All are welcome to attend the following seminar organised by the French Department:

Translingualism, Migrant Identity and Race Passing in 'Samba"

With its translingual dialogue in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Serbian, Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano’s 2014 film Samba depicts the use of languages other than French as both a hindrance and an asset for migrants in contemporary France. This talk analyses how an Algerian character, Walid, engages in the practice of race passing by disguising himself as Brazilian. It draws on scholarship about the practice of race passing to conduct an analysis of Walid’s hybrid, translingual identity. Mapping the film against a broader study of the importance of language in French films about passing, it reveals how the shifting identities of Samba’s migrant characters can become sites in which axes of oppression and empowerment intersect.

You are cordially invited to the launch of:

Mobilizing Memory: The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918-1939, (Oxford University Press, 2019)

By Dónal Hassett

Staff Common Room, Tuesday October 1^st, 17:00-18:00

The book will be launched by Prof. John Horne, Fellow Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin.

This will be followed by a wine reception

ALL ARE WELCOME

This event is supported by the French Department

Launch of Dr Mary Noonan’s second collection of poetry Stone Girl

Invitation to book launch and seminar

You are cordially invited to the launch of:

Rwanda After Genocide - Gender, Identity and Post-Traumatic Growth 

by Caroline Wiliamson Sinalo 

O'Rahilly Building,  UCC, Social Area, First Floor at the Department of French

2 may 2019 4.30 pm

Dr Julia Viebach, University of Oxford will launch the book 

This will be followed by a wine reception

ALL ARE WELCOME

This event is supported by the French Department, UCC.

‘Raconter un tronçon de vie’: practices and conceptions of writing in the emancipatory pedagogy of Célestin Freinet 

Dr Richard Mason (Department of French, University College Cork)

16^th May 2019, ORB 1.24 4pm.

'Electric News in Colonial Algeria'

Dr Arthur Asseraf, University of Cambridge

22 March, 10:00-11:00 | ORB 1.32

Writing Letters on the Stage: Immigration and Transnational Identity in Recent Francophone Drama from Quebec

Professor Juliette Rogers
Macalester College, USA
2019 Fulbright Scholar, France (Université de Lille).

Thursday 21 March at 4pm | ORB 1:24

Samuel Beckett and (post)colonial France: the politics of domesticity

Prof. Hélène Lecossois (Lille)

Thursday March 14 @ 17.00

ORB 1.24

a Festschrift and conference for Angela Ryan

Seminar by Prof. Yasser Elhariry (Dartmouth College)