Dr. Renée-Claude Breitenstein will give a talk titled “I am Named The Truth-Speaking Advocate of Ladies”: Defending Women in Manuscript and Print.
Hosted by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Speaker Series.
2:30pm to 3:30pm, Monday February 3rd, 2020, Welch Hall 207
SOFIFRAN / Nafée Faïgou – atelier culturel ‘Textes et textiles’. Il aura lieu dans la salle STH 201 de 12h45 à 13h45, le jeudi 6 février 2020 dans le cadre du cours FREN 1P93.
Nafée Faïgou from SOFIFRAN will be giving a cultural workshop on Texts and Textiles, 12:45 to 1:45pm, Thursday February 6th, 2020, room STH 201.
Nafée Faïgou est une artiste de la région du Niagara originaire du Tchad. Elle est dramaturge et metteur en scène, directrice artistique du festival Festiv’Ėbène depuis sa création (2008) et auteur de plusieurs recueils de poésie dont Masques; sorti en 2018 aux Éditions Grey Borders. Depuis 2010, elle contribue au magazine littéraire en ligne Voix Plurielles qui dessert le monde francophone; avec des articles de critiques littéraires sur des auteurs francophones canadiens. Nafée est également nouvelliste et son recueil de nouvelle intitulé Portraits d’obsidienne hors cadre sera publié début 2020 par les éditions Édilivre.
Friday 31 January 2020
3:30-5:00 pm
Victoria University Common Room
89 Charles Street West
(rear entrance Burwash Hall)
Victoria College
ABSTRACT
Dante’s Inferno has inspired countless illustrations, maps, paintings and sculptures, including Auguste Rodin’s Gates of Hell, originally commissioned in 1880 for the doors of a museum that was never built. But aside from 4-5 figures (Dante, Paolo, Francesca and Ugolino), the other 180+ figures in Rodin’s Portal seem to bear little correspondence to Dante’s Inferno. This presentation will investigate the evolution of Rodin’s Porte de l’Enfer, from the early sketches, architectural designs and maquettes to its final form, in attempt to identify Rodin’s influences and models. While the Portal cannot be considered an adaptation of Dante’s text, some figures bear more correspondence than one would think, even after being freed from Hell and given a life of their own (Dante becomes The Thinker and Paolo and Francesca become The Kiss). Although divided by more than five centuries, both Dante and Rodin share and depict the universal struggles of a suffering humanity.
BIOGRAPHY
Ernesto Virgulti is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Brock University.
Oct. 4 to Oct. 27, 2019
VISA Art Gallery and Student Exhibition Space,
Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts,
Brock University
The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 1 to 5 pm
and for special events.
Artist Talk – Oct. 26, 11:30 a.m. MWS 156
Reception to follow.
The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures has mounted an exhibit in the Learning Commons and Thistle hallway showcasing various aspects of French, German, Italian, and Hispanic and Latin American Cultures. We invite you to view the intriguing assortment of items on display and win a prize by successfully answering a skill-testing question each week. The questions will be posted on various sites and all are welcome to respond.
Place: Display cases in the Library Commons and Thistle corridor
Date: Monday, September 16 to Friday, October 4
The challenge is to find the clever joke in the display AND to come up with a similar one on your own, based on any of the objects in the display cases or images on the collage. To win a prize, please send your responses to: dbielicki@brocku.ca
