Past seminars
Research Seminars 22-23
French Department Research Seminar Series 2022-23
Semester 2
- 7 February 2023
Louisa Esther Mugabo (UCC) and Joshua Craze (The New Humanitarian), “A critical conversation on the United Nation’s alleged sexual abuse problem”, co-organised with The Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster in CASiLaC and the Centre for Global Development (CGD)
- 23 February 2023
Barry Nevin, TUD, “Reassessing directorial authorship in French cinema’s Tradition of Quality”
- March 2023
Launch of Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives, in collaboration with the Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster
- 6th - 8th March
Georgina Collins
- 4pm 15 March 2023
Muriam Haleh Davis, UC Santa Cruz,
- 23 March 2023
Patrick Autréaux, former A&E doctor, now writer - Rescheduled for April
- 30 May 2023
French Postgraduate presentation day
Semester 1
- 2 November 2022
4pm 1.24 ORBs
Patrick O’Donovan, UCC: ‘Proust’s House of Fiction: A Centenary Perspective’
- 16 November 2022
4pm 1.24
Loic Bourdeau, Maynooth University: ‘The Power of Netflix in France’
- Friday 25 November 2022
Mary Ryan Room
Launch of Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture edited by Chiara Giuliani and Kate Hodgson. In collaboration with the Memory and Uses of the Past Cluster.
- 7 December 2022
3-5pm
Annie Ernaux – a celebration!
Research Seminars 21-22
Friday 26 November at 11:30
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.
African ‘transgender’, resisting the public secret and precarity
Friday October 29th, 16:00
Madan Sara: Pouvwa Fanm Ayisyen (The Power of Haitian Women). A documentary film by Etant Dupain.
Online screening and Q&A with the film's editors and community activists and Dr Kate Hodgson (UCC Department of French).
Thursday October 21st, 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
Research Seminars 20-21
Semester 2
15 April 2021
Dr Rachel Gillett (University of Utrecht)
Dr Rachel Anne Gillett will present her new book At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris
11 February 2021
Anaïs Nony (UCC French Department)
Semester 1
4-5pm, 5 November 2020
Susie Cronin, PhD University of Cambridge
Can we (still) speak of a ‘French Digital Literature?’
This presentation explores the conditions of emergence of digital and computer-assisted literatures in the French context. Noting the importance of exhibitions in particular in contributing to the development of digital works and aesthetics, the presentation explores what offerings and concessions are there in considering the emergence and elaboration of such literatures through an approximate national frame.
10-11am 8 December
Nathalie Ségeral (French and Francophone Studies, Sydney University)
Gender-Based Violence in the Pandemic and its Media Coverage: Who Gets to Be Represented?
1-2pm December 15
Sahla Aroussi (Global Security Challenges, Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds)
Gender in international security.