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Research Seminars 22-23

French Department Research Seminar Series 2022-23

 

Semester 2

  •  7 February 2023

      Louisa Esther Mugabo (UCC) and Joshua Craze (The New Humanitarian), “A critical conversation on the United Nation’s alleged sexual abuse problem”, co-organised with The Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster in CASiLaC and the Centre for Global Development (CGD)

  • 23 February 2023

Barry Nevin, TUD, “Reassessing directorial authorship in French cinema’s Tradition of Quality”

  • March 2023

Launch of Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives, in collaboration with the Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster

  • 6th - 8th March

Georgina Collins

  •  4pm 15 March 2023

Muriam Haleh Davis, UC Santa Cruz,

  •  23 March 2023

Patrick Autréaux, former A&E doctor, now writer - Rescheduled for April 

  •  30 May 2023

French Postgraduate presentation day

Semester 1

  •  2 November 2022

4pm 1.24 ORBs

Patrick O’Donovan, UCC: ‘Proust’s House of Fiction: A Centenary Perspective’

  •  16 November 2022

4pm 1.24

Loic Bourdeau, Maynooth University: ‘The Power of Netflix in France’

  •  Friday 25 November 2022

Mary Ryan Room

Launch of Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture edited by Chiara Giuliani and Kate Hodgson. In collaboration with the Memory and Uses of the Past Cluster.

  •  7 December 2022

3-5pm

Annie Ernaux – a celebration!

 

 

Research Seminars 21-22

Friday 26 November at 11:30

A talk by Charles Ngwena, from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, organized by UCC’s research cluster on Violence, Conflict and Gender, in the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC), UCC in partnership with the Women Studies MA, UCC.

African ‘transgender’, resisting the public secret and precarity

Friday October 29th, 16:00

Madan Sara: Pouvwa Fanm Ayisyen (The Power of Haitian Women). A documentary film by Etant Dupain.

Online screening and Q&A with the film's editors and community activists and Dr Kate Hodgson (UCC Department of French).

Thursday October 21st, 16:00-17:00

 Dr Laura O’Brien, Northumbria University, presenting:

 "To Reach and Instruct the Public” French Film and the 1948 Centenary of  Revolution and Abolition

Research Seminars 20-21

Semester 2

15 April 2021

Dr Rachel Gillett (University of Utrecht)

Dr Rachel Anne Gillett will present her new book At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris

 11 February 2021

Anaïs Nony (UCC French Department)

 Semester 1

4-5pm, 5 November 2020

Susie Cronin, PhD University of Cambridge

Can we (still) speak of a ‘French Digital Literature?’

This presentation explores the conditions of emergence of digital and computer-assisted literatures in the French context. Noting the importance of exhibitions in particular in contributing to the development of digital works and aesthetics, the presentation explores what offerings and concessions are there in considering the emergence and elaboration of such literatures through an approximate national frame.

10-11am 8 December

Nathalie Ségeral (French and Francophone Studies, Sydney University)

Gender-Based Violence in the Pandemic and its Media Coverage: Who Gets to Be Represented?

1-2pm December 15

Sahla Aroussi (Global Security Challenges, Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds)

Gender in international security.

Research Seminars & Workshops 23-24

Semester 2

21 March 2024

Emile Chabal, University of Edinburgh – co-organised with the Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past Cluster, provisional title “Hobsbawm: A Global Intellectual History”

14 March 2024

Steven Wilson, QUB, “Epidemic, Ecology and the Translational Medical Humanities: Representing Ebola in Véronique Tadjo’s En Compagnie des hommes (2017)”

March 2024

Professor Roxanne Panchasi, Society for French Studies Visiting International Fellow 2023-24.

'This Is What Catastrophe Looks Like: Fictions of Nuclear Disaster in Contemporary France'.  March 4th, 12:00-13:30 at the Wandesford Quay Research Centre.

On International Women’s Day, 8th March, Roxanne will discuss with Sara Rahnama her new book with Cornell University Press The Future Is Feminist Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria. It will take place from 15:00-16:30 in the Shtepps over at the Hub. It will also be online and here is the registration link: https://sfu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpfu-opz0pGtwb0dEJBXaae1u-LLs6Ib8N 

On Tuesday March 12, Roxanne will screen the short film ‘And still is remains’ (28 mins) and there will follow a discussion with the director Arwa Aburawa. Here is the trailer to the film and its meditation on the ongoing effects of atomic bomb tests of the 1960s in contemporary Algeria https://lux.org.uk/event/arwa-aburawa-and-turab-shah-and-still-it-remains/. This event takes place in ORB 1.24 from 15:00-16:15. And yes, a wine reception will follow.

 

Semester 1

3 October 2023 – 10am in ORB1.14

French Department Postgraduate presentation morning 

5 October 2023 – 4pm in the Council Room

Munyurangabo Benda (Queens Foundation), Claver Irakoze (Aegis Trust, Rwanda) and Caroline Williamson Sinalo (UCC) will launch Transmitting Memories in Rwanda: From a Survivor Parent to the Next Generation (Brill Press 2023).

15 November – 11am online

Eoin Daly (University of Galway), “Unveiling Marianne: The Figure of Marianne in Debates over the Burka in France”

23 November 2023 – 4pm in ORB 1.14

Professor Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University, USA), “The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism”

27 November 2023

Ashley Harris (TCD) Grassroots Banlieue art

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