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

Department of French

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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