Le culte de Notre-Dame de Luxembourg

E-print/Working paper (2008)

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Catholic Counter-Reformation attempted to regain lost ground and strengthen ecclesiastical authority. In Luxembourg, a southern province of the Netherlands ravaged by ... [more ▼]

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Catholic Counter-Reformation attempted to regain lost ground and strengthen ecclesiastical authority. In Luxembourg, a southern province of the Netherlands ravaged by religious struggles and civil wars, the Society of Jesus worked to revive popular piety by developing the Marian cult. In 1624, Father Jacques Broquart erected a statue of the Virgin on the "glacis", in front of the walls of the Luxembourg fortress. The cult of the "Consoler of the Afflicted" spread rapidly, supported by accounts of miraculous cures and the articles of piety (pictures and medals) that the Jesuit fathers distributed. The map shows the veneration of Our Lady of Luxembourg (Virgin Consoler of the Afflicted or Consolatrix Afflictorum) from the 17th century onwards through the example of the chapels, altars and statues dedicated to her. [less ▲]

Cultivating humanity or educating the human? Two options for education in the knowledge age

in Asia Pacific Education Review (2014), 15(1), 13-19

Cultiver l'“être-ensemble”, même dans son salon : une approche communicationnelle des dvd de metal

in Monbelet, Alexis; Ferrand, Laure (Eds.) Le rock et le metal : regards et perspectives des sciences sociales (2012)

Résumé : Cette intervention propose d’étudier le DVD de musique metal en tant que dispositif de médiation. L’approche communicationnelle permet d’analyser les modalités d’instauration du sentiment ... [more ▼]

Résumé : Cette intervention propose d’étudier le DVD de musique metal en tant que dispositif de médiation. L’approche communicationnelle permet d’analyser les modalités d’instauration du sentiment d’« être ensemble », si cher aux fans de metal et ce même lorsqu’on regarde un DVD seul, dans son salon. Cette médiation passe essentiellement par trois modalités, qui se construisent aux niveaux de l’énonciation, de la textualité et des représentations véhiculées par le film. Ainsi, quand Metallica, Iron Maiden ou Mötorhead fondent la relation au spectateur sur l’intimité dévoilée de ses membres (avec des procédés filmiques proches de la téléréalité), Slipknot ou Down préfèrent placer le spectateur en immersion dans l’ambiance (et l’inconfort) du concert, tout en jouant sur les codes et les représentations les plus « rebelles » du metal... [less ▲]

Cultural and language effects on measures of vocabulary and working memory

Scientific Conference (2011, June)

Two studies are presented exploring whether performance on assessments of working memory (WM) and vocabulary is affected by the experience with the test language and/or the linguistic and cultural status ... [more ▼]

Two studies are presented exploring whether performance on assessments of working memory (WM) and vocabulary is affected by the experience with the test language and/or the linguistic and cultural status of the child. Forty 7-year-old Portuguese-speaking immigrant children growing up in Luxembourg were assessed on a range of L1 and L2 vocabulary measures and verbal WM tests. Their data was compared to monolingual speakers of Luxembourgish and Portuguese from different socioeconomic background (SES) groups. Results showed that WM is highly associated with vocabulary in both native and foreign languages. Furthermore, the study indicates that WM tests are relatively independent of SES, test language, and immigrant/language status. In contrast, results on the vocabulary measures have shown that bilingual immigrant children perform equally well to monolinguals if their combined vocabulary across languages is considered but lack behind their monolingual peers in terms of conceptual development. The data suggests that bilingual immigrants’ poor conceptual knowledge is not simply a reflection of lower SES but instead seems to be a direct consequence of growing up as an immigrant in a multilingual environment. The results of this study have important practical utility especially in relation to improving the range of culture-fair assessment tools that can be used with minority language children. As WM measures are highly associated with children’s language learning and are relatively independent of test language, language status, and SES, these tests might provide valuable tools for distinguishing between language impairments of a cognitive origin and language differences related to the environmental context of growing up as an immigrant with several languages. This distinction is crucial in order to avoid erroneous diagnostics and provide appropriate remediational support that help immigrant children overcome their langue differences in order to improve their chances of accessing the same opportunities and resources as their majority culture peers. [less ▲]

Cultural Awareness in Multilingual Education

in The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2012)

“Cultural awareness,” as a quick Internet search will show, is a widely used phrase and consequently has no single precise meaning. It is used to refer to awareness of diversity within a society and among ... [more ▼]

“Cultural awareness,” as a quick Internet search will show, is a widely used phrase and consequently has no single precise meaning. It is used to refer to awareness of diversity within a society and among societies. It is often associated with “training,” involving specific activities which draw attention to diversity and encourage and deliberately develop positive attitudes and understanding. Such training is directed at adults in their professional and working lives. It is linked through this to “intercultural competence” which is based in part on heightened cultural awareness and which is itself fundamental to “intercultural communication.” This field of activity and study is well enough established to have spawned “handbooks” (e.g., Straub, Weidemann, & Weidemann, 2007; Deardorff, 2009) and many textbooks (e.g., Holliday, Hyde, & Kullman, 2004; Jandt, 2004; Chen & Starosta, 2005). [less ▲]

Cultural Border Studies – On the institutionalization of a dynamic research field

Article for general public (2023)

Cultural Border Studies focus on the social and symbolic dimensions of borders. They emerged from the intersection of the cultural turn in Border Studies with the border turn in Cultural Studies and ... [more ▼]

Cultural Border Studies focus on the social and symbolic dimensions of borders. They emerged from the intersection of the cultural turn in Border Studies with the border turn in Cultural Studies and address everyday cultural and artistic-aesthetic issues. During the resurgence of borders, Cultural Border Studies have gained further importance, which is reflected in their progressive institutionalization. [less ▲]

Cultural differences and immigrants' wages

E-print/Working paper (2021)

In this paper, I investigate how cultural differences affect the labor-market performance of immigrant workers in Germany. I document a negative relationship between hourly wages and the cultural distance ... [more ▼]

In this paper, I investigate how cultural differences affect the labor-market performance of immigrant workers in Germany. I document a negative relationship between hourly wages and the cultural distance between immigrants' countries of origin and Germany. This result is robust across the three main indicators used in the gravity literature: linguistic, religious, and genetic distances. This cultural wage penalty disappears after five to ten years spent in Germany. Controlling for language proficiency as well as for selective in- and out-migration, these results highlight the cultural integration of immigrant workers. I finally provide evidence suggesting that lower wage progression may be explained by fewer job-to-job transitions. [less ▲]

Cultural European Heritage and Music (Education)

Scientific Conference (2015, May 13)

Cultural Heritage Archives and Research Prospects

Presentation (2020, November 27)

Cultural Heritage - Definitions and Approach in Archives and in Academic Research

Cultural identity and values in intergenerational movement: The multicultural case of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg

Doctoral thesis (2020)

Migration flows have led to an increase in questions about the multiple cultural influences on individuals. The resulting demographic changes raise in many host societies essential questions related to ... [more ▼]

Migration flows have led to an increase in questions about the multiple cultural influences on individuals. The resulting demographic changes raise in many host societies essential questions related to national belonging, and thus to cultural identity and value systems. While migrating to a new cultural environment, migrant individuals face several challenges and they have to negotiate several developmental tasks using self-regulatory strategies, with correspondingly different psychological outcomes. These issues become even more important in a country such as Luxembourg with a high migrant proportion (47%; Statec, 2019). Little is still known about how second-generation adults who have grown up in immigrant families negotiate the double cultural identity, and about their value profiles compared to the local populations of the country of origin and receiving country. Four diverse subsamples were used out of the broader IRMA project pool, depending on the different objectives of the four studies. In total, N = 506 participants from three cultural subgroups ( LU natives, PT migrants in Luxembourg & PT natives in Portugal) participated in the quantitative part of the IRMA project ( LuN: n = 179; PtM: n = 209 & PtN: n = 118), and N = 20 took part in the qualitative part (n = 10 PtM dyads & n = LuN dyads). Study 1 highlighted the importance of the migration experience as a life-disruptive event that has impacts on individual and family cultures, as well as value systems during the life of migrant families. Study 2, looking specifically at PT migrant families, found a generational gap in terms of adult children’s higher attachment to the receiving culture as well as stronger tendencies towards a compatible identity orientation compared to their respective parents. However, the qualitative part of Study 2 revealed ambivalent feelings about double cultural belonging amongst the Portuguese second-generation adult children. Study 3 therefore focused on the latter and identified four ways of dealing with double cultural frames - blended, alternated, separated (Phinney & Devich-Navarro, 1997) - and expanded the model by identifying a fourth cluster of ambivalent cultural identity. In addition, the survey analyzed how their cultural identity profiles enabled them to achieve personally or socially meaningful goals and values. Blended biculturals used mainly primary regulatory control strategies, which were linked to the most positive psychological outcomes (higher self-esteem & well-being, and low acculturation stress). The ambivalent cluster was the least successful in terms of psychological outcomes (low self-esteem & well-being, and high acculturative stress) using both primary and secondary compensatory regulatory strategies. Study 4, an intercultural comparison between two family generations – one adult child and two elder parents – within three different cultural subgroups – LuN, PtM and PtN – aimed to better disentangle the effects of family, culture and immigration, and thus investigate the different cultural influences and messages reflected in the processes of transmission of values and value profiles. Overall, findings of Study 4 revealed the existence of an intergenerational gap between elder parents and their respective adult children; the presence of a cultural gap between the three cultural subgroups studied, which could be explained by both culture of origin and migration, with specifically an acculturation gap in the sub-sample of Portuguese migrants; and a moderate relative intergenerational transmission across cultures. The latter thus allows for a certain cultural persistence and continuity of a society and its cultural system (Trommsdorff et al., 2004) while allowing for cultural flexibility over generations that could be important for family identity and beneficial for well-being far more than a mere exact reproduction of values over generations (Barni & Donato, 2018). [less ▲]