Submit a short poem in English that expresses how you feel about the language(s) that you are studying in MLLC! Please send in the body of the email to dbielicki@brocku.ca by Friday, Oct. 7 at midnight.
During MLLC’s 2020 and 2021 Meet & Greet, students wrote short poems (haikus) on their experiences leaning languages. Click the link to find some of their masterpieces. —> MLLCmeetandgreetHaiku
Join us for an Informal Meet & Greet!
Tuesday, September 27th
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Pond Inlet
PIZZA & Refreshments! Raffle Draw and Prizes too!
All MLLC students and their friends are invited to attend for all or part of the evening!
Please confirm your attendance by Friday, September 23rd or to moderns@brocku.ca or click here to register!
See you there!
The Department’s 2022 Meet & Greet will adhere to these Coronavirus (COVID-19) directives: Brock policies and current provincial guidelines.
https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/214370
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À noter que, pour cet été, l’essentiel des stages portera sur les Jeux du Canada 2022!
Le cours FREN 4P05 vise à offrir aux étudiant-e-s des occasions d’utiliser la langue française, de manière optimale et entièrement authentique, en milieu de travail francophone.
Le cours consiste essentiellement en 50 heures de stage pratique au sein d’un organisme ou d’un département de service francophone de la région du Niagara, accompagnées d’une heure de séance hebdomadaire en classe, au cours de laquelle sont discutées des questions théoriques en rapport avec le bi/multilinguisme, le multiculturalisme, la traduction/interprétation, etc., et surtout des questions pratiques en rapport avec le stage.
Afin d’accompagner et de renforcer les connaissances pratiques acquises au cours des 50 heures de stage, les étudiant-e-s participent également à des ateliers/conférences animés par des membres proéminents de la communauté francophone du Niagara et/ou des régions avoisinantes, qui se proposent de partager avec nous leurs expériences professionnelles.
Si vous êtes intéressée-e à suivre le cours FREN 4P05 cet été (11 juillet – 19 août 2022), contactez au plus tôt Dr Jean Ntakirutimana, par courriel (jntakirutimana@brocku.ca).
Students in SPAN 1F90 welcomed Julio César Rivas, foreign correspondent to Canada with Agencia EFE, to their class Wednesday, March 16. Rivas shared his tips and techniques for effective interviews in preparation for interviews students will be doing with native Spanish speakers as a class project. Rivas shared from his experience of more than 30 years as a journalist in the Americas and Europe, where he has covered events including the armed conflicts in Guatemala and El Salvador, the Zapatista uprising in Mexico, and a broad range of economic, social, political and cultural affairs. In addition to working for Agencia EFE, the largest Spanish language newswire service, Rivas is also the co-founder of Lattin magazine, an online news site dedicated to the Hispanic population in Canada. Rivas is pictured offering pointers to students Lisa Carvalho and Kayla Hoyos Lewis, who will be interviewing their grandmothers for the project. The class will be sharing their completed projects in a presentation April 6 and Rivas will work with a student to publish their work in Lattin.
As part of the Diaspora Speaker Series
Hosted by the Hispanic and Latin American Studies Program (Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures)
Gender Treachery Against the State: The Political Function of Popular Film in the Fiction of Manuel Puig
Talk by Dr. Erin Redmond
15 March 2022
Online -13:00pm – 14:15pm
This is a virtual presentation.
This is a virtual presentation. Please join us at: NEW LINK:
This talk will focus on the ways in which alternative constructions of gender and sexuality emerge through dislocations of U.S. and European films to small-town Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s in the case of Traición and to the 1970s Buenos Aires prison cell in which most of Beso’s narrative unfolds. Although a number of critics have positioned homosexuality in Puig’s fiction as a form of rebellion against political authoritarianism, I argue that in keeping with Puig’s own views, these texts offer a more radical challenge to the heteronormative ideologies of both mass culture and the repressive state through their principal characters’ refusal of binary-based terms.
Dr. Erin Redmond received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. She completed her B.A. in Women’s Studies and History at the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests include questions of gender and sexuality in fiction and film from Argentina, Brazil and Cuba.
Contact information: Dr. Irene Blayer Iblayer@brocku.ca // Dr. Cristina Santos csantos@brocku.ca