L’AEESF vous invite à une soirée-ciné
ce mercredi, le 4 novembre 2009
pour regarder le film Paris 1919 au cinéma Princess à Waterloo.
Le film a été réalisé par Paul Cowan et
est influencé par le livre de Margaret Macmillan Paris 1919 : Six Months that Changed the World.
Le film commence à 19h, alors on peut se rencontrer devant le cinéma sur la rue Princess Si vous achetez vos billets en avance, au bureau Turnkey dans le SLC, le billet ne coûtera que 5$. Sinon, on peut acheter des billets pour 10$ au cinéma.
Veuillez consulter le site du Cinéma Princess pour plus de renseignements.
Au plaisir de vous y rencontrer!
http://princesscinema.com/film/?id=1746
http://films.nfb.ca/paris-1919/film.php
In honor of Delbert Russell
BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK, USA
Proposals for complete sessions and individual presentations are currently being accepted for the Third International MARGOT Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance
Groupe de recherches – Ordinateurs et Textes) held at Barnard College, Columbia
University, New York from June 16 to June 17, 2010. This conference is co-sponsored
by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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Organisé en coopération entre l’Université du Caire et les Universités de Guelph et de Waterloo (Canada).
Depuis une vingtaine d’années déjà tend à s’imposer, dans le champ des sciences humaines et de la recherche sur la littérature, une réflexion sur la représentation de l’Autre et de soi (de soi-même à travers l’Autre) - réflexion qui s’interroge certes sur les réflexes de curiosité, de méfiance, d’hostilité voire de rejet vis-à-vis de l’Autre, mais fait aussi une place de plus en plus importante aux notions d’échange, d’interculturalité, de migrance, de levée ou du moins de déplacement des barrières, d’appropriations, de métissage et d’hybridité.
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On June 11th, Professor François Paré and Dr. Kerry Lappin-Fortin received the important Distinguished Teacher Award for teaching excellence. They are truly deserving of this important recognition of their passionate and creative approach to teaching as well as their excellent pedagogical skills. We extend our congratulations to them both!
We would also like to congratulate our June 2009 graduating class for their achievements. During our Graduation Luncheon we had the opportunity to present a number of outstanding students with the following awards:
Jacqueline Forster Award : Christopher Lauzon
Margaret A. Ryan Award : Michelle Samson
Herbert and Raymonde Dubé Award : Deborah Costa
Jeanne Lafrance Award : Rosanne Abdulla
Nicole Rolland Award : Emily Dirks
Robert L. Myers Award : Jaclyn Kocalevski
Ambassador of Switzerland Award: Kaitlynn Ellis
French Consulate Award: Janique Melançon
Department of French Studies Award: Danya Webb
Best Co-op Report Award: Amanda Leigh
St-Jerome’s University French Studies Award: Hayley Hutchinson
During the luncheon we also celebrated Professor Delbert Russell’s many contributions to our department during his illustrious teaching career. Professor Russell will be retiring in August of 2009.
We are pleased to announce two new publications by members of our department. Jointly with Donald Bruce of the University of Guelph, Christine McWebb edited a special issue of the journal Texte (no. 43-44, 2008) on the development of a new field of investigation in epistemocriticism, a study of the hybridity and interdisciplinarity in various forms of knowledge. While some articles explore the history of interdisciplinarity, others assess the constant interaction between scientific and literary discourses. Maria Petrescu, a Ph.D student in our department, just published a revised version of her M.A. thesis on Algerian writer and activist Daniel Timsit. The book, entitled Le journal carcéral de Daniel Timsit: approche pragmatique (Éditions IMAGO, 2009), describes Timsit’s diary written during and after his incarceration in a French prison at the time of the Algerian War.
François Paré a reçu, le 24 mai dernier, le prix 2009 pour l'ensemble d'une carrière de la Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance. "Ce prix récompense un chercheur reconnu comme ayant contribué de façon majeure, par ses travaux d'érudition, au rayonnement des études sur la Renaissance au Canada ainsi qu'à l'essor des études sur la Renaissance au Canada ou à l'étranger, ou par toutes autres façons, telles la qualité de l'enseignement à tous les niveaux d'études, la direction de travaux de recherche aux études supérieures, d'équipes de recherches, de revues savantes, ou par tout autre moyen jugé approprié." Bravo, François, et toutes nos félicitations!
Why do speakers of French in France, Québec, and other parts of the Francophone world modulate the language differently? How can one measure intonation? Is there a “grammar” of linguistic accents? By comparing spontaneous French intonational practices among speakers of French in France and in Québec, Svetlana Kaminskaïa seeks to answer these theoretical questions. In her book La variation dialectale en français: Une approche phonologique (Lincom Verlag, 2009), Prof. Kaminskaïa proposes that variations in the intonation among French speakers in France and Québec are largely surface occurrences, sharing a common grammar of the spoken language. Because they shape the way we communicate with each other, dialectal variations as shown in this book’s prosograms are fundamental to our understanding of the complex cultural life of world languages such as French.
The Department of French Studies offers innovative and attractive graduate programs at the M.A. and the Ph.D levels. Graduate students are an integral part of the department’s academic life and research initiatives in early modern French culture and literature, in twentieth-century adaptation theory, in North African women’s writing, in sociolinguistics, and in Québec and French Canadian culture and literature. The doctoral program is currently receiving applications for 2009-2010. With hands-on components and exciting international opportunities, this new graduate program is comprised of three major research fields: electronic archiving and editing, early modern French literature and culture, and cultural studies in a francophone context. Students at the M.A. and Ph.D levels are eligible for funding packages, including teaching and research assistantships. If interested in these programs, please contact Christine McWebb, Associate Chair, Graduate Studies. The deadline for applying to the MA and Ph.D programs is February 1, 2009.
Quintessence is our new online magazine, written and published by graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of French Studies at the University of Waterloo. Each issue of Quintessence contains short fiction, essays, poetry, interviews, and news articles. Please click here to read the most recent issue of our student magazine.
Quintessence, c’est notre nouveau magazine en ligne, rédigé et publié par les étudiants et étudiantes du département d’études françaises de l’Université de Waterloo. Chaque numéro de Quintessence vous offre de brefs récits, des essais, des poèmes, des interviews et des articles de nouvelles. Cliquez ici pour voir le dernier numéro de notre magazine étudiant.
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