You can find it here
27 | 2022 Censorship and blind spots: the BBC’s silences (openedition.org)
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Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Suggested translation M2 January exam.
PS: if you send me an email I will send you photos of your corrected work.
He
pressed the switch on the lamp which stood on the bedside table. This filled
the large, barely furnished bedroom with a dim light. He had no need to look at
his watch to know that it was five in the morning. He woke every morning
without fail[1] at
the same time. He pushed aside the covers with a brusque gesture and got out of
bed. The wooden floor creaked under his bare feet in the silence of the dawn.
He
quickly got dressed, putting on a
tracksuit which was lying on the
quilt, and moved towards the window. The closed curtains allowed through lines
of light and shadow. He opened them and half-opened one of the windows. These
were automatic actions among other everyday actions which almost forty years of
living alone had weaved into his life. They were some of so many automatic
reactions which had become essential.
He
suddenly felt dreadfully cold. Despite the hesitant dawn, the moon was still
shining icily. The stars were going out one by one. The day was dawning to a
sky heavy with milk-white clouds. “It is going to snow,” he thought.
Near
the dirt track, he could make out the rocky foothills of the Caïros riverbed,
the river which flowed into the Roya, a small waterway which flowed along the
coast of France and Italy, and then into the sea near Vintimille. He could hear
the bubbling of the water flowing across the dark rows of rocks. Its journey
had begun higher up, 1900 metres below Devil’s Peak. Barely four kilometres
further on, at the foot of Saint Claire’s chapel, the sudden drop in altitude
turned it into a bold torrent. It rushed then down the steep slopes of the
valley, polishing as it passed the rocks and pebbles of the river bed. Its
impetuous waters pulled it to the River Roya, which it joined by the villages
of Fontan and Saorge, 1500 metres further down.
That
was where he had set up home, in this vallée of Caïros. The tiny hamlet of only
a few scattered houses sat on the left bank of the valley, on an ever sunlit
stretch overlooked by the Ceva Plateau. It was wonderful.[2]
Journée d'étude Black Lives Matter: on peut suivre gratuitement en ligne
Le vendredi 4 février 2022, se tiendra à Montpellier une journée d’étude sur le thème “Black Lives Matter : formes politiques et artistiques de l’antiracisme aux Etats-Unis et au Royaume-Uni”, dont vous trouverez le programme ci-dessous.
Cette manifestation, en
accès libre, se tiendra
sur le campus Saint-Charles de l’Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
(UPVM3), salle des colloques n°2. Il sera possible de suivre les
interventions en visioconférence:
https://univ-montp3-fr.zoom.us/j/96284093112?pwd=b0xwWEcvM1QxUkFEQWJmSTJGRlROZz09
Cette journée d’étude s’inscrit dans le cadre des activités du thème
“Faire commun” du laboratoire EMMA, dont des membres proposeront des
interventions sur la production artistique liée au mouvement Black
Lives Matter, sur le traitement de la question des vies noires dans les
formats sériel et filmique et enfin sur l’inscription
du mouvement dans l’espace anglophone transatlantique. Faisant suite à
la séance de séminaire
“De Black Lives Matter au renouveau afro-féministe : voix noires contemporaines aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni” du 19 janvier 2021, cette journée d’étude servira aussi de prélude et de journée préparatoire
à un colloque organisé à Montpellier en 2023.
En voici le programme :
9h15 ouverture (Sandrine Sorlin, co-directrice d'EMMA) et introduction
Session 1 (modération:
Niaz Pernon, ENSCM, EMMA)
9h30 Nicolas Gachon (UPVM3, EMMA), « Mouvements sociaux et espace public : le cas Black Lives Matter »
10h10 Marc Lenormand (UPVM3, EMMA), « Les manifestations antiracistes de 2020 au Royaume-Uni: référence états-unienne et séquence britannique »
10h50 pause
11h20 Lawrence Aje (UPVM3, EMMA), « Entre reconnaissance et effacement : la mémorialisation publique de l’esclavage aux États-Unis, 2000-2021 »
12h00 discussion
12h30 pause méridienne
Session 2 (modération:
Raphaël Ricaud, UPVM3, EMMA)
14h00 Claude Chastagner (UPVM3, EMMA), « Black Lives Matter, un nouveau terrain pour la protest song ? »
14h40
Claudine Raynaud (UPVM3, EMMA), « Memoirs from #BLM era »
15h20 pause
Session 3 (modération:
Manon Lefebvre et Monica Michlin, UPVM3, EMMA)
15h50
Marianne Drugeon (UPVM3, EMMA), « From Confrontation to Healing: in-yer-heart and in-yer-ear in debbie tucker green's
ear for eye and Selina Thompson's salt. »
16h30
Hervé Mayer (UPVM3, EMMA), « Black Bodies/White Spaces: the Horrors of White Supremacy in
Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) »
17h10 discussion
Sunday, January 23, 2022
Ex minister thinks she may have been sacked because she was a muslim
Questions of inclusion and diversity, in and around Johnson’s cabinet.
Saturday, January 22, 2022
MEEF DEVOIR MAISON INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY
Like many people, I have been considerably slowed down by the covid situation, so thank you for your patience.
PS: I forgot to mention below the photos. Almost nobody described the photos. How is Colton dressed, what kind of street was his statue on, does the statue seem to be glorifying him? What kind of people do we see in the photo of the demonstration? Young, old, black, white? What are they doing? What attitudes are they showing? Etc .
Some feedback MEEF devoir maison
The story of the Bristol statue continues. See here
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/colston-4-trial-adjourned-until-6394848
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/colston-4-trial-updates-bristol-6340000
The aim of the exercise is to show
- your English is good
- you understand both the explicit and implicit meanings of the documents
- you have a good knowledge of inclusion and diversity questions in Britain over the last century.
You must prove all three of these things. So if you do not give any examples of other antiracist activity or laws not mentioned in the documents, or other conversations about commemoration not mentioned in the documents, you have not demonstrated the third element.
A few important points:
When presenting the documents, move straight onto elements which help in the interpretation. It is far better to write
The third document is an indignant article from the very popular conservative newspaper, the Daily Mail. It uses very negative vocabulary concerning the Bristol demonstrators, calling them a “mob”.
Rather than
The third document is an article from the Daily Mail website, published on 3rd June 2021. The title is “[quotes complete headline].
It is far better to write
In the third photograph, the statue has been rescued from the river by the local authorities, thought it has not been cleaned, and is displayed horizontally in a museum.
Rather than
The third photograph shows the statue in a museum.
The first photo shows a statue of Colton, finely dressed, on a pedestal in a city avenue.
The centre of your work is the documents, what they are trying to do. The centre is not as such anti racism, British history or multiculturalism. The structure you announce will show this.
This is good: First I will look at what the documents show about commemoration acts, then I will explore the strong feelings often involved in the national conversation around commemoration and racism….
It is very important to think about the intentions and objectives of the different people and organizations involved. The documents are, or illustrate, attempts to change something or stop something changing. They do not simply portray or depict political events.
What were the objectives of
Those who put up the original statue
Those who pulled it down
Bristol council
The museum
The artist who put up the alternative statue
The makers of the website with a lesson plan about Cable Street
The Daily Mail
Now, these intentions may not be easy to identify, which is why “hedging” is essential: that is, expressing uncertainty and probability. Here are some good examples:
The museum may be trying to encourage debate about the statue.
The artist is probably hoping to get a message across about what role models he would prefer to be celebrated with public statues.
The local government, when they pulled the statue out of the river, may have been worried about the reaction of some local voters if they did nothing. The Bristol community must have been divided on this question.
The webmasters may well be hoping to encourage history teachers to include the events of Cable St in their lessons, since it is often forgotten.
The Daily Mail seems to be denouncing what they take to be the disrespect shown to Colton’s statue both by the demonstrators and by the museum, although for the sake of balance they also quote sympathizers of the demonstrators.
British context
These two conversations: how to deal, in history classes, with the events of Cable Street and what to do with statues which were erected a long time ago but celebrate people who are contested by antiracists today, take place in a context.
When doing this kind of exercise, one of the most important questions is “How typical are the events, opinions and attitudes shown in the documents”. This question allows you to show you know lots of examples *which are not in the documents *, which is essential.
Recent laws in Britain have tried to reduce racism at work by making it an obligation of public bodies to fight indirect discrimination by “promoting racial equality”, a particularly British approach. A specific law was brought in to oppose religious discrimination, especially islamophobia. The Black Lives Matter demonstrators in Bristol can be seen as wanting to go further, and look at discrimination in symbolic public spaces.
At the same time, over the last twenty years, governments, in particularly Conservative governments, have been commenting negatively on multiculturalism, suggesting it causes separatism, or even that it was one of the causes of jihadist terrorism ( three of the four terrorists in the terrible 2005 attacks, which killed 52 people, were born and bred in England. Governments, partly responding to racist sentiment, have said that the most important thing is “community cohesion” and have introduced reforms such as the UK Citizenship test, allegedly to encourage such cohesion.
The referendum which led to the UK leaving the European Union involved significant amounts of anti immigrant campaigning, in particular by Nigel Farage.
So, we have a situation where both moves against racism and negative feelings about immigration are very much present.
Friday, January 21, 2022
agrégation anglais civilisation britannique méthodologie commentaire
The commentary exercise, for the agrégation interne, is only required at the oral exams (and so, not next week). Of course, if you are enrolled for the agrégation externe, this exercise is present at the written exams.
I gave this class for a group of agrégatifs who are not at Rouen, but I think you will find it useful (to listen to in February or March!)
http://www.jcmullen.fr/0122finalamienscommentary.mp3
It only remains for me to
wish you the best of luck with the exams next week.
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
agrégation anglais civilisation britannique dissertation/composition méthodologie: cours
J'ai donné un cours de deux heures sur la méthodologie de la dissertation en civilisation, pour la question de la BBC. J'ai donné ce cours à distance deux fois, pour deux universités. Here is a recording of the best take.
Indispensable, à mon humble avis
Boris Johnson
The UK Prime Minister is under pressure to resign. Here are two of today’s newspapers.
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Agrégation interne yesterday's class
You will find Monday evening's class recorded on MP3 here:
http://www.jcmullen.fr/0122finalcompre.mp3
Last Saturday's class will follow shortly.
Monday, January 17, 2022
Thème concours blanc agrégation décembre 2021
I still have a few scripts here on my desk from this exam. If you want yours back, send me an email and I will photograph it.
Sunday, January 16, 2022
Agrégation BBC Director-Generals and Commissions of Inquiry
As you know, the Commissions of Inquiry, and the arrival of Director Generals, are important milestones in the history of the BBC. You clearly need to know, at least approximately, the dates of the most influential ones (I say "approximately" because sentences such as "Reith left the director-general's post at the end of the 1930s" are completely acceptable.)
Last year, some smart student came up with a mnemonic to memorize the order of the Commissions of Inquiry. It went like this:
"Some Charming Student Used His Brewed
Potion And Progressed!"
This year some student asked me on my YouTube channel if I had a mnemonic sentence to memorize the order of the Director-Generals. Since you don't need to be a historian to make up mnemonics, I told them it was their job to find one. But then I did make up this rhyme about the Director-Generals, which may be a little helpful (I didn't want to be excessively helpful either).
BBC Director-Generals 1922-1995
Johnny and Freddie and Cecil and Bob were the
first chappies to handle the job…
Billy then followed, and Ian and Hugh, taking
us up to the sixties: who knew?
Charlie then Ian then Alisdair and Mike ended
the eighties: what’s not to like?
But let’s not forget the last one, John Birt; ther's just him and Mike now who ain’t bit the dirt.
As you can see, if I get fed up with history, the music hall is waiting for me.
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Agrégation concours blanc thème: marking
I will put my suggested translation with detailed comments up here in the next day or two.
For the interne, I marked 13 scripts. The number of “points faute” went from 21 to 73. The average number of “points faute” was 50.3 .
For the externe (the longer translation passage then), I marked 7 scripts. The number of “points faute” ranged from 30 to 70. The average number of “points faute” was 53.7 .
Naturally, everyone would like to know what this means for your chances at the real exam. This is very hard to evaluate. This was a passage which is informal in style, whereas some students do much better with a more literary piece. It also very much depends on whether translation into English is your strong point, where you hope to pick up points, or whether it is your weak point, which you can compensate in other papers on Shakespeare or on the BBC.
If pushed, I would give the following scale for the interne
20 PF = 16/20
25 PF = 15
30 PF =14
35 PF = 13
40 PF = 12
45 PF = 11
50 PF = 10
55 PF = 9
60 PF = 8
etc.
Because there are so few scripts for the externe, just count how many “points faute” you received for the first part of the passage, up to “charges”.
From next week you will be working with Mme Vallée. I think it is good that you see two different approaches. I will be in the libraries, working on 1920s pop song and the death of the UK music hall.
You are probably used to the coding by now, but just in case
REG - error in register
LEX - vocabulary error
SP - spelling
CONSTR - construction
OM - ommission
Clumsy - clumsy
B- Bien
TB- très bien
CAL - calque
VN- verb needed
FS- faux sens
CAPS - capitalization error
PUNC - punctuation error
SUR - overtranslation
SOUS - undertranslation
PREP - preposition
ASP - aspect error
DEIX - deixis
NS - nonsense
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
The British press writes on the French elections
From an unusual standpoint
While the British Prime Minister is under pressure
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Cours agrégation mercredi 12 matin
Le cours de Mme Bernard sera fait d'exercices et de documents écrits; si j'ai bien compris, il ne s'agit pas d'un cours par visio.
Le cours de thème aura lieu à 10h30 dans préfabriqué 1. On corrigera le concours blanc thème.
Monday, January 10, 2022
Agregation BBC - probably the last video
I have just put on line one more video, which is the second one on theory and key concepts in media studies. Don't miss it
Sunday, January 09, 2022
MEEF : inclusion and diversity
I have started marking your homework assignments. This will take some time: I will post detailed collective feedback on this blog in a week or two.
Meanwhile the story of that Bristol statue : breaking news. Four of the demonstrators were take to court for criminal damage. They chose to have a trial by jury, even though this meant that the risk of a serious prison sentence was real. They argued in court that the statue was a symbol of racism and that it was a duty, not a crime, to take it down.
The jury agreed with them. This is very much a historic event. Here is The Guardian s opinion
Friday, January 07, 2022
Agrégation next week’s class
Next week in class we will go through the passage from the « concours blanc », not the passage from Becket.
Thursday, January 06, 2022
Stagiares université Rouen-Normandie Cours de méthodologie agrégation interne, à distance
Ces cours ont été organisés pour les stagiaires de l'agrégation interne (pou préparer l'écrit - dissertation en anglais). Les étudiants de l'agrégation externe de l'Université de Rouen sont néanmoins les bienvenu e s.
Comme vous le savez, certains cours de l'agrégation interne doivent être organisés à distance. Les deux heures de méthodologie dissertation écrite, qui devait avoir lieu sur deux mercredis seront assurés à distance le samedi 15 janvier, de 10h à 12h.
J'ai envoyé un lien par mail. Demandez moi le lien par mail si jamais vous n'avez pas reçu.
I will be looking at aspects of the following three imaginary dissertation questions
- The BBC and Progress for Women
- The BBC and Competition
- The BBC and Modernity.
Some of you have already sent me work on one of these, and have received my comments (If you have sent work and have not received comments please email me now).
Please think about the three topics and how you would probably structure your answer, before the class.
If you have particular questions you can email to me before the class, this will allow me to prepare clever answers.
Thank you for your patience
John Mullen
johncmullen.net
Tuesday, January 04, 2022
Cours agrégation de cette semaine
Le cours de thème aura lieu comme prévu.
Le rectorat nous a informés que les cours qui sont spécifiquement prévus pour l’agrégation interne ne doivent pas avoir lieu en présentiel, au moins jusqu’au 24 janvier.
Demain, donc, pas de cours de compréhension ni de méthodologie demain. On vous tiens informés dès que nous avons de plus amples informations. Ces cours auront lieu à distance à une date ultérieure.
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