Semester 2
Tuesday 27th January 2026, 4pm, Council Chamber and online. Didier Bigo (Liverpool; Sciences Po): ‘The Future Perfect of Suspicion and Prediction as a Dispositive of Security Today? The Legacy of Foucault’. In the first half hour Professor Bigo will present his 2024 article, which can be accessed here (click the PDF box); this will be followed by extensive discussion. In conjunction with the Political Technologies research cluster. Teams link
Tuesday 10th February 2026, 4pm, online only. Félix Tréguer (Sciences Po; La Quadrature du Net): ‘Computing Power: AI as a Political Technology’. In conjunction with the Political Technologies research cluster. Teams link
March 3 March 2026, 11am, ORB 1.24 and online. Cecilia Benaglia (Limerick). ‘“Elles sont en merritoire”: Feminist Representations of Space and Mobility in Michèle Causse’s Work’. Teams link
Thursday 19th March 2026, 5-6pm, ORB 1.24 and online. Joanne Brueton (ULIP), ‘Palimpsestic F(r)iction: Decolonising the French canon’. Teams link
Friday 15th May 2026, 10am-12, ORB 1.24 and online. Lauren Dyll (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) and Caroline Williamson Sinalo (UCC) Event on the Medical Humanities: Participatory Action Research methodologies, critical indigenous studies and multilingual approaches. Teams link
Friday 12th June 2026, all day in person at UCC: Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate Study Day, ‘Locating Solidarities in the Francophone Postcolonial World’, with a keynote paper by Nicki Frith (Edinburgh).
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All are welcome. Please email Dr Caroline Williamson Sinalo, Department of French research lead, with any questions at caroline.williamsonsinalo@ucc.ie
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