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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">On Wednesday, February 15, 2023, at 12 noon, we will be hosting a Welcoming Luncheon for our Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Dr. Jean-Philippe Marcoux. This event will take place at the Center for the Study of Canada & Institute on </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Québec</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> Studies, 133 Court Street, Conference Room (#103).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Dr. Jean-Philippe Marcoux, who will be with us at SUNY Plattsburgh for the spring 2023 semester, is a Professor of American Literature </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">at Université Laval in Québec City. He is the author of <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem (Lexington Books, 2012) </span></em>and the editor of <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka (Ohio UP, 2021), and Back Pages: New and Selected Poems by A.L. Nielsen (BlazeVox,2021)</span></em><span style="background:whitesmoke">.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The focus of Dr. Marcoux’s research project, while in residence at the Institute on Québec Studies, is titled “The Society of Umbra: A Digital Archive.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">We would be most delighted if you could join us in welcoming Dr. Marcoux to our campus.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Please send your kind RSVP either via email to me at </span><a href="mailto:lbeda001@plattsburgh.edu"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">lbeda001@plattsburgh.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> or via telephone by calling 518-564-2383 by Wednesday, February 8, 2023 to help us confirm our catering needs.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">LIZA BEDARD</p><p class="MsoNormal">Office Assistant II</p><p class="MsoNormal">SUNY Plattsburgh</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1d2228">Center for the Study of Canada & Institute on Quebec Studies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">(o) 518-564-2383</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:lbeda001@plattsburgh.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">lbeda001@plattsburgh.edu</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#4472c4"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>