet and mathematician, a mathematics teacher at the University of Paris-X Nanterre and a member of the Oulipo (the workshop for experimental literature founded by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais in 1960). He is well traveled and well versed on the Middle ages, as well as on English and Japanese literature. He has published poems, plays and novels and has also translated books such as Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. The speaker's US tour was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Co-sponsors: Romance Studies and Center for French and Francophone StudiesContact Information: Beaufils, Frederique 668-1938Categories: Lecture/Talk