Las fiestas del intelecto es el primer estudio monográfico hasta la fecha sobre el banquete de intelectuales en la modernidad y la vanguardia españolas. En Las fiestas del intelecto, se explora la dimensión solidaria y la naturaleza social y política del banquete, prestando especial atención al ágape de intelectuales liberales en el primer tercio del siglo XX y a los anti-banquetes anarquistas y jocoserios de Gómez de la Serna. Se analiza la documentación visual que ha quedado de estos eventos gastronómicos (fotografías y dibujos) y se sitúan estas cenas en el contexto físico, sociohistórico y discursivo de la España de entreguerras. El estudio se nutre de las aportaciones de la antropología al conocimiento de la fiesta y los festines y de los estudios culturales culinarios hispanos y modernistas.
La francophonie en action is a revolutionary, four-volume textbook series utilizing the action-oriented approach (AOA) to learning French as a second or foreign language. The four core volumes are an immersive, complete language-learning system.
With a strong emphasis on the francophone world, including a much-needed focus on francophone and Indigenous Canada, this series covers multiple stages of French language learning (beginner, elementary, intermediate, and upper intermediate). The intended level of this first volume, B1 of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference), is for courses guiding students from elementary to intermediate.
While employing a variety of individual, interactive, and collaborative activities, students will be encouraged to engage in a way that ensures agency over their language learning process by presenting clear and simple forms of language inclusive of all gender identities and by interacting in real-life situations presented in the text for an authentic and experiential twist to their learning. Each title within the series is divided into distinct stages that each focus on one of the core modes of communication: reception, production, interaction, and mediation. The modules guide students through a series of purposeful and practical activities that trigger successful learning of the French language while promoting the development of plurilingual and pluricultural competences. Activities can be implemented on or off campus, to accommodate programs that utilize either in-class or remote learning.
The series is accompanied by robust pedagogical features, including instructor supplements and a companion website, which contains audio and video materials, self-checking grammar exercises, and additional student activities for each volume. La francophonie en action is a complete solution for all departments offering a French Studies program at Canadian, American, or international university. Canadian programs will be excited to see a much-needed focus on francophone and Indigenous Canada while also exploring the varied global francophone world.
Instructors adopting La francophonie en action (B1) for their course will receive access to a Teacher’s Guide/Guide du professeur, which includes an introduction to the series and the methodological structure and approach of the book as well as a full answer key for all of the textbook activities.
La notion de diversité occupe une place centrale dans la pensée des Lumières. En parallèle à l’expansion géographique et territoriale, qui expose de plus en plus les Européens à la variété des cultures et des coutumes observées partout sur le globe, la diversité de la nature se révèle sous l’œil des savants. Pour les philosophes des Lumières, cette confrontation à la diversité des sociétés humaines et des formes de la vie repousse les limites du monde connu, ébranle les certitudes, et force les remises en question des savoirs reçus. Sur le plan politique, religieux, culturel et intellectuel, le constat de cette inépuisable diversité problématise et complexifie les prétentions universelles inscrites au cœur du projet des Lumières.
Ce séminaire offrira l’occasion de revisiter les manières dont les philosophes et écrivains du XVIIIe siècle, loin de refuser de prendre en compte les différences, ont fait de ces dernières un objet d’étude, et y ont vu à la fois l’horizon et le défi posé à la connaissance éclairée du monde et de soi. Les sujets et les débats abordés incluront :
– L’universalisme et ses questions
– La théorie des climats
– Classer, ordonner, organiser le monde naturel
– Naissance de l’anthropologie
– Diversité des cultures et des coutumes
– Diversité religieuse
– Diversité linguistique
– Les Lumières face à leurs contradictions (colonialisme et esclavage)
Une sélection de textes, d’extraits et d’articles sera mise à la disposition des étudiants :
– Du Bos, Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture
– Montesquieu, De l’Esprit des lois
– Buffon, Histoire naturelle
– Condillac, Traité des animaux
– Lafitau, Mœurs des sauvages américains comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps
– Voltaire, Traité sur la tolérance
– Raynal, Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes
– Olympe de Gouge, Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne
– Condorcet, Réflexion sur l’esclavage des nègres
This course examines linguistics with an emphasis on the contemporary varieties of the Romance language family. Five main domains of linguistics will be covered: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and sociolinguistics. This will provide a broad understanding of the major similarities and differences between the Romance languages. Although the focus will be on French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian, attention will also be paid to lesser-known varieties (for instance, Romance-based Creoles, regional languages of France, minority languages in Spain, etc.). We will also be particularly interested in topics such as language variation and change, language contact, multilingualism, standardization, and language attitudes. The course will be interactive and based on numerous written exercises, in class and at home, that will allow the students to explore more precisely the different variations of the Romance languages.
Contemporary issues and debates on how media and digital technologies have impacted French culture and society. Examines how text, language, and writing are used in digital media.
Language of instruction: French
Prerequisites: Either (a) all of FREN 311, FREN 321 or (b) all of FREN 328, FREN 329 and one of FREN 225, FREN 402.
How stories travel across media and across national and linguistic boundaries in the Romance-speaking world. Dialogue between different versions and inter-media translations. Questions of authorship and reception.
This study proposes to bring medieval and modern thoughts into dialogue to reread the fabliaux and make them participate in contemporary reflections on the poetics of the literary genre and the reconsideration of the powers of fiction. By testing an unstable mixture of truth and fiction, these brief stories from the central Middle Ages invite nuance and create a middle path where doubt and the refusal of binary oppositions prevail. When placed in their literary and manuscript context, the fabliaux prove to be particularly rich terrain for anyone interested in the ever-relevant questions of truth, lies and plausibility.
