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  • Free Film Screening of IL MORO – The Moor: February 6, 2024

    Wednesday, January 31, 2024 | By

    The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Culture invites you to a free screening of IL Moro – The Moor on Tuesday February 6 starting at 7 p.m. at the Film House, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, downtown St. Catharines.

    This film is based on a true story and was longlisted for the 2024 Oscars. The run time is 22 minutes and the film will be followed by a roundtable featuring Professors Andre Basson, Colin Rose, and Felipe Ruan.

    View poster or visit Experience BU for more details!

    Participants MUST have a ticket. To order your free ticket, click here. Limited seating available.

    We hope to see you at this exciting event!

    Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
    Brock University

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  • Storytelling, Erasure, and Trauma: Survivor Testimonies of the Argentinean Dictatorship (1976-1983): February 29, 2024

    Monday, January 22, 2024 | By

    Storytelling, Erasure, and Trauma: Survivor Testimonies of the Argentinean Dictatorship (1976-1983)

    Date: Thursday, February 29, 2024
    Time: 1:00pm – 6:00 pm
    Location: Sankey Chamber, Brock University

    POSTER: Storytelling, Erasure, and Trauma

    Trigger Warning: Speakers will be sharing personal stories of kidnappings, torture, rape, and other traumatic and possibly triggering experiences.

    Note: The event sill be recorded as part of filming a documentary. Please let the research team know if you do not wish to be recorded.

    Guest Speakers:

    Eduardo Veiga
    Eduardo Veiga was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on July 14th, 1974 while his mother was unlawfully imprisoned at Devoto Penitentiary in Buenos Aires. Eduardo was raised by his maternal grandparents in Goya, Corrientes Province. He immigrated to Canada with his parents who were refugees soon after their release from jail in 1985.

    Gustavo De Marinis
    Gustavo De Marinis was born in the province of Mendoza, Argentina and currently works as the editor of Diario Uno, where he has been employed for 30 years. He has been a journalist since 1980 and has also worked for various newspapers in Mendoza. He is a member of the Association of Family Members of Detained and Disappeared for Political Reasons and the Mendoza Collective Justice which is dedicated to the coverage of truth trials on human rights in Mendoza.

    Olga V Araujo-Mendieta, PhD
    She obtained her MA in Latin American History in the University of Amsterdam (1986), her destination after being exiled from Argentina. In 1991 she received a second MA from the University of Toronto, where, in 1997, she went on to successfully defend her doctoral thesis in Latin American Literature. She presently works for the General Council of Education in Misiones, Argentina.

    Alba Vega D’Andrea
    Her parents were political prisoners during Argentina’s last dictatorship and they were able to leave into exile. This was the context within which Alba entered the world—caught between persecution and clandestinity. She was born in La Paz, Bolivia and lived there until she was 6 years old when her parents returned to Argentina with the return of democracy. She has been living in Mendoza since 1985.

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  • ITAL 3P93 Dante’s Inferno Class Conference: November 23

    Friday, November 10, 2023 | By

    The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and
    The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
    PRESENT
    The Circles of Hell in Dante’s Inferno
    Presenting the ArcGIS of Dante’s Inferno – Funded by the CEWIL Canada Program

    https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/247993

    NOVEMBER 23, 2023
    BROCK UNIVERSITY, NIAGARA
    PLZ 600F

    8:15 AM
    DANTE & THE BIBLE
    DAVID SHARRON (BROCK UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS) & TERESA RUSSO (BROCK UNIVERSITY)

    9:00 AM
    STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

    9:00 AM-11:00 AM
    MANUSCRIPTS ON DISPLAY: FACSIMILES OF THE DIVINE COMEDY (1872 & 1965)

    ITAL 3P93 Class Conference Poster

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  • October 25: Haunting, Witchcraft, and Mexican Womanhood in Cervera’s The Bone Woman (2022)

    Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | By

    The Horror of Motherhood: Haunting, Witchcraft, and Mexican Womanhood in Michelle Garza Cervera’s Huesera/The Bone Woman (2022)
    Guest speaker: Enrique Ajuria Ibarra
    25 Oct. 2023 at 4:00pm

    Via Lifesize: https://stream.lifesizecloud.com/extension/17370315/b29ea4b4-4cef-4c0a-a7e2-4e0538e715c6
    ExperienceBU Link: https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/243346

    Abstract: Michelle Garza Cervera’s debut Mexican horror film Huesera/The Bone Woman (2022) is a chilling portrayal about the social and cultural expectations of motherhood. When Valeria agrees to have a baby with her partner, she suddenly becomes haunted by a split-boned, crooked entity that terrifies her day and night. This creature starts to threaten her daily routine, and soon after giving birth puts her baby daughter at risk too. Since no one else believes in her, she seeks help from her aunt who suggests a group of witches can lift the curse. Garza Cervera’s film offers a staunch criticism of cultural and social expectations of what is to be a Mexican woman, that is, someone who is primarily subjected to the domestic and the maternal. Huesera introduces a monstrous creature that can easily be interpreted as a sign of anxiety and dread of motherhood, reminiscent of classic horror films such as Rosemary’s Baby (1968) or The Babadook (2014).

    Enrique Ajuria Ibarra is Senior Assistant Professor at Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), Mexico. He has published several articles and chapters on Mexican Gothic horror cinema. He is the editor-in-chief of the online, peer-reviewed journal Studies in Gothic Fiction. He is currently exploring the Gothic in the Archie Comics Universe and continues looking at Gothic and horror in Mexican film and literature.

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  • October 23: Exploring Career Paths Panel: Spanish Language Alumni Reflections

    Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | By

    The Law Plus Program and the Hispanic and Latin American Studies Program (HLAS) are jointly hosting a panel event, highlighting the law and law adjacent careers of alumni from HLAS’s Immigrant and Community Outreach Internship course. The outreach course examined the Hispanic migrant experience while promoting community engagement with migrant worker communities and support organizations.

    The panel will feature four alumni of the course, who attribute their career directions to their experiential education experiences at Brock University.

    When: October 23, 2023, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
    Where: Online Zoom and in person TH 259

    You can RSVP for the event through Experience BU: https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/244105

    Exploring Career Paths: Spanish Language Alumni Reflections on Migrant Worker Experiential Learning and Impact on Careers in Law, Legal Adjacent and Academic Fields – ExperienceBU (brocku.ca)

     

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  • October 19: Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections: The Wisdom of Grandmothers and/in Children’s Literature

    Thursday, September 28, 2023 | By

    Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections: The Wisdom of Grandmothers and/in Children’s poster

    OCT 19, 2023 @ 6PM (EST) ON ZOOM

    What are the roles and responsibilities of Grandmothers?
    How do they transmit their knowledges?
    What are the obstacles to that transmission?
    What is the role of children’s literature in Indigenous and Italian-Canadian communities?

    Register at:
    https://tinyurl.com/wisdomofgrandmothers

    ExperienceBU Link

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  • Library Display Case Challenge is Back!

    Friday, March 03, 2023 | By

    View the display by the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures and win a prize by solving Challenge #1!
    The display cases are located just past the Ask Us desk inside the library and also in the Thistle hallway just outside the library.

    The challenge: Find an image from the collage or an object from the display and write a short text about it. This can be a memory, a mediation, or simply a comment.

    Winners will receive a cash credit on their Brock card. The deadline is Wednesday, March 8 at midnight.

    Submit your response to [email protected]

     

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  • **ONLINE DUE TO WEATHER** SCLA Graduate Conference – March 4

    Wednesday, March 01, 2023 | By

    ONLINE ONLY DUE TO WEATHER
    CANCELLED: Face-to-face: Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Room 156

    Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
    Graduate Program in Studies in Comparative Literatures and Arts (SCLA)

    About process in literature and arts

    Graduate Conference
    Saturday 4 March 2023
    1-5 pm

    ONLINE ONLY DUE TO WEATHER
    Online Zoom Event Link
    CANCELLED: Face-to-face: Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Room 156

    How can we speak about process in literature and the arts? Process involves action(s) and changes taking place over time (creative process, narrativity, etc.) and/or across media (from text to image and vice-versa, process art, photography, etc.). Process leads toward a particular outcome and/or event.

    The objective of the 2023 Graduate Conference in Studies in Comparative Literatures and Arts is to present and analyze how different authors/artists understand the notion of process and applies it in their work, or how different works process information (for instance, how a landscape or an event is represented, evoked, described, mediatized in specific works). Works studied may be literary texts, visual art, performances, music, installations, interdisciplinary creation, etc.

    Free event!

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  • German Club Book Sale – March 8

    Wednesday, March 01, 2023 | By

    Book Sale by the Brock German Club! 

    When: Wednesday, March 8 from 10:00 – 15:30

    Where: Hallway of MC A, 3rd level (one level above the ground floor)

    What: An eclectic assortment of attractive coffee table books, novels, and non-fiction. The collection includes hardcover and paperbacks on topics such as art and art history, philosophy, history, classics, language, and biographies, as well as some language textbooks.

    All books are in mint condition and offered at irresistible prices! Cash and – if all goes as planned – e-transfers accepted.

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  • HLAS Film Club – March 10

    Wednesday, March 01, 2023 | By

    Hispanic and Latin American Film Club presents:

    “Scratching Old Wounds: Blood, Skin, and Touch in Estiu 1993 (Carla Simón, 1993)”

    by Dr. Fiona Noble, University of Stirling, Scotland

    Fri. March 10, 2023  2:00pm

    Via LifeSize https://stream.lifesizecloud.com/extension/17370315/b29ea4b4-4cef-4c0a-a7e2-4e0538e715c6

    Abstract: Estiu 1993 (2017) is a critically acclaimed Catalan film and the debut feature-length film of director Carla Simón, who drew inspiration from her own childhood in the making of this autobiographical work.

    Set in Barcelona and its rural surroundings in the summer of 1993, the film focuses on 6-year-old Frida (Laia Artigas), who has recently lost both her father and mother to AIDS-related illnesses. Praised for its naturalistic portrait of the child and its eschewal of melodrama, the narrative charts Frida’s navigation of grief, loss, and mortality.

    Looking back upon the early 1990s as a period of ultimately unfulfilled promise, the film articulates the legacy of the hedonistic Transition to democracy through concerns around corporeal fragility. Focusing on blood, skin, and touch, I contend that Estiu 1993 traces a genealogy of risk, infection, and contagion as a means of reflecting on the past and its impact on the present.

    Fiona Noble is a Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. She is the author of Subversive Spanish Cinema: The Politics of Performance (Bloomsbury, 2020) and has also published on migration, childhood, and intercultural lesbian relationships in contemporary Spanish cinema. Her current research encompasses two key strands: 1) a monograph on the work of Spanish sociorealist filmmaker Fernando León de Aranoa, under contract with Manchester University Press; and 2) the investigation of gender and voice in contemporary Spanish cinema and television/streaming. Forthcoming publications include an article and a book chapter analysing gender and voice in series such as La casa de papel [Money Heist] (2017-2021) and Vis a vis [Locked Up] (2015-2019).

    The film Estiu 1993 (Summer 1993) is available via Kanopy for viewing prior to the guest talk.

    Experience BU Link:  https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/231985

     

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