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.

You are cordially invited to the launch of:

Mobilizing Memory: The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918-1939, (Oxford University Press, 2019)

By Dónal Hassett

Staff Common Room, Tuesday October 1^st, 17:00-18:00

The book will be launched by Prof. John Horne, Fellow Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin.

This will be followed by a wine reception

ALL ARE WELCOME

This event is supported by the French Department

Launch of Dr Mary Noonan’s second collection of poetry Stone Girl

Invitation to book launch and seminar

You are cordially invited to the launch of:

Rwanda After Genocide - Gender, Identity and Post-Traumatic Growth 

by Caroline Wiliamson Sinalo 

O'Rahilly Building,  UCC, Social Area, First Floor at the Department of French

2 may 2019 4.30 pm

Dr Julia Viebach, University of Oxford will launch the book 

This will be followed by a wine reception

ALL ARE WELCOME

This event is supported by the French Department, UCC.

‘Raconter un tronçon de vie’: practices and conceptions of writing in the emancipatory pedagogy of Célestin Freinet 

Dr Richard Mason (Department of French, University College Cork)

16^th May 2019, ORB 1.24 4pm.