Nomination of Gabriella Caponi as Honorary Consul in Munster

16 Jul

Congratulations Gabriella Caponi

(SILAS) Society for Irish Latin American Studies

18 Jan

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

A Beginner's Guide to Existentialism

09 Jan

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

Research Seminar - Paul Hegarty

05 Dec

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

CASiLaC Research Seminar

16 Nov

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

New Research on Galician Migrations: Half-Day Symposium

10 Nov

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

International Conference of the ECREA Film Studies Section

06 Nov

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.

Multilingual Families in Cork

08 Sep

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

Out of Africa: Spanish Language & Identity in Post-Colonial Africa & Beyond

06 Sep

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

Juan Tomás' Public Reading: The Gurugu Pledge

05 Sep

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

Made in Italy or Made in China?

19 Jun

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

Mark O‘Halloran appointed as UCC Film Artist in Residence

08 Jun

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

Urban Space and the Body Conference

01 Jun

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

Scenario Forum International Conference

30 May

University College Cork, 25-27 May 2017

Representing Gender Based Violence International Conference

18 May

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

Film and Screen Media's Third Alphaville International Conference

15 May

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

Re-Animations or: How to use dead things by Miriam Sachs

24 Apr

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

Film Artist in Residence (Screenwriter) and Writer in Residence

11 Apr

Applications are invited for these two positions.

European Thought and Global Inspiration

06 Apr

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

Mapping Language Assessments to the CEFR

20 Mar

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

European Thought and Global Inspiration event

16 Mar

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

CASiLaC ECR Research Seminar

14 Mar

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

CASiLaC Research Cluster Half Day Symposium

09 Mar

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

CASiLaC Book Launch

02 Mar

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

CASiLaC Multiple Book Launch

24 Feb

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

The Imagination-Image Professor Sarah Cooper (King's College London)

10 Feb

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

Inaugural Eliza Lynch Lecture

20 Jan

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

Translation, Representation and Stage Performance

19 Jan

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

The Global Brecht by Professor Manfred Schewe

17 Jan

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

Research Seminar & Book Launch

02 Dec

‘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

25 Nov

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

Lecture by Dr. Diarmait Mac Ghiolla Chríost

22 Nov

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

“Italiani made in China”: Defining ‘Italianness’ in second generation Chinese-Italians. by Dr CHIARA GIULIANI

15 Nov

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

4th SCENARIO SYMPOSIUM - Performative Teaching, Learning, Research

10 Nov

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

Myths of Origin of Communicative Language Teaching

01 Nov

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

Writing, Starving, and the Biopolitics of Isolation: Ulrike Meinhof’s Letter From Prison

17 Oct

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

Obéissance

06 Oct

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

20 Sep

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

a d’iompaigh go Gaeilge’, Translation in the Irish Free State

12 Sep

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

Translation and Activism

31 Aug

International workshop 26/27 September 2016

Organised by Dr Caroline Williamson

O'Rahilly Building, CACSSS Seminar Room (G27)

New Approaches to Memory Workshop and Book Launch

12 Aug

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

Followed by a Book Launch

Research Seminar CASiLaC Cluster: German Thinkers and the European Tradition

03 Jun

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

Communal men and Agentic women: Collective posttraumatic growth in Rwanda

30 May

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

Lutz Hagestedt, University of Rostock, presents 'The Void and I.'

19 May

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

CASiLaC Cluster - Culture as Performance, Performance as Culture

06 May

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

Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem

25 Apr

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

Exhibition Launch: CERVANTES ?PRINCE OF WITS (1616-2016): LIFE, WORK, LEGACY

12 Apr

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

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

08 Apr

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

Prof Stanley Corngold (Princeton University) will give a lecture as part of the CASiLaC European Thought and Global Inspiration Cluster

07 Apr

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

Information Session for new MA in Film and Screen Media

22 Mar

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

»Panthertage. Mein Leben mit Epilespie« (»panther’s days. My life with epilepsy«)

08 Mar

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

Italian Department Seminar - 5 p.m. Wednesday 9th March in ORB G27

04 Mar

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

ECR Research Seminar Series for 2015-16

01 Mar

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

German Thinkers and the European Tradition

26 Feb

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

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

16 Feb

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

Dante Public Lecture Series 2016

25 Jan

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.

Public reading of Dante’s poem Purgatorio

03 Dec

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

This Dust of Words: Poetry and/as Translation: Karen Leeder

24 Nov

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

This Dust of Words: Poetry and/as Translation: Jo Shapcott

20 Nov

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

German Thinkers and the European Tradition

17 Nov

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

12 Nov

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

This Dust of Words: Poetry and/as Translation: Jamie McKendrick

03 Nov

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

This Dust of Words: Poetry and/as Translation: Antonella Anedda

03 Nov

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

Language Fair 4th November 2015

02 Nov

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

This Dust of Words: Poetry and/as Translation; Susan Wicks

22 Oct

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

This Dust of Words: Poetry and/as Translation; Valérie Rouzeau

21 Oct

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

This Dust of Words: Poetry and/as Translation; Lorna Shaughnessy

16 Oct

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

This Dust of Words: Poetry and/as Translation; Ian Crockatt

15 Oct

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 

For some just out of college, the jobs front looks positive

06 Oct

“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."

Professor Grace Neville is awarded the Legion d’Honneur

05 Oct

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.

This Dust of Words: Poetry and/as Translation

29 Sep

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

CASiLaC Inaugural Lecture Series

22 Sep

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

Professor Michael Caesar will deliver a Public Lecture - Translating Leopardi's Zibaldone

17 Sep

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

This Dust of Words: Poetry and/as Translation

11 Sep

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

MULTIDIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY : TRANSFORMABLE STRUCTURES

07 Sep

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

This Dust of Words: Poetry and/as Translation

18 Aug

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.

Gerard Stembridge appointed as Film Artist in Residence at UCC

12 Aug

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.

SILAS 2015 Event - Round Table: Latin American Lives in Cork

22 Jun

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

22 Jun

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

SILAS 2015 Event – Poetry by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh

22 Jun

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

CASiLaC War and Culture Seminar Series

15 Jun

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.

Irish Research Council New Foundations Award

11 Jun

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

26 May

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

CASiLaC War and Culture Seminar Series

21 Apr

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

Book Launch - Rumour and Radiation

31 Mar

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

CASiLaC Inaugural Lecture Series

20 Mar

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 and a Public Screening of 'Snap'

02 Mar

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.

Research Opportunities with Languages - 6pm Wed. 18th March 2015 ORB 1.45

16 Mar

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.

CASiLaC War and Culture Seminar Series

12 Mar

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.

Postgraduate Seminar: Pedrolo Digital

26 Feb

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

CASiLaC War and Culture Seminar Series

20 Feb

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

Hattie Naylor visits UCC 19 and 20 February 2015

18 Feb

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.

Cork talks on contemporary German literature

13 Feb

ISOLATOPIEN Cork talks on contemporary German literature

CASiLaC Inaugural Lecture Series

09 Feb

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

02 Feb

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

Book Launch - Dr Martín Veiga's "Escribir na multitude: A obra literaria de Antón Avilés de Taramancos"

29 Jan

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

Brazil, Cinema and Soft Power - Stephanie Dennison

22 Jan

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

“Cartoons, Comics and Human Rights after the Charlie-Hebdo Massacre” 19 January, 12.30 in the CACSSS Seminar Room

16 Jan

"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.

CASiLaC Research Forum - Thursday 15th January at 16.30 in ORB 1.24

09 Jan

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’.