Le Cercle Benvensite s’est réuni pour discuter les fins de l’article de John McWhorter pulié dans le site New York Times.

Carlo Illuminati Porcari (University of Calgary) This paper aims to clarify three key issues of the political praxis, which Machiavelli considers the most difficult and risky human activity: because of both the intellectual capacity to establish an adequate plan for power and the valour required to achieve it. The term…

Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary) Since the 1980s, a new focus on art patronage and art collecting by women has emerged. Scholars explore the collecting and sponsorship of art projects by women, whose intentions were to honor themselves making a statement of their pedigree, power, and nobility. Indeed, female patrons…

Nataša Raschi (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo) La linguis:que et les mathéma:ques sont deux disciplines souvent et injustement opposées alors qu’elles sont en dialogue permanent, car la langue est la spécificité de la science dure, dans le sens de la précision cogni:ve, de l’élabora:on applica:ve et de la…

Presented by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary) Chernobyl has a symbolic meaning for several generations of east Europeans. It is both the place of the catastrophic nuclear explosion, a representation of a post-apocalyptic landscape, and an eloquent demonstration of the Anthropocene. The mainstream of artistic investigation, which is well known…

Hasheem Hakeem (University of Calgary) Cette communication présentera les résultats d’une étude de cas qualitative des discours de garçons du secondaire au sujet de la diversité de genre. Les données ont été recueillies au moyen d’un questionnaire, d’enregistrements sonores de discussions sur deux bandes dessinées de l’écrivaine trans Sophie Labelle,…

David Yesaya (University of Calgary) L’objectif est de proposer un aperçu de certains concepts écologiques employés dans la littérature. Je commencerai par discuter brièvement de la situation environnementale de notre époque contemporaine. Ensuite, je mettrai en lumière les concepts définitionnels d’écocritique et d’écopoétique afin de les comparer pour faire ressortir…

Presented by Trent Portigal (Edmonton-based Novelist) Benveniste considered some words empty signifiers. While these words were part of the system of signs making up a given language, they were only really signs (signifier-signified pairings) when the language was realised as instances of discourse. “I” and “you,” as an example, were…

Presented by Qing Li (University of Calgary) The paper investigates how the history presented in bilingual heritage museums in China, can be written, translated, and interpreted with constraints. The translation activities discussed in the paper include inter- lingual translation from Chinese into English, and inter-semiotic translation by directly producing introductory…

Presented by Mélanie LeBlanc (Université de Moncton) Cette étude de sociolinguistique s’attache à décrire et à comprendre certains des processus sociaux qui entrent en jeu dans la (re)construction identitaire d’une communauté francophone en milieu minoritaire – la Baie Sainte-Marie, communauté acadienne du sud-ouest de la Nouvelle-Écosse – à la fin…