Language Research Centre Speaker Series presents Justine Huet (MRU)

Language Research Centre Speaker Series: Please join us on January 28 for the next talk in our speaker series “Language of Literature.” Justine Huet (Mount Royal University) will give a talk entitled “”Bloody shitcakes!” Chavs are overtaking Québécois schools. The Québécois dubbing of Bromwell High” ”. Please see the LRC website (http://arts.ucalgary.ca/lrc/) for the abstract. “Bloody shitcakes!” Chavs are coming to Québec. The Québécois dubbing of Bromwell High Featuring the unconventional school life of three teenage girls attending a badly managed middle-school in South London, Bromwell High(2005) is known in Québec as Polyvalente Baptiste Huard. The TV series pokes fun at disabilities and throws in some innuendos, racial and homophobic slurs for good measure. But Bromwell High is first and foremost a scathing critique of the British school system. Its teachers act more like “chavs” than qualified and caring pedagogues. Two questions then arise when dubbing Bromwell High in Québécois: how do you negotiate its coarse language and sordid backstories? How can you dub a series that seems deeply entrenched in British culture, namely through culture-specific references and the use of a cockney accent?

Location:

Language Research Centre – Craigie Hall D 420

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/language-research-centre-speaker-series-presents-justine-huet-mru