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The ten last years have seen the growth of Cultural Studies on the francophone intellectual and academic scene. This growth has generated as much fearful attention as it has eager initiatives to further the academic institutionalization of Cultural Studies. The aim of this article is to examine what Francophone academics «do with» and «say about» Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies has followed a number of historical trajectories which have varied with the places and periods in which it has developed, and discussion of these trajectories has always contributed to Cultural Studies ongoing redefinition. This discussion has been just as important to Cultural Studies as its stated project. The first part of the article provides an overview of the development of Cultural Studies in the English speaking world over the past fifty years. The second part deals with with the place of Cultural Studies In the Francophone world, from its emergence in Quebec in the 1980s to its being taken up in Francophone Europe in recent years. This historical and analytic look at Cultural Studies will allow us to understand the ways in which Cultural Studies is being received in the Francophone world at the present time. This reception of Cultural Studies has been marked by restraint, reservations and conflicts. The diversity of sites in which it has been taken up within the Francophone world, the disciplinary resistance that confronts it, and, at the same time, the (perhaps unwarranted) hopes invested by younger generations in Cultural Studies are all phenomena which may only be fully understood through a profound understanding of French society. This article examines some of these phenomena, each of which, in its way, has contributed to the ongoing redefinition of Cultural Studies, in a manner faithful to the hyper-contextualization which is one of its traits.
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AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to describe the challenges faced by one theologian who, as dean of a faculty of theology, steered a course designed to redefine the place that institution occupies within the Church, the university, and the changing society in which both were evolving. René-Michel Roberge, emeritus professor and dean, devoted a considerable part of his life to that form of practical theology required of anyone who would assume the leadership of a faculty of theology in a university setting ; and he took up this form of theological service on the heels of an already rich career as teacher and researcher. Revisiting the itinerary of this professor-cum-administrator of an institution of higher education, one finds indicators useful for situating the theological project and theological discourse in the public arena today.
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