Hélène Cazes, Doctorat ès Lettres (Paris)
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Hélène Cazes is currently the Graduate Advisor in French.
She is the Faculty coordinator of the Humanities Diploma Program.
Upcoming Courses in Spring 2012
- In English, a brand-new course on Graphic Novels from the francophone world:
Graphic Novels and More, FRAN 325, CRN 27115 - In French, an exploration of French explorations of Canada:
Voyage et Dialogue, FRAN 436/508, CRN 26048 / 27117
A specialist of Renaissance Literature, Dr. Hélène Cazes researches the definitions and practices of Humanism —the word itself being the self-description of learned communities, bound in cross-linguistic and often cross-religious networks. Trained in France(Ecole Normale Supérieure, Doctorate 1998 , Paris X-Nanterre, Renaissance Literature), she studies the history of texts, books, and scholars. She has published extensively on the Estienne dynasty (16th-17th c.) and on the fortune of classical texts. Interested in the reception of literature but also of the conceptions of the world carried by texts and narratives, she has studied the representations of the body , the conceptions of childhood, and the pedagogical theories in Medieval and Early Modern Times.
Her new SSHRC funded research project addresses History of Medicine: in collaboration with Frédéric Charbonneau (McGill University), whe examines the making of legend of medical progress, the anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564).
She is tracking the concept of friendship, a foundational concept for the newly-born Republics of Letters in Europe (16th and 18th c.) and she is the recipient of the 2011 Research Fellowship of the Faculty of Humanities for this project.
Recent publications
Recent articles
“Commenting on the hatred for Commentaries: Les Censures des Théologiens revised by Robert Estienne, 1552”, in Judith Rice Henderson (ed.), The Commentary in the XVIth century, University of Toronto Press, 2010, p. 205-236.
Robert Estienne et le "paradoxe de l'éditeur" dans Les Censures des Théologiens de Paris (Genève, 1552)", in M. Furno (ed.), Qui ecrit?, ENS Editions, Institut d’Histoire du Livre, 2009, p 207-222.
"Baths, Scrubs and Cuddles: How to Bathe Young Infants According to Simon de Vallambert (1564)", In A. Scott and C. Kosso (ed.), The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance, Brill, 2009, pp. 149-170.
"Alphonse Leroy, Recherches sur les habillemens des femmes et des enfans, 1772 : un discours de la réforme des habitudes ?", Tangence, 89, 2009, « L’invention de la normalité au siècle des Lumières», F. Charbonneau dir., p. 11-34.
"Le Rameau et la couronne: deux oliviers aux titres d’Henri Estienne (1530-1598)", La page de titre, volume réuni et édité par Alexandre Vanautgaerden et Jean-François Gilmont, Musée d'Érasme-Brepols, Nugæ Humanisticæ, Bruxelles, 2008, pp. 185-209.
« Genèse et Renaissance des Apophthegmes: aventures humanistes", in Moralia et Œuvres Morales à la Renaissance, Olivier Guerrier dir., Paris, Champion, 2008, pp. 15-35.
“Jardins, vergers et maisons-bibliothèques: le grand enfermement du livre imprimé, du Praedium Rusticum de Charles Estienne à la Maison Rustique de Jean Liébault”, in Voix plurielles. "La maison et le livre"Books
Olympe de Gouges, Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne, texte intégral, édition par Hélène Cazes, Les Public’ de l’APFUCC, 1, 2010, 48 p.
Editions
Variations Bibliographiques (edition and introduction, final paper), special issue of @nalyses (http://www.revue-analyses.org/).
Facebook in the Sixteenth Century : The Humanist and Networker Bonaventura Vulcanius (in collaboration with K. van Ommen, dir. and ed. ; introductory essay), Leiden, Publications of the University Library (Kleine publicaties van de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek Nr. 83), 179 p. Accessible on line, on the virtual exhibition webpage: DigiTool Viewer < http://tinyurl.com/3yaga8p>
Bonaventura Vulcanius (Bruges 1538- Leiden 1614), Works and Networkshttp://www.brill.nl/bonaventura-vulcanius-works-and-networksHistoires d'enfants, (direction, introduction), Québec, 2008, Presses de l'Université Laval, Collection "La République des Lettres", Série "Symposium", XXII + 355p.
Special issue of Voix Plurielles, “Récits d’enfance, origines du récit” (direction, introduction), 1, vol. 2.
URL: http://www.brocku.ca/brockreview/index.php/voixplurielles/issue/view/29
Recent and upcoming lectures
Invited scholarly lectures
August 2012: "Géométrie de l'amitié humaniste: cercles, triangles, axiomes et symboles dans quelques alba amicorum."
February 4 2012: "Medicine and Magic", University of Victoria, Annual Medieval Workshop.
November 28 2011:"Self-portrait of the anatomist as a rogue", Medicine and Anthropology, Humboldt University, Berlin
March 28 2011: "Plenty of Plantins". Ex officina Plantiniana ad ... Victoriensem Bibliothecam, third of the series Old Books in New Libraries, UVic, Mc Pherson Library, Special Collections.
17 February 2011: “Special Collections, Special Books, Special Readers”, second of the series Old Books in New Libraries, UVic, Mc Pherson Library, Special Collections.
17 January 2011: “The Bishop’s Books”, first of the series Old Books in New Libraries, UVic, Mc Pherson Library, Special Collections. Available at :http://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8080/handle/1828/3202
6 February 2010: “"The Tongue of the Serpent, the Eye of the Basilisk, and the Breath of the Dragon: mythical snakes of medieval Christianity", Medieval Workshop, University of Victoria.
2 March 2009: “Défense et Illustration de la poésie féministe: Nicole Estienne et l’apologie des femmes”, Department of French, University of British Columbia.
23 October 2008: “Mémoires et invention bibliographique: la Bibliothèque Française de La Croix du Maine, 1584”, Séminaire de Littérature de la Renaissance dirigé par Evelyne Berriot-Salvadore, Université Montpellier III-Paul Valéry, Montpellier (France).
6 March 2008: "A Republic of Friends: the Album amicorum of Bonaventura Vulcanius", Cambridge, UK, Clare College, International Society for Neo-Latin Studies.
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