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.
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Meet the Director of SCLA
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
Join the Lifesize meeting using Skype for Business: https://skype.lifesizecloud.com/5306052
Click to call from Mobile (audio only)
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United States: +1 (833) 881-5208,, 5306052#Call in by Phone (audio only)
Canada: +1 (844) 572-5683
United States: +1 (877) 422-8614
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Meeting extension: 5306052#Additional phone numbers: https://call.lifesize.com/numbers
Other ways to call: https://call.lifesize.com/otherways/5306052
You may also reach her via email: cparayre@brocku.ca
Full details and other events can be found here
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Dr. Virgulti’s talk, “From Text to Bronze: Rodin’s Visualization of Dante’s Inferno”
Friday 31 January 2020
3:30-5:00 pm
Victoria University Common Room
89 Charles Street West
(rear entrance Burwash Hall)
Victoria CollegeABSTRACT
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. -
CONTEST!!! Voyage of Discovery Display
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
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