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• Brock students provincially recognized for preserving Italian immigrant stories

  Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | By vclitheroe

  The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures is pleased to announce that students Daniella Pace, Elizabeth Colantoni and Sam Caravaggio won the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Youth Achievement and Young Leaders. The archival work was initially conducted in ITAL/CANA 2P98: Italians in Canada and Italy-Canada Relations, with the guidance of their instructor Teresa Russo.

  Brock students provincially recognized for preserving Italian immigrant stories

  More information about their specific projects can be found at:
  https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/en/pages/programs/recognition-programs/2020-recipients

  https://www.italianheritage.ca/list-of-projects/immigration-in-the-niagra-peninsula-st-catharines/#:~:text=Archival%20Research%20of%20Italian-Canadian%20Immigration%20and%20Culture%20(founded,Canada,%20Italian%20heritage%20and%20traditions,%20and%20Italian-Canadian%20Contributions

   

   

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• SCLA Virtual Hour, Tuesday 24 November 2020 (2-3pm)

  Monday, November 23, 2020 | By bnagy

  SCLA Virtual Hour, Tuesday 24 November 2020 (2-3pm)

  The graduate program Studies in Comparative Literatures and Art invites prospective students to join SCLA’s Virtual Hour on Tuesday 24 November 2020 (2-3 pm).

  You are invited to call SCLA Virtual Hour on LifeSize.

  Join the meeting: https://call.lifesizecloud.com/6517321

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• Canadian soccer stars to share industry insight at upcoming webinar

  Monday, October 26, 2020 | By vclitheroe

  Canadian soccer stars to share industry insight at upcoming webinar

   

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• SCLA Virtual Hour /Tuesday 20 October 2020, 2-3 pm

  Monday, October 19, 2020 | By bnagy

  SCLA Virtual Hour /Tuesday 20 October 2020, 2-3 pm

  Are you interested in graduate studies at Brock? Would you like to know more about Studies in Comparative Literatures and Arts (SCLA)?

  You are invited to call SCLA Virtual Hour 20 Oct 2020 2-3 pm on Lifesize.

  Join the meeting: https://call.lifesizecloud.com/5870283

  Join the Lifesize meeting using Skype for Business: https://skype.lifesizecloud.com/5870283

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• New publication: Im/migrant Passages: Crossing Visual, Spatial and Textual Boundaries – Im/migrations : passages visuels, spatiaux et textuels

  Friday, October 09, 2020 | By nhauck

  To emigrate is to leave, to immigrate is to arrive and stay, to migrate is to move, often as a result of forced displacement. Most emigrants, immigrants, migrants and/or refugees frequently face difficult, if not heartbreaking decisions when they decide they must settle elsewhere. According to the latest UNHCR estimates, 65.6 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide by war, poverty, and/or climate change. Many live(d) in refugee/migrant camps where they often face(d) inhumane conditions, discrimination, violence, and racism, while others spend/spent most of their lives in transit camps. Contributions to this volume explore topics in literature, graphic novels, visual arts, film, dance, and education.

  Link: https://dr.library.brocku.ca/handle/10464/14942

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• Meet the Director of SCLA

  Thursday, September 17, 2020 | By bnagy

  Meet the Director of SCLA

  In Fall 2020, meet Catherine Parayre, Director of SCLA during online office hours and ask her your questions about the program:

  Tuesday 22 September 2020, 2-3 pm (Canada, Ontario).

  SCLA meeting on Lifesize (Tuesday 22 September 2020, 2-3 pm, Canada, Ontario):

  You are invited to call SCLA Office hours on Lifesize.

  Join the meeting: https://call.lifesizecloud.com/5306052

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  You may also reach her via email: cparayre@brocku.ca

  Full details and other events can be found here

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• MLLC Welcome 2020

  Wednesday, July 29, 2020 | By nhauck

  

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• Jean Ntakirutimana explores bilingualism in Canadian sports

  Monday, June 08, 2020 | By vclitheroe

  Canada Games Teaching Spotlight: Jean Ntakirutimana explores bilingualism in Canadian sports

   

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• Former Brock President to present on Jewish diaspora March 11

  Wednesday, March 04, 2020 | By vclitheroe

  Former Brock President to present on Jewish diaspora March 11

   

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• Dr. Virgulti’s talk, “From Text to Bronze: Rodin’s Visualization of Dante’s Inferno”

  Wednesday, January 22, 2020 | By vclitheroe

  

  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.

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