A National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in HE Hybrid Seminar will be held on April 29th, 2022, from 10am to 12.30pm.

The session, From Surviving to Thriving - Negotiating the Post-Zoom Landscape, will focus on lessons from lockdown for Language Teaching.

Click here to register. 

The Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland (CDSI), the Department of Italian (UCC) and CASiLaC are delighted to announce the programme of our annual series of five public lectures on the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri.

From 2022, International Business with Languages (CK215) will replace BComm International Programmes. If you need information for programme transfer please contact the CK215 programme director.

Message from the Head of School, Dr. Patrick Crowley

A short video co-created by UCC Bystander Intervention with UCC CASiLaC's Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster, to respond to and build on the multilingual flash mob organised in February 2020 in collaboration with students and staff of UCC, in its rejection of patriarchal violence and victim-blaming narratives.

Dr Kevin Cawley is one of 5 research collaborators for a Korean Studies project that has been awarded c.120,000 Euro (40,000 x 3 years) by the Academy of Korean Studies in South Korea. The project is based at the University of Bologna - this will allow us to organise workshops and conferences, and work on publications, as well as hopefully organise a workshop for Kevin's students at UCC in Bologna next year.

Irish Research Council funding award for research into literature and environmental crisis

UCC ranked 8^th globally in the Times Higher Education Impact Awards

Celebrating with students who graduated with MA Degrees in the School.

Graduate Guest Speaker and Graduate Opportunities Talk

Announcing New University College Cork & Literature Ireland Translator in Residence Bursary

Talk by Jessica Murphy Senior Manager within the Global Order Management team of VMware

This workshop will be held on the 24th of January in UCC (ORB 2.44)

Congratulations to the recipients of the NUI Dr HH Stewart Literary Scholarships and Prizes which were awarded recently.

Wednesday 27th of March, 10-1, O'Rahilly Building G27, UCC

by Kevin Cawley

Second Semester 2018-19

4 pm Friday 22nd of February in ORB 1.24, UCC

5pm 21st February 2019 G02 O'Rahilly Building UCC

Exhibition in the Boole Library

5pm Friday 15th February 2019 Staff Common Room, UCC

Irish in Italy Exhibition, Boole Library, UCC

Gernikako Lobak (the grandchildren of Gernika)

Congratulations to recipients of the 2018-9 Scholarships

National University of Ireland Awards: Dr HH Stewart Literary Scholarships

First cohort of BAWL students graduated on 23 October 2018

21st November at 3 p.m. G02 Brookfield Health Sciences Complex

Friday, 30 November 2018, G27, O'Rahilly Building, UCC

Friday 2nd November at 4 p.m. in 1.24 O'Rahilly Building, UCC

Meeting and Q&A with Alexis Díaz Pimienta

12th of October at 4PM at ORB 1.24, UCC

 ACE Short Course on Elena Ferrante

Congratulations Gabriella Caponi

2nd Annual SILAS/UCC Lecture 2018, 4 p.m. 25th January 2018 in the O'Rahilly Building, G27, UCC.

In cooperation with Adult Continuing Education the German Department offers a course on existentialism.

Thursday 7th December at 4 p.m., G27 O'Rahilly Building, UCC

About Time (and Space):  Vico and the Italian/Italic Identity. 27 November 2017 at 5 pm

Friday 10th November 2017 in 1.24 in the O'Rahilly Building, UCC

Multivoicedness in European Cinema: Representation, Industry, Politics, an international conference of the ECREA Film Studies Section, will be held on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 November 2017 at UCC.

11am - 2pm Saturday 23rd September 2017 in the UCC Library Creative Zone

September 7th – from 11:30 – Mary Ryan Seminar Room

September the 6th – 7:00pm – Cork Central Library

Friday 23 June 2017, 12:00 noon, O'Rahilly Building, 1.24, U.C.C.

The award winning actor and screenwriter to join us from September 2017

An International Conference of the "Cross-Disciplinary Urban Space” Network

University College Cork, 25-27 May 2017

22-23 May 2017 in the O'Rahilly Building, 2.55, U.C.C.

Thursday 18 May and Friday 19 May 2017, O'Rahilly Building, UCC

Thursday, 27 April 2017, 3pm, CASiLaC Seminar Room, ORB 124, UCC.

Applications are invited for these two positions.

Iraq As a European Tragic Idea, 5 p.m. Thursday 6^th April 2017, Room ORB 1.23, UCC

13:00-17:00 Friday 24th March 2017, G27, O'Rahilly Building, UCC.

Thursday 16th March 2017, 5pm in ORB G27, UCC

Thirdness in language teaching and learning by Dr. Emma Riordan. Wednesday 15 March 2017 at 5.00pm in ORB. 1.24, UCC.

'Translation and Creative Practice' in the Library Creative Zone, UCC on Friday 10th March 2017

On Friday 24 February 2017 CASiLaC celebrated a multiple book launch.

5.15 p.m. Friday 24th February in the Staff Common Room, UCC.

Monday 13 February 2017 at 4pm in the CACSSS Seminar Room, G27, Ground Floor, O'Rahilly Building

Aula Maxima, UCC, Monday 23 January 2017 at 1 pm

2 p.m., 19th January 2017 in the CACSSS Seminar Room, O'Rahilly Building, UCC

Thursday 19th January 2017 at 5 p.m. in the CACSSS Seminar Room, ORB G27

‘Florentinus et exul inmeritus: Dante as Prophet’  Professor Claire Honess, University of Leeds.

Friday, 9 December 2016, 4.00 pm, ORB 1.24

Freud and the Humanities by Hans Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, NUI Galway. 5 p.m. 1st December ORB G27

‘Mind the gap’ – an approach to the methodological quandary in linguistic landscape studies, 3 p.m. 22nd November 2016 in ORB 1.24

5 p.m. Wednesday 16th November 2016 in ORB 1.24, UCC.

4th SCENARIO SYMPOSIUM - Performative Teaching, Learning, Research.  Fri 11 November – Boole Library (Creative Zone)

Talk by Dr. Barbara Schmenk, Wed 9 November, 4 pm – ORB,1.24, UCC

Monday 24 October 2016, 5pm, Mary Ryan Seminar Room, ORB G27, UCC

Department of French hosts Annual Conference of the Association des Études Françaises et Francophones d’Irlande (ADEFFI) October 14-16’

Re-encountering the Canon: Literary Translation and Contemporary Iberia 23 & 24 September 2016

The School of Irish Learning and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures are jointly hosting a one-day colloquium on Translation in the Irish Free State on Friday 16 September

International workshop 26/27 September 2016

Organised by Dr Caroline Williamson

O'Rahilly Building, CACSSS Seminar Room (G27)

NEW APPROACHES TO MEMORY Workshop, 2.30, Monday 5th September 2016 in ORB 1.24

Followed by a Book Launch

Research Seminar, The influence of C. G. Jung on Hermann Hesse’s writings at 11am, 15 June 2016, in ORB 1.24

Work in Progress Presentation by Dr. Caroline Williamson at 1pm Thursday 2nd June 2016 in ORB 1.45

Thursday 19^th May 2016 at 5pm in the CACSSS Mary Ryan Seminar Room, ORB G27

CASiLaC Cluster - Two Events, Thursday May 12th 2016, in the O'Rahilly Building, G27

Liliane Weissberg, will discuss Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem, Thursday 28^th April 2016, 5pm in the CACSSS Mary Ryan Seminar Room, ORB G27

Thursday, 14 April, 2016 – 5.15 p.m. – Boole Library, UCC

Dr Kate Hodgson will present Competing anti-slavery projects in early independent Haiti at 4 p.m. Thursday 14th April in ORB 1.24

This event will take place at 5 p.m. on Thursday 14 April in the CACSSS Mary Ryan Seminar Room, ORB G27

5 p.m. on Tuesday 5th April 2016 in the Film and Screen Media Auditorium, Windle Building, UCC

Reading and discussion with German author Sarah Elise Bischof at 4 p.m. Thursday 10th March 2016 in ORB G27B

Prof Antonia Arslan, Universita degli Studi di Padova, will present "La galassia sommersa della scrittura femminile italiana fra Ottocento e Novecento".

CASiLaC invites you to the fourth of our ECR Research Seminar Series for 2015-16

Dr. Gert Hofmann will present: Dionysus, Nietzsche, Artaud. European Theatre between Religion, Philosophy, at 5 p.m. on Thursday 3rd March in ORB 2.44

Dr. Donna Alexander will give a talk on Wednesday 24th February 2016 at 4 p.m. in ORB 1.24

The Department of Italian and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures UCC are pleased to announce a sixth series of public lectures on the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri.

A reading of Dante’s poem Purgatorio in 10 different languages will be held on Friday 4th December 2015 in the Glucksman Gallery, UCC

Karen Leeder will present ‘Rilke-in-English': A Contemporary Picture at 11 a.m. on Friday 27th November 2015 in ORB G27, UCC

Jo Shapcott reads from Tender Taxes, her versions of Rilke’s French poems at 6 pm, Thurs 26th November, 2015 in ORB G27.

Dr. Elaine Morley will present Elias Canetti and the Concept of Europe at 5 pm, 19th November 2015 in the CACSSS Seminar Room.

A Discussion with Stephen Rennicks, 5.15 p.m. Tuesday 17th November 2015 in the Windle Auditorium UCC

Poetry Translation Seminar with Jamie McKendrick 3 p.m. Friday 6th November 2015 ORB 1.24

The next event in this series will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday 5th November in ORB G27.

Calling all students with languages! gradireland are hosting the GRADchances Language Fair, Boole Basement, UCC on 4th November at 5.30pm.

Translation Seminar with Susan Wicks - 4 p.m. Friday 30th October in ORB 1.24

The next event in this series will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday 29th October in ORB G27

Poetry Translation Seminar by Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy, 5 p.m. Friday 16th October 2015 in ORB 1.24.

Viking Poetry from Scotland - Ian Crockatt will read from the Old Norse of Rognvaldr Kali Kolsson on Thursday 15 October 2015 @ 6 p.m., G27 O'Rahilly Building, UCC 

“This year, we surveyed employers and found that, for the first time, having a fluency in a foreign language was the most prized attribute a graduate could have."

Former UCC vice-president for teaching and learning and emeritus professor of French, Grace Neville, has been selected by French president, Francois Hollande, to receive the Legion d’Honneur.

Juan Carlos Mestre will read from his poetry, with English translations read by Cork actor Jack Healy

Friday 2 October, 2015 @ 5 p.m. in G27 (CACSSS Seminar Room), O’Rahilly Building, UCC

Professor Joelle Aden will give a lecture at 10 a.m. Friday 25th September 2015 in ORB G27

Friday, September 18th at 4 pm in the O'Rahilly Building, G.27 CACSSS Seminar Room

A reading and seminar series that will take place in the School of Languages throughout the coming semester.

Thursday 10th September, 4:00 pm – NATIONAL SCULPTURE FACTORY

This Dust of Words: Poetry and/as Translation, a reading and seminar series that will take place in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures throughout the coming semester.

University College Cork and the Arts Council are delighted to announce the appointment of Gerard Stembridge as Film Artist in Residence (Screenwriter) for 2015-16.

Round Table: Latin American Lives in Cork, Saturday 27th June, 9:30 am – O'Rahilly Building, G27, UCC

SILAS 2015 Event -  100 MORE LIKE THESE, Friday 26th June, 17:00 – Windle Auditorium, UCC

SILAS 2015 Event – Poetry by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Thursday 25th June, 17:15 – Staff Common Room UCC Main Quad

The Colonial Hotel: Luxury and Violence at the Grande Hotel in Beira, Mozambique, ca. 1950s-1960s

Dr. João Sarmento (Assistant Professor at the Geography Department, University of Minho, Portugal) with Dr. Denis Lenihan (School of Human Environment, UCC) will be held on Monday 15th June 2015 in the O'Rahilly Building, UCC, ORB1.24 at 12.00.

Dr. Patrick Crowley (Department of French) has been awarded an Irish Research Council New Foundations Award for a project and workshop titled EU Policy and Southern Mediterranean Cultural Production

Hannah Arendt. A Film by Margarethe von Trotta. OV, English subtitles, will be screened on Thursday, 28 May 2015 at 7pm in the O'Rahilly Building 1.56

‘Literary Translation and the Aftermath of Civil War: The Case of Catalonia’ Friday 24th April in ORB 1.24 at 16.30

On Thursday April 2^nd at 6.30 Dr Paul Hegarty will launch his book, Rumour and Radiation:Sound in Video Art

Professor Daniela Berghahn will deliver a lecture on Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe: The Evolution of a Research Project at 17.00 on March 26 in the CACSSS Seminar Room G. 27, O'Rahilly Building, UCC

A Q&A with Carmel Winters, Arts Council/UCC Film Artist in Residence, will be held at 5 p.m. on Thursday March 19th in the Film and Screen Media Auditorium, Windle, UCC.  This will be followed by a wine reception.

An information session for Final Year Students on MA programmes in our School will be held at 6pm on Wednesday 18th March 2015 in ORB 1.45.

The CASiLaC War and Culture Seminar Series continues with the following event:  Military History at A Crossroads: the Behavioural Turn by Professor Gregory Hanlon (University Research Professor, Dalhousie University) in the O'Rahilly Building, UCC, ORB 1.24 on Monday, 16th March at 14.30.

Friday 27th February, 4 p.m – ORB 1.24

DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES

DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH SEMINAR

Lard-eaters, Gayropeans, Sheeple (and prepositions) The enactment of online political identities during the recent Crimean crisis by Anne Marie Devlin. 

Location:  ORB 1. 24;  Date:  24 February 2015;  Time:  16.00

The School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures & the School of English, UCC, are delighted to host award-winning playwright, director, author & adaptor, Hattie Naylor for 2 days of events on her work for radio.

ISOLATOPIEN Cork talks on contemporary German literature

Dr. Abigail Brundin will deliver a Public Lecture on ‘Domestic Devotions: the Place of Piety in the Renaissance Italian Home’ on Thursday, February 12th at 5 pm.  Venue: CACSSS Seminar Room ORB G.27.  To be followed by a wine and cheese reception

Guy Debord, Diagrams of Revolution runs from February 4 to March 31 in the foyer of UCC Library.

Friday 30th January – 5:30pm ORB, Social Area, First Floor, Block B.

Friday, 23rd January – 4 p.m – O’Rahilly Building, ORB 1.24

"Cartoons, Comics and Human Rights after the Charlie-Hebdo Massacre" by Dr. David Keane, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Middlesex University.    Monday 19th January 2015 at 12.30 in the CACSSS Seminar Room, Ground Floor, O'Rahilly Building, UCC.

There will be a meeting of the CASiLaC Research Forum on Thursday January 15 at 16. 30 for the first of our talks on War and Culture. Paul Hegarty will give a brief presentation titled ‘Foucault and War’.