Feel welcome to attend the online seminar by our next Political Technologies cluster speaker, Dr Kevin Guyan, and that on Tuesday 18/11 from 4-5PM. For more details, see the poster below! @oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social

Had a really good chat with Quique Autrey on his Psyche podcast this week talking all things Fanon and Psychoanalysis: spotify.link/086t71LVHXb

I will be discussing Catherine Malabou’s reading of Jacques Rancière later today www.upf.edu/web/gianni-v... @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social

I am so delighted to see Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism, edited by me and Thomas Waller out in print! Featuring fabulous essays by Jean-Michel Rabaté, Jamieson Webster, Dany Nobus, Nadia Bou Ali, Derek Hook and more.

Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism, edited by myself and @maybenansi.bsky.social, is out now with Bloomsbury! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/understan...

Upcoming Lacan in Scotland with @maybenansi.bsky.social and @thomaswaller.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DPzA4on...

Delighted to co-announce this fabulous Political Technologies seminar series with the co-conveners, Prof @oliverjdavis.bsky.social & Dr @maybenansi.bsky.social. Do check out the poster below! @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social

together with @egeertsphd.bsky.social and @maybenansi.bsky.social I am convening a new research cluster @ucc.ie on Political Technologies. Here is our first year's seminar programme. Please join us online for these talks - links to follow. @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

1/3: Essential Read “The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), a 500-member body of academics founded in 1994, passed a resolution on Monday, stating that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza fulfil the definition of genocide set out in the 1948 United Nations Convention…

Breaking - International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) resoundingly agree that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. time.com/7313709/isra...

The IAGS has declared that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide and that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity as defined in international humanitarian law 1/2 genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

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Today, GHF called on women in Gaza to come and collect food aid. But just now, 45-year-old Khadija Abu Anza arrived at Nasser Medical Complex after being shot while trying to reach the aid distribution point in northwest Rafah. #ceasefire #Gaza #GazaIsBeingStarved

Think of Others by Mahmoud Darwish www.divasofverse.com/2025/06/thin...

"The school was hit and caught fire while we were inside." A girl who survived an Israeli air strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza was interviewed moments after the attack, which killed members of her family.

Suddenly, something is shifting. Israel's apologists have realised that a reckoning is coming. They understand that they're not going to get away with this abomination. And they are absolutely right 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

great presentation by @maybenansi.bsky.social from @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social of his work on Lacan and Fanon at the @ucc.ie CACSSS research day today

“The thing that we all insisted wasn’t happening and scolded people, and agitated for their blacklisting, arrest and exclusion from the public square for saying was happening, that thing we all said was cynical terrorist agitprop by gullible fools? That thing? Well, we would like it to stop now.”

psychedelics in Ireland: my op-ed for today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social, reflecting on our recent @ucc.ie workshop in the psychedelic humanities @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

JL’s Birthday yadayadayada

Getting ready for the psychedelic humanities research day, hosted by Prof @oliverjdavis.bsky.social and kicking off at 11am this morning in the Aula Maxima!

Video captured the moment Israeli forces blew up Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital and an adjacent medical school over what the military claims was a Hamas presence.

It was an honour to chair this fascinating and important plenary, delivered by a wonderful colleague

Reflection on cuts and closures in the humanities from @britishacademy.bsky.social, including an essay on the work of @englishassociation.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social, thanks to my brilliant colleagues journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/thematic-col...

Wonderful to hear our former colleague @donalh.bsky.social give the opening keynote to the @sofeir.bsky.social conference happening at UCC today and tomorrow! Dónal’s paper was on Colonial Complicity and the Limits of Irish Anti-Imperialism: The Scheme to Settle Irish Peasants in French Algeria

Make sure to check out the exhibition happening at Boole Library as part of the @sofeir.bsky.social conference, open to the public until 1pm today!

On Wednesday (19th March, 3.30pm, ORB G27 and via Teams), Prof Patrick Bray (UCL) will join us to present a paper entitled ‘Stendhal’s Inappropiable Taste: Body, Language and Landscape in Vie de Henry Brulard’. All welcome!

‘For example: “freedom or death”; it’s up to you to choose. If you choose death, you will be free, but you won’t be able to do much with your freedom.’ —Jean Oury

I'm going to be talking about something terrifyingly out of my period at one of the institutions I most admire (Newberry Library, Chicago, March 28) - come along and see me tremble! www.newberry.org/calendar/a-v...

This Friday (7th March, 10am, 1.24, ORB), our wonderful colleague Dr Charlotte Berkery will deliver a paper on 'Night Air: The Miasmic City in Balzac's La Cousine Bette'. This talk is organised by the Rethinking Spatial Humanities research cluster. All welcome!

Work from home and masks never did become the new normal but impunity and genocide sure did

It was wonderful to share some aspects of my research as part of UCC’s History Week last night. Many thanks to the French Society and History Society for inviting me along, and congratulations on putting together such an exciting week of events!

One week left to send us your abstracts for the @sfps.bsky.social annual conference (Dec 5-6th, Senate House London). Please share widely!

Really honoured to have been invited to deliver the Kate Marsh keynote at @sfps.bsky.social in December this year. I’ll be talking about Fanon’s doomsday atmosphere… submit your abstracts and join us in London for what promises to be a wonderful conference!

Our next departmental research seminar is happening next Thursday (27th) and will be delivered by our wonderful Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, DrJemima Hodgkinson. Jemima’s talk will take place at 5pm in ORB 1:24, UCC, and via Teams - please contact us for the Teams access link! ☀️

Happy Valentine’s Day to my book — officially released a year ago today 🥰

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for this year's Annual Conference in Bristol. A provisional programme and information about available funding can be found on our website. Register before Friday 28 February for a discounted early bird rate! 🐣 www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...

La décolonisation, qui se propose de changer l’ordre du monde est, on le voit, un programme de désordre absolu Absolu. Not anything else.

Gentle reminder of the open CFP for the annual @sfps.bsky.social conference, on Fanon at 100, happening in the Senate House 5-6th December. It is particularly special to be welcoming my UCC colleague @maybenansi.bsky.social as one of our keynotes. We can’t wait to read your abstracts!

Good news. @livunipress.bsky.social selected as new publishing partner for @britishacademy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/liverpo...

I will never forget this genocide and what has been done not only to the Palestinian people, but “international law” and our humanity

Israeli forces are intensifying its bombardment of Gaza City after the announcement of the ceasefire agreement, reports the Palestinian Civil Defence. 🔴 LIVE updates:

WANT. NEED. DESIRE.

A reminder that the closing date for submissions for the R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize is this Saturday 30 November 2024. For more information see the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...

A reminder that the closing date for submissions for the R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize is 30 November 2024. For more information see the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...

Really pleased to share this photo of Solange Faladé since there are so few out there of her !

“I had rationalized the world, and the world had rejected me in the name of color prejudice. Since there was no way we could agree on the basis of reason, I resorted to irrationality” Fanon (on the right)