SPAN501
[Cross-listed with FREN 512B] Cultural Mobilities in Theory and Practice Cultural mobility can be defined as mobilities relayed in and of cultural products, events, and phenomena. The concept can be viewed as part of a recent, influential critical movement to foreground mobility in social sciences and in the humanities and arts. According to Tim Cresswell […]
ITAL378
Colonial and Postcolonial Italy Often considered the “least of the Great Powers” by its European colonial counterparts, Italy had nurtured expansionist ambitions since its Unification in 1861. At its peak, during fascism, the Italian Empire annexed parts of Libya, Greece, Albania, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, in addition to a concession in Tianjin, China. But soon […]
FREN556D
Identity, Ideology and Power Instructor: Marie-Eve Bouchard Language of instruction: French This graduate seminar will delve into three critical themes in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology: ideology, identity, and power. Its broad objective is to examine how language ideologies are involved in the construction of power structure and social identities. Focusing largely on key articles, this […]
ITAL322
Italian for Reading Knowledge ITAL322 is a course for beginner and lower-intermediate students of Italian, or students with proficiency in any Romance language, including Latin. It is addressed to students who also want to develop their language skills and build their competences in order to understand the intersection of language, meaning-making and culture. It is […]
RMST452
Great Masters of Italian Cinema After the Neorealist Age Cross-listed with ITAL430 This course aims at familiarizing students from diverse backgrounds with master- pieces by some of the most acclaimed Italian film directors from the 1950s to our day. The films studied are classic works which explore and critically delve into (the industry would probably […]
RMST453
Within the Universe/The Universe Within — Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy: A Visionary Journey into Medieval Eco-Cosmology Cross-listed with ITAL403 Undoubtedly the best-known of all poems written in the Italian language during the last seven hundred years, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy takes us on a most unusual journey. We begin our travels quivering with the wayfarer […]
SPAN504B
América Latina Errante: Displacement, Globalization, Melancholy in Latin American Cinema Instructor: Alessandra Santos Language of instruction: Spanish This seminar aims to examine contemporary Latin American cinema under the lens of displacements. We will study the geographical, cultural and subjective dislocations that occur due to economic and political globalization after 1990, migration, (im)mobility, tensions and conflicts that arise […]
RMST372
Topics in Hispanic Literature: Literature as Politics and Protest What are the social and political implications of writing and reading literature? How do literary texts contribute to social change and what is our role, as readers of literature, in that endeavour? How might we read literature as a form of political praxis or activism? What […]
RMST343
Pinocchio & Everything Else Cross-listed with ITAL 333 In this course we re-visit Pinocchio, the original educational story for children (the would-be Bildungsroman, if one will) authored in Italian by the Florentine Carlo Collodi (1881 and 1882-83), seeing it in the light of Jiddu Krishnamurti’s critical dictum «It is no measure of health to be […]
FREN341
Évolutions littéraires : du romantisme au roman social Notre cours porte sur les mouvements intellectuels et artistiques en France du XIXème siècle à aujourd’hui, et ce à travers une étude de textes littéraires. Nous nous intéresserons à la construction de l’objet littéraire (roman par exemple) dans la société française. Quels sont les grands débats d’idées, […]