{"id":4615,"date":"2005-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2005\/06\/06\/celebrating-the-lifes-work-of-hedi-bouraoui\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T11:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:54:26","slug":"celebrating-the-lifes-work-of-hedi-bouraoui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2005\/06\/06\/celebrating-the-lifes-work-of-hedi-bouraoui\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the life's work of H\u00e9di Bouraoui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG hspace=\"8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20050606\/poster.web.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"8\" border=\"1\">An international conference focusing on the life and work of York Professor Emeritus H\u00e9di Bouraoui was held at York May 26 to 28. Sixty-five scholars from four continents attended the event, entitled <EM>Transculturel-Transpo\u00e9tique: L'\u0153uvre de H\u00e9di Bouraoui.<\/EM><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1997, Bouraoui is a poet and novelist as well as an academic and cultural critic and essayist.&nbsp;He is&nbsp;also a former master of Stong College and former Chair of York\u2019s Department of French Studies (1993-1998).&nbsp;He&nbsp;was recently named writer-in-residence at Stong College and in&nbsp;the Department of&nbsp;French Studies.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Best known for coining the term&nbsp;\"transculturalism\" in the 1970s, Bouraoui made it a dominant concept in the establishment of the Canadian identity: one of tolerance, liberty and independence. In French Studies at York University, Bouraoui designed curriculum in Maghrebian and Franco-Ontarian literatures, the first in Canada, as well as promoting Francophone studies in general. As master of Stong College 1978-1988,&nbsp;he initiated cross-cultural studies through the college curriculum, and forged links&nbsp;with the federal and&nbsp;provincial ministries of multiculturalism. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>The <EM>Tales of Heritage<\/EM> (I and II) publications (1981, 1986), based on legends of the various ethnic groups that make up the Canadian mosaic, including the First Nations, grew out of the Stong transcultural identity established by Bouraoui. Consisting of imaginative recreations of the legends in the original language and in French and English, by Bouraoui, with illustrations by Saul Field and Jean Townsend, the project was funded by a&nbsp;government grant. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>The unique&nbsp;emphasis on transculturalism established at Stong College resulted in numerous conferences on the concept. Through his scholarly accomplishments, Bouraoui has&nbsp;pioneered&nbsp;dialogue on transculturalism both within Canada, and between and among Canada and the US, the Maghreb, Subsaharan Africa, France, the Caribbean, Italy, the Mediterranean basin (north and south), eastern Europe and the Far East .<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<TABLE cellSpacing=\"0\" cellPadding=\"0\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD>&nbsp;<IMG src=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20050606\/HediB_1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><STRONG>Above: From left, Mohamed Ben Madani, H\u00e9di Bouraoui, Elizabeth Sabiston<\/STRONG><\/P><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Bouraoui is also the founder of the Canada-Maghreb Centre at Stong College, which opened in 2002.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Canada-Maghreb Centre&nbsp;is the result of his generous gift of books and documents and an endowment to York University. Its role is to foster research in the two principal areas of the Maghreb and Francophone Ontario, but also in Francophone literatures generally. It is the first research centre in the field in Canada, and one of only three in North America.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The&nbsp;York conference&nbsp;was sponsored by the Canada-Maghreb Centre, Stong College and the Department of French Studies in cooperation with&nbsp;York's English Department, Faculty of Arts, and the French Department of McMaster University, with the support of&nbsp;York's offices of the Vice-President Academic,&nbsp;Associate Vice-President Research and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, the Italian Cultural Institute in&nbsp;Toronto, and the Consul General&nbsp;of France&nbsp;in Toronto.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Scholars included representatives from France, Italy, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Subsaharan Africa, Albania, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, as well as Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia.&nbsp;The participants took part&nbsp;in a dialogue about culture and the work of Bouraoui.&nbsp;<IMG hspace=\"8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20050606\/HediB_2.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"8\" border=\"0\">The keynote address, on <EM>\"H\u00e9di Bouraoui: La Travers\u00e9e des pays et des mots\", <\/EM>was given by Professor Emerita Denise Brahimi of the Sorbonne, Paris, a specialist in Maghrebian literature and film. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Left: From left, H\u00e9di Bouraoui and Denise Brahimi <\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Papers were offered on a variety of topics during the conference, including: critical reception, migration and travel across cultures, formal experimentation, poetry, cross-cultural dialogue, the role of women, and <EM>La Femme d'entre les lignes<\/EM> (\u00c9ditions du GREF, 2002), a novel written by Bouraoui.&nbsp;Other participants included Prof. Suzanne Crosta, associate dean of Humanities and member of the French Department at McMaster University, Professor Ali Reguigui of Laurentian University, editor of Human Sciences Monograph Series, and Mohamed Ben Madani, editor of <I>The Maghreb Review<\/I>, London, England. Graduate students&nbsp;from&nbsp;York University,&nbsp;the University of Ottawa, and from universities in Italy and Morocco&nbsp;also participated in&nbsp;the conference.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM>This article was submitted to <\/EM>YFile<EM> by conference organizer Prof. Elizabeth Sabiston of York\u2019s English Department, director of the Canada-Maghreb Centre, Faculty of Arts. A reception during the conference&nbsp;in part celebrated&nbsp;the launch of&nbsp;Sabiston's&nbsp;new book on H\u00e9di Bouraoui's novels,<\/EM>The Muse Strikes Back: Female Narratology in the Novels of H\u00e9di Bouraoui <EM>(Human Sciences Monograph Series, 2005).<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scholars from four continents gathered at York to celebrate the work of Professor Emeritus H\u00e9di Bouraoui...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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