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Back on the webinar on "Mother tongues and sensorialities"

Capture d'écran du webinaire / © Délégation générale Wallonie-Bruxelles au Québec, 2022
Capture d'écran du webinaire / © Délégation générale Wallonie-Bruxelles au Québec, 2022

On March 2, 2023 the General Delegation of Wallonia-Brussels in Quebec marked International Mother Language Day with a crossed literary meeting, organized for the third year in a row.

Watch again the meeting of the author and poetess from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation Charline Lambert and the Quebec cartoonist Jean-Paul Eid on the theme of "Mother tongues and sensorialities". Their testimonies led us towards the exploration of other languages, notably via deafness and disability.

 

To (re)watch the webinar ► « Crossed literary meeting: Mother tongues and sensoriality »

 

Biographies:

  • Charline Lambert was born in Belgium. A trained novelist, she is now an author, poet and researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain. Her research focuses on the poetic sign at the test of sensory-limiting experiences, under the prism of deafness, a theme that particularly touches her since she is deaf, she also composes poems (poems in sign language). She has published four books of poetry: “Chanvre et lierre” (2016), “Sous dialyses” (2016), “Désincarcération” (2017) and “Une salve” (2020). Her next collection, “Quiconques”, will appear in 2023. Her first essay, devoted to the character Dr. Strange, will also be published in 2023. She has received, among others, the Georges Lockem Prize of the Royal Academy of Belgium. objectifplumes.be/charline-lambert
     
  • Jean-Paul Eid was born in Lebanon to a Belgian mother and a Lebanese father. His family immigrated to Quebec when he was three years old. After studying visual arts and animation, he published comics in the humoristic magazine Croc. As an illustrator, he has worked for numerous magazines, advertising agencies, film and television productions, children's book publishers and historical and scientific museums. Today, he is considered a leading figure in Quebec's 9th art. He has published the graphic novels “Le Naufragé de Memoria” (1999), “La femme aux cartes postales” (2016) and “Le petit astronaute” (2021). This critically and publicly acclaimed work is inspired by the author's life and tells the story of a little boy born with a severe disability. Tom does not walk or talk, but his passage on Earth will change the way people look at him. The author has received, among others, the ACBD Prize for Quebecois comics. bd-eid.com

 

International Mother Language Day officially takes place on February 21 and promotes linguistic and cultural diversity and the importance of multilingualism in our societies.

 

The webinar was organized by Wallonie-Bruxelles International in Brazil and the General Delegation Wallonia-Brussels in Quebec, in collaboration with the Quebec Office in São Paulo and the Caribbean-Latin American office of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF).