Dr Louise Kari-Méreau (UCC, Department of French)
Seminar organized in collaboration with the Violence, conflict and gender research cluster, CASiLaC.
ALL WELCOME
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Dr Louise Kari-Méreau (UCC, Department of French)
Seminar organized in collaboration with the Violence, conflict and gender research cluster, CASiLaC.
ALL WELCOME
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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.
Read moreWonderful 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.
Read moreProfessor 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreSeminar organised by the Memory, Commemoration and the Uses of the Past research cluster, with the support of the Centre of Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) and the Department of French.
Read on casilac.iePrompted 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.
Read moreJournée des doctorant·e·s de l'ADEFFI 2023
ADEFFI Postgraduate Symposium 2023 vendredi 1 septembre / Friday 1st September University College Cork & en ligne/online (hybride)
'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
Read moreReconsidering 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
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Louisa Esther Mugabo (UCC) will speak with Joshua Craze, a researcher and reporter on South Sudan.
Read moreFollowing 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!
Read moreParis 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
Read moreA National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Hybrid Seminar discussing lessons from lockdown for Language Teaching.
Friday 29th April 10-1 (MSTeams and O’Rahilly Building UCC)
Register here -
Enquiries to m.spencer@ucc.ie or s.mortell@ucc.ie
Read moreThis 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.
Read moreThis event, which marks the coinciding of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Irish Free State and the 60th 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
Read moreWe 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.
Read moreOnline screening and Q&A with the film's editors and community activists and Dr Kate Hodgson (UCC Department of French).
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsfu2srjsiHtbxswjBMdwKgqmd4Rocqv53
French Departmental Seminar Series,
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
Read moreThe 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 15th, 16:00-17:00.
Read moreThis programme is designed for high-achieving language graduates who wish to work in global software and technology sales and support sectors
Read moreAll 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.
Read moreYou 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 1st, 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
Read moreLaunch of Dr Mary Noonan’s second collection of poetry Stone Girl
Read moreInvitation 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.
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‘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)
16th May 2019, ORB 1.24 4pm.
Read more'Electric News in Colonial Algeria'
Dr Arthur Asseraf, University of Cambridge
22 March, 10:00-11:00 | ORB 1.32
Read moreWriting 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
Read moreSamuel Beckett and (post)colonial France: the politics of domesticity
Prof. Hélène Lecossois (Lille)
Thursday March 14 @ 17.00
ORB 1.24
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a Festschrift and conference for Angela Ryan
Read moreSeminar by Prof. Yasser Elhariry (Dartmouth College)
ORB 1.24 | Thursday February 7 | 4 p.m
ALL WELCOME
Happy Retirement
Read moreA 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
Read moreNUI Dr H H Stewart Literary Scholarship in French and Government Medal and NUI Prize for Proficiency in French
Read moreRwanda After Genocide: Gender, Identity and Post-traumatic Growth
Caroline Williamson Sinalo
Cambridge University Press, 2018
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Marguerite Duras. Un théâtre de voix / A Theatre of Voices - edited by Mary Noonan and Joelle Pagès-Pindon
Read moreClaude Pélieu: On All Frequencies / James Horton / ORB 1.24 / Thursday September 13th, 17-18h / in collaboration with UCC Library
Read moreMonday 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
Read moreStudents who graduated in the MA in Translation Studies with French
Read moreThursday March 6 @ 16.00
CACSSS Seminar room, G.27
Hosted by Department of French UCC
and the CASiLaC research cluster
Conflict, Gender and Violence (http://casilac.ie/violence-conflict-and-gender/)
Read moreCelebrating 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
Read moreRepresenting Gender Based Violence
Establishing an Interdisciplinary International Network
22-23 May 2017
O'Rahilly Building, room 2.55
Read moreRoom 1.22 Block A, First Floor, O'Rahilly Building, University College Cork