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DESCRIPTION:Join MISC at 4:00 pm on Monday\, November 17th at the Faculty C
 lub (3450 McTavish Street) for the 2025 Fall Eakin Lecture\, Robert Lepage
  and the ROC: Forty Years of Circulations\, by Jane Koustas.\n\nWith his c
 ollaborative effort “Circulations” staged in Toronto in 1985\, Lepage intr
 oduced Toronto to bi- or multilingual theatre that bypassed and transforme
 d the then-conventional notions of translation which place source and targ
 et languages\, audiences and cultures in binary opposition. This productio
 n that was “one third French\, one third English and one third movement”\,
  redefined or transgressed the traditional labels of québécois\, English-C
 anadian\, the Rest of Canada (ROC) or Other.\n\nLepage’s success in the RO
 C lies in his work’s power to negotiate difference and otherness\, not thr
 ough the depiction of conflict or division\, but through the imaginary and
  visual presentation of shared space and ideas\, and through the broadenin
 g and fusing of horizons. Unlike other destinations on his extensive globa
 l itinerary\, the ROC was a home away from home that recalled and played u
 pon Lepage’s own dual identity as québécois and Canadian while joining him
  on\, and benefitting from\, his global artistic and geographic journey\; 
 he staged the pulsation between familiarity and otherness.\n\nThe lecture 
 will be followed by a Q&A and reception. This event is free and open to pu
 blic\; registration is required via Eventbrite.\n\nThe Eakin Lecture serie
 s is organized bi-annually by the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
 \, as a part of the Eakin Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Studies establis
 hed by the Eakin family in memory of William R. Eakin. The fellowships are
  awarded each term to active scholars whose research or teaching advances 
 Canadians Studies.\n\nThis event will be livestreamed.\n\nJane Koustas is 
 Professor Emerita of French at Brock University where she also directed Ca
 nadian Studies. She served as the Craig Dobbin Professor of Canadian Studi
 es at University College Dublin. Koustas was the President of the Canadian
  Studies Network from 2014 to 2016 and served as the President of the Inte
 rnational Council for Canadian Studies from 2022 to 2024. Koustas was also
  the Editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies. In 2022\, she was awarded 
 the Governor General’s International Award for Canadian Studies.\n\nShe is
  the co-editor of: Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada: Real\, Imagined\, (
 Re)viewed\; Plurilinguisme et pluriculturalisme: Des modèles officiels dan
 s le monde\; Canadian Studies: Past\, Present\, Praxis with Christl Verduy
 n\; Translating from the Margins: Traduire depuis les marges\; Robert Lepa
 ge: Théàtre sans frontières: essays on the dramatic universe of Robert Lep
 age and Vision/Division: l’oeuvre de Nancy Huston. Professor Koustas publi
 shed Les belles étrangères: Canadians in Paris\, 2008 and Robert Lepage on
  the Toronto Stage: Language\, Identity\, Nation\, 2016.\n\nIn 2017\, she 
 was awarded the James A. Flaherty Visiting Professorship by the Ireland-Ca
 nada University Foundation to pursue a comparative study of Quebec and Iri
 sh theatre.\n\n \n\n \n
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LOCATION:Faculty Club\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E5\, 3450 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Robert Lepage and the ROC: Forty Years of 'Circulations'
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/misc/channels/event/2025-eakin-lepage-roc
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