The FHIS Research Digest is an opportunity to share good news about recent publications, conference attendance, calls for papers, media presence and more from the members of our department. The digest is normally published every three months, but there will be a summer break. If you would like to be included in the next edition, submit your research news through the online form by September 1, 2022

Albarrán Caselles, Olga. (Pro)creación: escritura y maternidad en la España contemporánea. Madrid: Ediciones Libertarias, 2022. http://www.libertarias.com/index.php?menu=3&op=7&tit=621.

Boccassini, Daniela. “At the Roots of Jung’s Alchemy: Part 1, The Red Book’s Alchemical Quaternion.” Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, vol. 16, no. 2, 2022, pp. 19-46.

---. “At the Roots of Jung’s Alchemy: Part 2, From The Red Book to Ravenna.” Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, vol. 16, no. 3, 2022 (forthcoming).

---. “Countravāl l'aigo / Against the Current.” Langscape Magazine (forthcoming).

---. “Jung and Ravenna: The Red Book, Visioning, Rebirth.” Psychological Perspectives, vol. 65, no. 1, 2022 (forthcoming).

---. “Opus divinum: lineamenti della conoscenza ermetica di sé, da Dante a Jung.” Dante e Jung: una relazione a distanza, edited by Claudio Widmann, Magi Edizioni, 2021, pp. 203-217.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. “The vitality of Angolar: A study of attitudes on São Tomé Island.” Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, vol. 37, no. 1, 2022, pp. 160-188, https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00089.bou.

Casas, Anna. Bilingual Legacies: Father Figures in Self-Writing from Barcelona. Toronto: Toronto University Press, July 2022 (forthcoming), https://utorontopress.com/9781487545000/bilingual-legacies/.

Delage-Béland, Isabelle. “L’histoire d'un récit inséré. Dispositio et narratio dans Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne, du XVe au XVIIIe siècle.” Sur la narration, special issue of Exercices de rhétorique, edited by Pascale Mounier, no. 18, 2022, https://journals.openedition.org/rhetorique/1296.

Mitchell, Tamara. “From Ratiocination to Globalization: Poe, Borges, Bolaño and the Complot of the novela negra mexicana.” Modern Language Notes, vol. 21, no. 3, December 2021, pp. 270-291.

Beauchesne, Kim. “Eslabones culturales: las conexiones entre Asia, América y Europa según Escipión Amati, el historiador oficial de la embajada Keichō (1613-1620).” 9th Latin America Research Group Workshop, University of Victoria, March 26, 2022.

---. “Utopian Ecologies: The Amazon as Environmental Futurity in Davi Kopenawa’s The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman.” XL International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, online, May 6, 2022.

Boccassini, Daniela. “At the Roots of Jung’s Alchemy: The Red Book’s Alchemical Quaternion.” C. G. Jung Society of Vancouver, online, June 10, 2022.

---. “‘Di Firenze in popol giusto e sano’: implicazioni ecologiche della trasformazione del senso d’identità in Dante.” Chambéry University, March 3, 2022 (invited).

---. “The Invisible Teacher and His Disciples: Jung’s and Corbin’s Approaches to ‘The Green One’.” International Conference “Adventures in the Imaginal: Henry Corbin in the 21st Century,” Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, May 12, 2022.

Casas, Anna. “Utopies i realitats: sense turistes.” 18th Biennial Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society, UMass Amherst, April 15, 2022.

Castonguay-Bélanger, Joël. "Le centenaire de Voltaire dans la presse canadienne", paper presented at Journées d’échanges scientifiques « Voltaire et les Lumières au Québec : histoire ancienne ou nécessité présente ?, Université de Sherbrooke, April 7-8, 2022.

Falangola, Chiara. “D’Impasse et Rouge (1995) jusqu’à Concombres Amers (2018) : les années Khmers Rouges dans les récits graphiques de Séra.” Colloque virtuel de l’Association des professeur.e.s de français des universités et collèges canadiens (APFUCC), online, May 14, 2022.

---. “Social Justice in the Italian Classroom: Hip-Hop, Black Italy e non solo… .” Canadian Association for Italian Studies (CAIS) Conference 2022, online, June 3, 2022.

Kamranian, Somayeh. “Digital Storytelling — A Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning Tool.” Contract Faculty Community of Practice, UBC, online, January 19, 2022.

---. “Digital Storytelling: An Intercultural Competency Tool to Promote Diversity and Inclusivity in the Classroom.” Arts ISIT, UBC, online, April 11, 2022.

---. “Digital Storytelling: An Intercultural Competency Tool to Promote Diversity and Inclusivity in the Second Language Learning Classroom.” SCOLA 2022 Annual General Meeting, UBC, May 6, 2022.

---. “Le récit de voyage : une occasion pour critiquer chez Fougeret de Monbron.” Colloque virtuel de l’Association des professeur.e.s de français des universités et collèges canadiens (APFUCC), online, May 15, 2022.

---. “Well-Being and Real-Life Challenges as a Course Content in the Language Classroom.” 7th Annual Contract Faculty Colloquium, UBC, May 4, 2022.

Mitchell, Tamara. “In the Key of Crisis: Intermediality and Economic Downturn in Laury Leite’s En la soledad de un cielo muerto.” Iberian and Latin American Cultures Lecture Series, Stanford University, May 11, 2022 (invited).

Zhang, Gaoheng. “Issues of Orientalism and Fashion in the 21st Century: Fascination, Approximation or Appropriation?” Roundtable talk. New York University Florence, online, March 8, 2022.

---. “Italy’s Chinese Migrant Fast Fashion in the Arts.” Stand-alone lecture. Georgetown University, online, March 2, 2022.

---. “Italy’s Chinese Migrant Fast Fashion in the Arts.” Stand-alone lecture. Wellesley College, online, November 4, 2021.

---. “Social Media and Diaspora.” Roundtable talk. American Association for Italian Studies, online, May 12-15, 2022.

---. “What ‘Italian Cuisine’ Means in China: A Media and Cultural Perspective.” Stand-alone lecture. Centre for European Studies, UBC, online, March 10, 2022.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. “Speaking Atlas of French Varieties in Canada.” Arts Undergraduate Research Award (AURA), UBC, 2022 ($3,000).

---. “Speaking Atlas of French Varieties in Canada.” OER Fund Rapid Innovation Grant, UBC, 2022 ($1,500).

Mitchell, Tamara. “Latinocanadá: Writing from the Other Americas.” SSHRC Explore Grant, 2022 ($6,000).

---. “Sound Studies and the Humanities Research Cluster.” Public Humanities Hub Research Cluster, UBC, 2022-2024 ($16,000).

Casas, Anna, member of the Academic Committee. 18th Biennial Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society, 2021-2022, https://blogs.umass.edu/nacs2022.

---. Secretary. North American Catalan Society, 2022-2027.

Gélinas-Lemaire, Vincent, organizer of a dual program funded through a SSHRC Exchange Grant and hosted by UBC’s Centre de la Francophonie:

  • “‘A Heap of Broken Images’: Rethinking the North American Space in Chicano and Québécois Contemporary Poetry.” Guest presentation by Dr. Ariane Audet, FHIS, UBC, March 16, 2022.
  • “Créer entre deux chaises.” Workshop led by Dr. Ariane Audet and co-organized by UBC’s Centre de la Francophonie, FHIS, UBC, March 17, 2022.

---. Organizer. “Le revers de la carte postale.” Cultural workshop led by Nikhita Obeegadoo, FHIS and UBC’s Centre de la Francophonie, UBC, February 1, 2022.

---. Organizer. “Stranger on the Land of One’s Ancestors: Archipelagic Dismemberment and Global Circulation in the Indian Ocean.” Guest presentation by Nikhita Obeegadoo, FHIS, UBC, February 26, 2022.

Kamranian, Somayeh, co-organizer. 6th International Mother Language Day, CISAR and Centre for Community Engaged Learning, UBC, February 19, 2022.

Moran, Patrick and Anne Salamon, organizers. “Redefining Courtliness.” XVIIth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Society, UBC, July 24-28, 2023.

Zhang, Gaoheng, co-host (with Wang Simeng and Valentina Pedone). “Anti-Chinese Prejudice and Covid-19: Voices from Europe,” Festival d’Europa 2022, University of Florence, online, May 9, 2022.

Bouchard, Marie-Eve. Radio interview by Amélie Gosselin at L’heure de pointe – Acadie. Radio-Canada in the Maritimes, March 28, 2022, https://tinyurl.com/2p8ca7jw.

---. Radio interview by Nathalie Geddry at La Mouvée. Radio-Canada PEI, NS, and NL, March 28, 2022, https://tinyurl.com/3mw8auj2.

Gélinas-Lemaire, Vincent. “Comment enseigne-t-on la francophonie à l’université en 2022?” Radio interview by Marie Villeneuve at Phare Ouest. Radio-Canada, March 21, 2022, https://tinyurl.com/2p9aacs9.