Important information in these extracts from a recent jury report.
I contacted the rectorat yesterday because many people had not received their « convocations ». They told me that there had been a mistake, but that these messages would finally be sent out yesterday. Hope it all happened in time and that many of you will be in L311 at 4 for comprehension fun.
Vernon Bogdanor is a well know political analyst, who I have described elsewhere as « conservative but fair-minded ». He has recently produced this lecture on Ireland which I recommend for those who want to understand some of the main dynamics of the colonization and decolonization in this country.
Il y aura (problème de calendrier) deux examens séparés.
Les quelques étudiants de MEEF qui ont suivi le séminaire Première Guerre auront l'examen le mercredi 11 janvier de 15h à 18h salle A402
Les autres étudiants, de LES auront l'examen le mardi 10 janvier de 10h à 13h.
Je ne suis pas certain que l'information ait bien circulé.
(Cours donc en même temps que les cours de thème cette semaine).
Tuesday we have our first agrégation class on oral comprehension and improvised translation ("thème oral"). It is tailored for agrégation interne people, but the externes are welcome. It is in room L311.
On Wednesday translation is in A402 at 9.
James Cook is in A208 at 10.30.
and the 1970s seminar is in A402 at 3.
The Jewish and the Irish communities in the UK are groups it is important to know something about.
The Jewish community in Britain like in other countries, is very varied, but this series looks at one group of Jews, in Manchester
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1JLv5txMw4&t=1s
This documentary, made in the 1980s and entitled "The Irish in England" tells an interesting part of the history of Irish people in the UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYgdQG_orwk&t=3s
As you know there is no class this week. We have two classes left: on the 8th and on the 15th of December.
I hope your homework assignments are going well. I think everyone understands the new system now - if your homework assignment does not get more than ten, you may take a second chance exam in January. Concerning the first semester, nothing happens in June.
You will find here the video of my paper on antiracist songs, which we saw only half of in class. My paper begins after about 21 minutes of this video seminar. It is 20 minutes long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3ov7b6edQ&t=1408s
This paper, in French, looks at another question of how to study popular music : what is the meaning of different activities connected to popular music? In this paper, we look at the activity of singing along at a concert.
https://webtv.univ-rouen.fr/permalink/v125ac8706595jkpm1ck/iframe/#start=11
Finally, this article, “What has popular music ever done for us?” looks at 1970s music in Britain, and why people needed it.
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01966875/document
And you will find here the recordings of important parts of the two classes we have had on popular music:
http://www.jcmullen.fr/1122popmusic1.mp3
http://www.jcmullen.fr/1122popmusic2.mp3
A hundred years of the BBC! If anyone wants to listen to the (50 minute) history lecture I gave on this subject in English in Lisbon last month, you will find the Mp3 audio file here : http://www.jcmullen.fr/1122lisbonfinal.mp3
The accompanying PowerPoint is here http://www.jcmullen.fr/1122lisbonfinal.pdf
The talk was actually entitled "The BBC, Public Service, and Science Programming" and strolled over the entire hundred years asking "Who was it good for?"
Il y a eu 4 ou 5 rajouts/ correction. La dernière version sera toujours disponible ici
http://www.jcmullen.fr/edtsemestre2.pdf
L'hiver arrive et certain e s des étudiant e s de Rouen n'ont pas ce qu'il faut pour vivre décemment. Si vous en faites partie, n'oubliez pas qu'un peu d'aide est disponible. Si vous avez l'argent qu'il vous faut, n'hésitez pas à aider un peu en répondant à l'appel ci-dessous (du service de médecine préventive).
Bonjour à toutes et tous,
Le Service Universitaire de Médecine Préventive et de Promotion de
la Santé propose pour les étudiants en situation de précarité une
boutique santé sociale. Cette boutique leur permet d’obtenir des
produits d’hygiènes ainsi que des vêtements, gratuitement et sans
conditions d’évaluations.
Aujourd’hui, nous faisons appel à votre générosité, pour un appel
aux dons. En effet, nous sommes à la recherche de vêtements
chauds (pulls, manteaux, bonnets, gants, écharpes,
chaussettes etc) et couettes, couvertures, draps pour
passer le froid de l’hiver qui approche. Les couettes, couvertures
seront soumis à un lavage par l’association : les papillons
blancs. Nos besoins en produits d’hygiènes sont également
très importants et seront les bienvenus (dentifrice, brosse à
dents, papier toilette, gel douche, shampoing, serviettes
hygiéniques, déodorant, essuie-tout, mouchoirs, lessive etc).
Si vous souhaitez participer à cette action de solidarité, vous
pouvez venir déposer vos dons au service de médecine préventive le
lundi 05/12 vendredi 09/12 de 9h à 17h. Le service est situé
au 1er étage de la Maison de l’Université à Mont Saint Aignan.
Nous tenons encore une fois à vous remercier pour votre
générosité depuis tant d’années, permettant le bon
fonctionnement de cette boutique santé sociale, apportant de
l’aide à de nombreux étudiants.
Si besoin d’informations supplémentaires, vous pouvez contacter
Ludovic Duchaud, coordinateur des projets de santé au SUMPPS, à
l’adresse suivante : ludovic.duchaud1@univ-rouen.fr.
Today’s class will be shorter, and there is no class next week as I am at a conference in Strasbourg on popular music.
I will put on here links to a video class I gave a couple of years back.
Here is the document I mentioned
Your "mini-dossier" will be due on the 15th January.
Your subject must be approved by me before you begin.
Vous trouverez ici l'emploi du temps du deuxième semestre. Il reste une quinzaine d'heures de cours à placer, mais vous pouvez déjà avoir une première visibilité. La version mise à jour se trouvera toujours à cette adresse
http://www.jcmullen.fr/edtsemestre2.pdf
I have found the source of the confusion about Laurence Olivier. He was knighted in 1947, and so became "Sir Laurence Olivier". What happened in 1970 was that he received a peerage - he became "Lord Laurence Olivier". On both occasions, he was one of the very first actors to receive the honour, and his case therefore stands as a symbol of the increasing legitimacy of the performing arts in the eyes of the Establishment.
["Whenever asked if he should be addressed as Sir Laurence or Lord Olivier, the actor invariably replied, “Call me Larry." (Encylcopedia Britannica).]
You will find here the MP3 recording of our class on racism and antiracism over the last sixty years or so.
And here is the PowerPoint which accompanied the class.
Le 24/ 11 nous serons dans la L310
Le 01/12 il n'y a pas de cours
Le 08/12 nous serons dans la L311
Pour le 15/12 je vous tiendrai au courant
We are hard-working people, us university professors, and I am busy preparing classes for next semester (L3 orals). One of the speeches we will be studying will be by Nelson Mandela. I came across this BBC documentary, which I highly recommend.
You will find here a recording of the class on modern art since 1945, the Young British Artists, the Turner Prize etc.
And you will find here the PowerPoint which accompanied it.
You will find here a recording of my lecture on the UK education system today. It lasts just over an hour and a half.
And you will find the PowerPoint which illustrated it.
You will find here the powerpoint we used in class.
And the MP3 recording of the general introduction section of the class, which took around one hour.
L3 Popular culture and high culture – visual art.
To help with your homework assignment, perhaps, here are similar classes of mine, about visual art. They are the classes I gave at a distance during the pandemic, and are generally similar to the classes I am giving this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BDzpNXtH4Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh4FbURIIQs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F94xDP203X0
Je vous verrai demain matin à 9h.
M Gardes me dit qu’il ne pourra pas assurer son cours demain.
JM
En principe nous serons dans le L307.
En cas de problème, nous reviendrons au A 506...
You will find here your homework assignment. You have 26 days. In the next three Thursday classes, we will look at these issues (but not of course, precisely these documents). On this blog I will give access to other useful resources, but you can use any resources you wish.
For the assignment, just click here.
Le concours blanc agrégation aura lieu du 12 au 15 décembre. A partir de 9h chaque jour.
12,13,14 décembre dans le préfabriqué 1.
15 décembre dans le préfabriqué 3.
Sorry for the confusion before the break - everything should now be back to normal.
I would like to recommend these two short videos
Street art in Bristol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jOhWNTQoA
British sculpture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVkb1EahfeI
We will be back in class on Thursday 10 November at 1pm, in room 202 in the STAPS building. I will be continuing to talk about British visual art.
The time of term has come to give you your marked assignment. Here it is:
Homework assignment
Can visual art be popular culture? Can modern visual art be popular ? How have visual art practitioners and institutions tried to make their art more popular in the UK? Discuss these questions using both carefully chosen examples we have seen in class and examples which you have found yourselves.
Write 1200 -1500 words in English, and re-read very carefully.
Hand in your work before the 3rd December at midnight, by email to john.mullen {AT] univ-rouen.fr. Your work must be in the format Word or ODT or RTF.
DO do some of your own research so as to find different examples and problems.
DO hedge (Write “On might conclude that” or “many commentators consider that…” etc. in order to nuance your statements).
DO give your own opinion, as well as showing you understand the different controversies.
DO NOT list every artist we have seen in class.
DO NOT plagiarise.
mercredi 9h dans A402: Thème M2 et thème agrégation
mercredi 10h30 dans A208: L3 James Cook
mercredi 15h dans A402: Séminaire M2 les années 1970
jeudi 11h MEEF M1 civi GB (à confirmer)
jeudi 13h L3 Cultures populaires: salle 202 (bâtiment STAPS)
jeudi 17h30 : découverte des sytèmes éducatifs étrangers : A 107
I apologize for the confusion last week - everything will be back to normal next week.
I am sure you remember that your exam at the end of November will take the form of a text commentary. So, next Wednesday, we will be lookinf at another extract from cook's diary. You will find this extract below. Read it carefully, and bring any questions you have to the class next Wednesday.
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James COOK, The Journals, ed. Philip EDWARDS, [1999],
Penguin Classics, 2003, pp. 531-533
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Tues. 20
[…] The next morning we stood in for the land,
and were met by several Canoes filled with people, some of them took courage
and ventured on board. I never saw Indians so much astonished at the entering a
ship before, their eyes were continually flying from object to object, the wildness
of thier looks and actions fully express’d their surprise and astonishment at
the several new o[b]jects before them and evinced that they never had been on
board of a ship before. However the first man that came on board did not with
all his surprise, forget his own interest, the first moveable thing that came
in his way was the lead and line, which he without asking any questions took to
put into his Canoe and when we stoped him said ‘I am only going to put it into
my boat’ nor would he quit it till some of his countrymen spoke to him. At 9
o'clock being pretty near the shore, I sent three armed boats, under the
command of Lieutenant Williamson, to look for a landing place and fresh water.
I ordered him, that if he found it necessary to land to look for the latter not
to suffer more than one man to go out of the boat. As the boats put off an
Indian stole the Butcher['s] cleaver, leaped over board with it, got into his
canoe and made for the shore, the boats pursued but to no effect.
As
there were some venereal complaints on board both the Ships, in order to
prevent its being communicated to these people, I gave orders that no Women, on
any account whatever were to be admited on board the Ships, I also forbid all
manner of connection with them, and ordered that none who had the venereal upon
them should go out of the ships. But whether these regulations had the desired
effect or no time only can discover. It is no more than what I did when I first
visited the Friendly Islands yet I afterwards found it did not succeed and I am
much afraid that this will always be the case where it is necessary to have a
number of people on shore; the opportunities and inducements to an intercourse
between the sex, are there too many to be guarded against. It is also a doubt
with me, that the most skilfull of the Faculty can tell whether every man who
has had the venereal is so far cured as not to communicate it further. I think
I could mention some instances to the contrary. It is likewise well known that
amongst a number of men, there will be found some who will endeavour to conceal
this desorder, and there are some again who care not to whom they communicate
it, of this last, we had an instance at Tongatabu in the Gunner of the
Discovery, who remained a shore to manage the trade for Captain Clerke. After
he knew that he had contracted this disease he continued to sleep with
different women who were supposed not to have contracted it; his companions expostulated
with him without effect; till it came to Captain Clerke’s knowlidge who ordered
him on board.
While the boats were in shore examining the coast we stood on and off with the Ships, waiting their return, at length about noon Mr Williamson came on board and reported that he had seen a large pond behind a beach near one of the Villages, which the Natives told him was fresh water and that there was anchorage before it. He also reported that he attempted to land in a nother place but was prevented by the Indians coming down to the boat in great numbers, and were for taking away the oars, muskets and in short everything they could lay hold upon and pressed so thick upon him that he was obliged to fire, but which one man was killed. But this unhappy circumstance I did not know till after we had left the islands, so all my measures were directed as if nothing of the kind had happened.
Remember to try to find in the document elements which tell us more
- about Cook and about his mission
- about the people he is writing for
- about the local peoples he encounters.
Remember to try to assess what is typical about the incidents described.
