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In her doctoral dissertation, Chendan Cui-Laughton highlighted a graduated hierarchy of communicative practices for establishing authority: verbal assertions, visual demonstrations, master demonstrations, and test touch. Rival touch represents the most intense form of communication.

Communication

The body language of authority

In Chinese martial arts, authority is demonstrated through the body, not by one's social or professional status. But how to maintain it?

In the province, voters of the Conservative Party of Quebec show a preference for metal and country music, while French chanson increases the likelihood of voting for the Parti Québécois. Folk music, on the other hand, is more associated with Québec Solidaire.

What does your playlist say about your politics?

Music • Nov 19th

Joan Didion in Los Angeles on August 2, 1970

A literary icon is revealed through her unpublished work

Journalism • Oct 14th

In Canada, FAST already reaches 24 per cent of consumers of online content.

Putting the brakes on FAST

Arts • Jul 22nd

The study examined differences in background music listening during a host of daily tasks and less cognitive activities.

Music to their ears

Music • Apr 2nd

In line with a number of specialists' predictions, the projection showed a marked reduction in populations speaking certain Indigenous languages, even though the number of Indigenous language-speakers as a whole remained fairly constant.

Indigenous languages: the pace of extinction is slower than expected—but still alarming

First Peoples • Mar 6th

Sounds produced by a theremin are often used to evoke the eeriness of haunted houses and the strangeness of aliens in sci-fi films.

A symphony of terror

Cinema • Oct 30th

Vitali-Rosati doesn’t see LLMs as a radical break that will transform the nature of literature but rather as a continuation of existing practices.

Are algorithms and LLMs changing our conception of literature?

Literature • Sep 16th

Electroacoustic instruments produce a multitude of timbres. They can sound like a piano or a violin or something else entirely.

How to write an electronic music score

Music • Aug 8th

Some universities in the U.S. and Europe have already adopted the innovative mechanism, after testing it on loan. Now it's UdeM's turn; the university is the first in Canada to get it.

A piano for smaller hands comes to UdeM

Women • Apr 30th

Drawing on the cultural syncretism in her own life story, Martyna Kander, a PhD student in research and creation in Université de Montréal's Department of French Literature, is currently working on a novel that examines the geographical aspect of death.

When death feeds creativity

Deaths • Oct 30th

Indigenous art enjoys a renaissance

Arts • Sep 28th

Hubert Aquin in the media

History • Dec 19th

Video games: posing in 3D

Computer science • Jul 27th

Out of tune: when words get in the way

Brain • Jul 20th

Livre rare

The world’s first photographically illustrated book is at UdeM

Libraries • Apr 19th

"Odibi", a graphic novel about the Anishinaabeg of Lac Simon

Anthropology • Apr 5th

Erin Gee

Erin Gee unites mind and body through music

Students • Mar 25th

De gauche à droite: Mario Martone, Laurence McFalls, Mariella Pandolfi, Christiane Lutz et François Girard.

Staging opera for a contemporary audience

Anthropology • Feb 9th

UdeM grad is Leonardo DiCaprio’s hand double in Don’t Look Up

Astrophysics • Jan 18th

Ana Sokolovic

UdeM hosts the first research-creation chair dedicated to opera

Opera • Jan 14th

UdeM archaeologist Julien Riel-Salvatore (r) and his doctoral student Geneviève Pothier Bouchard (l) excavating the burial site of baby Neve in the Arma Veirana cave in Liguria, Italy, in 2018; in the background is PhD student Simon Paquin.

Equal at birth and in death

Archaeology • Dec 14th

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