The Centre of Excellence at York University’s Glendon campus has won a 2013 Toronto Urban Design Award. The centre, which officially opened May 15, 2012, has enabled Glendon to broaden its range of programs and courses in response to the urgent need for increased postsecondary offerings in French in southern Ontario. The centre’s development was […]
Glendon’s Françoise Mougeon will be stepping down this July after completing her three-year term as the associate principal academic & research. “Françoise Mougeon has made a signal contribution to Glendon through her two tenures as associate principal academic & research,” said Glendon Principal Kenneth McRoberts. “Over these several years, Françoise could always be counted on […]
Glendon Principal Kenneth McRoberts and Teodor Baconschi, the Romanian minister of foreign affairs, toasted the official launch of the first Romanian lectureship in Canada on March 25 at Glendon. “This is an historic moment for Glendon,” said McRoberts. "We are deeply honoured to welcome such a large delegation of important dignitaries from Romania.” Right: Teodor Baconschi […]
The way French is spoken in places as diverse as Gatineau, Shediac and New Orleans can tell us a lot about how francophone communities evolved in North America, and it's the subject of a major study beginning at the University of Ottawa, wrote the Ottawa Citizen March 17: The $2.5-million project is led by Francine […]
Departing from Sfax, a Tunisian city overlooking the Mediterranean, Hédi Bouraoui has travelled the world, from Europe to the United States to Canada where he lived for 30 years, teaching French and comparative literature at York University’s Stong College, wrote Tandem News in its March 13 edition: His is a life dedicated to the study […]
York Professor Emeritus Jacques Cotnam, one of the founding fathers of the University's French Studies Program, died in Quebec City on Saturday, June 5. He was 68. Left: Jacques Cotnam In 1964, as a young academic, Prof. Cotnam came to York University and was the first French Canadian to be appointed to its academy. Over the course of his […]
Professor Emerita Barbara Godard, the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature, died Sunday, May 16, from complications related to her illness, at Toronto Western Hospital surrounded by family. Funeral arrangements for Friday are noted at the bottom of this page. Here, York humanities Professor Jody Berland, English Professor Julia Creet and PhD student Elena Basile […]
What is the true face of 19th-century French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire? That is what York French studies Professor Melvin Zimmerman delves into in his upcoming book Baudelaire & Co., being launched next Tuesday. Baudelaire has been defined as anti Jean-Jacques Rousseau and pro Blaise Pascal, but Zimmerman says the truth is more complicated. […]