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Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland joined 麻豆传媒高清版 as Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies in 2014. Before then, she was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath, and a Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Leicester. She holds a PhD in French and Francophone Studies from 麻豆传媒高清版 (2011), an MA in European Languages and Cultures from 麻豆传媒高清版 (2007), and a BA in German from the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest (2005).听
Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland's research specialisms include: French and Francophone ecocriticism and environmental humanities, with a focus on environmental violence, resistance and justice; Modern Languages in the Environmental Humanities; text/image and bande dessin茅e studies; adaptation and intermediality; and Breton Francophone comic art from postcolonial and ecofeminist perspectives. She has published articles on these areas in journals including European Comic Art, Modern Languages Open, Modern and Contemporary France, Studies in Comics and Studies in French Cinema. She is the author of Adapted Voices: Transpositions of C茅line鈥檚 鈥榁oyage au bout de la nuit鈥� and Queneau鈥檚 鈥榋azie dans le m茅tro鈥� (Oxford: Legenda, 2015). She has co-edited a special issue of European Comic Art on 鈥楥omics & Adaptation鈥� (stemming from a conference she co-organised at the University Leicester), and a special issue of Studies in Comics on 鈥楥omics & Nation鈥� (also stemming from a conference she co-organised, at 麻豆传媒高清版). She is review co-editor for European Comic Art.听
Her current research project is entitled 'Greening Modern Languages: Narrative, Space and Environmental Justice in Contemporary France, 1945 to Today', and was awarded funding by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Grant Scheme in 2023-2024 (SRG22\220097). This project investigates the relationship between narrative, space and the environment in France since 1945, with a focus on 鈥榟yper-sites鈥� of environmental violence and injustice (nuclear sites, factory farms, industrial slaughterhouses, zoos, toxic landscapes, borders). It aims to analyse the cultural narratives and spatial dynamics that have shaped relationships to the nonhuman in contemporary France, and modes of resistance against anthropocentric, gendered, (neo-)colonial, nationalistic and capitalist divisions of space. The corpus comprises a range of media, as well as scientific writings, direct action, political discourse and material sites. The project develops an ecopolitics of space from the perspectives of multispecies, decolonial, feminist and disabled ecologies, in exposing and contesting environmentally unjust narratives and their fast and slow impacts on bodies and territories, and promoting modes of understanding and sharing territory as more-than-human. Beyond the French context, this leads to a consideration of the role of Modern Languages in the Environmental Humanities, in terms of differences, resonances and (un)translatability in environmental concepts across cultures, and the discipline鈥檚 part in collective action towards meaningful sustainability. As part of this project, she has co-organised an International Online Conference on 'Greening Modern Languages Research and Teaching' in March 2023, leading to the creation of a website that features a multilingual lexicon of environmental terms across cultures and pedagogical resources for fostering ecological awareness in the world language classroom (see ); and an online seminar series entitled 鈥楻茅cits des vivants / More-than-human Narratives鈥� (February-July 2023), during which artists and activists discussed ways in which their work explores environmental and animal issues (). Recordings are available to view on the series' .
Dr Blin-Rolland has begun to explore local benefits and impacts of this research with her follow-on project Cwricwlwm Ieithoedd Modern Gwyrddach i Gymru / A Greener Modern Languages Curriculum for Wales, for which she worked in partnership with GwE Global Futures and award-winning French graphic artist Anne Defreville. The project, which is funded by 麻豆传媒高清版鈥檚 Innovation and Impact Award Scheme, aims to develop creative approaches to fostering environmental sustainability in conjunction with international language learning, in line with the holistic ethos of the New Curriculum for Wales, and the Well-being of Future Generations Act. For more information see
Gwybodaeth Cyswllt
Email: a.blin-rolland@bangor.ac.uk
Location: room 417, 3rd floor, New Arts building
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Undergraduate teaching
LXE-2025: Reading Fantastic Literatures (2nd year)
LXF-2101: Paris - Centres and Margins
LXE-3011: Languages and Ecologies (Final year)
LXF-3122: Postcolonial France (Final year)
LCF/LZF-1001 & 1002: Advanced French 1 and 2 (1st year)
LCF/LZF-2020 & 2040: French language skills (2nd year)
LCF/LZF-3020, 3030 & 3040: French language skills (Final year)
Postgraduate teaching:
LXM-4035: French Film & Comic Adaptation
LXM-4001: Modes of Critical Theory (team-taught)
LXM-4002: Research Methods (team-taught)
LXM-4031: Critical Theory in Practice (team-taught)
Teaching qualification
FHEA
Cyfleoedd Project 脭l-radd
Cyhoeddiadau
2024
- Wedi ei Dderbyn / Yn y wasg
Blin-Rolland, A., 28 Meh 2024, (Wedi ei Dderbyn / Yn y wasg) Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere. Mala, N. & Hitchcott, N. (gol.). Liverpool University Press
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd 鈥� Pennod 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - Wedi ei Dderbyn / Yn y wasg
Blin-Rolland, A., 10 Mai 2024, (Wedi ei Dderbyn / Yn y wasg) Graphic Narratives of Resistance: History, Politics and Bande dessin茅es in French. Boum Make, J. & Verstraet, C. (gol.). Edinburgh University Press
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd 鈥� Pennod 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., Chwef 2024, Drawing (in) the Feminine: Women and Bande Dessin茅e. Flinn, M. C. (gol.). The Ohio State University Press, t. 97-123 (Studies in Comics and Cartoons).
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd 鈥� Pennod 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2023
- Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 1 Awst 2023, Yn: French Studies Bulletin. 44, 167-168, t. 5-8 4 t.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Erthygl 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 29 Hyd 2023, Yn: Ecozon@. 14, 2, t. 52-69
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Erthygl 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., Flinn, M. C. & Veiga, M., 2023
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad arall 鈥� Cyfraniad Arall - Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 2023
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad arall 鈥� Cyfraniad Arall - Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., Maw 2023.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd 鈥� Papur
2022
- Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., Medi 2022, Yn: European Comic Art. 15, 2, t. 107-131
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Erthygl 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2021
- Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., Gorff 2021, Yn: Nottingham French Studies. 60, 2, t. 254-271
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Erthygl 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., Medi 2021.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd 鈥� Papur
2020
- Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 28 Medi 2020, Adapting the Canon: Translation, Visualization, Interpretation. Lewis, A. & Arnold-de Simine, S. (gol.). Legenda, (Transcript; Cyfrol 1).
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd 鈥� Pennod 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2019
- Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 2 Hyd 2019, Yn: Modern and Contemporary France. 27, 4, t. 457-473
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Erthygl 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 16 Ebr 2019, Yn: Modern Languages Open. 1, 2, t. 1-25
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Erthygl 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A. & Miranda-Barreiro, D., 1 Gorff 2019, Yn: Studies in Comics. 10, 1, t. 3-6
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Golygyddiad - Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 1 Gorff 2019, Yn: Studies in Comics. 10, 1, t. 73-91
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Erthygl 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2017
- Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 1 Maw 2017, Yn: European Comic Art. 10, 1
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Erthygl 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., Lecomte, G. & Ripley, M., 30 Ebr 2017, Yn: European Comic Art. 10, 1, t. 1-8 8 t.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Erthygl
2015
- Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 31 Gorff 2015, Legenda.
Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad 鈥� Llyfr 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2014
- Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 25 Maw 2014, Yn: Studies in French Cinema. 14, 1, t. 48-60
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Erthygl 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 1 Hyd 2014, Yn: Studies in Comics. 5, 2, t. 275-292
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Erthygl 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2013
- Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 2013, Yn: European Comic Art. 6, 1, t. 88-109
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Erthygl 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2011
- Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 8 Rhag 2011, Adaptation: Studies in French and Francophone Culture. Archer, N. & Weisl-Schaw, A. (gol.). Peter Lang, t. 193-205 (Modern French Identities).
Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd 鈥� Pennod
2010
- Cyhoeddwyd
Blin-Rolland, A., 1 Maw 2010, Yn: European Comic Art. 3, 1, t. 23-36
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn 鈥� Erthygl 鈥� adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
Gweithgareddau
2024
Invited Speaker at 鈥楾ensions鈥� roundtable, Non-human Animals in the Medical Humanities Network (NAMHN), University of Manchester
17 Meh 2024
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)Invited talk in the Seminar Series on Graphic Narratives, 2023-2024, University of Cambridge
https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/news/events-seminar-series-graphic-narratives-2023-24
23 Mai 2024
Cysylltau:
Cwricwlwm Ieithoedd Modern Gwyrddach i Gymru / A Greener Modern Languages Curriculum for Wales
Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland (Principal Investigator), Dr Jonathan Lewis (Co-Investigator)
In May 2024, Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland organised a one-week residence in Bangor with award-winning French graphic artist Anne Defreville, as part of the project Cwricwlwm Ieithoedd Modern Gwyrddach i Gymru / A Greener Modern Languages Curriculum for Wales. Dr Blin-Rolland worked in partnership with GwE Global Futures for this project, which is funded by 麻豆传媒高清版鈥檚 Innovation and Impact Award Scheme. Cwricwlwm Ieithoedd Modern Gwyrddach i Gymru / A Greener Modern Languages Curriculum for Wales aims to develop creative approaches to fostering environmental sustainability in conjunction with international language learning, in line with the holistic ethos of the New Curriculum for Wales, and the Well-being of Future Generations Act.
Across the residence, 68 primary and secondary school pupils from across North Wales took part in innovative workshops, during which they created their own ecological bandes dessin茅es (French-language comic strips) and a multilingual 鈥榥atural mural鈥�.
Feedback from pupils and teachers was very positive, with teachers praising notably the ways the activities covered 鈥榗ross-curricular aspects of the new Curriculum for Wales really well鈥� and that pupils 鈥榞et to see French used for a purpose, they also get to focus on issues that are essential to their future鈥�; and pupils commenting that 鈥業 think it helped get a better understanding of climate change and should be offered to more students鈥� and 鈥業 believe that learning about the environment in other lessons, can help people to explore other aspects of the environment from different views鈥�.
Cwricwlwm Ieithoedd Modern Gwyrddach i Gymru / A Greener Modern Languages Curriculum for Wales is a follow-on project from Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland鈥檚 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust-funded project 鈥楪reening Modern Languages鈥� (SRG22\220097), which brings together an international network of scholars and educators working across language specialisms to reflect on the place of Modern Languages in collective action towards sustainability (https://www.ecomodlang.com/).
For more information please see https://www.ecomodlang.com/resources/cwricwlwm-ieithoedd-modern-gwyrddach-i-gymru-a-greener-modern-languages-curriculum-for-wales/
1 Mai 2024 鈥� 3 Mai 2024
Cysylltau:
2023
Aims: to develop creative approaches to fostering environmental sustainability in conjunction with international language learning. Working in partnership with GwE Global Futures, the project will lead to the creation of research-informed pedagogical resources for embedding environmental awareness in language learning, and the organisation of innovative workshops in Bangor with French graphic artist Anne Defr茅ville, whose award-winning work engages with environmental issues in accessible and original ways. The programme of activities to be carried out in 2023-2024, with a focus on French language education and North Wales, is designed as a pilot scheme to be scaled up and serve as a paradigm for other languages, including Welsh as a second language.
Funding awarded through the 麻豆传媒高清版 Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = 拢4340
1 Awst 2023 鈥� 31 Gorff 2024
Gweithgaredd: Arall (Cyfrannwr)R茅cits des vivants / More-than-human narratives: an online seminar series, February-July 2023
Fifth and last seminar on 19th July, 4.30-5.30pm BST: talk and Q&A with comics writer Jessica Oubli茅
For our last seminar in this series it is an honour to welcome comics writer Jessica Oubli茅. She is the author of the documentary graphic narratives P茅yi an nou (2017), on the migration of French Caribbeans to mainland France in the 1960s-1980s via the state agency BUMIDOM; and Tropiques Toxiques (2020), which will be the focus of this seminar. Tropiques Toxiques explores the toxic history and legacies of the use of Chlordecone pesticide in Guadeloupe and Martinique鈥檚 banana plantations between 1972 and 1993, resulting in the poisoning of land, sea, and human and nonhuman bodies. The bande dessin茅e combines insights from scientific expertise and lived experience in an in-depth investigation of a scandal of environmental injustice and toxic politics. In this seminar Jessica Oubli茅 will talk about the possibilities offered by the comics medium, in terms not only of its complexity but also its accessibility and impact, and the intersections of environmental, political, cultural, historical and social issues, from the situated and planetary perspective of the Antilles.
鈥楻茅cits des vivants / More-than-human Narratives鈥� is a series of five online seminars in which artists and activists discuss how their work engages with environmental and animal issues, in questioning anthropocentrism and contesting injustice, and with a view towards fostering ecological awareness and meaningful sustainability. Drawing on a broad range of media and artforms (painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, film, writing, graphic narrative), this series explores key topics for our changing world, such as oceanic potentialities, revolutionary popular environmentalism, the biopolitics of industrial slaughter, animal ethics, and decolonial ecology. In doing so, it aims to shine a light on the varied modes of resistance deployed by artists and activists to create and share alternative narratives for environmental justice, care and solidarity, engaging with multispecies, feminist, queer, and decolonial ecologies.
While this series focuses on more-than-human narratives through the lens of contemporary France, it aims to open a dialogue among scholars, practitioners, and activists working in the Environmental Humanities in any subject area. Across the series, we will discuss inspiring and militant ways of exposing and challenging anthropocentric, gendered, (neo-)colonial, heteronormative, nationalistic, and capitalist ideologies, as well as their material impacts on bodies and territories. We will explore narratives, imaginaries and practices that work to create possibilities for alternative modes of representing, engaging and living with the more-than-human in our troubling times.
For any questions, please contact the organiser Armelle Blin-Rolland at a.blin-rolland@bangor.ac.uk.
鈥楻茅cits des vivants / More-than-human Narratives鈥� is funded by the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust Small Grant scheme (SRG22\220097).
19 Gorff 2023
Cysylltau:
R茅cits des vivants / More-than-human narratives: an online seminar series, February-July 2023
Fourth seminar on 4th July 3.45-5pm BST: 鈥楨co-Comics for Better Living in the More-than-Human World鈥�, talk and discussion with comics artist Anne Defr茅ville
In coordination with Better Living Through Comics: The 2023 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessin茅e Society
Anne Defr茅ville (https://www.annedefreville.com/) is a visual artist, designer, illustrator and comics artist. She is deeply committed to ecology, and much of her comics work has focused on environmental and animal issues. She has worked in collaboration with INSERM (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) and many environmental associations. Her bandes dessin茅es challenge anthropocentrism in creative, sometimes humorous, and always thought-provoking ways, shifting across autobiography, documentary and science fiction. She is the author of L鈥橝ge bleu [The blue age] (2019), which was awarded the 2020 Artemisia Prize for the Environment and the Mouans-Sartoux Prize for best environmental book; Journal anthropique de la cause animale [Anthropogenic diary of the animal cause] (2022); M茅moires d鈥檜n c茅tac茅 [Memoirs of a cetacean] (2023); and SEFARDIM, l鈥櫭﹑op茅e d鈥檜ne famille juive durant 3,000 ans [Sefardim, the 3,000-year saga of a Jewish family] (2023).
All are welcome to attend this free event, which will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday 4th July 3.45-5pm BST. The seminar will be in English. You will need to register in advance to receive the online joining link. Please note that if you already registered for the IBDS / IGNCC conference, you do not need to register for this seminar again as you will automatically be sent the joining link.
鈥楻茅cits des vivants / More-than-human Narratives鈥� is a series of five online seminars in which artists and activists discuss how their work engages with environmental and animal issues, in questioning anthropocentrism and contesting injustice, and with a view towards fostering ecological awareness and meaningful sustainability. Drawing on a broad range of media and artforms (painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, film, writing, graphic narrative), this series explores key topics for our changing world, such as oceanic potentialities, revolutionary popular environmentalism, the biopolitics of industrial slaughter, animal ethics, and decolonial ecology. In doing so, it aims to shine a light on the varied modes of resistance deployed by artists and activists to create and share alternative narratives for environmental justice, care and solidarity, engaging with multispecies, feminist, queer, and decolonial ecologies.
While this series focuses on more-than-human narratives through the lens of contemporary France, it aims to open a dialogue among scholars, practitioners, and activists working in the Environmental Humanities in any subject area. Across the series, we will discuss inspiring and militant ways of exposing and challenging anthropocentric, gendered, (neo-)colonial, heteronormative, nationalistic, and capitalist ideologies, as well as their material impacts on bodies and territories. We will explore narratives, imaginaries and practices that work to create possibilities for alternative modes of representing, engaging and living with the more-than-human in our troubling times.
For any questions, please contact the organiser Armelle Blin-Rolland at a.blin-rolland@bangor.ac.uk.
鈥楻茅cits des vivants / More-than-human Narratives鈥� is funded by the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust Small Grant scheme (SRG22\220097).
4 Gorff 2023
Cysylltau:
R茅cits des vivants / More-than-human narratives: an online seminar series, February-July 2023
Third seminar on 19th April 2-3pm BST: talk and discussion with film director Maud Alpi
鈥楲es b锚tes arrivent la nuit. Elles sentent. Elles r茅sistent. Avant l鈥檃ube, un jeune homme les conduit 脿 la mort. Son chien d茅couvre un monde effrayant qui semble ne jamais devoir s鈥檃rr锚ter.鈥�
鈥楾he animals arrive by night. They intuit. They resist. A young man leads them to their deaths before dawn. His dog discovers a terrifying world that seems certain never to end.鈥�
For the third seminar in our online series, we are delighted to welcome Maud Alpi. Maud Alpi is the award-winning director of the short films Le fils de la sorci猫re (2004), Nice (2009), Drakkar (2015), and the feature-length film Gorge C艙ur Ventre/Still Life (2016), which was shot in a working slaughterhouse and on which this seminar will focus. During this seminar Maud Api will talk about the context in which she made the film, how her initial script and ideas evolved in contact with the non-human animals that are at the core of the film, and the aesthetic, ethical and political issues it raises for creating and articulating more-than-human narratives.
All are welcome to attend this free event, which will be held online via Zoom on Wednesday 19th April 2-3pm BST. The seminar will be in English. You will need to register in advance to receive the online joining link.
鈥楻茅cits des vivants / More-than-human Narratives鈥� is a series of five online seminars in which artists and activists discuss how their work engages with environmental and animal issues, in questioning anthropocentrism and contesting injustice, and with a view towards fostering ecological awareness and meaningful sustainability. Drawing on a broad range of media and artforms (painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, film, writing, graphic narrative), this series explores key topics for our changing world, such as oceanic potentialities, revolutionary popular environmentalism, the biopolitics of industrial slaughter, animal ethics, and decolonial ecology. In doing so, it aims to shine a light on the varied modes of resistance deployed by artists and activists to create and share alternative narratives for environmental justice, care and solidarity, engaging with multispecies, feminist, queer, and decolonial ecologies.
While this series focuses on more-than-human narratives through the lens of contemporary France, it aims to open a dialogue among scholars, practitioners, and activists working in the Environmental Humanities in any subject area. Across the series, we will discuss inspiring and militant ways of exposing and challenging anthropocentric, gendered, (neo-)colonial, heteronormative, nationalistic, and capitalist ideologies, as well as their material impacts on bodies and territories. We will explore narratives, imaginaries and practices that work to create possibilities for alternative modes of representing, engaging and living with the more-than-human in our troubling times.
For any questions, please contact the organiser Armelle Blin-Rolland at a.blin-rolland@bangor.ac.uk.
鈥楻茅cits des vivants / More-than-human Narratives鈥� is funded by the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust Small Grant scheme (SRG22\220097).
19 Ebr 2023
Cysylltau:
T锘縣e conference programme is available to view at https://www.ecomodlang.com/programme/
The three-day international online conference 鈥楪reening Modern Languages Research and Teaching鈥� will reflect on the role Modern Languages as a discipline has to play in times of ecological crises, in rethinking our academic practice as educators, scholars and eco-citizens, and ways in which this intersects with current efforts to decentre and decolonise the curriculum. The conference will open a reflection on the place of Modern Languages in the Environmental Humanities and in collective action towards environmental sustainability and justice.
As a discipline that has been profoundly and productively decentred in the postcolonial context, moving beyond the nations that 鈥榝or a long time, determined [its] boundaries鈥� (Forsdick 2015: 2), how might Modern Languages contribute to developing and rethinking our sense of place and sense of planet (Heise 2008) in times of climate emergency and the sixth mass extinction? How may Modern Languages take part in challenging the universalism of monolingualism and of the 鈥楢ge of Man鈥�? What role can Modern Languages play in the Environmental Humanities and the 鈥樷�樷�榰nsettling鈥欌�� of dominant narratives鈥� and exploration of 鈥榯he implications of new narratives that are calibrated to the realities of our changing world鈥� (Bird Rose, van Dooren, Chrulew, Cooke, Kearnes and O鈥橤orman 2012)? What methodologies, concepts and multilingual lexicon does the transnational and cross-disciplinary field of Modern Languages offer to rethink our relationship to the more-than-human? How may we, as Modern Languages scholars and educators, contribute to meaningful and significant sustainability, while navigating the pitfalls of a term that green capitalism has attempted to void of its potential for political dissensus? What possibilities are there for those working within unsustainable higher education systems?
These are some of the key questions that this conference will explore. As part of the conference there will be workshops to collaboratively build a multilingual lexicon of environmental keywords across cultures, and to share pedagogical resources for developing ecological awareness in conjunction with linguistic and cultural diversity.
The conference will feature a talk and discussion with political scientist, author and activist Fatima Ouassak, as part of the 鈥楻茅cits des vivants/More-than-human narratives鈥� online seminar series. The seminar will take place 4-5pm GMT on 23rd March and will be in French with simultaneous English translation.
鈥楪reening Modern Languages Research and Teaching鈥� is funded by the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust Small Grant scheme (SRG22\220097).
23 Maw 2023 鈥� 25 Maw 2023
Cysylltau:
For the second seminar in our online series, it is an honour to welcome Fatima Ouassak, who is a political scientist, author and activist, and a key and vital voice in contemporary environmentalism in France. A militant for a feminist, popular, antiracist and radical ecology, she is the author of La Puissance des m猫res, pour un nouveau sujet r茅volutionnaire [The power of mothers: for a new revolutionary subject] (2020); and Pour une 茅cologie pirate. Et nous serons libres [For a pirate ecology. And we will be free] (2023). Fatima Ouassak is the founder of the Classe/Genre/Race network, and co-founder of the association Front de m猫res (Mothers鈥� Front) and the Maison d鈥櫭塩ologie populaire Verdragon (Centre of Popular Ecology). During this seminar Fatima Ouassak will talk about her activism and her call for a pirate ecology. The talk and discussion will be in French with simultaneous English translation.
23 Maw 2023
Cysylltau:
- R茅cits des vivants / More-than-human narratives: an online seminar series, February-July 2023
First seminar on 8th February 1-2pm UK time: talk and discussion with visual artist Alexander Lee
Alexander Lee was born in Stockton, CA, and grew up on the island of Tahiti, French Polynesia. He earned his BFA from the School of Visual Arts (2000), his MFA from Columbia University (2002), and MPS from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University (2004). His work, which has been exhibited extensively worldwide, spans drawing, sculpture, performance, painting and video, forming a thought-provoking decolonial practice-based reflection on Polynesia鈥檚 pasts, presents and futures and on environmental collapse from the multi-layered perspectives of the Pacific. Drawing on Polynesian natural-cultural forms, concepts and images, questioning and dismantling the history and legacy of imperialism and colonial narratives, Lee鈥檚 work is concerned with the necessity and urgency of transformation on our changing planet.
All are welcome to attend this free event, which will be held online via Zoom on 8th February 1-2pm UK time. You will need to register in advance to receive the online joining link. To register please go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/recits-des-vivantsmore-than-human-narratives-seminar-series-alexander-lee-tickets-524684915707
鈥楻茅cits des vivants / More-than-human Narratives鈥� is a series of five online seminars in which artists and activists will discuss how their work engages with environmental and animal questions, in questioning anthropocentrism and contesting injustice, and with a view towards fostering ecological awareness and meaningful sustainability. Drawing on a broad range of media and artforms (painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, film, writing, graphic narrative), this series will explore key topics for our changing world, such as oceanic potentialities, revolutionary popular environmentalism, the biopolitics of industrial slaughter, animal ethics, and decolonial ecology. In doing so, it will shine a light on the varied modes of resistance deployed by artists and activists to create and share alternative narratives for environmental justice, care and solidarity, engaging with multispecies, feminist, queer, and decolonial ecologies.
While this series will focus on more-than-human narratives through the lens of contemporary France, it aims to open a dialogue among scholars, practitioners, and activists working in the Environmental Humanities in any subject area. Across the series, we will discuss inspiring and militant ways of exposing and challenging anthropocentric, gendered, (neo-)colonial, heteronormative, nationalistic, and capitalist ideologies, as well as their material impacts on bodies and territories. We will explore narratives, imaginaries and practices that work to create possibilities for alternative modes of representing, engaging and living with the more-than-human in our troubling times.
All the seminars will be in English (with the exception of the fifth seminar, which will be delivered in French with English simultaneous translation available).
After our first event with Alexander Lee, the following seminars in the 鈥楻茅cits des vivants / More-than-human Narratives鈥� series will feature:
Seminar 2 鈥� 23rd March, 4pm UK time: political scientist, activist and author Fatima Ouassak
Seminar 3 鈥� 19th April, 2pm UK time: film director Maud Alpi
Seminar 4 鈥� 4th July, 3.45pm UK time: comics artist Anne Defr茅ville
Seminar 5 鈥� comics writer Jessica Oubli茅 (mid-July, exact date TBC)
鈥楻茅cits des vivants / More-than-human Narratives鈥� is funded by the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust Small Grant scheme (SRG22\220097).
8 Chwef 2023
Cysylltau:
2022
More than human, more than meat: multispecies and multimedia narratives of factory farms and slaughterhouses in French culture
2022
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd Academaidd (Siaradwr)180 days, 100 000 years: Factory Farms, Industrial Slaughterhouses, Nuclear Sites and More-than-human Spacetimes in Contemporary France
2022
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd Academaidd (Siaradwr)
2021
10 Mai 2021
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)Lecture and seminar as part of the Post-16 Languages Recovery Project
25 Ion 2021
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu 芒'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Ymgysylltu ag ysgolion (Cyfrannwr)Nuclear Islands: Toxicity, Bodies, Power
2021
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd Academaidd (Siaradwr)
2020
Invited talk as part of 'Drawing Gender: Women and French-language Comics' symposium at The Ohio State University.
29 Chwef 2020
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)
2019
Event funded by: the Cassal Fund, IMLR (拢708)
Since the mid-1990s, female artists have become an increasingly visible presence in bande dessin茅e (French-language comic art), a medium with which women were previously rarely associated as creators or even consumers. Research concerning the work of Francophone female graphic novelists has been slow to emerge but is now a growing field. The primary goal of the seminars in the Sketching/Scripting Women series is therefore to contribute to and help steer the development of research into female bande dessin茅e creation, by bringing together practitioners, academics and the general public.
The Spring 2019 seminar in this series centred on the theme of 鈥榃omen and Politics in Bande dessin茅e鈥�, which were discussed by four speakers: three academics (Dr Ann Miller as a keynote speaker, Dr Edward Still and Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland), and a prize-winning graphic novelist (Tanx). The three academic papers explored questions of the relationship between women and politics in female-authored bandes dessin茅es that focus on different historical and geographical contexts. Dr Ann Miller (University of Leicester) presented a keynote speech on 鈥楾he Nude and the Naked: From Fine Art to Comics鈥�; Dr Edward Still (University of Birmingham) presented a paper on 鈥樷�樷�楳onstrez-vous en tutu鈥�: Obsessional Feminine Identity and Interpersonal Histories in the Bandes Dessin茅es of Nawel Louerrad鈥�; and Dr Armelle Blin-Rolland (麻豆传媒高清版) presented a paper on 鈥楨copolitics, Gender and Brittany in Bande dessin茅e鈥�.
Following the three academic papers, graphic novelist Tanx spoke (in French) about her oeuvre and discuss her experience as a female artist in the French comics industry. Tanx鈥檚 work, with its distinctive underground and rock-inspired aesthetics, explores and subverts cultural and artistic representations of gender and the female body. Tanx was the 2009 co-recipient (for Esth茅tique et filatures, co-authored with Lisa Mendel) of the Prix Art茅misia, an award created to honour the best female-created bande dessin茅e published each year.
26 Ebr 2019
Cysylltau:
Co-guest editor of the Special Issue of Studies in Comics on 'Comics & Nation'
2019
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Golygydd gwadd)
2017
From the Tennis Court Oath to Nuit Debout, work and play have been instrumental in organising socio-political life in the French Republic. Culturally too, work and play are formative of identity, inviting reflection on the power relations at stake in the construction and deconstruction of identities. This conference seeks to bring together a broad range of disciplinary approaches to consider theories, representations, practices and interconnections of work and play in France and the rest of the French-speaking world. Traversing sociological, political, anthropological as well as aesthetic and cultural spheres, the conference theme is intended to stimulate debate across a far-reaching horizon of enquiry.
Keynote Speakers:
Helen Abbott (University of Birmingham)
Claude Boli (Responsable scientifique du Mus茅e National du Sport, Nice)
Sarah Waters (University of Leeds)
7 Medi 2017 鈥� 9 Medi 2017
Cysylltau:
With the generous support of the Association for the 麻豆传媒高清版 of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF)
In recent years, the rise of the 鈥榞raphic novel鈥� has boosted academic interest in comic art from different disciplines and fields of study. Graphic texts, in their multiple forms and genres, have been a cultural manifestation reflecting societal changes, historical tensions and also their effects on individual stories since their inception. Comics have also been instrumental in the construction of national identities, both in nation-states and in stateless nations.
This conference aims to put into dialogue scholars working on a variety of cultures and disciplines to provide a forum for the discussion of the interrelation between comic art (comic books and strips, cartoons and caricature) and nation, placing special emphasis on text/image creation from minority cultures (e.g. Brittany, Corsica, Galicia, Catalonia, Wales, Scotland, Sardinia, etc.) but also including those from nation-states (e.g. UK, France, Spain, Italy, etc.).
13 Gorff 2017 鈥� 14 Gorff 2017
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd Academaidd (Trefnydd)Review co-editor
2017 鈥� 2023
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Golygydd)
2016
Co-editor of a special issue of European Comic Art on 'Comics & Adaptation'
1 Ion 2016 鈥� 15 Ion 2017
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Golygydd gwadd)
2015
With the generous support of:
the Society for French Studies (SFS)
the Association for the 麻豆传媒高清版 of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF)
10 Ebr 2015
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd Academaidd (Trefnydd)
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01/09/2022 鈥� 15/06/2024 (Wedi gorffen)
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01/07/2017 鈥� 30/11/2017 (Wedi gorffen)
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In recent years, the rise of the 鈥榞raphic novel鈥� has boosted academic interest in comic art from different disciplines and fields of study. Graphic texts, in their multiple forms and genres, have been a cultural manifestation reflecting societal changes, historical tensions and also their effects on individual stories since their inception. Comics have also been instrumental in the construction of national identities, both in nation-states and in stateless nations.
This conference aims to put into dialogue scholars working on a variety of cultures and disciplines to provide a forum for the discussion of the interrelation between comic art (comic books and strips, cartoons and caricature) and nation, placing special emphasis on text/image creation from minority cultures (e.g. Brittany, Catalonia, Corsica, Galicia, Kurdistan, Mapuche, Quebec, Scotland, Wales, etc.) but also including those from nation-states (e.g. China, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, UK, etc.).
Cysylltau: