CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now with Jude Agboada (ART) and Renée Lambert-Brétière (MLLI)

The Dresher Center’s CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now lunchtime series showcases exciting new work in the humanities in a dynamic and inter-disciplinary setting.

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Jude Agboada, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts

Hu M'ani So Ma Me: The Impact of Collective Memory  

Jude Agboada’s research and practice examines the enduring structures of colonialism through the lens of Ghana’s post-independence history. Although Ghana was among the first African nations to gain independence from British rule in 1957, Agboada approaches independence not as a conclusion but as a condition shaped by colonialism’s afterlives—its persistence within language, culture, architecture, and systems of representation

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Renée Lambert-Brétière, Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication

Missionary Linguistics in New France: Digitizing, Translating, and Making an 18th-Century Latin-Innu Dictionary Accessible

Fr. Jean-Baptiste de La Brosse’s Lexicon correspondens sylvae radicum Montanarum (1772) constitutes the last surviving record of the efforts undertaken by the Jesuit missionaries of New France to understand and document the Innu language, an Algonquian language of Quebec and Labrador, Canada. Despite its historical and lexicographic importance, the dictionary has been largely inaccessible to contemporary Innu speakers because it survives only as a written manuscript and its definitions are written in Latin. This presentation addresses some of the challenges faced in the initial stages of a project to digitize and translate La Brosse’s dictionary for use as a contemporary lexical resource.
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