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The past in the present : Margaret Thatcher’s legacy

 https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/artist-saves-council-400k-margaret-5028195?fbclid=IwAR3yGIF0Ll3U60CxtDAF--87il41SFA023guyNMf-QH00c1dzcZRC_tM5vg 

M 2 seminars on Social and Cultural changes in the UK

 You will find here chapter five in the video series on the timeline

https://youtu.be/cvm3ZdOaHrw

And chapter six is here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXfm3OFK1ss

Cours de compréhension orale, agrégation interne, feuille de présence individuelle

 Je vous demande de reproduire ce tableau, et me le renvoyer, après le dernier cours, d'ici quelques mois avec une signature pour chaque fois que vous étiez présent e. Ce n'est pas pour vous surveiller, mais pour assurer que je serai payé!

Agrégation interne Compréhension orale    John Mullen  Feuille de présence individuelle
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James Cook, online zoom seminar 1st March

 This seminar concentrates on the history of the book. Two friends of mine are speaking.

Le thème de recherche "Le texte et sa postérité" ("Texts & Their Afterlives"),  (LERMA, UR 853, Aix-Marseille Université), organise un séminaire destiné  notamment aux agrégatifs, sur les journaux de James Cook. Il aura lieu lundi 1er mars, de 16h30 à 18h30. Nous aurons le plaisir d'accueillir: Sandhya Patel (IHRIM-Université-Clermont-Auvergne)  The Lives and Afterlives of Cook's Logs and Journals Jean-Stéphane Massiani, (Lycée Nelson Mandela, Marseille)  From the Ship to the Pen: James Cook as a Writer in the Making L'inscription au séminaire se fait avant le 28/02/21 à 17h, sur  Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/141533890677 L'invitation Zoom sera envoyée aux inscrit(e)s après la fermeture des inscriptions.

seminar M2 more archives and comments

Here are the two archives I mentioned today. I also said that you have until the end of the semester (week 12) to send me your work.

1. The ecologist https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/issue58-.html

(You have to create an account, but it is free).

2. The advertising archives https://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/index.php?service=search&action=do_quick_search&language=en&q=1971

And here is the video lecture we looked at in class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOhkaGTTO_8&

[If possible, come with comments or even questions about the timeline videos.

If you had to omit some of the elements I mentioned in the video, which might you omit and why?

What other types of element could be included?

If you were employed to establish a museum exhibition on Britain in the 1970s, what title would you give it and what might you exhibit?]

M2 seminar 1970s chapter 4

 Here you will find the fourth video in the series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyEhyhDjpk4

James Cook the first two videos

 

You will find here the first two chapters of the online videos, which will remain online for months.

I have already sent you links to these videos. There will be more videos over the next few weeks, so check back here regularly.

 

Chapter 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYejgrsfvLs

Chapter 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7za65kFwJw

M2 seminar 1970s

 You will find here an example of student work done in a previous year. This was a good piece.

http://www.jcmullen.fr/0220samplehw.pdf

You will find here chapter three of the Timeline videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5mX1D6ARB4

More information in a few days.

Seminar M2 . More details on teleology

 

James Cook

 For all of the questions on the "civilisation" section of the agrégation, knowing the framing document very well is essential. In class tomorrow, I will be looking at the main points in the framing document on James Cook. This will help us understand what questions can come up, and how to deal with them. We will look briefly at a couple of questions which came up last year. Try to find a moment to read over the document before the class:

https://saesfrance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/programme-agreg-ext-2021.pdf (section on Cook)

BBC: Commissions of Enquiry

 

One student came up with a fantastic  mnemonic to memorize the order and names of the commissions!

"Some Charming Student Used His Brewed Potion And Progressed!"

Seminar M2 1970s: article

 You can read the introduction of an important book on the 1970s here. I will be beginning to look at this document in class on Wednesday.

http://www.jcmullen.fr/Beckettintro.pdf

This week's classes

mardi 15h

M2 seminar on  the 1970s.

Link here shortly before.

Article here in a day or two.

mercredi 10h30 

Thème agrégation.

Link here shortly before.

We will be working on the passage by Philippe Djian.

mercredi 13h

Capes interne

Link by mail shortly before.

mercredi 15h

James Cook

Link here shortly before.

The class will be a little longer than the last one.

New Zealand and Maori today

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/06/new-zealand-celebrates-waitangi-day-with-dawn-service-bacon-butties 

Black Britons ... and the BBC

 2 mars à 18h

Conférence  Zoom de Darrell Newton, spécialiste des médias, du recrutement et de la représentation des minorités visibles à la télévision britannique, qui est par ailleurs Provost à Winona State University (Minnesota).

Profil : https://www.winona.edu/academic/provost.asp

Darrell nous présentera son ouvrage "Paving the Empire Road : BBC Television and Black Britons" (Manchester University Press, 2011), voir 
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719081675/ ; après quoi il répondra avec plaisir aux questions des étudiant(e)s en agrégation et des collègues.

Le lien Zoom est ici : https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/j/97117850758
Pas de mot de passe, pas de salle d'attente.

Organisée par Olivier Esteves et Lucie d3 Carvalho.n

Seminar M2 1970s

 Watch at least part of each of these: we will be talking about them in class

Gay Pride 1979 https://youtu.be/YV_h2FoQJxs 

Back in time for Brixton: the 1970s.  https://youtu.be/G6RAhpUOu4w

BBC PEOPLE

Make sure you are free from 6pm to 7.30pm on March 2nd.

More information very soon.

M2 seminar

This week's classes

 Tuesday 2nd Feb at 3pm 

Class of M2 seminar "Social and Cultural Changes in the UK in the 1970s"  (Link here shortly before). Please read the two articles posted on this blog a few days back.

Wednesday 3rd Feb

10.30am Translation class for agrégation students. (Link here shortly before).  Note we will be working on the passage from Les Onze about paintings. I will return to you before the class my comments on the translations of this passage which you have sent me.

1.30 pm (Link by mail) CAPES interne comprehension class.

Note on BBC classes

Because the text commentary is not one of the written exercises for the Agrégation Interne, I left the correction of your text commentaries on Benn's speech on the BBC until last in my pile of scripts to mark. I will be looking at this in the next couple of weeks (watch this space).

Note on James Cook classes at Rouen; The first videos (about the first expedition) will be sent to you in the next few days - these are to complement the live classes we have. For complicated reasons, I need to send these to you by mail. I have on my list Charlotte, Robin, Karine, Joséphine, Nathalie, Fiona  and Isabelle. If I have forgotten you, you can send me an email - that would be very useful.