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
Links and comments for university students of English, and of British Studies and British history. Study links connected with my classes, and general links on current affairs etc. There are sometimes indications as to what group might be particularly interested (L2 for Licence 2nd year, for example)
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