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  • Canada Games Teaching Spotlight: Connecting Italy-Canada relations course to upcoming Games

    Canada Games Teaching Spotlight: Connecting Italy-Canada relations course to upcoming Games

     

  • MLLC Welcome 2020

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  • Jean Ntakirutimana explores bilingualism in Canadian sports

    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

    Former Brock President to present on Jewish diaspora March 11

     

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  • Salon du livre du Niagara – 6 et 7 mars, 2020

    Le premier Salon du livre du Niagara, organisé par SOFIFRAN. Il aura lieu dans le foyer du campus en ville (Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts). Le vendredi et samedi 6 at 7 mars, 2020.

    SOFIFRAN is organizing the first ever Niagara Francophone Book Fair at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, March 6th and 7th, 2020.

  • Diaspora Inter-Crossings Speaker Dr. Jack Lightstone, March 11

    Diaspora Inter-Crossings Speaker Series
    March 11, 2020 12:30–1:30pm
    Rankin Family Pavilion, Room 214
    Strategies of Sustainability of Diaspora Communities:
    Take the Jewish Graeco-Roman Diaspora, for Example
    Dr. Jack Lightstone
    Brock University

    ABSTRACT

    In the field of Diaspora Studies, theoretical paradigms have often been based on the historical experience of Jews living outside of their homeland in the ancient, medieval and modern eras. While almost every description of the “Jewish Diaspora” commences with an account of the Babylonian Exile in the 6th century BCE. The first Jewish Diaspora communities for which we have substantial evidence are those that ringed the Mediterranean in the late Hellenistic and Roman periods. And yet, many scholars of Diaspora Studies all but ignore the evidence for these communities or deal superficially with it. This presentation aims to survey the principal dominant cultural and social patterns of these communities and asks how these patterns may have contributed to these communities’ sustainability in a diaspora setting. It is hoped that such a survey will prove valuable to theorizing diasporas.

    All welcome. Refreshments sponsored by Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures (MLLC).

    ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
    Irene M.F. Blayer, Lissa Paul, Cristina Santos and Dawn Zinga
    Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences

  • Teaching About/With Comics, March 26

    Hosted by the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation.
    For more information, please email cpi@brocku.ca.

     

  • February 3: Dr. Breitenstein’s talk “‘I am Named the Truth-Speaking Advocate of Ladies’: Defending Women in Manuscript and Print”

    Dr. Renée-Claude Breitenstein will give a talk titled “I am Named The Truth-Speaking Advocate of Ladies”: Defending Women in Manuscript and Print.

    Hosted by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Speaker Series.

    2:30pm to 3:30pm, Monday February 3rd, 2020, Welch Hall 207

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  • SOFIFRAN / Nafée Faïgou – atelier culturel ‘Textes et textiles’, 6 février

    SOFIFRAN / Nafée Faïgou – atelier culturel ‘Textes et textiles’.  Il aura lieu dans la salle STH 201 de 12h45 à 13h45, le jeudi 6 février 2020 dans le cadre du cours FREN 1P93.

    Nafée Faïgou from SOFIFRAN will be giving a cultural workshop on Texts and Textiles, 12:45 to 1:45pm, Thursday February 6th, 2020, room STH 201.

    Nafée Faïgou est une artiste de la région du Niagara originaire du Tchad. Elle est dramaturge et metteur en scène, directrice artistique du festival Festiv’Ėbène depuis sa création (2008) et auteur de plusieurs recueils de poésie dont Masques; sorti en 2018 aux Éditions Grey Borders. Depuis 2010, elle contribue au magazine littéraire en ligne Voix Plurielles qui dessert le monde francophone; avec des articles de critiques littéraires sur des auteurs francophones canadiens. Nafée est également nouvelliste et son recueil de nouvelle intitulé Portraits d’obsidienne hors cadre sera publié début 2020 par les éditions Édilivre.

  • Job fair / Foire d’emploi

    Job Fair – Ian D. Beddis Gym, 11am to 1pm, Tuesday January 28th, 2020. About ten tables will be set up in the Francophone section of the Fair. At 12:05pm, francophone organisers invite you to a “Fireside chat” about the importance of bilingualism in the workplace.

    Foire d’emploi – Ian D. Beddis Gym de 11h à 13h., le mardi 28 janvier 202. Une dizaine de tables créeront un petit coin francophone lors de la Foire. À 12h05, des organisateurs francophones offriront ce qu’ils appellent un « Fireside chat » sur l’importance du bilinguisme dans le milieu du travail.

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