Organized by the ‘Rethinking Spatial Humanities Cluster’ of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures, University College Cork.

Applications are invited from students who will commence a Taught Masters programme in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures in autumn 2025.

This seminar provides the first in-depth analysis of the nightcap in French cultural productions and reveals its importance in navigating literary and iconographic representations of the middle classes and King Louis-Philippe during the July Monarchy.

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 is the third of our series of School of Languages, Literatures and Culture’s Research Ireland Postdoctoral talks. The talk will be in English, and it will be hybrid - in UCC's O Rahilly Building room 1:24 and via Teams. All are very welcome to attend.

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

Join us for a programme of events in commemoration of the life of Maryse Condé (1934-2024), the award-winning Guadeloupean writer who passed away earlier this year.

Dr Sinan Richards, Department of French, UCC.

Dr Louise Kari-Méreau (UCC, Department of French)

Seminar organized in collaboration with the Violence, conflict and gender research cluster, CASiLaC.

ALL WELCOME

The Department of French  in collaboration with the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures invites you to join us to celebrate the European Day of Languages.

The Programme of events is free and ALL are WELCOME.

Wonderful to see the Staff Common Room jam-packed with UCC colleagues and friends who came yesterday to honour and wish Dr Patrick Crowley all the best as he leaves the Department of French to take up a new position as Professor and Head of School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Galway.

A brilliant scholar, a fantastic teacher, a great colleague, a dear friend. A legend.

Professor Patrick O’Donovan retired as Chair of French on January 31 2024 and has taken on his new role as Professor Emeritus.

His contribution to the Department, School and College has been considerable. In each case he left a legacy in terms of new structures and a culture of civility and collegiality. For us, within French, it is a significant moment, the end of an era in many respects and so we marked the event with a reception, a vin d’honneur,  to acknowledge Paddy's contribution and wish him the very best.

The Department of French and the Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past Research Cluster of CASiLAC are delighted to welcome you to their final seminar of this academic year on Monday June 12, 12:00-13:00 in ORB 1.24.

We look forward to seeing you there.

The Department of French was delighted to welcome H.E. Vincent Guérend, French Ambassador to Ireland, who was visiting UCC with a delegation from the Embassy.

Prompted by his work as a doctor, and by his own experience of illness, Patrick Autréaux set out in search of what is ‘true’. Literature was his chosen route. Through writing, he attempts to find a form for the ‘flesh of the world’. And to find an answer to the question of care. If he writes, it’s in order to treat that for which there is no cure.   

CASILaC's 'Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past' presents:

Analysing the Anniversary

Memory-Making in National Moments of Commemoration

'Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria', Dr Muriam Haleh Davis in Conversation with Dr Dónal Hassett, Online Seminar, Wednesday 15th March, 16:00-17:00

Reconsidering directorial authorship in the classic French cinema’s Tradition of Quality

By Barry Nevin, Technological University Dublin

4-5pm on Thursday 23 February in ORB 1.24

Louisa Esther Mugabo (UCC) will speak with Joshua Craze, a researcher and reporter on South Sudan. 

Following her success in this year’s Nobel Literature prize, I am delighted to invite you to Annie Ernaux: A Celebration!

 This event forms part of this year’s French Research Seminar Series and will consist in a series of short presentations by scholars, authors, postgraduate and undergraduate students – all followed by a wine reception.

 All welcome!

Paris and Proust’s Recherche

Architecture is a model for modernist fiction, notably so in the work of Marcel Proust. Architecture is first of all a creative prototype: architectural models are invoked as sources of far-reaching literary experiments. But architecture also forms a good deal of the substance of Proust’s vast novel, which is shaped by the writer’s own notoriously idiosyncratic use of space, and then in turn by the environments in which he lived and wrote, in particular that of the Second Empire, and on which he drew in elaborating his fictional world, one that testifies to rapid urban growth, the rise of the railways and of tourism, innovative and sometimes disruptive forms of modern urban design, increased social stratification, elite sociability, the equivocal standing of the city as a work of art. These strands will form the focus of the paper, which, by way of a modest centenary tribute, will also address some transformations of longer-term traditions in the relation between architecture and literature at the

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                        Welcome, Welcome back to a new academic year.

There will be no language classes, no lectures before  the

A National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Hybrid Seminar discussing lessons from lockdown for Language Teaching. 

Friday 29^th April 10-1 (MSTeams and O’Rahilly Building UCC) 

Register here -  

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-surviving-to-thriving-negotiating-the-post-zoom-landscape-tickets-316788712567 

Enquiries to m.spencer@ucc.ie or s.mortell@ucc.ie 

This evening event gives students and parents the opportunity to hear about the new International Business with Languages programme at UCC and the career opportunities it affords.

This event, which marks the coinciding of the 100^th anniversary of the foundation of the Irish Free State and the 60^th anniversary of the death of the anti-colonial activists and thinker Frantz Fanon, will explore the relevance of Fanonian theory to understanding the construction of race, the coloniality of culture and the competing narratives of history in Ireland.

You can sign up for the event, which will take place on Microsoft Teams, here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/fanon-and-ireland-tickets-217941026477

We are delighted to invite you 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.

The talk will take place on Friday 26 November at 11:30.

 Please register for free here.

French Departmental Seminar Series,

 Thursday October 21^st, 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

The French Department is delighted to welcome Dr Rachel Anne Gillett of the University of Utrecht to present her new book At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris at our upcoming departmental seminar on Thursday April 15^th, 16:00-17:00.

This programme is designed for high-achieving language graduates who wish to work in global software and technology sales and support sectors

All are welcome to attend the following seminar organised by the French Department:

Translingualism, Migrant Identity and Race Passing in 'Samba"

With its translingual dialogue in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Serbian, Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano’s 2014 film Samba depicts the use of languages other than French as both a hindrance and an asset for migrants in contemporary France. This talk analyses how an Algerian character, Walid, engages in the practice of race passing by disguising himself as Brazilian. It draws on scholarship about the practice of race passing to conduct an analysis of Walid’s hybrid, translingual identity. Mapping the film against a broader study of the importance of language in French films about passing, it reveals how the shifting identities of Samba’s migrant characters can become sites in which axes of oppression and empowerment intersect.

You are cordially invited to the launch of:

Mobilizing Memory: The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918-1939, (Oxford University Press, 2019)

By Dónal Hassett

Staff Common Room, Tuesday October 1^st, 17:00-18:00

The book will be launched by Prof. John Horne, Fellow Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin.

This will be followed by a wine reception

ALL ARE WELCOME

This event is supported by the French Department

Launch of Dr Mary Noonan’s second collection of poetry Stone Girl

Invitation to book launch and seminar

You are cordially invited to the launch of:

Rwanda After Genocide - Gender, Identity and Post-Traumatic Growth 

by Caroline Wiliamson Sinalo 

O'Rahilly Building,  UCC, Social Area, First Floor at the Department of French

2 may 2019 4.30 pm

Dr Julia Viebach, University of Oxford will launch the book 

This will be followed by a wine reception

ALL ARE WELCOME

This event is supported by the French Department, UCC.

‘Raconter un tronçon de vie’: practices and conceptions of writing in the emancipatory pedagogy of Célestin Freinet 

Dr Richard Mason (Department of French, University College Cork)

16^th May 2019, ORB 1.24 4pm.

'Electric News in Colonial Algeria'

Dr Arthur Asseraf, University of Cambridge

22 March, 10:00-11:00 | ORB 1.32

Writing Letters on the Stage: Immigration and Transnational Identity in Recent Francophone Drama from Quebec

Professor Juliette Rogers
Macalester College, USA
2019 Fulbright Scholar, France (Université de Lille).

Thursday 21 March at 4pm | ORB 1:24

Samuel Beckett and (post)colonial France: the politics of domesticity

Prof. Hélène Lecossois (Lille)

Thursday March 14 @ 17.00

ORB 1.24

a Festschrift and conference for Angela Ryan

Seminar by Prof. Yasser Elhariry (Dartmouth College)

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Happy Retirement

A Tale of Two Monuments: Commemorating the First World War in Algeria and France

Dr Dónal Hassett - Department of French

Wednesday 28 November 2018 @ 4pm

CACSSS Seminar Room, G27

ALL WELCOME

NUI Dr H H Stewart Literary Scholarship in French and Government Medal and NUI Prize for Proficiency in French

Rwanda After Genocide: Gender, Identity and Post-traumatic Growth 

Caroline Williamson Sinalo 

Cambridge University Press, 2018

Marguerite Duras. Un théâtre de voix / A Theatre of Voices - edited by Mary Noonan and Joelle Pagès-Pindon

Claude Pélieu: On All Frequencies / James Horton / ORB 1.24 / Thursday September 13th, 17-18h / in collaboration with UCC Library

Monday 16 April 2018 | 4-5pm | ORB 1.24

The talk will be followed by conversation over tea and coffee in the Social area at 5pm

Students who graduated in the MA in Translation Studies with French

 Thursday 8 March @ 16.00 | ORB 1.24

Thursday March 6 @ 16.00
CACSSS Seminar room, G.27

Are jobs and professions gendered in France?

Hosted by Department of French UCC

and the CASiLaC research cluster

Conflict, Gender and Violence (http://casilac.ie/violence-conflict-and-gender/)

Souvenirs de voyage

Celebrating Cork's Francophone community at UCC as part of CACSSS Community Engagement Week.

Postcards from home - creative writing, community arts and live music.

Friday 22 September, 4 - 6pm, UCC Students Union Common Room

Representing Gender Based Violence

Establishing an Interdisciplinary International Network

22-23 May 2017

O'Rahilly Building, room 2.55