Research Seminars 2026-2027

Semester 1

Tuesday, 22 September 2026, 10am, Sarah Waters (Leeds): 'Work, suicide and social justice: Insights from French Thought'. In person in ORB 1.24 or online: Teams link

Tuesday 20 October 2026, 10-12am, Workshop on Health Futures, in person in ORB1.24 or online: Teams link  

Benjamin Dalton (Lancaster): 'Do hospital futures need to include hospitals' and Lauren Dyll (University of KwaZulu Natal): 'Communicative Antifragility: Designing Futures That Grow Stronger from Disruption'. 

Tuesday 17 November 2026, 10am, Ciara Gorman (Maynooth): 'Feminist Revisioning of Crime and Gender in Contemporary French Crime Fiction'. In person in ORB 1.24 or online: Teams link

Semester 2

Tuesday 12 January 2027, 10am, Susannah Wilson (Warwick): 'Medicine, Addiction, and the Modern Self: The Journal d’un morphinomane (1880-1894)'. In person in ORB 1.24 or online.

Tuesday 9 February 2027, 10am, Corine Tachtiris (U Mass): 'Translating Postcolonial Satire'. Online only.

Tuesday 2 March 2027, 10am, Hannes Opelz (Trinity College Dublin): 'Blanchot, Rancière: ‘La rupture de tous les liens'. In person in ORB 1.24 or online.Teams link

All are welcome. Please email Dr Caroline Williamson Sinalo, Department of French research lead, with any questions at caroline.williamsonsinalo@ucc.ie