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!

There is still time to send your abstracts in for the @sfps.bsky.social postgraduate study day, on colonial toxicity and ecologies of empire, happening Friday 23rd May in University of Cambridge. Full CFP can be found here: sfps.org.uk/2025/03/18/c... Please share widely!

Make sure to check out this piece by Prof @oliverjdavis.bsky.social on his recent psychedelic humanities workshop, hosted at UCC!

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...

a big thank you to everyone who attended and spoke at our recent UCC research day on the psychedelic humanities! @manchanmagan.bsky.social @erikadyck.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social

If you are interested in further study at postgraduate level, come along to a workshop on Wednesday 2 April 1-2pm, on ‘Routes into Research', with speakers @oliverjdavis.bsky.social, @katejhodgson.bsky.social and Dr Anne Marie Devlin. This is an in-person only event, happening in UCC’s ORB 1.32

Join us in ORB 1.23 UCC on Friday, 4th April to discuss the @schoolofllc.bsky.social SATLE-funded teaching and learning projects, starting with coffee at 10am and ending with a light lunch - please register for catering purposes here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

still thinking about this splendid paper yesterday on the nightcap as a figure for the bourgeois in July Monarchy caricature, by our colleague Dr Charlotte Berkerey @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social

Our next departmental research seminar is happening tomorrow (27th March) and will be delivered by our brilliant colleague Dr Charlotte Berkery. Charlotte's talk will take place at 5pm in ORB 1:24, UCC, and via Teams. All welcome - contact us for the Teams access link!

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!

It was lovely to be back and to get to present research that I developed while based in the Department. Glad I got to talk about this at a time when we all need to think more than ever about how our pasts and presents are profoundly shaped by and implicated in imperial and colonial violence.

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!

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 @schoolofllc.bsky.social book fair, happening today and tomorrow in ORB in aid of Sexual Violence Centre Cork 📚

listening to a great research paper by Patrick Bray on taste & Stendhal here in Cork @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social

Happening today!

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona dhaoibh go léir. Looking forward to great talks next Monday on the Psychedelic Humanities from the amazing @erikadyck.bsky.social, respected Plains Cree elders Kelly and Reanna Daniels and the inimitable @manchanmagan.bsky.social, among many talented others.

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!

Happening this morning!

The Cork French Film Festival begins today! 🇫🇷 🍿 🎥 You can check out the programme for the festival (6-9th March) here: corkfrenchfilmfestival.com/category/fil...

This research day, organised by Prof Oliver Davis, will be excellent. Make sure to join us by registering via the links below!

📢 research day in the psychedelic humanities here at UCC, 24th March 2025, including a keynote talk by @manchanmagan.bsky.social. Please see Eventbrite pages: www.eventbrite.com/e/1265313379... (morning) and www.eventbrite.com/e/1265673436... (afternoon) @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social

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!

Congratulations to our French Society for their involvement in UCC's History Week!

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! ☀️

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!

Had a lovely day down in UCC. Great to catch up with old colleagues and meet some new ones. Delighted to see that both the @radhumslab.bsky.social and @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social are continuing to flourish with a good injection of new scholars doing great critical work.

It was wonderful to catch up with our former colleague @donalh.bsky.social and to hear about his exciting COLVET- Colonial Veterans ERC Project. Looking forward to seeing how it progresses!