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

- Terms and conditions

                        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