Italian Explorers and Missionaries in North America: First Contact and Cultural Narratives
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Paolo Frasca
January 20, 2026, 4:00 pm on Zoom
https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81548415840
Dr. Paolo Frascà will join ITAL /CANA 2Q93 to discuss Italian involvement in the early colonization of Turtle Island, with particular attention to how colonial figures are narrated, glorified, and challenged.
Experience BU Link: (https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/317072)
Dr. David Yesaya is an Assistant Professor in the French section of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures. His interests include Francophone cultures and literatures, with a specific focus on migrant texts, and racial, postcolonial and decolonial issues. His latest book is entitled La réussite sociale du migrant postcolonial en France (2023). In his talk, Dr. Yesaya will discuss the decolonization of Western ideologies as a key concept to understand the world we live in. Focusing on his research interests in Francophone African writers, he will present their place and impact in the Western world.
All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
Join us for our annual MLLC Meet & Greet!
Tuesday, October 7th
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Pond Inlet
For more information please visit the Experience BU link for the MLLC Meet & Greet.
Pizza & Refreshments! Raffle Draw and Prizes, too!
*Meet your fellow Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures students and faculty.
*Learn about our student clubs and upcoming events.
*Learn about Brock’s international exchange programs.
*Receive Campus-Wide Co-Curriculum (CWC) credit.
All MLLC students and their friends are invited to attend for all or part of the evening!
On April 30, Brock University welcomed 75 Grade 10 students from participating schools in the Niagara Region: École Secondaire Franco-Niagara (Welland, Conseil Viamonde) and from the Niagara Catholic School Board, Denis Morris, Holy Cross, Saint Francis, Notre Dame Collège, Lakeshore Catholic and Saint Paul. The participants rotated through different interactive language activities developed to test language proficiency. French language student monitors studying French in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures offered guided tours of campus, giving high school students a glimpse into life at the University. This year, we also had the pleasure of listening to a musical performance offered by students from the École Secondaire Franco-Niagara who, under the guidance of their teacher Mario Descoeurs, provided much-appreciated musical entertainment.
Beginning in 1978, the Brock-Niagara French Contest/le Concours de français Brock-Niagara provides a unique opportunity for upper-grade high school students of the Niagara region to demonstrate their French language skills through a variety of activities. Congratulations to all the student participants! French is alive and well in Niagara. https://www.instagram.com/p/DJpXc-GR9O0/
Also, another article was featured in Bonjour Ontario on May 5, 2025: Une journée de découverte au Concours de français Brock-Niagara.
L’article va finalement etre publié en ligne sur un autre de nos journaux, Bonjour Ontario.
Voici le lien : https://bonjourontario.ca/?p=1145
We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africa in Renaissance Europe
Film screening and discussion with Fred Kudjo Kuwornu
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, 7 p.m.
The Film House, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
Presented in partnership with FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre and Brock University’s Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and MIWSFPA.
For more information, visit Experience BU https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/281422
Free, public event; ticket required. Please click here for tickets.
January 2025 Events
2 exhibitions with the same name, “Back from the Peninsula” (Artist residency last June):
Creative Salon, 29 January, 4-6 pm, Mahtay (“Experimental Forms of Writing and/in Translation):
For the Research Centre in Interdisciplinary Arts and Creative Culture’s January 2025 Creative Salon, we invite participants for an open discussion on “Experimental Forms of Writing and/in Translation.” We wish to explore non-traditional forms of writing, inscribing, tracing, and material communication. The conversation will be informal and grounded in practice and process.
Open-ended and vulnerable, creative experimental practice is nevertheless determined by material conditions. How do we understand the notion of experimental in the context of our work? What role does it play? To what extent are the material conditions we work in and with generative? When do they become constraints? How does our work negotiate the forms and fields we find ourselves in? The ways in which we think and move through material forms of communication can be understood as translations, as shifts between different systems of meaning-making, as transitions from one form to another (or several). Artists and authors are invited to share and discuss their work in the context of these questions and in relation to experimentation and translation.
Annual Ernesto Virgulti Lecture – Faking the “Other Voice”: Gender & Literary Forgery in Renaissance Italy
Experience BU Link: https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/274269
Brock News: Retired prof’s legacy inspires renaissance lecture series
