The Albert Memo - Victoria College

Victoria College
The Albert Memo
April 19, 2016
VOLUME XXXIV NO. 31
ANNOUNCEMENTS & NEWS
Brick Books Press posts feature on Jay Macpherson Green
Brick Books Press‘ website has featured a post on Jay Macpherson Green,
which was named in honour of Professor Jay Macpherson. It is a real tribute to
her as a person, a teacher, and a poet.
To read the post, please visit:
www.brickbooks.ca/week-64-more-about-jay-macpherson
Professor David Bezmogis‟ new film „Natasha‟ to be
released on May 5th
Professor David Bezmogis (Vic One) will be releasing his new film ‗Natasha‘
on May 5th, 2016. The film is adapted from the title story of his first
collection, ‗Natasha and Other Stories‘. The film ―takes place over the course
of one summer. It is the story of Mark Berman,16, the son of Russian
immigrants living in the suburbs north of
Toronto. When his uncle enters into an
arranged marriage with a woman from
Moscow, the woman arrives in Canada
with her young adolescent daughter,
Natasha. Mark, a slacker, is conscripted
by his parents to take responsibility for
the strange girl. He learns that, in
Moscow, she‘d led a troubled and
promiscuous life. A secret and forbidden
romance begins between the two of them
that has bizarre and tragic consequences
for everyone involved.‖
For more information, please visit:
www.mongrelmedia.com/film/natasha.aspx
Call for Papers: “Translation Theory and Practice
during the Renaissance: A Medium, a Genre, a Risk”
Sessions sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation
Colloquium at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting
in Chicago, 30 March-1 April 2017
keywords: translation theory; translation practice; Humanism; Classics;
Bible; vernaculars
In past and recent years, many studies focused on literary translation
highlighted how translators‘ strategies modified or remained unvaried
from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period. In Europe, literary
translations started to spread as an autonomous and interdisciplinary
genre in the late fifteenth-century, when the first generation of Humanists
felt the need for more and more refined renditions of Ancient Greek
authors than were currently available. With time, this demand increased
and translations became not only a typically humanistic enterprise but also
a means to avow liberty and critical thinking at the crossroad of religious
polemics, discussions on the value of classical literature, and new literary
creations based on ancient works. Martin Luther, for one, advanced the
Reformation on the wings of his German translation of the Bible, while in
Catholic countries the Inquisition meticulously controlled the translation of
sacred and secular texts.
The proposed sessions seek to explore the different ways translations
affirmed their status in the languages and literatures of Renaissance
Europe. Possible topics include both the theoretical reflections of early
modern authors and their concrete works (c. 1300-1700): to wit, versions of
classical texts and Holy Scriptures as well as of contemporary texts into
Latin, Hebrew, Arab, and the various European vernaculars.
Please send an abstract (150 words maximum) with relevant keywords and
a 300-word maximum curriculum
vitae to [email protected] by 1 June 2016.
Please note: once the sessions will have been approved, presenters will
need to be members in good standing of the RSA, and will need to pay the
conference fee through the RSA website. For more information, please
consult the RSA submission guidelines
at: http://www.rsa.org/?page=submissionguidelines#prop
WHAT‟S NEW AT VIC? Please contact [email protected] with any news, announcements, honours & awards, scholarly activity or
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ANNOUNCEMENTS & NEWS
The Graffigny Project Reaches a Milestone
The fifteenth and final printed volume of the Correspondance of Mme de Graffigny, edited by David Smith with the collaboration of an
international team of scholars based in Toronto, was published on April 5th by the prestigious Voltaire Foundation in Oxford. Before
her death in 1758, Françoise de Graffigny was the world`s most famous living woman author. In her youth she frequented the ducal
court at the château of Lunéville in Lorraine. Her unhappy marriage to a military officer ended with his death in 1725. Political
upheaval in Lorraine led her to move in 1738 to Paris, where she became prominent in literary society. Her novel, Lettres d`une
Péruvienne (1748), and her play, Cénie (1750), were huge popular successes. The final volume covers the last three years of her
life, but also the settlement of her estate and her friends‘ efforts to preserve her fame for posterity Sadly, the originator of the
Graffigny Project, Alan Dainard, did not live to see its completion. For volume 15 English Showalter took over his position as
General Editor. A cumulative index of the letters in the first fifteen volumes, prepared by Marion Filipiuk and put on line by Edward
Heinemann, can be found on the Graffigny website: http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/graffigny. A sixteenth volume, electronic, is being
prepared by Dorothy P. Arthur; it will include corrections, revisions and new material.
Professor John Zilcosky has published a new
book entitled „Uncanny Encounters‟
Professor John Zilcosky (German) has published a new book
called ‗Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and
the End of Alterity‘. Zilcosky is a professor of German and
Comparative Literature, and a Fellow of Victoria College.
According the book‘s
description: ―Around 1900,
when the last blank spaces on
their maps were filled,
Europeans traveled to farflung places hoping to find the
spectacularly foreign. They
discovered instead what
Freud called, several years
later, the uncannily familiar:
disturbing reflections of
themselves—either actual
Europeans or Westernized
natives. This experience was
most extreme for German travelers, who arrived in the
contact zones late, on the heels of other European colonialists,
and it resulted not in understanding or tolerance but in an
increased propensity for violence and destruction. The quest
for a ―virginal,‖ exotic existence proved to be ruined at its
source, mirroring back to the travelers demonic parodies of
their own worst aspects. In this strikingly original book, John
Zilcosky demonstrates how these popular ―uncanny‖
encounters influenced Freud‘s—and the literary
modernists‘—use of the term, and how these encounters
remain at the heart of our cross-cultural anxieties today.‖
For more information, please visit:
www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/uncanny-encounters
Portrait of Mme de Graffigny by PierreAugustin Clavareau Lunéville, Musée du
château, inv.2011.2.1. cliché T. Franz
Conseil général de Meurthe-et-Moselle
The Semiotones‟ new
album Fragments of
Love is now available
on iTunes!
All proceeds from
Album sales go to
SickKids Hospital.
https://goo.gl/TvO9lp
Take a study break -Celebrate National
Canadian Film Day with
the Friends of Victoria
University Library on
April 20, 2016!
Bon Cop, Bad Cop
(Starring Colm Feore and
Patrick Huard)
EM 001 |5:00 pm |
Admission is FREE
More Information:
http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/fr
iends/events.html
#national_film_day
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UPCOMING EVENTS
APRIL
April 20 11:45 am
April 23 10:00 am–4:00 pm
VWA Annual Luncheon - “When Fiction Fails a Novelist”
Tickets are $35. Please send a cheque, payable to the VWA, to the VWA, c/o
Victoria University Alumni Office. Requests for gluten free and vegetarian
meals and payment for tickets should be received by April 12, 2016.
Speaker: Camilla Gibb (Author; June Callwood Professor at Victoria College)
Organizer: Victoria Women‘s Association (VWA)
Location: Alumni Hall
Introduction to Holy Currencies - A chance to explore a holistic model
for stewardship and congregation vitality.
Speaker: Eric Law
Organized by: Emmanuel College
More Information: http://uoft.me/Ns
Co-Sponsors: Emmanuel College, Five Oaks and United in Learning
Location: Five Oaks (1 Bethel Road, RR3 Paris ON)
April 20 2:00 pm
April 29-30 10:00 am–4:00 pm
Boyle‟s "failed" experiments: negative results, limited results, and
real life catastrophes in Boyle's experimental work
IHPST Winter 2016 Colloquia Series
Speaker: Jack MacIntosh (UCalgary)
More Information: http://uoft.me/DZ
Location: VC323 (Old Vic, Third Floor)
Sexuality and Spirituality: Body as Blessing
An Emmanuel College Continuing Education workshop.
Speaker: Anne Simmonds
Organized by: Emmanuel College
More Information: http://uoft.me/Nt
Location: Emmanuel College
MAY
May 2 2:00-4:00 pm
Victoria College Council Meeting
Location: EM119 (Emmanuel College)
May 3 & 4 8:00 pm
CROSS‟D BY THE STARS – A Talisker Players concert
From Tristan and Isolde, to Romeo
and Juliet, to Catherine and
Heathcliffe, we are captivated by
stories of star-crossed lovers –
soulmates who are fated to be torn
apart. We feature Mahler‘s Songs
of a Wayfarer (in Schönberg‘s
gorgeous chamber version) plus
the premiere of Dean Burry‘s
thrilling new adaptation of The
Highwayman.
Tickets: uofttix.ca / 416-978-8849
More information:
www.taliskerplayers.ca
Location: Trinity St. Paul‘s Centre,
427 Bloor St. W.
May 12 4:00 pm
Victoria University Convocation and Emmanuel College Graduation
Honorary degrees to be conferred upon Carol Goar and Earle Toppings
Reception to follow in Alumni Hall, Victoria College Building
Location: Isabel Bader Theatre
Old Victoria College Building
Photo courtesy of Office of Alumni Affairs and Advancement
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