Night of Ideas at the Maison de la littérature

27/01/2022
Local: 7:00 pm
Paris: 1:00 am
Maison de la littérature 40 rue Saint-Stanislas, Québec, G1R 1B7, Québec, CA
Canada
French
https://maisondelalitterature.qc.ca/programmation/nuit-des-id%C3%A9es-2022/
https://www.facebook.com/maisondelalitterature

For this virtual edition, the Maison de la littérature is offering two live interviews with authors and intellectuals on this year's theme: (Re)building together.

7pm | Can language help build a more inclusive future? (duration 75 min.)
Does the French language reflect gender inequality (among other things) and how can its evolution influence popular discourse and literature?

With Nicholas Dawson and Diane Vincent
Hosted by Mélissa Verreault

20:20 | What about social inequalities in the face of climate change? (duration 75 min.)
If climate change affects all populations, does it affect minority or (multi)minority groups more cruelly? This talk will address issues of intersectionality and privilege and explore their relationship to contemporary ecological challenges.

With Myriam Bahaffou and Frédéric Legault
Hosted by Marjorie Champagne

Participants :

Myriam Bahaffou is a doctoral student at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa and at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens. She works and activates within ecofeminisms, and is particularly interested in understanding current ecological issues through an intersectional lens. The inter-species links are at the heart of her work, and she tries to formulate a decolonial approach to veganism.

Born in Chile, Nicholas Dawson is the author of La déposition des chemins (La Peuplade, 2010), Animitas (La Mèche, 2017) and Désormais ma demeure (Triptyque, 2020, Prix de la diversité Metropolis Bleu / Conseil des arts de Montréal and Grand Prix du livre de Montréal). He also wrote with Karine Rosso Nous sommes un continent. Correspondance mestiza (Triptyque, 2021) and (co)directed three collective works: Se faire éclaté-e. Expériences marginales et écritures de soi (with Karianne Trudeau-Beaunoyer and Pierre-Luc Landry, Nota bene, 2021), Self-care (Hamac, 2021) and Savoir les marges. Écritures politiques en recherche-création (with Marie-Claude Garneau, 2022). Editor-in-chief of the journal Mœbius in 2020 and 2021, he is currently the literary director of Triptyque and a doctoral student in art studies and practices (UQAM).

Frédéric Legault teaches sociology at Ahuntsic College and is completing a thesis on post-capitalist economics. He is co-author of the essay Pour une écologie du 99% - 20 mythes à déboulonner sur le capitalisme (Éditions Écosociété, 2021).

For several years, Diane Vincent led a double life: as a professor of sociolinguistics at Laval University and as an author of crime novels. Trained as an anthropologist, a specialist in language taboos and the circulation of verbal violence in the public space, an enthusiast of contemporary art and an avid traveller, the author, who is now a full-time novelist, is fascinated (and often terrified) by the cracks that surreptitiously open up in every society. While her writing is fictional (she knows of no serial killers, greedy crooks or violent villains), she sets her plots in complex but real worlds, which she explores with equal rigour and pleasure. Jeux d'été, published by Triptyque in 2021, is her seventh novel.

The interviews will be broadcast live on the Facebook pages of the Maison de la littérature and the Maison natale de Louis-Fréchette.

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