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.