Maymester in Montreal, spring 2009
ENG272  “From ‘Criminal’ Montreal to Social Justice: Law, Literature, Dance and Music in America’s ‘Paradise’”

May 16-27, 2009

Professor Robert Barsky
Office: Furman Hall 219
Phone: 322-6910
robert.barsky@vanderbilt.edu

Throughout this century, Montréal has also been variously described as a “paradise,” a “den of iniquity,” or a “city of ill-repute” which was run by local mafias and criminals. This is the city where jazz exploded due to the unlikely combination of railway porters and prohibition in the United States, leading Montréal to become the very seat of jazz for a period in the 1930s and 40s (and every summer it plays host to the world’s largest jazz festival). Alongside the jazz came an appetite for late nights, good food, and a general hedonism that inevitably came up against the heavy conservatism of the Quebec Church. It’s not surprising, therefore, that Montreal was the site of a “quiet revolution” in the 1960s, inspired by the artwork of Borduas and signatories of the “Global Refusal,” a manifesto of modern art, as well as a more vocal upheaval by the “Liberation Front of Quebec in the 1960s and 70s. From this perspective it is also not surprising that Montreal has become a key international center for work in Social Justice.

Today, Montréal is a place of avant-garde art, notably in dance and performance arts, and it is a place in which experimental film, visual arts and creative work emanate from a whole range of sectors and cartiers. It’s home to Rufus and Martha Wainright, to La La La Human Steps, to Oxygène, the Cirque de Soleil, and a remarkable Anglophone and Francophone mixture of cultures, traditions and histories. Montréal is another “America” which combines historical populations of Jews and Catholics with emerging communities from around the world in a “multicultural” framework, which contributes to the government and local imperative of promulgating work in social justice.

It’s no wonder why Montreal is such a cosmopolitan place, with people like Pierre Elliot Trudeau or  Leonard Cohen as its "ambassadors" on the internatinal scene. We will visit the haunts and communities of these remarkable individuals, and how their work emerged from a small group of  students and friends will be traced in the streets, archives and oral histories of people who know him. So too with Mordecai Richler, whose work defined the cosmopolitanism of Montréal and has become a mainstay of contemporary American fiction. Richler’s notorious bashing of the “indépendantistes” and his descriptions of relations between Catholics and Jews are living texts, particularly in the area of the city described so vividly in the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Solomon Gursky Was Here, or Trevanian’s The Main. We shall look at these and other texts by Montréal writers, and situate them within the fascinating context of this vibrant crossroads between Europe, Canada and the United States.
 
With texts in hand, for continued consultation, Professor Barsky will in the third week bring students in this course to live in downtown Montreal, where they will be introduced to a unique bilingual multicultural setting. We will begin with tours of “Jewish Montreal”, from “The Main” to the old Jewish Ghetto around McGill. This will be complemented to visits to the key Catholic institutions in the city, including the St. Joseph’s Oratory, the Notre Dame Church, and key historical sites in “Old Montreal.” Students will further enhance their understanding of Quebec and Canadian society through visits to the cities many museums, cultural centers, sports venues (including the Olympic site and the hockey arenas, notably the Montreal Forum) and monuments, allowing them to have a privileged look at a city which once dominated the entire Eastern seaboard of North America all the way down to Louisiana.
 
Course requirements:
Keep a journal of activities and thoughts about what is seen and learned about Montreal prior to and during the trip.
One oral presentation based upon the journal.

Students:
Barg-Walkow, Ellen Emily
Crawford, Morgan Rae  
DeStefano, Bryan Leo
Greenwald, Fayrisa Ilana
Lyons, Lance Jacob
Miller, Ethan Spencer
O'Keefe, Dana Faith
Pittman, David Thomas  
Shattuck, Thomas William   
Nelson, Kyle Patrick

Sunday, May 18th, Montreal!Residence Inn Montreal Westmount >> 2170 Lincoln Ave.Montreal, H3H 2N5 514-935-9224;
 
Activities:
In order to completely immerse students in Quebec culture, we will attend (roughly) 2 plays, 2 dance spectacles, two theatre productions, and several (outdoor and indoor) cultural events, in addition to the central "sites" of the city, including the museums, the old port, and so forth.

There's a good website with history and links at: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/alain.perron/Pagebanniere.htm

May 16th: 2:00-6:00
Subject: French-English Relations
Texts: History of Quebec timeline
in English: http://www.quebec400.qc.ca/en/hist_chronologie.asp; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Quebec
in French: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/alain.perron/quebechistoire.htm
Poetry: “Speak White”
Film: excerpts from "Jesus of Montreal"

Specific subjects to follow up on today's discussion:
Furs and trapping:
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/index.html, on the history of the Hudson Bay Corporation.
Native Americans
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/mainmenu.html on the history of Native Americans
Canadian History
http://www.islandnet.com/~jveinot/cghl/history.html

International Law and Multicultural Montreal, 6:00PM-9:00PM
Texts: Africans in Quebec and Canada, http://www.qesnrecit.qc.ca/mpages/index.html
Text: Canada, Government Publications. House of Commons. An Act for the Preservation and Enhancement of Multiculturalism in Canada.
Film and Text: Dany Laferrière, Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (text and film with English subtitles).
Text: Immigration and Refugee Act, online at: http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/I-2.5/64755.html 
International Law in Montreal

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Tuesday May 19th Introduction
9:00-11 AM
Orientation in Montreal

11-3
Free time to get your bearings!

Linguistics!
4:00 Charles Reiss, Linguistics Professor at Concordia University will offer a discussion on i-language
H-1013 in the Hall Building.

7:30: The Special Individualized Programs (SIP) of Concordia’s School of Graduate Studies http://graduatestudies.concordia.ca/programs/SIP presents a free public lecture by Vanderbilt University Professor Robert Barsky entitled:
THE CHOMSKY EFFECT: ANARCHISM, PUNK ROCK & THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT
Concordia’s Hall Building, Room H-110
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West
info: reiss@alcor.concordia.ca
“Robert Barsky succeeds in uniting the various strands in Chomsky's career— teaching, political theory, philosophy,
and public debate. Chomsky's success constitutes denitive proof that an intellectual can be an activist and that every
society needs a Socrates to shame it. Barsky has produced a work of homage to learning and to personal courage.”
—Julius H. Grey, Constitutional lawyer, former member of McGill Faculty of Law
"Whether you revere or revile him, no one can doubt that Noam Chomsky has been roiling more waters than any other intellectual activist on the globe for well over four decades. In this imaginative and sympathetic
account of Chomsky's interventions in a wide variety of political arenas, Robert Barsky provides ample ammunition for both sides of the debate over the effectiveness of the Chomsky eect."
—Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

Wednesday May 20th: 10:30 to 11:45   
Conference at Ministère des Relations internationales, on MRI’s Mission and Issues
    380, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest, Montréal
    Phone: 514-873-6708
    Contact: Frédéric Tremblay; Cell: 418-952-0039

12:00 to 1:30   
Luncheon at Institut de tourisme et d’hôtellerie du Québec
    Generously offered by the MRI
    3535, rue Saint-Denis, Montréal
    Phone: 514-282-5161

    Contact: Frédéric Tremblay
    Cell: 418-952-0039


7:00PM
UPSTAIRS Jazz club
An evening of dinner and jazz!

Thursday May 21st
10 AM: Meeting with Professor Marc Angenot, McGil University James McGill Chair. Marc Angenot, a professor in McGill's French language and literature department for almost forty years, has been awarded the Prix du Québec's Léon-Gérin prize for his outstanding contributions to the social sciences. The most prestigious awards bestowed by the Government of Quebec in all fields of culture and science, the Prix du Québec honour outstanding researchers whose careers have contributed to Quebec's scientific and cultural advancement in their fields. Angenot, a world-renowned researcher, is widely considered to be the father of social discourse theory. He is the James McGill Research Chair on Social Discourse in the French language and literature department, and though he specializes in French literature from the 19th and 20th centuries, his vast body of work encompasses history, linguistics, politics, semiotics, as well as literature and literary theory. "What I like most is to be busy doing lots of different and challenging things in different areas at the same time," says Angenot. The author, co-author and contributor of over 50 books, Angenot has also published over 120 articles in scientific journals, as well as presented papers at over 120 colloquia and national and international conferences. His newest book, Le marxisme dans les Grands récits, was published this month and he is presently working at another book, Dialogues de Sourds, which focuses on argumentation, misunderstandings and "dialogues of deafs" in everyday life and in politics. He also co-wrote, Vivre dans l'histoire au 20e siècle, with sociologist and novelist, Professor Régine Robin, (UQAM), which is to be published in 2006.

Books

•Le Roman populaire. Recherches en paralittérature, Montréal: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 1975.

•Les Champions des Femmes. Examen du discours sur la supériorité des femmes, 1400-1800.

•La Parole pamphlétaire. Contribution à la typologie des discours modernes. Paris, Payot, 1982, 416 p. (Prix Biguet 1983 de l'Académie française).

•Critique de la raison sémiotique. Fragment avec pin up. Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1985.

•Ce que l'on dit des Juifs en 1889. Préface de Madeleine Rebérioux. Paris, Presses de l'Université de Vincennes..

•Le Cru et le faisandé: sexe, discours social et littérature à la Belle Époque. Bruxelles: Labor, 1986.

•1889: un état du discours social. Montréal / Longueuil: Éditions du Préambule, 1989, 1,176 p. 

•Le Centenaire de la Révolution. Paris: La Documentation française, 1989. 

•Topographie du socialisme français, 1889-1890. Montréal: Discours social, 1990. 210 p.

•L'Œuvre poétique du Savon du Congo. Paris: Éditions des Cendres, 1992. 76 p.

•L'Utopie collectiviste. Le Grand récit socialiste sous la Deuxième Internationale. Paris: PUF

•La Propagande socialiste: six essais d'analyse du discours. Montréal: Éditions Balzac, 1996. 365 pp.

•"Un Juif trahira" : l'espionnage militaire dans la propagande antisémitique 1884-1894. Montréal: CIADEST, 1994.

•Les idéologies du ressentiment. Essai. Montréal: XYZ Éditeur, 1996. 179 pp. (Prix « Spirale » de l’Essai 1996).

•La Critique au service de la révolution. Montréal : Ciadest, 1996. 394 pp. (Collection « Cahiers de recherche ».

•La démocratie c'est le mal, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2003.

•Antimilitarisme, idéologie et utopie, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2003.

•Rhétorique de l'anti-socialisme, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2004.

•Le Marxisme dans les Grands récits, Paris-Québec, L'Harmattan-PUL, 2005.

•Dialogues de sourds: traité de rhétorique antilogique, Paris, Mille et une nuits/Fayard, 2008.

•Vivre dans l'histoire au 20e siècle, Montréal, Discours social, 2008.

•Gnose et millénarisme, Montréal, Discours social, 2008.

•En quoi sommes-nous encore pieux, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2009.

Awards and honours

•1985 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

•1987 - Killam Fellowship (Canada Council)

•1996 - Prix André-Laurendeau

•1996 - Prix Spirale Eva-Le-Grand

•2005 - Prix Léon-Gérin

 

 

2:30: Jardins couverts
Tania Ghanem, director, Programme du YMCA Centre-ville
Refugee Ingegration Center
514-932-5353, poste 204
4039, rue Tupper

7:00PM Centaur Theatre Company presents: With Bated Breath, By BRYDEN MacDONALD, Directed by BRYDEN MacDONALD & ROY SURETTE. STARRING: ÉLOI ARCHAMBAUDOIN, SARAH CARLSEN, DANETTE MACKAYk, NEIL NAPIER, FELICIA SHULMAN, MICHAEL SUTHERLAND-YOUNG
Set and Costume Design by James Lavoie
Lighting Design by Spike Lyne
Sound Design by Peter Cerone
Stage Manager: Todd Bricker
From the author of Divinity Bash / Nine Lives, The Weekend Healer and Whale Riding Weather, With Bated Breath is the provocative tale of Willy, a troubled but charismatic gay kid who flees Cape Breton Island for Montreal with hopes of forgetting a newly broken heart. He finds momentary comfort with the denizens of the city’s red light district, but soon goes missing without a trace. Willy, in one way or another, has had a profound effect on the lives of the other characters. His presence lingers. As rumors fly, secrets explode, and reality blurs with fantasy, Willy is both remembered and reinvented. Imbued with equal measures of wit and warmth, MacDonald proves to be a master at merging the pedestrian with the highly theatrical.

Friday May 22nd
8:00 AM
Meeting with Maitre Julius Grey, Canada's leading civil rights lawyer.
Grey Casgrain
1155 Rene Levesque Ouest, suite 2720
Montreal, QC H3B 2K8
Tél: (514) 288-6180; Fax:(514) 288-8908; juliushgrey@bellnet.ca

Julius H. Grey (born 1948) is a Canadian lawyer and professor, and one of Canada's leading socialist and minority rights advocates.

Born in Wrocław, Poland, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971, a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1971, and a Master of Arts degree in 1973 from McGill University. Grey has been a member of the Quebec Bar and the Canadian Bar Association since 1974. Since 1976 he has been involved in numerous associations such as the Canadian Foundation for Individual Rights, serving as its president from 1985 to 1988. He has been a professor of law at McGill University from 1979 until 1993.Grey assisted in annulling a stipulation in the Charte de la Langue Française (Bill 101) that forbade the application of different languages on business signboards. Presently, French must merely be the main language but others are allowed.^[1] Grey defended La servante écarlate by Margaret Atwood, the French version of The Handmaid's Tale, in the French version of Canada Reads, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004. Grey defended La Presse Chinoise against a defamation lawsuit filed by Falun Gong. In 2005, the Superior Court of Quebec found ruled that the articles published by the newspapeer did not qualify as defamation. However, a subsequent ruling by the Quebec Court of Appeal in June 2008 reversed the lower court's ruling.^[2]Grey was rumoured to be a future star candidate for the New Democratic Party in Montreal, following that party's successful capture of Outremont in a by-election by Thomas Mulcair on September 17, 2007.^[3]

8PM Microclimats
An experience of sharp contrasts where the unexpected and the ephemeral can suddenly appear just around the corner, Microclimats is a meandering stroll that features a dozen dazzling art projects, from unusual fragments to other short art forms made specifically for the site. For two consecutive evenings, a group of adventurous directors, choreographers, dancers, performers and musicians of different generations will take very nook and cranny of the Monument-National by storm. From cellar to attic, from the imposing staircase to tiny closets by way of the bar, discovery-bent spectators will wander here and there at their own pace through this fragmented labyrinth inhabited by multiple imaginings and ever-changing atmospheres. In order to take maximum advantage of this artistic treasure hunt, spectators are encouraged to arrive early so as to establish an itinerary adapted to their particular tastes and the whims of the moment.
 Bar and information on performance times as of 7 p.m.
WITH: 2boys.tv.; Stéphane Gladyszewski; Emmanuel Jouthe; Geneviève Letarte; Antonija Livingstone; Carole Nadeau & Louis; Hudon; Rober Racine & Louise Bédard; Les Soeurs Schmutt; Emmanuel Schwartz & Olivier Choinière; Système Kangourou; Theatre Replacement; Catherine Vidal (with Marc Legault).

Saturday May 23rd
3:00PM Transports exceptionnels
She is huge, imposing, cold and threatening. Standing opposite her, he appears minuscule, fragile and vulnerable, yet is not frightened. To the fantastic voice of Maria Callas, he confidently initiates a pas de deux that will eventually seduce her and reveal her innermost sensitivity, making her curious, protective, tender and almost human. With this astounding duet between a dancer and a mechanical shovel, lthe French choreographer Dominique Boivin has given concrete expression to a childhood fantasy, rendering the industrial world poetic, unifying man and machine in a relationship imbued with affectivity. Since its creation, Transports exceptionnels has fascinated audiences young and old in a surprising ritual that greatly expands the horizons of dance and live performance. Orchestrated by the company Beau Geste, an artists’ collective that reinvents forms by venturing into completely unexpected modes of representation, this unsettling ceremony will be presented five times in Montreal’s always charming Old Port.
Press Quote(s)
“Sensuous ports de bras from a big mechanical digger. (…) an adorable duet for man and machine. Philippe Priasso flirts and quarrels with his mechanised partner, who swoops him heavenwards. The timing is a delight. Priasso’s air of noble restraint makes this strangely touching.” The Independent, 2007
“The romance of the season.” The Guardian
Choreography : Dominique Boivin
Assistant to the Choreographer: Christine Erbé
 Performer : Philippe Priasso
 Shovel Operator : William Defresne
Lighting Design : Eric Lamy
 Production : Beau Geste (Val-de-Reuil)
Coproduction : Scènes du Jura, Scène Conventionnée : nouveaux espaces, nouvelles formes (Lons-le-Saunier). With the support of Service culturel du Consulat général de France à Québec. Copresentation : Les Quais du Vieux-Port de Montréal. Text: Fabienne Cabado English Translation: Neil Kroetsch
Photos: Thierry Jourdain, Lucie Juneau, Jean-Louis Fernandez

6PM Prof. Martin Kreiswirth
Associate Provost (Graduate Education) Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; Professor of English
McGill University
James Administration Building, Rm 325
2354 Ste-Cunegonde 

Professor Martin Kreiswirth has been appointed as Associate Provost (Graduate Education) for a five-and-a half-year term, renewable, beginning 15 February 2007 and ending on 31 August 2012. Martin Kreiswirth received a BA from Hamilton College (Clinton, NY), MA from the University of Chicago, and PhD from the University of Toronto. He is Professor Emeritus, graduate programs in English, Comparative Literature, and Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario. He was Dean (2002-2006), and Associate Dean (1995-98, 1999-2000), Faculty of Graduate Studies, and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism (1986-95) at the University of Western Ontario. In 1989-90, he was a Resident Fellow at the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change, University of Virginia, and in 1999, Visiting Professor at the Porter Institute for Semiotics and Poetics, University of Tel Aviv. He was awarded a SSHRC Research Grant, 1992-97, and was a member of the ACCUTE Executive in 1991-93. He sits on the Editorial Board of Twentieth Century Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and The Faulkner Journal, and was Editorial Advisor for Literary Theory and Criticism for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2000-2003. He was an elected delegate to the Modern Language Association, 1996-99, and was a member of the Selection Committee for the William Riley Parker Prize, MLA, 1998-2002 (Chair, 2001-2002). He was also a member of the Selection Committee for the Barbara and George Perkins Award, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature,(2003- 2005), a Jury Member for the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme Book Prize (2006), and Chair of the Geoffrey Marshall Mentoring Prize Selection Committee, Northeastern Association of Graduate Studies (2005-2006). Kreiswirth is currently Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Graduate Schools, a member of the executive of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools, a member of the Council of Graduate Schools, and former Chair of the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies. His research interests include narrative theory, literary theory, William Faulkner, critical intellectual history, Tony Morrison, interdisciplinarity, and historical fiction. Books he has written or edited include: The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, 2nd Edition, with Michael Groden and Imre Szeman (2004; Electronic Edition, 2005); a special issue of Mississippi Quarterly on William Faulkner and Multi-Textuality (2004); Constructive Criticism: The Human Sciences in the Age of Theory, with Thomas Carmichael (1995); Theory Between the Disciplines: Authority/Vision/Politics, with Mark Cheetham (1995); and William Faulkner: The Making of a Novelist (1983). He has contributed to various volumes of criticism and published articles and reviews in Poetics Today, New Literary History, American Literature, Mississippi Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, and Arizona Quarterly.

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8:00PM Körper: Sasha Waltz & Guests, au Place des Arts / Théâtre Maisonneuve
Sasha Waltz is a leading figure of German dance, the heir apparent of Pina Bausch. She is renowned for appropriating historical sites, for dissecting events, for angrily revealing, in almost burlesque fashion, the failings of reality. Körper, an impressive piece for thirteen dancers and a turning point in her body of work, lies at the very edge of abstraction. There is no narrative and there are no characters, but rather a wall of flesh, a living metaphor for the turmoil and turbulence of this world. Anatomical bodies, bodies manipulated this way and that – scientifically or surgically, or for mercantile reasons, or bodies become victims of genocide. This is a universe on the verge of surrealism and the absurd, shifting from the epic to the intimate, from the dramatic to the comical in a proliferation of striking images that burst forth from the merely clinical body. And the stark space, stripped to the bare essentials, offers no refuge to the naked, exposed human form. Lending itself to all sorts of metamorphoses, the body is a receptor and a symbol of myriad violations and affronts, a subject/object for all purposes, a depository and creative force for the projected imagination. A magnificent work!
Press Quote(s)
“The rich theatricality of her imagination and the precision of her dance are two of Waltz’s obvious traits.” Scotland on Sunday, 2000
“Körper is one of those McMaster wildcards that pop up in the dance programme, maybe only draw a smallish audience to begin with, but are talked about endlessly ever afterwards.” The Herald, 2000
Direction and Choreography: Sasha Waltz
Performers and co-choreographers : Davide Camplani, Annette Klar, Lisa Densem, Juan Kruz, Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, Luc Dunberry, Nicola Mascia, Grayson Millwood, Virgis Puodziunas, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Takako Suzuki, Xuan Shi, Laurie Young, Michal Mualem
Set Design : Sasha Waltz, Heike Schuppelius, Thomas Schenk
Costume Design : Bernd Skodzig
Lighting Design : Valentin Galié, Martin Hauk
Music : Hans Peter Kuhn
Production: Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (Berlin)
presented by Sasha Waltz & Guests
Coproduction: Théâtre de la Ville (Paris)
Text: Michèle Febvre
English Translation: Neil Kroetsch
Photos: Bernd Uhlig
 

Sunday May 24th

10:30 Rivka Augenfeld, TCRI
Créée en 1979, la Table de concertation des organismes au service des personnes réfugiées et immigrantes (TCRI) est un regroupement d'une centaine d'organismes voués à la défense des droits et à la protection des personnes réfugiées et immigrantes au Québec et impliqués dans l'établissement et l'intégration de toutes les catégories de nouveaux arrivants, en terme de service, d'aide, de soutien, de parrainage, de réflexion ou de solidarité.
518 Beaubien East - opposite the Beaubien metro - it's one floor up, door on the left; 514-707-8765 

12:30 The Brussels Family

8:00PM H3
They are Brazilian. The street has long been their battleground. Veterans of hip-hop, dance is the very air they breathe – the rarefied air of the city. In taking over the stage, the nine desperados of the Grupo de Rua expand their own vital space. Acclaimed in Europe, the young choreographer Bruno Beltrão takes pleasure in shattering preconceived ideas about street dance, and is presenting his work in Montreal for the first time. Put through the wringer, reinvented and stripped of the clichés of the genre, his work is a remarkable fusion of hip-hop and contemporary dance.  Gone are the musical and visual stereotypes of hip-hop, the discourse of sheer virtuosity dispensed with. With his most recent work H3, Beltrão has broken another taboo by exploring otherness, the territory of the brother who is not necessarily the enemy. Like a powerful yet fragile commando unit, his dancers create astonishing duets and trios as they collide and balance against each other. The essence of hip-hop is retained, as the choreographer preserves its unmistakable figures and the high voltage energy of his breakdancers. An incredible tour de force!

Press Quote(s)
 «Bruno Beltrão a fait de son H3 une bombe gestuelle à retardement qui explose les codes du hip-hop. (…) Les danseurs de Grupo de Rua racontent à leur manière, rageuse, un pays : le Brésil, ses couleurs, ses peurs. Le hip-hop selon Beltrão vole haut.»
H3 : n.1 du top 15 des critiques, Les Inrockuptibles, 2008
« Il y a quelque chose de brut, de puissant, d’agressif parfois dans cette manière de se lancer dans le mouvement puis de briser celui-ci en plein élan. Mais il y a surtout une incroyable maîtrise du corps, du geste le plus anodin, du rapport à l’autre. » Le Soir, 2008

Monday May 25th
Noon
Meeting with the Chair of English at McGill University, Professor Paul Yachnin, for a working lunch.

3pm, Ministry of Immigration

Meeting at the entrance of head office of the Ministry: 360 McGill (close to Metro Square Victoria). 

8PM
Angélique – créatrice
Née à Montréal, ou plus précisément à Sainte-Rose en 1981, Angélique Duruisseau sait depuis longtemps que peu importe les évènements, la création sera au cœur de sa vie. Petite fille timide, elle laisse son feu intérieur prendre de l’ampleur pour devenir une artiste engagée, exaltée et intense. Elle explora toutes les formes d’art (piano, danse classique, danse acrobatique, danse moderne, peinture, couture, construction de décor, etc.) pour découvrir que ses moyens d’expression de prédilection sont sur la scène. Convaincu qu’elle a sa place dans le domaine du théâtre, malgré une expérience déjà grande de la musique et plus précisément de la chanson, c’est dans le programme d’Interprétation du Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe qu’elle va commencer à découvrir le monde, ses intérêts et sa vocation. Créatrice.
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Tuesday May 26th
10AM meeting with: FRANÇOIS CRÉPEAU

Lauréat Trudeau Fellow 2008-2011
Professeur Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer de Droit International Public
Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Professor of Public International Law
Faculté de droit / Faculty of Law
Université McGill University
Tel: +1 (514) 398-2961
Fax: +1 (514) 398-4659
francois.crepeau@mcgill.ca <mailto:francois.crepeau@mcgill.ca>
#606, 3644 Peel, Montréal QC H3A 1W9  CANADA
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14h to 16h  Conference at Chaire Raoul-Dandurand, UQAM
455, boul. René-Lévesque Est, Montréal, 4th Floor,
Room A-4410; Phone: 514-987-6781
Contact: Frédérick Gagnon; Phone: 514-987-6781 or 514-987-3000 # 6603

•    Welcoming Remarks by Charles-Philippe David, Chair
•    Conference on Québec/United States Relations in the Obama Era, by Frédérick Gagnon
•    Conference on Québec/United States Borders, by Joël Plouffe and Julien Tourreille

Wednesday May 27th Return to BNA!
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