Dr Céire Broderick, Christine Montané, Nikola Tallova and Louise Tormey presented their SATLE funded project Enhancing student experience and intercultural competence through community-based learning at the SLLC Teaching and Learning event at UCC on May 14^th.

The Irish Proust conversations continue.

In this latest episode presented by Dr Patrick Geoghegan of Trinity College Dublin, Professor Patrick O’Donovan, Emeritus Professor of French at University College Cork joins other scholars to discuss the life and work of Marcel Proust and explore his connections with Ireland.

Dr Sinan Richards was recommended by the Selection Panel of the 2026 France Excellence-NUI Research Residency to a period of research at the Laboratoire d’études et de recherches sur les Logiques Contemporaines de la Philosophie (LLCP) at the Université Paris 8: Vincennes - Saint-Denis. 

The Department of French at UCC is delighted to be able to award a new Undergraduate student prize for academic achievement for the first time in 2026.

Paper presented by Dr Joanne Brueton (University of London Institute in Paris),Thursday 19 March, 5pm, ORB1.24 and online.

Paper presented by Dr Cecilia Benaglia (University of Limerick) on Tuesday 3rd March, 11-12 in room 1:24, O'Rahilly Building and online (Teams link).

Talk by recent UCC graduates in French

The 2026 Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Annual Postgraduate Study Day will be hosted at UCC on Friday 12^th June 2026, in the CACSSS Seminar Room (ORB G27). The Call for Papers is open for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students, and Early Career Researchers.