On May 29, the President of the "International Council for Canadian Studies", Jane Koustas, announced that Christophe Premat has received an award for his contribution to the development of Canadian Studies
Professor Laura Álvarez López's interview is featured in São Paulo's Museum of Portuguese Language Exhibition "African Languages That Shape Brazil"
The new prize for the best article published in the British Journal of Canadian Studies in 2023 (Volume 35, issue 2) has been awarded to Christophe Premat for his article published in “Thinking a Decolonial Ontology from Natasha Kanapé Fontaine's Assi Manifesto”
The Brazilian educational portal, Brasil Escola, recently interviewed Laura Álvarez López, who has studied the unique linguistic expressions of "Pretos Velhos" (Old Black Slaves). These figures are honored annually on May 13th, the anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery. In Afro-Brazilian ritual practices, they symbolize the enduring memory of slavery through their distinctive language patterns.
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In order to strengthen the scientific contacts between Stockholm University and Italy, a delegation from the Italian embassy was invited to the University together with researchers from various departments at Stockholm University. The visit was held at the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies library
For Mulroney, Canada’s participation in the first Francophonie summit symbolized global recognition of the country’s multiculturalism.
Pour Mulroney, la présence du Canada lors du premier sommet de la Francophonie représentait une reconnaissance mondiale du multiculturalisme qui caractérise le pays.
El último volumen de la revista PRAGMÁTICA SOCIOCULTURAL (11:2) incluye cuatro artículos de variada temática y tipos de discurso en diferentes variedades del español El último volumen de la revista PRAGMÁTICA SOCIOCULTURAL incluye dos artículos sobre la intensificación, estrategia pragmática para transmitir intensidad: Elena Gholami y Ana Belén Llopis Cardona muestran cómo los españoles, según sexo, edad y nivel de estudios, usan diferentes estrategias de intensificación para expresar acuerdo directo en las redes sociales LinkedIn e Instagram. Laura Domínguez Solera estudia el discurso franquista para mostrar cómo a lo largo de la dictadura, en 9 discursos pronunciados por Franco entre los años 1938 y 1974, el mecanismo de la intensificación es usado de modo persuasivo para crear actividades de imagen y actos tanto corteses como descorteses. En el tercer artículo, María Agustina Arias indaga en cómo voces y expresiones del lunfardo (berretín, ranchar, sarpado, etc.) son usadas en la construcción de imágenes y de identidades sociales en el género discursivo musical “rap en duelo”. Finalmente, en el cuarto artículo, Alejandro Anaya Ramírez se adentra en el bufe, práctica discursiva usada por la comunidad LGBT+ de México para señalar lo desfavorable de los otros de modo creativo y gracioso, y muestra que la apariencia de descortesía desempeña funciones humorísticas e identitarias. Cierran el volumen las reseñas de Natalia Fabrini (Estrategias comunicativas, proyección de imagen y género, editado por E. Brenes Peña, C. Fuentes Rodríguez y C. Prestigiacomo) y de Marcela Gil Bustos (Pragmática. Los actos de habla, de L. Ruiz de Zarobe). Volumen 11 Número 2 (2023): Pragmática Sociocultural
A new book on Canadian studies has been published on Canadian Studies from Nordic and Baltic perspectives. This first book on this issue has been funded by a Nordplus project and will be the course material for the summer course on Canadian studies. The overall idea of the book is to provide perspectives in Canadian Studies from researchers in the Nordic and Baltic countries, which share common realities with Canada (Northern location, multilingualism, etc.) but are also distant enough to account for the representations of Canadian culture and analyze them in detail. The chapters are written by specialists in arts and humanities, who focus on central topics to Canadian Studies from their respective fields and the theoretical frameworks that they provide. Two chapters address contemporary cultural productions of the First Nations that reinscribe the presence of these nations in Canadian history. One chapter focuses on Canadian bilingual language-learning policies through a comparative lens that takes Latvia and Estonia as Baltic counterparts. One chapter explores the riddle practices of Newfoundland while another describes the challenges of bilingualism by examining French-language novels written in English-speaking provinces. Two chapters build on environmental humanities to analyze the human-nonhuman enmeshments as their take place within the cultural Canadian context, with its postcolonial relationship to the landscape. The book is available in Open Access at Stockholm University Press
Michele Colombo è stato intervistato a Mattina 24 su Rai News a proposito della festa di santa Lucia in Svezia. L’intervento da 4:30 a 7:15 e poi da 9:45 a 11:20.
This is a review from Christophe Premat, Associate Professor in French Studies (cultural studies) at Stockholm University, published in "The Conversation" on the last Movie of Ridley Scott
