CONFERENCES

TEACHING-RELATED PAPERS PRESENTED AT MEETINGS AND SYMPOSIA

  1. -International Journal of Arts and Sciences Multidisciplinary Conference: “Creative writing in the Foreign Language Classroom” FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW Vienna, Austria April 20, 2015(proposal accepted)

  2. -International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, conference proposal accepted: “Teaching Culture: Inclusive Curriculum Design, Content and Context”, Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Spain, 11-13 June 2014

  3. -International Journal of Arts and Sciences Multidisciplinary Conference: “A Canadian Perspective on Blended Learning: hybrid instructional strategies and their effect on student learning in an advanced level French course”FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW Vienna, Austria April 6-10, 2014

  4. -Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters Annual Conference (French and Italian Literature): “Horizon d’attente et tension narrative dans  L’Étranger de Camus”, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, March 21-22, 2013

  5. -International Journal of Arts and Sciences Annual Conference: “The Role of Digital Grammar in Advanced French: Self-monitoring Strategies to Develop Independent Learners”, Gottenheim, Germany, December 2-7, 2012

  6. -International Journal of Arts and Sciences Annual Conference in Rome “Focus on Student Performance: Effective Testing Practices in French as a Second Language Intermediate and Advanced Programs” American University, Rome, Italy 29, October-1 November, 2012

  7. -International Journal of Arts and Sciences Annual Conference, Gottenheim, Germany “The Role of Digital Grammar in Advanced French: Self-monitoring Strategies to Develop Independent Learners”, December 2-7, 2012

  8. -Second IJAS Conference at Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, “Making Connections: Instructional Models for Developing Foreign Language Proficiency in Higher Education through Communicative Teaching, E-learning and Experiential Programs”, May 30th-June 2nd, 2011

  9. -Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters Annual Conference (French Literature): “L’alternance des registres chez De Laclos”, Saginaw Valley State University, March 11, 2011 

  10. -Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto Study Languages Conference 2010 “Mysticism and Sensuality in Zola’s Nana”, University of Toronto, December 9, 2010 

  11. -“A Thematic Approach to French Cultural Studies”, International Journal for Academic Disciplines Austria Conference, Bad Hofgastein, May 31, 2010

  12. -Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters Annual Conference (French Literature): “La rhétorique du désir dans L’Amant de Marguerite Duras”, Calvin College, March 26, 2010

  13. -Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto Gifted Conference, “New Novel Techniques and Murder Mystery Conventions in Alain Robbe-Grillet's Le Voyeur”, University of Toronto, February 18, 2010

  14. -European Journal for Academic Disciplines Conference “Tradition and Innovation: Classroom-based Training and Pedagogical Research for First Year Teaching Assistants”, Gottenheim, Germany, November 9-13, 2009

  15. -National Conference for Academic Disciplines: “Curriculum Renewal Initiatives: Language Communities and Experiential Learning in Second Language Education”, Suffolk University, Boston, June 22-25, 2009

  16. -Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters Annual Conference (French Literature): “Dialogisme et créativité dans le roman Les enfants du nouveau monde d’Assia Djebar”, Wayne State University, March 20, 2009

  17. -Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto Gifted Conference “Virtue, Tragic Passion and Upper-class Excess in De Laclos’s Dangerous Liaisons”, University of Toronto, February 19, 2009

  18. -U of T Conference Teaching and Learning Outside the Classroom, “Developing Skills for a Global Society: Acquiring Foreign Language Proficiency through Internships and Study/Work Abroad Programs” Hart House, University of Toronto, October 3, 2008

  19. -International Symposium, “Connecting to Electronic Pedagogy: A Cultural Model for Teaching Great Books”, Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique Charles Perrault, Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures, Lyon, France, July 9-11, 2008

  20. -International Conference “Generic Instability and Identity in the Contemporary Novel”: “Reading Nara’s Diary or the Deluding Strategies of the Implied Author in The Rift by V.Y. Mudimbe”, Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, France, 29-30th May, 2008

  21. -Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto Gifted Conference “Memory and Desire in the 20th century French Novel: Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past and Marguerite Duras’s The Lover”, University of Toronto, February 20, 2007


OTHER PAPERS PRESENTED AT MEETINGS AND SYMPOSIA

  1. -The 41st Annual Comparative Literature Conference “Ancient and Moderns: Intersections, Interactions, and Interstices”: “The Art of Storytelling: Ovid and Calvino”, California State University, Long Beach, California, March 9-11, 2006

  2. -University of Toronto Conference on Scholarship, Leadership and Innovation “Responding to a Culturally Diverse Student Community: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Second-language Teaching and Learning at the Undergraduate Level”, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, April 28 and 29, 2006 

  3. -Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters Annual Conference (French Language and Literature Panel) “L’étranger : mémoire ou monologue?”, University of Michigan, March 4-5, 2005


INVITED LECTURES

  1. -International Journal of Arts and Sciences Annual Conference in Rome “Focus on Student Performance: Effective Testing Practices in French as a Second Language Intermediate and Advanced Programs”American University, Rome, Italy 29, October-1 November, 2012

  2. -Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto Study Languages Conference 2009 “French in Context: Language and Culture through Cinema”, University of Toronto, December 8, 2009 

  3. -Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Knowledge and Its Communities Conference: “Une nouvelle culture de l’apprentissage pour les diplômés bilingues : les programmes de partenariat”, Victoria College, University of Toronto, June 14-17, 2006 

  4. -Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto Year of Languages Conference “Reading and Interpreting Tales of the Supernatural from 19th Century France”, University of Toronto, December 1, 2006



 

Dr. Marie-Anne Visoi