Benjamin Boutin, author of A la découverte de la Francophonie, 2024 will speak to UCC students and staff.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 3-4pm Kane G19

Focusing on Stendhal's peculiar autobiography, Vie de Henry Brulard, this talk argues that taste is configured as a function of textual space. And yet, for Stendhal as for Agamben, taste is 'inappropriable', it continually escapes our attempts to locate it in the body, in language, or in our environment. 

This paper analyses the connection between night time and the cold, humid and muddy landscape which is Balzac’s Paris through the prism of one of his final works, La Cousine Bette (1846)

This talk will introduce the up-and-coming writer Michael Roch, who is spearheading a moment within Martinican literature.