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.
Thème M2 (Also blog on master blog)
All M2 students, if I remember correctly, follow for 6 weeks the translation class which is also for agrégation students. Note that the dates of the classes have been slightly modified. You will have classes on 9 November, 16 November, 23 November, 30 November, 7 December and 14 December. The classes will be at 9 am, no doubt in A402. The passages, which you should translate before the classes, can be found here http://www.jcmullen.fr/0922themeagregfinal.pdf . On the first page of the booklet you can find detailed information about handing in translations for personal feedback.On 9 November, we will be working on the passage by Ikor, which is on page 9 of the booklet. Other important information will regularly appear at http://johncmullen.blogspot.com/
(Si des agrégatifs peuvent signaler ce message à des M2, ce serait peut être utile
M2 seminar 1970s
Many M2 students will be following my seminar on Britain in the 1970s ( Transformations sociales et culturelles au Royaume Uni dans les années 1970 ). Note that the dates of the classes have been slightly modified. You will have classes on 9 November, 16 November, 23 November, 30 November, 7 December and 14 December. The classes will be at 3.30pm in A402.
Before the class you should explore this journal
https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/1661
And read this article
https://hal-normandie-univ.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01817312/document
M1 MEEF CIVILISATION BRITANNIQUE
So far in class, we have had an overview of
British history over the centuries. In this way I hope to have filled in some
gaps and reminded you of key events and processes. Because some of you saw my
overview of “Britain since 1945” only last year in L3, I decided not to do this
in class this year. However, as luck would have it, a couple of years ago some
pandemic or other obliged me to make videos of my classes. You will find here
four half-hour videos outlining the main processes, events and contradictions
in UK society since 1945. Although the aim of these videos was to introduce my course on popular culture, it will serve as an introduction to this period in British history. You just have to ignore the short introduction on administrative matters.
The homework assignment will be available soon. In class we will look at some of the general background, and the methodology, which will help you both with the assignment and, later, with the CAPES.
The assignment will be focussed around the theme "Rencontre avec d'autres cultures". I recommend you spend some time looking at this previous homework assignment which I gave a couple of years ago, and the detailed comments I made about students' work. This will hemp you to identify and avoid the classic major mistakes.
Just click here
https://johncmullen.blogspot.com/2020/12/meef-full-comments-on-documents-we-were.html
M1 Seminar Historiography and Memory: The British experience of the First World War.
Good news and bad news. I am ill [but not from Covid]. There will be no class on 19 October. The good news is that in previous years I recorded the corresponding classes. Students are therefore asked to look at the following videos, on my YouTube channel “the history fellow”. These videos are indispensable.
Commemoration 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWtFSLdPUFs
Commemoration 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u6hicBWuck
Commemoration 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF6V8qwf-Tg
Commemoration 4
Note that the first one goes over what we saw in class, but the last two are completely new to you. You should also search around in the international press for other, newer examples of commemoration you will be able to use in the exam.
As you know, this seminar is evaluated by an exam in January. You will find, on the same YouTube channel, in a couple of weeks time, links to other videos which will help you revise, since they cover the same fields we have been looking at over the last five weeks.
Je suis souffrant et je serai absent mercredi 19 octobre. Puisqu’il y a deux ans j’ai enregistré des cours sur Cook, je vous demande de regarder ces videos (chacune dure 30 minutes):
Part one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DNBmnRPfok
Part two https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvHJOQYMha4
Part three https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Y8mZN-U-k
Il est important de regarder ces videos: elles font partie du programme.
Par ailleurs, comme annoncé, l’examen fin novembre prendra la forme d’un commentaire de texte. Vous trouverez ici l’enregistrement Mp3 de la partie du cours de mercredi dernier qui traitait du commentaire de texte. http://www.jcmullen.fr/1022cookcommentary.mp3
Thème agrégation
I will not be in Rouen on Wednesday 19 October because I am ill (not covid :=)).
I will, sooner or later, finish commenting and returning your translations of the passage from Aubry, and I will post here http://johncmullen.blogspot.com/ annotated translations of Aubry and of the previous passage.
As you know there is no class on the 26th, so I will see you on the 9th November, when we will work on the passage by Ikor.
In The Sun, here, a surprisingly broad selection of views
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2108368/fifa-poppy-ban-england-scotland-fine/
I am working on the correction of the translations you have sent me. I am on the move this weekend (Britanny!) and do not have the same software as at home. You will get the list of main errors, but without the numbers of points.
In thus article from this week’s newspaper, can you find the little elitist sentence somewhere in the middle?
Commemoration of the encounter between Cook and the First Nations has many forms. Here is an article about a particularly impressive attempt to commemorate Tupaia.
https://tpplus.co.nz/entertainment/tahitian-navigator-tupaia-comes-to-life-in-new-opera/
1) Andrew Mycock
http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/21826/1/Mycock_(2014)_The_First_World_War_Centenary_in_the_UK.pdf
2) Sheehan and Davison
https://www.scienceopen.com/document_file/32aad5b4-ba52-4704-8946-c633f9e87ed9/ScienceOpen/s9.pdf
3) Maggie Andrews
I will see you the day after tomorrow in class.
The following Thursday, however, I have been asked to chair a session in a conference here in Rouen on political polarization, so I will be absent.
Please watch these two videos on British cinema. Each one is around half an hour.
And please check again here on the blog this time next week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UugYzcc-NGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejhtsCEZ-MA
And this video looks at one event in the UK contemporary art scene:
NB corrected message
The Thursday classes in popular culture will be a little disrupted.
There will be no class on 20th October nor on the 27th October.
However, there will be a class on 15th December, and I will be putting some resources here on the blog which you must study.
One of today’s UK newspaper headlines will be very difficult for people elsewhere in the world to understand, and perhaps even for younger Brits.
You will find here a recording of the class on defining popular culture and high culture, and a presentation of the ideas of Theodor Adorno, as well as some criticism of his views.
Ces enregistrements sont parfois mis en ligne de cette manière afin de vous aider. Il ne faut pas oublier, pourtant, que la présence est obligatoire à ces cours, à moins d'avoir obtenu une dispense.
Canals, banks, protestantism, enclosures, railways, telegraphs, factories, trade unions, chartism, suffragism: how they all fit together in the first country to undergo the industrial revolution: Britain.
You will find here a recording of the class on the Civil War in 17th century England. How it came about, the different forces and ideas around Cromwell, the reasons of the restoration of the monarchy on radically different terms from previously.
The Nobel prize in literature Annie Ernaux wins the 2022 Nobel prize in literature | Books | The Guardian
The Nobel prize in Physics! Three scientists share physics Nobel prize for quantum mechanics work | Nobel prizes | The Guardian
In the MEEF class, once I have finished the overview of British history, we will be looking at the theme of other cultures - racism, antiracism, multiculturalism, diversity. I highy recommend this issue of the French Journal for British Studies, available free online https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/655
The series of lectures I am organizing in collaboration with the CRECIB and the Association France-Grande-Bretagne are particularly useful for preparing the CAPES. The first one is on 13th October at 6pm. Nathalie Duclos will be speaking about "The Four Nations" (in French). The lecture is available by zoom and is free. But you must send an email to moreau-anet@orange.fr before the 8th October, if you want to receive the link for the zoom meeting.
If you should be in Paris, you can go in person, lycée Henri IV, rue Clovis, arrive well before 6pm : but you also need to send a mail to the above adress to register (for security purposes).
L'EC "culture populaire" sera évalué par un devoir maison un peu conséquent, impliquant de la recherche personnelle et de la rédaction. Je vous en donnerai le sujet lors de la semaine qui commence le 17 octobre, et vous me rendrez le devoir par mail avant le 28 novembre. Fichier word ou odt, à l'exclusion de tout autre format. N'oubliez pas de passer un correcteur orthographique/de grammaire, évidemment.
Etant désormais en L3, vous comprenez bien les règles du plagiat. Une phrase prise d'une autre source (sauf si elle est citée et référencée, bien sûr) constitue un problème grave.
SERIE DE CONFERENCES/DROIT DE VOTE DES FEMMES AUX ETATS-UNIS, 1776-1965
Dans
le cadre de la préparation à l’agrégation, une série de conférences en
ligne sera dédiée à la question du droit de vote des femmes aux
Etats-Unis (1776-1965). Si vous souhaitez assister à ces conférences,
veuillez cliquer sur le lien correspondant à chaque séance pour
vous inscrire à l’avance. Les conférences ont lieu de 17h à 18h30 (heure
Paris). Elles sont ouvertes à toutes et tous. Les présentations seront
suivies d'une discussion avec l’auditoire.
Hélène Quanquin, Claire Delahaye, Claire Sorin, Anne Stefani
LUNDI 10 OCTOBRE 17h
Wendy Rouse (San Jose State University), Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement (NYU Press, 2022)
lien d'inscription: https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dh5OMiGNRyWXwA4sGLrEIQ
LUNDI 17 OCTOBRE 17h
Liette Gidlow (Wayne State University), The Big Vote: Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s-1920s, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
lien d'inscription: https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8-uhtPymQLSt4zUEgznQEg
LUNDI 7 NOVEMBRE 17h
Rosemarie Zagarri (George Mason University), Revolutionary Backlash, Women and Politics in the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
lien d'inscription: https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f-1hxbb0Tlyije9vDV6ciw
LUNDI 21 NOVEMBRE 17h
Katherine Marino (UCLA), Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement, University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
lien d'inscription: https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S2YmlyBzQ2WsWfFgK81wXg
LUNDI 5 DECEMBRE 17h
Lori D. Ginzberg (Penn State University), Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman’s Rights in Antebellum New York, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
lien d'inscription: https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lbEWPr1VRKmQABUQStZW5Q
LUNDI 12 DECEMBRE 17h
Marjorie Spruill (University of South Carolina), New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States (Oxford University Press, 1993)
lien d'inscription: https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P8rf4IBeRD-ZYnvjw48wBQ
Dans le cadre de la préparation de la question de civilisation
britannique à l’agrégation d’anglais 2023, trois séminaires en ligne sur
le puritanisme anglais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles sont organisés en
octobre, décembre et
février par Sandrine Parageau (Sorbonne Université) et Anne Page (AMU):
Des directeurs et directrices d’ouvrages de référence sur le
sujet y présenteront leur travail. Voici le calendrier :
14 octobre 2022, 17h00-18h30 : Francis Bremer autour de
Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2006)
16 décembre 2022, 17h00-18h30 : John Coffey et Paul Lim autour de The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
10 février 2023, 17h00-18h30 : Ann Hughes et Greg Salazar autour de
The Oxford Handbook of Puritanism, à paraître en 2023 (coédité avec Francis Bremer également).
Puritanisme webinaire 1, vendredi 14 octobre 2022, avec Francis Bremer.
Inscription:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webminaire-puritanisme-1-tickets-378564836617
Puritanisme webinaire 2, vendredi 16 décembre 2022, avec John Coffey et Paul Lim.
Inscription:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/billets-webimaire-puritanisme-2-380307699567
Puritanisme webinaire 3, vendredi 10 février 2023, avec Ann Hughes et Greg Salazar.
Inscription: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/billets-webminaire-puritanisme-3-379092494857
You need this book! It explains in 128 pages very clearly the difficulties with Be + ING, Have + EN and even the difference in meaning between "Someone has smoked" and "someone has been smoking". Don't miss it: free on line here: Le prétérit en anglais de Anne Trevise.
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00732793/document
You will find here a recording of the class on British history 1968 to 2020. It sketches out the main currents of British history, in particular around governments and trade unions, around racism and anti-racism, and around the conflict in Northern Ireland.
You will find here a recording of the class which went from the Black Death and the Peasants' revolt of the 14th century, through the religious, economic and political reasons for the Reformation, and the different policies of monarchs between Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, to the conflict between parliament and King under James I.
L'horaire du cours a changé! A partir de maintenant, il aura lieu le jeudi à 13h. Il sera dans la salle 202. On me dit que cette salle se trouve dans le bâtiment STAPS; Assurez-vous de pouvoir la localiser, et faites passer cette information aux quelques étudiants qui ne consultent pas régulièrement ce blog.
Of course, everyone will try to arrive on time, but if you are late, do come in - do not miss the entire class just because you were a quarter of an hour late.
le jeudi 29 septembre de 17h à 19h, séminaire en ligne, de l'International association for the study of popular music branche francophone d'Europe. Ouvert à tous par zoom
Giovanni Pietro Vitali
Voices of Dissent. Approches interdisciplinaires de la nouvelle musique populaire et politique italienne
Dans ce séminaire, nous présenterons les résultats d'une recherche qui a été publiée dans le livre Voices of Dissent
(Oxford : Peter Lang, 2020). Cette étude traite de manière
interdisciplinaire la musique politique italienne, principalement
d'inspiration folk, à travers une approche méthodologique typique des
études culturelles avec l'aide d'outils numériques. La période examinée
dans cette étude commence dans les années 1960 et va jusqu'à
aujourd'hui. À travers l'examen des activités musicales de groupes et
d'auteurs-compositeurs-interprètes, attribuables à des positions proches
de mouvements idéologiquement alignés sur la gauche ou proches des
positions de l'extrême droite, sont mis en évidence les profonds
clivages d'un pays qui, aujourd'hui encore, ne parvient pas à se défaire
du fascisme, la haine politique des années de plomb et les divisions
sociales des années 1990 - 2000 qui ont culminé avec les violences
policières qui ont eu lieu à Gênes lors de la réunion du groupe des 8
(G8).
Grâce à une approche profondément interdisciplinaire, nous
mettrons d'abord en évidence les connexions culturelles entre la musique
politique italienne et les influences populaires et traditionnelles
internationales. Dans un deuxième temps, nous illustrerons une étude
numérique d'un corpus de quarante et un musiciens, qui approfondit les
aspects sociolinguistiques de l'italien afin d'esquisser des
interprétations politiques et des études de genre à travers l'analyse du
discours aidée par les outils typiques du Traitement Automatique des
Langues. Dans la troisième et dernière partie, nous présenterons enfin
une étude comparative de la relation entre les textes de ces musiciens
politiques et la littérature.
Giovanni
Pietro Vitali est Maître de conférences en Humanités Numériques au
laboratoire DYPAC de l’Université de Versailles
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, avec rattachement secondaire au laboratoire
CHCSC. Entre 2018 et 2020, il a été chercheur lauréat de la bourse de
recherche européenne Marie Curie pour le projet « Last Letters from the
World Wars ». Cette recherche a été menée à University College Cork en
collaboration avec New York University et l’Université de Reading. Il
est titulaire d’un doctorat en Littérature Italienne, obtenu en France à
l’Université de Lorraine, et d’un doctorat en Sciences du Langage,
obtenu à l’Université pour Étrangers de Pérouse. Il est également
chercheur associé à l’Université d’Oxford où il est en charge de
l’analyse numérique d’un corpus multilingue de traductions du roman «
Jane Eyre » de Charlotte Brönte dans le programme AHRC « Prismatic
Translations ».
Liste des publications : https://www.dypac.uvsq.fr/m-giovanni-vitali
Barbara Lebrun
Doudous, bambous, tropiques… :
imaginaire afro-antillais dans la variété française des années 1980 »
La
culture française coloniale a longtemps représenté le corps noir selon
des stéréotypes genrés, hommes-clown à la Banania ou femmes nues à la
Joséphine Baker. Dans les années 1980, ces mêmes représentations
perdurent dans la variété francaise avec l’évocation fréquente d‘un
Ailleurs afro-antillais exotique dans les paroles, la musique et l’image
(par exemple chez Carlos, Richard Gotainer, Julien Clerc, Bernard
Ménez, Annie Cordy… voir la playlist YouTube ci-dessous). Toutefois,
cette même décennie produit aussi la bande-son de l’anti-racisme,
parfois chez les mêmes artistes, et lance des carrières discographiques
de conséquence pour quelques chanteurs noirs francophones, puis
créolophones (Compagnie Créole, Bibie, Marijosé Alié). Contextualisant
un corpus d’une vingtaine de chansons, toutes des tubes commerciaux,
cette communication dialogue avec les débats décoloniaux habituellement
réservés à la World Music et au rap (e.g. Taylor 2007 ; Murphy 2007)
afin d’éclairer la place économique et symbolique des Noirs dans la
variété française. Entre héritage colonial, légitime fascination pour
l’Autre, intentions anti-racistes et collaborations professionnelles,
l’imaginaire afro-antillais dans la métropole des années 1980 se révèle à
la fois sensible et sourd à la différence raciale, selon une tension
‘républicaine’ encore perceptible aujourd’hui.
YouTube playlist ‘Caribbean exoticism in French pop’:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5ULXfj0nJo9vLXvNvPQfxKpIbmBkMdyV).
Dr Barbara Lebrun est enseignante-chercheure en French Cultural Studies
(civilisation française) à l’Université de Manchester depuis 2002.
Spécialiste de chanson française, elle s’intéresse particulièrement aux
tensions entre prestige et succès commercial, et aux représentations
identitaires du genre et de l’ethnicité. Elle a exploré ces thèmes dans
ses deux monographies, Protest Music in France (Ashgate, 2009) et Dalida. Mythe et mémoire (Le Mot et le Reste, 2020), ainsi que dans d’autres publications. Liste complète ici: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/barbara-lebrun(e50245bf-3b95-48dd-b40f-e165f17e46c2)/publications.html
Mercredi 9h Thème A600
Mercredi 10h30 L3 Cook A208
Mercredi 15h30 Master LES ww1 Historiographie : Amphi 5, attention changement de salle, faites circuler!
Mercredi 17h30 L3 Cultures populaires A210
Jeudi 11h M1 MEEF civi GB A506 (à moins d'un changement d'ici là)
This recording takes us through British political social and cultural history from 1945 to 1970. The Cold War, the Welfare state, the Suez crisis, racism and antiracism, decolonization, the legalization of homosexuality and much more.
This recording, just over an hour long, takes us from the anglo-saxon invasions to the Black Death. Viking invasions, William the Conqueror and all that.
I will be absent Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 October.
These classes will be replaced on Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 December
J'attends confirmation mais il est fort probable que notre cours du mercredi 17h30 aura bien lieu à cet horaire le mercredi 28, mais que, à partir de la semaine suivante et pour le reste du semestre; ce cours soit placé le jeudi à 13h.
Bien reçues vos traductions. Si vous mettez votre nom aussi dans le fichier au début de votre traduction, c'est bien utile pour que je ne confonde pas les travaux différents lors des copier coller nécessaire à l'utilisation du logiciel Markin. Merci à ceux qui l'ont fait.
mer 9h Thème agrégation A600
mer 10h30 James Cook et son monde L3 A208
mer 15h30 M1 historiographie de la Première Guerre Salle de conseil
mer 17h30 Culture populaire en GB depuis 1945: A210
jeu 11h M1 MEEF A 400 attention changement.
This week's passage from Nourissier was rather long. When this is the case, you may if you wish send me a careful translation of the first half of the passage. Please do not send me a rushed translation of the whole passage :=)
I will normally be able to return to you by mail a commented version of your work before the following class. This may occasionally be impossible, because I am away at a conference, or because there are too many translations in a given week.
L'évaluation de ce cours se fera par un examen, qui aura lieu *en principe* le vendredi 25 novembre.
Someone asked in class whether Roman temples in Britain had survived.
Sadly only a few ruins: see here
Ce cours, qui a lieu le mercredi de 17h30 à 19h30, a été annulé la première semaine car nous n'avions pas de salle. Il aura lieu, à partir de mercredi prochain dans la salle A210.
I was talking in our class on James Cook about various controversies concerning commemoration. Here is one from today's newspaper, concerning the United States:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/13/arlington-national-cemetery-confederate-memorial
mer 9h thème agrégation - CHANGEMENT ! A600!
10h30 L3 James Cook A208
15h30 séminaire historiographie première guerre - salle du conseil, 3e étage du batiment A
17h30 L3 Culture populaire. Pas de salle annoncée pour l'instant. Si j'ai des nouvelles, je mettrai le numéro de salle ici
jeu 11h MEEF M1. logiquement A506; s'il y a changement je mettrai ici
Our L3 classes on James Cook will be every Wednesday at 10.30 am. There will be no class on 26 October, but there will be a class on 14 December.
You will find a collection of documents to study here. Download the booklet and keep it safe.
Welcome to the new university year. Our classes on advanced translation into English will be on Wednesdays at nine. I do not have our room yet, but should have soon.
You will find below a link to the booklet of passages to translate. The booklet also contains details of how our work will be organized.
Please translate the first passage for Wednesday.
John Mullen
John dot mullen at univ hyphen rouen dot fr
You will have seen very numerous commentaries of all kinds about the Queen’s death after the longest reign in British history. What happens to the monarchy now? Kevin Ovenden, a republican on the left, comments:
If any master's student is looking for a subject for research, remember it is the centenary of the BBC, and there are a hundred questions about the BBC which are worth researching.
I work a lot on commemoration, and this article, about a new project in Normandy, intrigued me.
D-day tribute or theme park? Battle rages over Normandy plan | France | The Guardian
This article from The Guardian reflects on the fact that the top levels of British government are less White and Male than they used to be.
What is the meaning of this change? Obviously it does not mean that racism and sexism have disappeared from the UK. It also does not mean that the new government will have as its priority how to make the lives of women and non-white people better.
But it certainly means something!
Après avoir pu me consacrer à la recherche depuis février, grace à un congé de recherche, je recommence les cours la semaine prochaine. Il paraît que nous n’aurons pas à porter des masques, c’est un soulagement.
Ce semestre je donnerai les cours suivants:
mercredi 9h thème pour agrégation et pour M2
mercredi 10h 30 L3 civilisation GB: James Cook 250 ans apres
mercredi 15h30 M1 LES et M1 MEEF. Introduction à l’historiographie et aux études de mémoire: comment écrit on sur la Première guerre mondiale?
mercredi 17h30 L3 Culture populaire et culture savante au Royaume Uni depuis 1945
jeudi 11h M1 MEEF civilisation GB Repères
En juin dernier, France Culture m'a demandé d'expliquer la grève des cheminots en Grande-Bretagne. Les grèves ont été rares au Royaume-Uni depuis 20 ans.
Vous pouvez écouter l'émission ici
Il se peut que l'automne 2022 voit une vague de grèves plus larges dans le pays.
Vous verrez ici l'emploi du temps du premier semestre, semaine par semaine. Nous devons encore rajouter les heures prévues spécifiquement pour l'agrégation interne (quelques heures au premier semestre et quelques dizaines d'heures au deuxième semestre). Il y a occasionnellement des petits changements à l'emploi de temps, mais le lien ci-dessus donne toujour la version la plus récente.
Many years after the events, documents, kept secret until recently, show the use of fake news and invented organizations by the UK government .
Cours Compréhension orale/thème oral, agrégation interne
Ces cours sont structurés
autour des exercices à l’agrégation interne, mais les étudiant e s qui
préparent uniquement l’externe sont les bienvenu e s.
Pour préparer dores et
déjà l’exercice de thème oral, prenez les articles du jour de Libération et/ou
Le Monde. Essayez de traduire *très rapidement* en anglais les trois ou quatre premières phrases (150 mots maximum).
Une exercice par jour, pourquoi pas ?
Pour préparer dores et
déjà l’épreuve de compréhension orale, écoutez les podcasts de la BBC (disponible
en ligne). Nous travaillerons également sur des morceaux en anglais américain,
australien etc. Ecoutez, deux fois, les trois premières minutes d’un épisode de
Desert Island Discs ou de In Our Time. Essayez de restituer toute
l’information de l’extrait. Ensuite,réécoutez aussi souvent que nécessaire pour
comprendre chaque mot de l’extrait. Exercice à refaire régulièrement.
I am lucky enough to be going to Canada on holiday this summer (my first time in the country). Naturally, historians on holiday look for museums, but also feel a need to prepare their holidays. I highly recommend the documentary available on YouTube « A Peoples History of Canada ». It is 25 hours in total! Here is the first episode : https://youtu.be/lBdwWOtOWMg
Cours de thème, préparation de l’agrégation
2022-2023 (first class in week of 12 September)
Welcome to your prose composition class
(that is the old-fashioned English way of saying « thème»).
You will be aware that the translation
classes will help you sort out weaknesses in your grammar, and that this will
also gain you points in your other papers, in literature or in civilization.
Here is some information about how the
class will work. Students translate the passages at home before the class (it
is impossible to learn translation by watching other people translate). In
class, we study the students’ translations and my own proposals, and
recommendations are made about working on specific grammar points etc.
A few days after the class, my own
suggested translation, with notes, is posted on my teaching blog
https://johncmullen.blogspot.com/ . This suggested translation remains online
for two weeks, and then is removed.
If students wish to get more detailed
feedback on their work, they may send me by email at john dot mullen at
univ-rouen dot fr their completed translation, one week before we study that
particular passage in class. Translations must be sent in doc or odt format,
not in PDF. I will attempt to return them to you in time for the class. Please
do not give me translations on paper.
Note that the students who succeed at the
agrégation each year are among those who have regularly handed in work during
the year.
Students who are enrolled in the agrégation
interne will occasionally miss a translation class because they have another
scheduled class. Please consult the timetable you will be given
Une réunion d'information sur la préparation aux concours de l'agrégation se tiendra mercredi 6 juillet 2022, de 15h à 16h30, en A515.
As we know, the UK doe snot have a codified constitution.
This has frequently led to disagreements and debates. Here is a very interesting debate on the subject
Today there are local elections in Britain. The newspapers front pages are worth a look.
https://news.sky.com/story/thursdays-national-newspaper-front-pages-12427754
The new programme of the agrégation - for 2023 - has been published this morning. You will find it on the official "devenir enseignant" page.
Of course, myself I am involved in the history section, but I could not help noticing that Hamlet is now the set Shakespeare text. And I have to recommend this classic book about the play, which I consider to be a masterpiece and essential reading :
Amazon.fr - What Happens in Hamlet - Wilson, John Dover - Livres
