Our deadline for abstracts for the SFPS Postgraduate and ECR study day, happening on 12th June at @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social, is Monday - make sure to send in your proposals!

Join us next week for the next intervention in our research seminar series from Dr Cecilia Benaglia! 🗓️: Tuesday 3rd March, 11am 📍: 1:24, UCC O’Rahilly Building and online via Teams More information and the Teams link can be found here: www.ucc.ie/en/french/ne...

Fantastic to hear from these high-flying recent graduates of ours in French at UCC. Inspiring talks from inspiring individuals! Thanks to all three!

As accomplished as they are nice. Great to see these lovely students return to what remains a lovely and brilliant department.

What a pleasure to welcome back some of our UCC graduates of French who are now pursuing exciting careers in diverse fields. Thanks to Imasha, Kevin, and Siobhán for sharing their post-UCC journeys with us. A testimony to the many career pathways available to UCC students of French!

Another thought-provoking UCC Political Technologies series talk earlier today, this time by Dr @felixtreguer.bsky.social. Merci! Check out the cluster’s website (shorturl.at/00PDZ) for more info & upcoming seminars. @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social

There is still plenty of time to send in your abstracts for the @sfps.bsky.social PG and ECR study day, happening Friday 12th June at UCC! Deadline for proposals is 2nd March!

Great to see this magnificent special issue published on criminal barrister turned writer Constance Debré, one of the most incisive and uncompromising new queer voices in French contemporary literature. Congratulations to guest-editor @airelleamedro.bsky.social and to all of the authors featured!

We are delighted to welcome back to the department two recent UCC French graduates to hear about their transition from UCC to the world of work! All students of French are welcome and encouraged to attend. 🗓️ Friday 13th Feb, 1-2pm 📍Kane building, G19

@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social research seminar in conjunction with the Political Technologies group, Tues 10th Feb, 4-5pm Irish time, online. Teams link on this page: www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/r... Please join us! @egeertsphd.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social

We are now on LinkedIn - make sure to give us a follow!

Amazing opportunity to undertake funded PhD study for graduates of National University of Ireland institutions. A special focus on French Studies too this year! Please get in touch to discuss if you are considering applying through UCC. www.ucc.ie/en/french/re... @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social

The Political Technologies research cluster and Department of French will welcome Professor Didier Bigo to UCC on Tues 27 January. Join us in person or online! Links here: www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/r... @uccresearch.bsky.social @egeertsphd.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social

We look forward to welcoming early career scholars of francophone postcolonial studies to our campus in June! Make sure to send in your abstracts! @sfps.bsky.social @sfhs.bsky.social @frenchstudies.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social @afcork.bsky.social @adeffi.bsky.social

Delighted to share the CFP for the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate and ECR Study Day, happening on Friday 12th June at @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social. This year we are also opening the call up to final-year UG students and MA students. Please share widely!

@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social (past and present) reunion at #SFPS25 !!

And we’re off! @maybenansi.bsky.social kicking off #SFPS2025 with a brilliant keynote on Fanon on the trigger of disenclosure

Our amazing conference organizer for #SFPS25!

Ready to go for our annual SFPS conference, on Fanon at 100! Really looking forward to catching up with colleagues, meeting new ones, and hearing so many wonderful interventions, particularly keynote paper from my @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social colleague @maybenansi.bsky.social #SFPS2025

@oliverjdavis.bsky.social delivers a terrific paper at Social Pathologies conference at UCC @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social

super paper by @maybenansi.bsky.social on Tosquelles and Fanon at the Social Pathologies conference @ucc.ie @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

This is an amazing opportunity for an outstanding postdoctoral researcher. Here @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social we’re keen to support at least one applicant. It’s a 4-year award incorporating a PhD studentship and experience at co-supervision. @francemodern.bsky.social @frenchstudies.bsky.social

‼️ Postdoctoral opportunity ‼️ The Department hopes to support at least one outstanding applicant to the Research Ireland Pathway Programme - a prestigious postdoctoral award programme. Email Prof @oliverjdavis.bsky.social ([email protected]) for more information www.ucc.ie/en/french/re...

We are so excited to have Prof Martin Munro present at our research seminar series! All welcome! Paper title: The Further Adventures of MacFanon Date/time: 1st December, 5-6pm Venue: UCC’s ORB, 1:24 and online (email [email protected] for Teams link) www.ucc.ie/en/french/ne...

What a lovely talk by Dr Kevin Guyan (@kevinguyan.bsky.social) earlier today as part of the Political Technologies seminar series at UCC! More about Dr Guyan’s work here: kevinguyan.com @oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social

What an honour to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Frances Molloy’s No Mate for the Magpie with her family and friends, scholars, writers, editors, publishers, booksellers, students, and Cailíní Dhoire book club. Thanks to everyone who joined us and to @museumfreederry.bsky.social for hosting

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

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

Campus is looking beautiful for the UCC open day - make sure to come visit us!

Join us on Saturday 15th November in the @museumfreederry.bsky.social to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Frances Molloy's brilliant 'No Mate for the Magpie'. Many thanks to funders @schoolofllc.bsky.social’s CASiLaC, QUB's Institute of Irish Studies, and the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute.

International Translation Day is on 30th September, and to celebrate our very own Dr Hannah Silvester has organised a fantastic array of events for our Translation Week! Make sure to check out the event programme below, and do join us!

Please join us tomorrow at 5pm Cork time for this research paper by Professor Arthur Bradley: 'Genet's dying words: forty years in Shatila'. @maybenansi.bsky.social @egeertsphd.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.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

The CFP is now open for the annual French Colonial Historical Society Conference, taking place in Maynooth in June 2026 and hosted by our former colleague @donalh.bsky.social. This will be brilliant - be sure to get your proposals in! Find out more here: frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

A great start indeed to our research year @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social ! Thanks to Madeleine for a wonderful paper brimming with ideas about the ways in which theorists of LLMs borrow - very selectively - from the French philosophical tradition. Thanks too to those who joined online.

We are delighted to open our 2025-26 seminar series with a talk from Dr Madeleine Chalmers on ‘Rogue Vectors: Why ChatGPT Loves French Philosophy’. 🗓️: 11th September, 5-6pm 📍: UCC’s O’Rahilly Building, room 1:24 & online via Teams All welcome - message us for the Teams link!

As part of British Comparative Literature Association's 50th anniversary celebrations, I’ll be taking part in an online roundtable discussion offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse into publishing in comparative literature on 8th July, 2-3.30pm (BST). Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Make sure to check out this fantastic programme of French films being screened at UCC library as part of Bastille Day celebrations in Ireland! Book your (free!) tickets here: corkfilmfest.org/ciffs-bastil...

Our very own Dr Caroline Williamson Sinalo is keynote at the 2025 National Health Promotion Conference, happening today and tomorrow in Mangochi, Malawi, in partnership with the Malawian Ministry of Health. More on the conference here: youtube.com/watch?v=oNAE... @ucc.ie @schoolofllc.bsky.social

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

Happening today!

I'll be speaking in London this Friday in a day of free talks exploring Henri Michaux's mescaline adventures, to accompany the exquisite ongoing Courtauld exhibition of his drug drawings. Link to register below. @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/hen...

And finally, a special thank you to Blackrock Castle Observatory for a magical ending to the evening.🌟🌟🌟 We are grateful to @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social UCC CASiLaC, CUBS and the department of Geography for their support.

Thanks too to Silvia Ross @ucc.ie for moderating, and to poet Mary Noonan @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social and Maureen O'Connor (UCC English) for their literary readings on our night walk.

Thank you to my fellow panellists: Nick Dunn @lancasteruni.bsky.social, Niall Smith @mtu.ie, JCMacArie @ucc.ie, and Fiona Collins @corkcitycouncil for such a stimulating discussion about the nights of the future.

Our final departmental research seminar of the academic year is happening on Thursday (8th), and will be delivered by our wonderful Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Jemima Hodgkinson. Join us at 5pm in ORB 1:24, UCC, or via Teams - contact us for the Teams access link!

Make sure to get a copy of today’s Echo to read all about Dr Charlotte Berkery’s event happening tomorrow evening! 🗞️ There’s still time to register!

There’s still time to register for this series of brilliant events, happening this Wednesday! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I will be talking about my work on the politics of psychedelics at a Zoom event this coming Wednesday, which is ticketed to raise money for the great work of The Psychedelic Experience Clinic: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-psyche...

The countdown is on for the ‘Dark Futures, Night Spaces’ event on Wednesday April 30, organised by our colleague Dr Charlotte Berkery and the ‘Rethinking Spatial Humanities’ @schoolofllc.bsky.social research cluster ✨ Places are limited so register soon to avoid disappointment!