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
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Semaine de la langue française et de la Francophonie, 15-23 mars 2025.
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Research seminar, organised in conjunction with the ‘Rethinking Spatial Humanities’ research cluster, CASiLaC and the Department of French
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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.
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‘Night Air: The Miasmic City in Balzac’s La Cousine Bette’ | Dr Charlotte Berkery, French Department, UCC | Friday 7th March 2025, 10.00-11.00am | Room 1.24, O’Rahilly Building,
01 Mar 2025
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)
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Continuing the tradition? Michael Roch and the Afrofuturist turn in Martinican literature | Research Seminar | Dr Laura Kennedy (French Department)
27 Jan 2025
This talk will introduce the up-and-coming writer Michael Roch, who is spearheading a moment within Martinican literature.
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Remembering Maryse Condé Thursday 5 December 4-7pm
22 Nov 2024
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.
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Solange Faladé's Lesson for the World | Research Seminar | Thursday 21 November, 5pm in ORB 1.24
06 Nov 2024
Dr Sinan Richards, Department of French, UCC.
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'Cynicism and the Body in Postmodern French literature : a study of Virginie Despentes with comparison to Frédéric Beigbeder' | Research Seminar | Thursday 24 October, 5pm in ORB 1:24
16 Oct 2024
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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European Day of Languages - Languages for Peace
23 Sep 2024
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.
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Retirement of Dr Mary Noonan
20 Sep 2024
We marked the retirement of Dr Mary Noonan, Senior Lecturer in French, on Wednesday 11 September with a gathering of colleagues and friends in the Staff Common Room. Mary's many contributions to UCC life and to the department were noted, most recently as Head of French. Her active and brilliant research career, her creative life as a poet and author, and the esteem in which she is held by students and colleagues in UCC and far beyond were very clear, as we listened to speeches given by current and former colleagues and the Head of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences. We in the Department of French warmly wish Mary all the very best for her retirement and thank her for her substantial contribution over the past three decades, her care for our students and her collegiality.Read more -
Au revoir
23 May 2024
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.
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