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.

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 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.