Many congratulations to our new PhD graduates in the School of Languages - Dr Clare Geraghty, Dr Sara Helin-Long, Dr Roksana Niewadzisz (SPLAS) and Dr Jacopo Turini (Italian).

The Department of Italian is delighted to announce the fourth edition of the N.I.C.E. Italian Festival in Cork running from 4-6 April at the Arc Cinema. 

This year we have a vey exciting programme of films starting with the acclaimed director Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film Parthenope.

The festival will be officially opened by H. E. Nicola Faganello, Italian Ambassador to Ireland.

All films will be in Italian with English subtitles.

The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (SLLC) is happy to offer again his year a Scholarship for one of the Taught Masters Programmes available in our School (MA in Asian Studies, MA in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (MATCSOL), MA in Migration, Mobility and Culture, MA in Translation Studies and the MA in Applied Linguistics). Applications are invited from students who will commence a Taught Masters programme in autumn 2025. Applicants should already have applied through CRM Recruit (www.ucc.ie/apply) for the relevant programme. The award of the Scholarship is contingent on the student being accepted to the relevant Taught Masters programme. Deadline: Friday, 30th of May 2025 

You are warmly invited to the Department of Italian online seminar next week, organised by Giulia Bernuzzi (Research Ireland PhD Scholar). It will take place on the 10th of March, from 4 to 5 pm. 

You are warmly invited to the third session of our SLA Lunchtime Reading Group next Wednesday, the 5th of March, from 1:00 to 2:00 pm, in ORB 3.38

The Department of Italian and the Department of Film and Screen Media invite you to the seminar and book lunch by filmmaker and artist Alessandra Ferrini on the 4th of March, 4 pm, Film and Screen Media Audit-2. This event is organised by Leonora Masini (Department of Italian) and will include a conversation with Alessandra Ferrini, Chiara Giuliani (Department of Italian) and Laura Rascaroli (Film and Screen Media).

The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures warmly invite you to a seminar with Laetitia Devaux, Literary Translator in Residence 2024-2025.

In this seminar, Laetitia Devaux will share her experience of working as a literary translator from English into French for many years. She will discuss the main challenges she has encountered and the opportunities that have arisen from her professional commitment to literary translation in the French context. Examples from her own work will be provided to illustrate her arguments.

All welcome!

The Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland (CDSI), the Department of Italian UCC, and CASiLaC are delighted to announce the programme of our annual five public lectures on Dante, which will start on the 20th January 2025. All welcome!

Join us for the presentation of the IRC New Foundations-funded project ComiCork by Dr Chiara Giuliani (Dept of Italian) in collaboration with the Cork Community Art Link which saw the involvement of final year students of Italian, comic artists in Italy and Ireland and TY students in Cork. Thursday 16 January, 4 pm, CACSSS Seminar Room (ORB G27). 

The Department of Italian warmly invites you for the Society of Italian Studies Postgraduate Colloquium which will take place this year at UCC and is organised by Francesca Nieddu and Noreen Kane. 

We warmly invite you to Cooking Up Chaos, organised by Marta Pagliuca Pelacani (Department of Italian, UCC). The event is dedicated to making, eating, and humming. The session is sponsored by CASiLAC and will have the collaboration of Liza Prins (UK), Mattia Papp (NL), Lorenzo Manzotti (IT) and Giulia Morlando (IT).

Due to popular demand, SLLC is thrilled to invite students from across Munster to participate in our Fluent Futures 2024 Transition Year Event. Sponsored by Languages Connect, this event will occur on November 19th, 20th, and 22nd as part of the #ThinkLanguages week. 

Event organized by the Rethinking Spatial Humanities Research Cluster of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Languages and Cultures and the Dept of Italian, UCC, on the occasion of the XXIV Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo on the theme of "L'italiano e il libro: il mondo fra le righe".

Find SLLC information stands and Talks in this link: https://www.ucc.ie/en/study/undergrad/events/opendays/

The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University College Cork and Literature Ireland, in partnership with Nano Nagle Place, seek applications from French literary translators for a residential bursary in Cork. This is an opportunity for a translator to travel to Ireland and live and work in Cork City.

The Department of Italian warmly welcomes you to the  mini-concert of the Italian folk group, Casa del Vento, on Thursday, 10th October, from 4 pm, at The Shtepps (The Hub). 

The seminar "Ditadura Nunca Mais/Dictatorship Never Again" examines the consequences of dictatorship in Brazil and the Americas on the occasion of the anniversary of the 1964 Military Coup in Brazil. The event will be hybrid and will include four interventions (two in Portuguese, two in English) by four guest speakers. 

Organised by the IRC Laureate Consolidator ARTFICTIONS project and the BA in Portuguese Studies team. 

More information about the seminar can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/ucceventditaduranuncamais/home

The Irish Centre for Galician Studies and the research cluster Translation and Creative Practice (CASiLaC, UCC) warmly invite you to the half-day symposium Poetry and Translation in Contemporary Galicia, featuring readings and discussions with acclaimed writers and translators Isaac Xubín, Keith Payne and Luisa Castro.

You are warmly invited to witness the Animal-Woman Journey(s) audio-visual installation with durational performance. This installation re-imagines folk tales about Animal-Women whose magical skins are lost, stolen or destroyed and is part of a practice inclusive PhD project created by Roksana Niewadzisz and funded by Irish Research Council.

Drop by anytime between 2pm and 5 pm Open entry.

Limited accessibility. Not recommended for children.

You are warmly invited to the research events that will take place in UCC from September to November 2024. 

The Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies welcomes you to attend a two-day conference (5-6 September) on Raciolinguistics, ‘Lengua, identidad y racismo: un enfoque lingüístico/ Language, identity and racism: a linguistic approach.

Join us in UCC for our exciting conference on Raciolinguistics, the first of its kind in Ireland. Speakers from Ireland, Europe, US & Latin America. Registration open.