Attitude d'artistes: art et communaute.
Notre duo attitude d'artistes s'est spécialisé dans un travail qui engage conjointement une recherche esthétique et le principe de rencontre. Dans des lieux parfois lointains, nous retirons des images et des formes spécifiques, tout en liant connaissance avec les populations abordées. Chaque projet donne lieu à une restitution vidéo...

Ecumenical studies chair in Rome honours scholar who taught in Canada. (World News).
ROME--For the first time, one of Rome's pontifical universities, which have a special status granted by the Vatican, is to get a chair in ecumenical studies. "We hope to invite guest professors who specialize in ecumenical questions--professors from Italy and abroad, not only [Roman] Catholics, of course,...

Passing the ancestral torch: newfoundlanders pay homage to the resilient Acadian community, while recovering their French Heritage.
If the residents of tile Port-au-Port Peninsula, Newfoundland, are ringing out the old year and ringing in the new with extra fervor, their joie de vivre is well founded. For one thing, the celebrations mark the end of an extraordinary year--a commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary...

Our Oldest Enemy: a History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France.
Our Oldest Enemy: A History Of America's Disastrous Relationship With France John J. Miller and Mark Molesky Doubleday: A Division of Random House 1745 Broadway, 3rd Floor, NY, NY 10019 ISBN: 0385512198 $24.95 US: $37.95 Can At...

Lifting the veils of equity in maritime entitlements: equidistance with proportionality around the islands.
I. INTRODUCTION The modern maritime entitlements over vast oceanic spaces over the continental shelf and over the exclusive economic zone have produced sharp disagreements among neighboring nations about their delimitation, the definition of their borders, many of which remain unresolved. Economic interests are only part of the...

The domino effect: culture change and environmental change in Newfoundland, 1500-1100 cal BP.
Abstract: This article examines the relationship between culture change and climate change in Newfoundland at 1500-1100 cal BP, a period during which two cultural groups lived there, Dorset Palaeoeskimos and Recent Indians. Dorset Palaeoeskimos were specialist seal hunters and Recent Indians practised a more generalized economy based on a...

Drunken states: temperance and French rule in Cote d'Ivoire, 1908-1916.
The fin-de-siecle French finance minister Maurice Rouvier once stated that France was "not rich enough to fight alcoholism." (1) Alcohol helped to underpin the French economy, while contributing in its own way to the cultural efflorescence of the belle epoque. But it was even more significant in providing a...

A current bibliography of Canadian Religious History/Bibliographie recente d'histoire religieuse du Canada: 2005-2006.
Table des matieres / Table of Contents Introduction 1. Guides / Instruments de travail 2. Sources, archives 3. General History / Histoire generale 4. Historiography, Philosophy, Theory / Historiographie, philosophie, theorie 5. Religious Practice, Devotions, Liturgy / Pratiques, culte et liturgie 6. Lay Associations, Confraternities, Organizations / Associations, confreries,...

Plan for the expedition to Hudson Bay: a newly discovered manuscript by Jean-Francois Galaup, Comte de Laperouse.
Introduction The significance of the 1782 expedition to Hudson Bay under the command of the French naval officer Jean-Francois Galaup, Comte de Laperouse is instructive in several ways. Undertaken during the last part of the American War of Independence (1778-1783), the destruction of Prince of Wales Fort...

Printemps de Septembre.
There aren't many exhibitions that take you through winding medieval streets, over rivers and canals, or in and out of former monasteries, power stations, water towers, and lockkeeper's houses. Then again, the annual Printemps de Septembre (September Springtime) is conceived not as an exhibition but as an itinerary of...