Seminars and Lectures

Friday, April 9, 2010: Honours Thesis Presentations by Katie MacCormac "Sous les yeux d'un espion; échapper à la surveillance dans les pièces de Molière" and  Chasity St. Louis " Vie d'orage: pouvoir et transformation des métaphores", 3.00 pm, BAC 201

Thursday, March 25, 2010: Dr. Diemo Landgraf, University of Freiburg, Germany, Candidate for Tenure Track position in the Department of Languages and Literatures; " Decadent Literature in Spain: the case of Ramón del Valle-Inclán." 4.30 pm, BAC 236

Tuesday, March 23, 2010: Béatrice Bonhomme (poète et professeur à l'University de Nice, France), "Concours d'écriture poètique." KC Irving Centre, Acadia University, 4.00 pm

Friday, March 19, 2010: Émeline Belliot, Noémie Nicolas (lectrices, Acadia University), " Les jeunes et leur langage", 3.00 pm, BAC 236

Friday, February 12, 2010: Professor Anna Saroli, Acadia Universtiy, "Moving between two worlds: Intergrating interculturality in bilingual education programs in Cusco, Peru.", 3.00 pm, BAC 236

Friday, January 22, 2010: Dr. Adam Spires, Saint Mary's University, "Toward a Mexican Dystopia", 1.30 pm, BAC 236

Friday, November 20, 2009: Dr.Bernard Delpêche, Acadia University, "Une approche littéraire de la route des exclaves / A literary approach to the slave routes", 3.00 pm, BAC 236

Friday, October 30, 2009: Professor Edward Langille, St. François xavier University, "Fielding's Tom Jones, La Place's L'Enfant trouvé and the origins of Voltaire's Candide." , 3.00 pm, BAC 236

October 23 - 24, 2009: APLAQA 2009 (L'Association des professeurs des littératures acadienne et québécoise de l'Atlantique); Colloque à l'Université Acadia, Nouvelle Écosse:  "Images et Paroles". Accueil et inscriptions dans le foyer du Centre KC Irving, le vendredi 23 octobre 9.00 am.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009: Reading by award wining author Jakob Arjourni (Germany),  5.00 pm, BAC 325

Thursday, March 19, 2009: The Department of Languages and Literatures at Acadia University celebrates the "International Poetry Day" with a Récital of Poésie as part of "Semaine de la Francophonie 2009", 3.00 pm, Acadia University Art Gallery.

Thursday, March 12, 2009: François Bon (France): Reading by French writer, François Bon, author of essays, novels, plays, and biographies of Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, 4.30 p.m. BAC 236

Friday February 27, 2009: Dr. Sonia Thon, Acadia University,  "The phenomenon of the short novel in Spain during its time of industrialization with focus on one of its authors: Margarita Nelken"; 3 p.m. BAC 132

Friday February 6, 2009: Dr. Janice Best, Acadia University, "The many statues of Joan of Arc: Politics, Public Space, and the Interpretation of History"; 3 p.m. BAC 132

Friday, January 16, 2009: Clémence Bouvel, Hélène Charrat, Nicolas Videau (Lecteurs) Acadia University, "La France et ses régions" 3 p.m. BAC 132

Friday November 21, 2008: Dr. Robert Proulx, Acadia University, « La belle province : applications pédagogiques d'une bande dessinée en FL2 », 3 p.m. BAC 132

Friday, October 31, 2008: Dr. Anthony Northey, Acadia University, "Franz Kafka and the Modern Prague of His Time", 3 p.m. BAC 132

Friday, March 14, 2008: Le tour du monde de la francophonie: une série de mini-conférences: Dr. Raoudha Kallel  (Acadia University) "Le Maghreb";  Émilie Dugast, Émeline Krépla, Camille Recher (lectrices, Acadia University) "La France et ses Régions" , Dr. Bernard Delpêche (Acadia University), "Les Antilles Françaises" , 3.00 pm, BAC 132 

Friday, February 8, 2008: Dr. Romira Worvill, Acadia University,"Leibniz in the thought of George Sand  and Pierre Leroux. Some prelimenary findings." BAC 236, 3.00 pm 

Thursday, October 23, 2008: Dr. Marc Lavoie, archéologue et historien,  Université Sainte-Anne, "L'apport de l'archéologie à nos connaissances sur le monde acadien à l'époque coloniale (avec domuments visuels)", 4.30 pm, BAC 234 

Monday, April 14th, 2008: Reading by award winning jounalist, editor and writer, Gila Lustiger (Germany), BAC 325, 5.00 pm.

cancelled- Friday, November 2, 2007: Dr. Eric S. Downing, University North Carolina Chapel Hill: "Re-reading Sigmund Freud and Jensen's Gradiva: Classics, Psychoanalysis and the Formation of German Identity", 3.00 pm, BAC 132 

Friday, March 23, 2007: Professor Anna Saroli, Acadia University " Defining culture: Intercultural bilingual education and the officialization of cutlure in Peru.", 3.00 pm, BAC 204

JANUARY 19, 2007, BAC 132, ACADIA UNIVERSITY
'Le discours socialisant dans la Francophonie antillaise.' by Dr. Bernard Delpêche, Acadia University.

November 17, 2006/ AITT Classroom 236, Acadia University
Using the 'Drag-and-Drop' feature for the teaching of French pronoun placement by Dr. Giselle Corbeil, Acadia University.

October 13, 2006
La faute à Votaire ou la faute à Rousseau? by Dr. Janice Best, Acadia University.

September 15, 2006
'Beauty and the Beast' Jean Cocteau's surprising cinematic masterpiece by Dr. Henri Paratte, Acadia University.

May 24 - 27, 2006,  Interdiscipinary Conference on Narrative Research, Perspective, Approaches, and Issues Across the Humanites and Social Sciences at Acadia University: Narrative Matters 2006 "The Storied Nature of Human Experience: Fact and Fiction; Keynote Speakers: Bob Barton, Storyteller, " Making Stories Happen" ; Robyn Fivush, Samuel Chandler Dobbs Professor of Psychology, Emory University, "Memory and Narrative, Self and Voice" ; R. Murray Schafer, Composer "And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon: The Collective Creation of a Myth".

March 23, 2006
'From Disco to Disco: German Pop Music of the last 30 Years' by Thomas Meinecke (Writer/Editor - Musician/D.J.), Gemany.

March 31,2006
Ambiguous Figures - Figures de l'Ambiguïté. A stroll through linguistics, literature and politics. Parcours linguistique, littéraire et politique by Dr. Henri-Dominique Paratte, Acadia University.

March 17, 2006
Franz Kafka's Collection of Stories A Country Doctor in the Prague Context by Dr.Anthony Northey, Acadia University.

February 10, 2006
'FreeText' - the CALL concept and the pedagogical approach by Dr.Marie-Josée Hamel, Dalhousie University.

January 20, 2006
George Sand's François le Champi and myths of androgyny by Dr. Romira Worvill, Acadia University.

December 2, 2005
A Launch Of Three Books: click here
'Magouilles d'une esthétique: René Depestre et le vodou' by Dr. Bernard Delpêche (author), Acadia University.
'Arriba: communicación y cultura 1st Canadian Edition' by Prof. Anna Saroli (co-author), Acadia University.
" 'Seeing' speech: illusion and the transformation of dramatic writing in Diderot and Lessing." by Dr. Romira Worvill (author), Acadia University.

November 4, 2005
'Controlling history, controlling public space: a tale of many statues' by Dr. Janice Best, Acadia University.

October 18, 2005
Reading by Barbara Köhler (poet and author), Saxony, Gemany

October 15, 2005
'The Moral Framework of Don Quijote' by Dr. Bruno Damiani, Catholic University of America.

October 14, 2005
'On Translating Don Quijote' by Dr. Edith Grossman (award-winning translator).

September 30, 2005
'Magouilles d'une esthétique: analyse de l'oeuvre de René Depestre'  by Dr. Bernard Delpêche, Acadia University.

September 16, 2005
'Postcards from Acadie' by Dr. Barbara Le Blanc (author), Université Ste-Anne.

April, 15, 2005
'The Autonomy of the Teacher in an increasing autonomous Learning Environment' by Dr. Thomas Voss, Acadia University.

March 18, 2005
'Language teaching issues in today's Cuba' by Prof. Nilo Delanhante-Morejón, Agrarian University of Havana.

February 4, 2005
'Écrire jeune' by Jules Boudreau (Acadian writer).

January 21, 2005
'Teaching the Passé composé and Imparfait with Computer Technology' by Dr. Giselle Corbeil, Acadia University.

November 26, 2004
'La culture acadienne: son passé, son présent et son avenir' by Dr. Barbara Le Blanc, Université Ste-Anne.

October 23, 2004
'Mémoire & Territoire'. Slide show and Music event by François Gaudet, Acadian Multi-Media Artist & Photographer.

October 15, 2004
'Writing on challanging issues for children' by Benjamín Santamaría Ochoa ( Poet, Playwright, Actor, Activist and Writer in Residence at Acadia University).

September 17, 2004
'Chanson, Tradition et Langue: Ensemble à Part' by François Côté & Michael McKay.

March 19, 2004
'Ernst Jünger's Waldgang' by Christophe Fricker. Germany.

February 6, 2004
'The Imanginary Inca: Public Representation of the Peruvian Indigenous People' by Prof. Anna Saroli, Acadia University.

January 23, 2004
'The Slave Route and Museums as Sites of Memory' by Dr. Abdoulaye Camara (Curator Musée National de la Gorée & Research affiliate at the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire in Sénégal).

January 9, 2004
'Toward Narrative Identity in the Current Québec Novel' by Svante Lindberg, Stockholm University.

November 28, 2003
'Web-based Language Learning beyond ACME. Free an integratable web-tools for language learning" by Dr. Voss, Dr. Christian Thomas, Kirsten Huhn and Britta Gorecki, Acadia University.

September 22, 2003
'Construction of Austrian Identity in Early 19th Century Literature by Wynfried Kriegleder (Austria).
'Figures d'Europe centrale chez les narrateurs québécois by Peter Kirsch (Austria).
'Transatlantic Identities and Rertospection in Modern Canadian Literature by Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (Austria).

March 24, 2003
'Anne-Marie Sirois: Auteure, Illustratice et Cinéaste by Anne-Marie Sirois (auteure, illustratice et cinéaste).

March 14, 2003
'La représentation de l'Autre dans la chanson québécoise' by Dr. Robert Proulx, Acadia University.

February 7, 2003
'Une re-lecture de quelques textes de Camus' by Dr. Bernard Delpêche, Acadia University.

January 24, 2003
'J'écris comme je vis' by Dany Laferrière (auteur et cinéaste) click here

November 29, 2002
'Le pouvoir des mots: réapprendre à voir' by Dr. Martine Jacquot, Acadia University.

November 15, 2002
'A broad field - Approaches to Theodor Fontane's novels' by Dr. Christian Thomas, Acadia University.

October 4, 2002
'Franz Kafka and the real world' by Dr. Anthony Northey, Acadia University.

March 15, 2002
'Le Réalisme merveilleux vu du dedans/dehors des oeuvres francophones contemporaines' by Dr. Bernard Delpêche, Acadia University.

March 14, 2002
'Toujours plus loin: quelques nouvelles tendances chez l'héroïne féminine moderne' by Dr. Martine Jacquot, Acadia University.

March 1, 2002
'Écrire pour voir' by Monique Proulx (romancière et scénariste).

March 1, 2002
'Camille Jordan: Le discours contre-révolutionnaire-trait d'union entre les Lumières et le Romantisme' by Dr. Jacqueline Millner, Trent University.

February 28, 2002
'L'influence du théâtre de Diderot sur celui de Lessing - réel ou imaginaire' by Dr. Romira Worvill, Acadia University.

February 25, 2002
'La jalousie et/est le spectacle: une introduction aux topoi narratifs dans Les Heureux Orphelins de Claude Crébillon' by Prof. Karen McCloskey, University of  Toronto.

November 16, 2001
'Résumés de texte en langue maternelle et en langue seconde: Différences dans l'application des macrorègles entre experts et étudiants de différents niveaux universitaires' by Dr. Giselle Corbeil, Acadia University.

October 12, 2001
'Censorship: The silent subversion' by Dr. Janice Best, Acadia University.

March 16, 2001
'Colloque Inter-Disciplinaire en français' organized by Dr. Martine Jacquot, Acadia University.
 
Participants:

Prof. Jennifer Drouin, Université Sainte-Anne: 'Mythes manichéens mis à mal'.
Andréanne Pelletier, Acadia University: 'Le mythe du Nil Bleu.'
Aurore Nicoli. École de gestion, Acadia/Groupe ICN, Nancy: 'Le code Noir français de 1684.'
Dr. Henri- Dominique Paratte, Acadia University:'Filles à la cassette, filles du roi: programme natalistes et mythologie fondatrice dans le Nouveau Monde.'
Dr. Peter Booth, Acadia University:'À la chasse de Acetéon.'
Dr. Bernard  Delpêche, Acadia University:'Le  discours post-colonial vu à travers les textes d'auteurs francophones.'
Dr. Jan Marontate, Acadia University:'Réseaux de transformation des savoirs techniques et pratiques artistiques.'
Dr. Sonia Gaul, Toxicologue, Centre de Recherches de l'Atlantique sur les aliments et l'horticulture, Kentville:'Notre centre de recherches sur Internet, et une recherche sur la mouche du bleuet.'
Yvon Aucoin, Directeur, Conseil Culturel Acadien de la Nouvelle-Écosse:'Le théâtre en milieu scolaire acadien.'
Alain Raimbault, auteur, École RC Gorden, Greenwood):'Écrire pour la jeunesse: Herménégilde l'Acadien.'