Research Seminars 24-25

SEMESTER 2

• Dr Laura Kennedy (UCC, Department of French) 'Continuing the tradition? Michael Roch and the Afrofuturist turn in Martinican Literature'. Tuesday 30 January, 5pm in ORB 1.24.   
• Laetitia Devaux, French translator in residence, UCC. Thursday 27 February, 4pm, ORB 2:12
• Dr Charlotte Berkery, 'Night Air: The Miasmic City in Balzac's La Cousine Bette'. Friday 7th March, 10am in ORB 1.24
• Professor Patrick Bray (University College London) 'Stendhal's Inappropriable Taste: Body, Language, and Landscape in Vie de Henry Brulard'. Wednesday 19 March 2025, 3.30pm, CACSSS Seminar Room (G27
• Benjamin Boutin (author of A la découverte de la Francophonie, 2024), with the Embassy of France in Ireland. Semaine de la langue française. Thursday 27 March 2025, 3pm, Kane G19
• Dr Charlotte Berkery, "If the nightcap fits..." Middle-Class Metonymy and Monotony in July Monarchy Cultural Productions." Thursday 27 March 2025, 5pm, ORB 1:24
• Dr Jemima Hodgkinson (Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, UCC Department of French) '"L’Amère Patrie": Benoît Alié’s French Signifyin’. Thursday 8 May, 5pm, ORB 1.24 

SEMESTER 1

• Mike O’Sullivan, author of  L’Accord du peuple – a presentation and conversation with the author. 
  Tuesday 15 October, 5pm in ORB 1:24.
• Dr Louise Kari-Méreau (UCC, Department of French) 'Cynicism and the Body in Postmodern French literature : a study of Virginie Despentes with comparison to Frederic Beigbeder'. Organized in collaboration with the Violence, conflict and gender research cluster, CASiLaC. 
  Thursday 24 October, 5pm in ORB 1:24.
• DR Sinan Richards (UCC, Department of French) 'Jouissance And Race: Introducing Solange Faladé'. 
  Thursday 21 November, 5pm in ORB 1:24.

Previous years seminars