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Lise Cauchon-Roy, Thierry Champs, and Dina Gilbert were the three leaders at the helm of the March 18, 2021 production of Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale, which was presented as part of the international colloquium Stravinsky and France “My Second Home”. Reception and Legacy (1910-2010) held entirely online from March 17-20, 2021. Lise, an actress, was responsible for directing the libretto, Thierry, a trumpeter, oversaw the musical direction, and Dina, a conductor, was the artistic director. Resulting from an eight-handed collaboration, this article aims, in the form of interviews, to revisit the great moments of this extraordinary production.
Keywords: femmes, musique, Igor Stravinski, théâtre, music, Igor Stravinsky, theater, women
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“It is so natural to think that it is color that constitutes the essence of humanity, that the peoples of Asia who make eunuchs always deprive blacks of their relationship to us in a more decisive way. The color of the skin may be judged by that of the hair, which among the Egyptians, the best philosophers in the world, was of such great consequence that they put to death all the redhaired men who fell into their hands.” This quote from On the Spirit of Law is famous. Montesquieu leaves no doubt as to the veracity of the facts he reports. According to him, in ancient Egypt, prevention against individuals convicted of the crime of having red hair bordered on genocide ! But our philosopher is not a man to treat erudition with casualness. Recorded as an exemplum a contrario, the absurd cruelty of the “best philosophers in the world” seems to be taken at face value, and the systematic extermination of redheads as a proven practice. The discrimination against redheads is ancestral : wickedness, lechery, felony, nauseating smell, demonic character, the avatars of prejudice are innumerable. This strange fascination – a mixture attraction and repulsion – has been perpetuated from century to century, almost everywhere in the Christian West, like a rumor that builds up and spreads, to the point of becoming an unanimously recognized, and in the end indisputable, truth. Was the XVIIIth century, the scourge of superstition and outrages against Reason, going to put a brake on the circulation of a received idea that was as stupid as it was unseemly ? Everything would urge us to believe so, if the return to the texts did not dampen the spontaneous optimism of the researcher and encourage him to exercise caution. How can one be a redhead in the Age of Enlightenment ? This is the question that this paper will try to answer.
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Erin Felepchuk and Ben Finley examine the use of improvisation within the language of crisis response. They argue that historic cultural anxieties have generated negative connotations for improvisation within such conceptual metaphors as “illness as war” (where improvisation is positioned as a defensive strategy) and, more broadly, “improvisation as disorder,” and draw on improvisation studies theory and discourse to propose alternate metaphors for disease and disease mitigation.
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Objective – Chat transcript analysis can illuminate user needs by identifying common question topics, but traditional hand coding methods for topic analysis are time-consuming and poorly suited to large datasets. The research team explored the viability of automatic and natural language processing (NLP) strategies to perform rapid topic analysis on a large dataset of transcripts from a consortial chat service. Methods – The research team developed a toolchain for data processing and analysis, which incorporated targeted searching for query terms using regular expressions and natural language processing using the Python spaCy library for automatic topic analysis. Processed data was exported to Tableau for visualization. Results were compared to hand-coded data to test the accuracy of conclusions. Results – The processed data provided insights about the volume of chats originating from each participating library, the proportion of chats answered by operator groups for each library, and the percentage of chats answered by different staff types. The data also captured the top referring URLs for the service, course codes and file extensions mentioned, and query hits. Natural language processing revealed that the most common topics were related to citation, subscription databases, and finding full-text articles, which aligns with common question types identified in hand-coded transcripts. Conclusion – Compared to hand coding, automatic and NLP processing approaches have benefits in terms of the volume of data that can be analyzed and the time frame required for analysis, but they come with a trade-off in accuracy, such as false hits. Therefore, computational approaches should be used to supplement traditional hand coding methods. As NLP becomes more accurate, approaches such as these may widen avenues of insight into virtual reference and patron needs.
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The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the foundation of critical literacy. I claim that critical literacy should be conceived as praxis rather than a unified theory. This is because the foundation of critical literacy includes diverse philosophical positions with some disagreements between them. When critical literacy is treated as a unified theory, such internal contradictions implode the theory. Instead, by conceiving it as praxis, even those theoretical tensions can be rendered generative for insatiable reading of the wor(l)d. To demonstrate this, I juxtapose Marxist/Freirean approach and Foucauldian approach to critical literacy. The former approach solidifies the battle ground for critical projects by “naming” the wrongs of the world, while the latter dissipates such identification by inserting divergence and discontinuity into the narratives. I discuss the kinds of critical literacy questions these two approaches enable us to ask, and generate new questions that emerge from the theoretical tensions.
Keywords: Critical Literacy, Paulo Freire, Michel Foucault, Karl Marx, Praxis, Pragmatism
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This teaching reflection, co-authored by two librarians and three instructors, offers a case study in collaborative assignment design and argues for the value of both collaboration as an instructional model and digital exhibitions as open educational resources. It explores how the transition to remote curating, learning, and teaching prompted by COVID-19 occasioned changes in how we curated exhibitions, on the one hand, and developed learning opportunities for students, on the other hand. Focused on a digital exhibition of nineteenth-century scrapbooks and the integration of scrapbooking—as a hands-on activity and a topic of scholarly inquiry—into three courses across two disciplines (English and art history), it also provides a model of how librarians and instructors might collaborate on assignment and coursedevelopment and scaffold such collaboration into assignment and course design. The reflection includes assignments and rubrics as well as examples of students’ work. It concludes with a series of recommendations for librarians and instructors who wish to collaborate.
Keywords: remote learning, experiential learning, primary source literacy, digital exhibitions, open educational resources, collaboration, COVID-19
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Using poetic self-study, the author recounted her own lived experiences during the first year as an international doctoral student in New Zealand to explore how her academic identity emerged and (re)constructed. The article draws on theories of space and place, investigating the spatial production and social interactions of the author within spaces that, in turn, influenced her sense of being an academic. While literature has been more concerned with the questions of what activities, relations, and contexts contribute to the academic identity development of doctoral students, the author seeks to forefront the where of academic identity configuration.
Keywords: academic identity, space, place, international doctoral student, poetic inquiry, self-study
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This case study explores the experiences of nine female-identifying feminist public educators working with Ontario, Canada, sexual assault centres who regularly facilitate discussions about sexual consent and gender-based sexual violence in schools, post-secondary institutions, and community workshops. The educators discuss their experiences of adaptation and “inoculations” for inspiring transformative learning in their audiences, and the ways in which their practice and person have been transformed through their profession. With a focus on the relationships between intersectional feminist pedagogy, social justice education, transformative learning, and public pedagogy, the educators describe their resilience from trauma, critical thinking, and self-reflective practice, highlighting the benefits of co-facilitation, debriefing with colleagues, and mentorship.
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This paper offers a review of the research literature on the experiences of young children and their families who left Syria as refugees and resettled in Canada. We identify five key factors that influence Syrian refugees’ experience of social inclusion within the context of the public-school systems as well as unveil the silences in and across the current studies. The five factors are pre-arrival experiences, mental health, social supports, acquisition of English language skills, and lack of preparedness of teachers and schools. Based on limited availability of research, we outline needed research to better understand social inclusion of Syrian refugee families with young children in Canada. There is a call to pay particular attention to their educational and social encounters.
Keywords: scolarité, Syrian refugees, l’inclusion sociale, young children, familles, social inclusion, jeunes enfants, schooling, réfugiés syriens