[Recording of Foucault delivering a seminar as part of International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies (ISISSS) in 1982 at Victoria University in the UofT)].

Discs are reproductions of 8 audio cassettes.

Handwritten manuscript for article.

Handwritten draft and typescript.

Handwritten draft and typescript.

Handwritten drafts and typescripts. Also contains a photocopy of the published article.

Includes 5 photographs : 2 colour slides ; 3 colour negatives

Includes brochures, list of participants, schedule.

Handwritten drafts and typescripts

Typescript.

Handwritten drafts and typescripts.

Handwritten drafts

Handwritten drafts and annotated typescripts.

Handwritten notes, drafts and annotated typescripts.

Handwritten drafts and annotated typescripts. Material is in English, French and Dutch.

Handwritten drafts and annotated typescripts.

Handwritten and typed drafts and notes.

Handwritten and typed

Handwritten notes and typescript.

Notes and annotated typescripts

Handwritten notes

Handwritten and typed drafts

Annotated typescript and handwritten notes

Manuscript and typescript  

Annotated typescripts, handwritten notes and correspondence with German publisher.  

Annotated typescript.   

Typed and handwritten  

Manuscript, note books, typescript. notes  

Photocopy of typescript.   

Annotated typescript. Pages 1-3 are missing.

Photocopy of typescript

Handwritten notes

Notes and correspondence

1 videocassette : VHS

Includes: 5 b&w photographs, eight (8) 35 mm b&w slides, eight (8) 35 mm col. slides, five (5) 16.5 cm x 11.5 cm negatives, four (4) 7.5 cm x 6 cm negatives, one (1) 20 cm x 25 cm negative, and three (3) 15 cm x 11.5 cm negatives. 

Includes: 31 b&w photographs 

Two (2) b&w photographs of Bouissac, one is of Bouissac and a giraffe and the other is a close-up of the former. 

Includes newspaper article on the circus from 1960.

Newspaper article very fragile, handle with care. 

Includes 1 b&w photograph.

Includes 11 b&w photographs of various circus performers

Includes personal information regarding former employees of the circus. 

Newspaper clippings fragile, handle with care.

Rasky, Frank. "The Professors' Wonderful Circus." Maclean's, June 5, 1965, pp. 19, 35, 37-40; includes additional loose pages from the article and possible an O/S Poster announcing circus.

Includes 43 b&w photographs and 1 postcard; originally held in accompanying brown photograph album.

Includes 5 b&w photographs, one (1) col. photograph, one (1) 11.5 cm x 15 cm negative, and one (1) 12.5 cm x 10 cm negative.

Includes 33 b&w photographs, 2 col. photographs, 1 col. 35 mm slide, and 3 postcards or various circus animals, performers, and circus buildings.

Includes 8 b&w photographs and 1 postcard of circus animals, performers, and animal handlers.

Three (3) copies of contract agreement. 

I print : lithograph

By Maxwell Bates, numbered 47/50 

Appointment books contain loose papers.

Includes newspaper clipping from 1978 and postcard from 1986.

Contains one unopened envelope.

Newspaper clippings fragile.

Includes 20 b&w photographs, 3 col. photographs, and 1 postcard.

Includes: 8 negative photographs, one (1) 35 mm col. slide, 54 b&w photographs, and 2 col. photographs.

Some newspaper clippings are fragile, handle with care.

One (1) audio CD, dated 2005, of music played at circus and Sousa and piano.

Typescript story by David Gilmour, given to Paul Bouissac, March 1972; includes postcard.

Originally housed in black duo-tang.

Includes 1 col. photograph.

...on Institution, Communicatoin and Social Interaction: The Legacy of Erving Goffman, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India December, 1987

France, 2004

Includes correspondence with Garland Publishing and with various contributors to the encyclopedia project.   Also includes lists of contributors and submissions.

Correspondence is mainly with academics.

Correspondence is in French and is in regards to collaboration and to a creation of a diploma program/centre for research in 'ingéniere multilingue.'

Correspondence is related to the Encyclopedia of Semiotics.   

Handwritten notes. Folder says from the 1960s but records indicate late 1950s until 1970s.  

Includes correspondence with the publisher University Press of America (UPA).  

Includes correspondence and copies of reviews.  

Includes correspondence to Mr. Adam Harvath at the University of South Florida.  Original file folder contained title "Mirth and Myth."  

Includes rough handwritten notes in French for "L'Anthropologie du Cirque" ; a typescript with handwritten notes of a working paper : "Circus and Cognition: The Times Tools of Time" ; and other rough handwritten notes in French for an unknown paper.  

 Includes abstracts and project descriptions, correspondence, rough notes, etc.  

Rough notes, typed draft, correspondence regarding a paper on laughter.   

Includes notes, 2 copies of address "Semiotics as the Science of Memory" by Paul Bouissac, University of Toronto, Victoria College.    

Includes schedule of lectures and an article about event.   See file 3-1 for related material.

Includes schedule, notes, correspondence.   

At the Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e di Linguistica - Urbino.  "Stages de Sémiotique, Paul Bouissac 'La Semiotique de spectacle de cirque.'" Includes correspondence, abstract of paper.

Includes correspondence with Phillipe Dubois and copies of articles written by him.    

A variety of subject are included; "Le Cirque est mon Royaume" , royalties, grants, conferences, etc. Some of the material is in French.   

 These were lectures presented by Paul Bouissac at the Body Motion Analysis lecture series.  

Includes a copy of the article written by Sally Banes "Reading the Circus. And you thought it was just for fun..." The Voice, May 26, 1980.   Also includes a note from Sally Banes and a biography of Paul Bouissac.

Handwritten notes.  In French.   

Article is dedicated to Paul Bouissac.  The original file folder is labelled but writing is illegible.  There are also notes all over that folder and it has been retained.    

Includes correspondence.   

One bibliography is titled "Bouissac Gift List"

 Also includes newsletters "Signs for our Times" from the Linguistics Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.  

Includes letters, addresses of contacts made, and a publication "Escola Nacional de Circo"  

Records include database entries, structure, and information.  

Correspondence relates to meetings of ISI, the Indo-Canadian database project, UNESCO participation and SSHRC grant  

 See also file 2-4.  Includes correspondence, minutes and reports.  

Bound volume. Also includes several loose letters re database.   

Includes an attached note from Viviane F. Launay, Executive Director.  

Typescripts with handwritten notes/suggestions.  Papers are by Hargeet Singh Gill, Charles Lock and Robert K. Logan

Typescript with handwritten notes.   

Includes notes, correspondence, photocopied pages from an article by Paul Ekman,etc. File has same schedule as File 1-9 - Lecture Series on Body Motion Analysis. 

Handwritten notes.  

Includes correspondence, SSHRC funding records, conference programme, and a printed copy of all of the papers presented.  Conference held at Victoria College May 3-5, 2002.

Typed draft.

Typed essay. See 2017.11 Box 3 File 13 for the published work Les Cahiers du Chemin in which this work appeared.

Handwritten with typed abstract.

Typed essay.

Final typed draft.

Handwritten draft with typed abstract and notes.

Project description with correspondence.

Script for a play written by Paul Bouissac.

Handwritten field notes of Circus Knie performers. 

Handwritten field notes about George Carl, a performer with Circus Knie of Switzerland. Also includes 33 photographs primarily of George Carl and other performers, and a program of the Circus Knie. Material is in French and German.

Notes for a book.

Some notes included.

A friend of Paul Bouissac's from the Bouglione Circus.

Notes about Karl Lorenz, Austrian zoologist and ethologist, some of which were used in Paul Bouissac's courses. Includes a photograph of Lorenz.

Handwritten notes and drafts related to the topic of the circus.

Various handwritten notes, quotations and drafts and excerpts of publications used as inspiration for writings and lectures regarding semiotics and circuses.

Handwritten notes and drafts.

Handwritten notes and drafts.

Handwritten notes and drafts. Includes a notebook titled "Le journal de demoiselle" which contains notes and ideas for Les Demoiselles.

Notes and sketches for plays, books, poems and other ideas.

Contains loose material of notes and scribblings.   

Fieldwork notes from research of an Indian Circus. Dec 1984 to Jan 1985.

Material from a seminar in Beijing.

Material from a lecture given at Lingnan College in Hong Kong.

Programs, announcements and itinerary schedules for lectures and talks in Japan.

Material from the Scientific Conference at the Technical University Dresden. Includes a copy of Paul Bouissac's paper, handwritten note cards and ephemera.

Programs and announcements for conferences on language and semiotics.

A compilation of essays by various authors. Contains Paul Bouissac's "Description des petits états réflexifs”, his first published essay in creative writing.

Essay.

Includes a discussion paper, a letter to participants and a final guest list.

Includes a paper given at the International Philosophy congress in Jakarta, Indonesia, as well as a draft copy, notes and articles. 

Includes postcards and photographs of Paul Bouissac in Jakarta.

Notes, itineraries, correspondence and brochures.

Correspondence regarding a visit to Kerala during Bouissac's trip to India.

Articles from a workshop and a letter.

Correspondence and notes regarding a trip to Pune, India.

A paper and correspondence during a visit to Delhi.

Correspondence, drafts and articles related to the Panel on Limericks held in Philadelphia.

Material from the "Semiotics of the Media: State of the Art, Projects, and Perspectives" Conference at the University of Kassel, Germany.

Research material including news clippings, notes, articles and images.

Notes, drafts and correspondence related to the Scapino Ballet of Rotterdam.

Proposed project with John Leyerle, Dean of the University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies.

Research description.

Descriptions of courses taught by Paul Bouissac.

Given to Bouissac by Joan Erdman.

One edited draft and one published version as it appeared in Semiotics and International Scholarship (1986). Some parts of this article were first presented at the colloquium "In Search of Terminology" in Mysore, India. See accession 2008.10, Box 2 File 5.

Notes and copy of paper.

Notes.

Edited draft.

Notes.

Correspondence, drafts and notes for a paper/talk given at the Université de Lausanne.

Correspondence and drafts for a paper/talk given at the Université de Lausanne.

Submission to the ICLA Tokyo Proceedings, 1991.

Correspondence, notes, draft of a talk and programs for the symposium "The Whole and its Parts" in Bochum, Germany.

Correspondence, notes and drafts for a lecture series given at Lingnan College in Hong Kong in April 1999.

Offprint.

Article by Mihai Nadin for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac.

Article by Mihai Nadin for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac.

Article by Mihai Nadin for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac.

Article by Goran Sonesson for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac.

Article by Peter Grzybek for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac.

Article by Peter Groves for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac. Includes correspondence.

Article by Paul J. Thibault for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac.

Article by Peter Grzybek for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac.

Article by Goran Sonesson for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics.

Article by John Deely for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac. Includes a letter from Deely and a reproduction of an etching of Poinsot (ca. 1643).

Article by David Scott for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac. Includes correspondence.

Article by Roland Posner for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac.

Article by Pierre Maranda for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac. Includes correspondence.

Article by Peter Grzybek for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac. Includes correspondence.

Article by Peter Grzybek for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac.

Article by Pierre Maranda for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac.

Article by Paul J. Thibault for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac.

Article by Alec McHoul for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac. Includes a letter from McHoul.

Article by Robert Hodge for inclusion in Encyclopedia of Semiotics, with edits by Bouissac.

Article by Goran Sonesson, possibly for the Encyclopedia of Semiotics.

Various handwritten notes.

Drafts of essays and poems, notes and course descriptions.

Offprints containing articles by Handelman inscribed to Bouissac, and letters from Handelman. Includes a card from "Sanjay".

Offprints containing articles written by Jerzy Pelc, mailed to Bouissac.

Letter to Daddesio regarding a contribution to his book.

Letter from Paul Perron of the University of Toronto Department of French regarding the Paris School.

Letter from Bouissac to Rik Pinxten, Editor-in-Chief of Cultural Dynamics in Belgium. Includes some notes and copies of articles written by Pinxten.

Final draft version.

Two draft essays, includes one from March 2003 and the first version that was published in a paper.

Essay on the study of gestures.

Updated essay from older version, "Space in Language: The concept of distance in surrealist poetics and poetry". See accession 2018.16, Box 3 File 1 for the earlier essay.

Essay.

Essay annotated by a professor, "Arthur", in the Scarborough College Division of Humanities. Includes a note.

Handwritten notes.

Handwritten notes.

Includes 19 black and white photographs of the Tangier Troupe and film negatives.

Notes on semiotics of the hand.  

Drafts of letters from Bouissac's books.

Draft chapter with edits from Bouissac's newest book, The Meaning of the Circus. Includes correspondence.

Draft chapter with edits and notes from Bouissac's newest book, The Meaning of the Circus.

Notes and a draft essay on Ray Birdwhistell included in La mesure des gestes.

Handwritten notes on circus programs.

Handwritten notes and clippings on the topic of clowns.

Handwritten notes.

Handwritten notes.

Typed notes.

Handwritten notes.

Handwritten notes for a series of exercises.

Project summaries and descriptions.

Edwina Taborsky's research project on collaborative knowledge processing in modern society. Bouissac signed as co-applicant.

Article by R. Austerlitz.

Article by Christian Jacob.

Article by F. Bresson.

Offprints of Kenneth Laine Ketner's articles. Includes “Peirce’s Ethics of Terminology” (Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 1981), “Peirce as an Interesting Failure?”, and “The Semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce and the First Dictionary of Semiotics” (Semiotica, 1975).

Includes:

- Orrin E. Klapp’s article, “The Fool as a Social Type” published in The American Journal of Sociology, (1949);

- Dan Ben Amos’s article, “Toward a Definition of Folklore in Context”, published in the Journal of American Folklore, inscribed to Bouissac, (1971);

- Mihai Pop's article, “The ‘Colinda’ with the Lion” by Mihai Pop, published in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, (1975);

- Pierre Mandala’s article, “Dialogue des yeux: Sémiographie du cillement”, (1985);

- Mihai Pop's article, “Le texte folklorique et son statut contextuel”

Transcript of a 50-minute television programme on BBC-2 based on the 1976 International Conference on Humour and Laughter.

Communication piece for a Serge Diaghilev/Ballets russes exhibition.

The Fifth Workshop on Organizational Semiotics program, held in Delft. Also includes some notes.

Contains programs, agendas and material from colloquiums and conferences on semiotics attended by Bouissac.

Correspondence with Bill Ballantine, Dean of Ringling Bros. Clown College.

Correspondence with Toly Castor, a member of a family of acrobats known as Les Castors who performed in France. Also includes a draft of an essay.

Correspondence with Jean Cuisenier, Chief Curator of the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires, and other curators at the museum, where Bouissac carried out research.

Letter from Rudolph Seipel, a visiting graduate student from Germany who temporarily taught in the German Department at Victoria College around 1964-1966. Also includes his translation of the German article "Motographie".

Correspondence to, from and about Dr. Sunthar Visuvalingam.

Correspondence with faculty and staff at Victoria College, the University of Toronto, Trent University and École de L'Alliance Francaise regarding teaching appointments and promotions. Also includes some correspondence related to the Debord Circus.

Includes some notes and ephemera.

Includes 4 colour photographs of a circus ring performance in Monaco.

Field notebook containing notes related to circus performances. Written in French.

Notes on trapeze artist Gérard Edon, including an instructional document on the logistics of trapeze performance.

Handwritten notes and typed essays.

Draft essay and articles compiled for an article.

Notes and articles.

Poems and essays.

A series of handwritten notebooks on various topics. Titles include:

• "Montagne"
• "Bodogune[?]"
• "Nicomide[?]"
• "Le romantisme allemande"

Includes annotated notes.

Handwritten notes and drafts predominantly in French, some in English. Includes Bouissac's graded school compositions.

Miscellaneous research notes.

Financial records and correspondence related to the purchase and sale of animals for the Debord Circus.

Notebook of Bouissac's circus partner Gerard Debord, a lion tamer.

Letters from Bill Ballantine, Dean of Ringling Bros. Clown College.

Letter from J.H. Barkow, professor at Dalhousie University.

Letters from Al Bongard, a Swiss biologist.

Letter from Jean-Pierre de Villers, professor at the University of Windsor in Ontario. Includes a circus periodical.

Letters from Rene and Madeleine Geraldo, husband and wife trapeze artists. Includes printed material about the Geraldos and circus performance in general, as well as two black and white photographs of the Geraldos.

Letter from Kenneth Little, a PhD student at the University of Virginia. Includes Little's essays submitted to Bouissac for feedback.

Letters from Bouissac's mother.

Letters from Mahesh Mangalat, lecturer in the Department of Modern Indian Languages at Aligarh University.

Letters from Raghavan Payyanad, a professor in the Department of Malayalam at Government Brennen College.

Essays sent to Bouissac with notes from Elizabeth-Chalier Visuvalingam of Banaras Hindu University. Also includes an essay and note from Sunthar Visuvalingam.

Letters from Thomas A. Sebeok of the Research Center for the Language Sciences. Includes a letter to Sebeok from John B. Cornell of the National Science Foundation discussing Bouissac's project proposal.

Cards and notes from friends and colleagues. 

Marked up copy of Les Demoiselles (1970).

Annotated draft of a working paper originally presented at a conference in Groningen. Includes flyers for books published by Abacus Press.

Includes correspondence and comments by Mark Chignell.

Manuscript of a paper given at a conference in Groningen. Includes handwritten notes and drafts.

A second copy of the manuscript given at a conference in Groningen. Includes correspondence and notes from Professor Barend van Heusden and Professor Markus Peschl.

Material relating to the international congress organized by Bouissac and the Centre Michel Foucault and hosted by the University of Toronto French Department. Includes an invitation, a program, two posters and a blank name tag.

Handwritten notes for an ethology conference held in Vienna, Aug 8-11. Includes order forms for various publications.

Includes Bouissac’s lecture at the Department of French Studies at Tokyo University, research notes and newspaper articles.

Material related to a colloquium paper given at Ochanomizu University, including handwritten notes, newspaper articles, correspondence and a paper entitled “Everyday Movements as Dance.”

Final copy with handwritten notes.

Includes notes, an abstract and copy of Bouissac’s paper “The archaeology of scripts: An evolutionary approach” (2008) for the World Archaeological Conference, and a copy of Genevieve von Petzinger’s paper “From the Walls to the Grave: Linking Parietal and Portable Geometric Signs found in European Upper Paleolithic Art” for the European Association of Archaeologists conference (2011).

Proposals for a book series to be published by Continuum and edited by Bouissac. Includes correspondence.

First and final draft version of the senior editor’s contract for the Continuum Advances in Semiotics series. Includes correspondence.

U of T Quarterly publishing agreement for the article “The Construction of Ignorance and the Evolution of Knowledge”.

Handwritten and typed notes on Lady Ibrahim, Francesca la contorsioniste and Les 4 Diavoles.

Miscellaneous research notes.

Includes research notes on impulse hypothesis, commonsense behaviour and a copy of “Terminations: Stanley Elkin’s Magic Kingdom and the Politics of Death” by Michael Shapiro.

Includes a map of Italy and a postcard with notes.

Includes a flyer for the first meeting of the Toronto Semiotic Cricle, a flyer for Bouissac’s lecture at Sapporo University with a photograph of the event banner, and an attestation for Bouissac’s work of Colloque FRANCONTRASTE 2013.

Includes a copy of Apter’s paper “Humour and the Theory of Psychological Reversals”, handwritten notes, and letters between Michael Mair (University of London Institute of Education) and Don Handelman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Letters from Professor Gérard Bucher, Paris and Buffalo University.

Letters from Professor Marco de Marinis of the University of Bologna. Includes photographs of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the computer room in the Istituto delle Discipline della Comunicazione.

Letters from Rajan Gurukkal, Director of the School of Social Sciences at Mahatma Ghandi University. Includes an abstract of a paper.

Letters from Barry Silverman, a professor at The George Washington University, relating to a workshop and conference in Vienna. Also includes copies of Silverman’s papers and essays.

Includes a copy of an excerpt from Swaskey’s paper “The Scientific Words of Jesus Christ”.

Includes a copy of an excerpt from Swaskey’s paper “The Scientific Words of Jesus Christ”.

Letter from Professor Colwyn Trevarthen of the University of Edinburgh.

Correspondence regarding the International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies sessions. Includes a program and draft versions of the agreement between the Toronto Semiotic Circle and the Graduate Schools of the University of Toronto and Northwestern University.

Includes copies of membership lists.

Letters to professors in universities in Jakarta, cards and thank you notes, and travel guides and brochures.

Letters with publishers relating to book publications, most notably The Social Dynamic of Pronominal Systems and The Meaning of the Circus.

Correspondence relating to European Association of Archaeologists sessions and membership. Also includes an email from Li Olsson about a paper on Mediterranean symbols in Scandinavian rock carving traditions (2000).

Correspondence primarily relating to the publication of The Meaning of the Circus (originally titled Circus Live: The art, trade, and life experience of circus artists). Also includes an email with Robert Innis (2000).

Correspondence with colleagues and other professional contacts on publishing, seminars and other topics.

Correspondence with colleagues, friends and other professional contacts conferences, workshops and Bouissac’s poetry and music sessions.

Notes and emails from friends and colleagues on various academic topics.

Notes, outlines and correspondence relating to Bouissac’s film project, Le ballet incroyable.

Contains drafts, notes and correspondence relating to Bouissac’s essay on Umberto Eco. Written for UNESCO.

Contains material relating to Bouissac’s lecture given at a seminar in Depok City, Indonesia. 21-22 July 1993.

Contains handwritten notes and program of events for lectures in Indonesia. 21-22 July 1993.

Contains handwritten notes, programs and itineraries, and a promotional flyer. 20 July 1993.

Includes a copy of Bouissac’s essay “Can Semiotics Progress?” with copy edits.

Contains correspondence, financial reports, committee reports, accounts information, mailing lists and other documents.

Includes a program for the Fifth International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies (ISISSS), promotional posters for Toronto Semiotic Circle meetings, and two copies of the periodical International Semiotic Spectrum.

Includes drafts of Assael’s works: “The Circus and Respectable Society in Victoria Britain”, and “Harnessing Change: The American Circus in Britain, 1889-1899”.

Includes a biographical sketch and a copy of Douglas’s paper on the animals in Leviticus.

Includes artwork.

Correspondents include Lita Osmundsen, Helmut Schweizer, J.J.C. van der Wilk, Prof. Desanti Armando and Dr. Hans Daniels.

Correspondents include Jean-Paul Curtay, Gervais Jessaud and Jean-Marc Lemelin.

Correspondents include Barend van Heusden, Charles Segal, Gordon D. Brown, Eva Kushner, Paul J. Thibault, Seymour Stark, Rolf Lehmann, Judy Kerman, Walter Koch and Peter van Lindonk.

Correspondents include John Astington and Marcel Kinsbourne.

Correspondents include Dr. Hans Daniels and École des hautes études.

A copy of the book Air Penawar Sekacang Kelat, gifted to Bouissac by the author Hashim Yaacob. A message to Boiussac from Yaacob is written on the first page.