***History at the "End of History"*** Prof Toby Green will be giving the 2026 Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture on Thurs, June 18th at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, discussing the general crisis, political assaults on the discipline and the impact of AI. Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Williamson Sinalo’s paper introduced the concept of ‘syndemic witnessing’ to reflect on the ways African journalistic storytelling articulated agency, solidarity and leadership in the face of the complex health challenges around the 2024 Mpox syndemic from an African cultural perspective.

Fantastic to have our wonderful colleague Dr Caroline Williamson Sinalo represent the department at the College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences Research Showcase today!

Thanks to the Journal of Simone de Beauvoir Studies for inviting me to review historian Tamara Chaplin's Becoming Lesbian: A Queer History of Modern France (Chicago, 2024): brill.com/view/journal...

Please join us in person in Cork on Bealtaine, Friday 1st May, for a research workshop on Psychedelic Mysticism. Speakers include Julian Vayne, Sophie Casey, Timmy Davis, Mark Elliott, Danny Forde, Jenny Butler, Patrick Everitt, Chris Read and me. To book: www.eventbrite.com/e/psychedeli...

listening to a great keynote paper on harmony in late 19th c. French visual culture by @rcoombes.bsky.social at @asmcf.bsky.social and SSFH study day - lots of esotericism and occulture in the mix! @francemodern.bsky.social

Please join us in person in Cork or online for this talk - delighted to be able to welcome Professor Nidesh Lawtoo to UCC!

On this #IWD, check out @ucc.ie’s Women’s Studies MA program and that through the eyes of two of our international students, Izzy & Sharon. Feminist pedagogy lies at the heart of what we do in our MA (and also PhD) program: youtu.be/c9kF68Lw5yE?... Want to know more? www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/

Research Master’s scholarship in French available at UCC for 2026-7, covering fees and a contribution to maintenance. Please get in touch with any queries. @francemodern.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social @adeffi.bsky.social @frenchstudies.bsky.social

This will be good!

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

Great talk indeed - thanks so much @felixtreguer.bsky.social !

Excellent work from our own @airelleamedro.bsky.social who has guest edited an issue of @francemodern.bsky.social !

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!

@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

Nice review of INVERSION in The Berliner.

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

Last update of the year - but do come and take a look at our Political Technologies research cluster website & our upcoming events! Co-convened with the brilliant Prof @oliverjdavis.bsky.social & Dr @maybenansi.bsky.social: www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/r...

Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social is a professor of French at University College Cork and co-author, with Tim Dean, of Hatred of Sex, a critique of queer theory’s forgetting of sex and the wider culture’s obsession with trauma.

Read Oliver’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual Out now in paperback and eBook. Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS @oliverjdavis.bsky.social

Oliver Davis: The Great Gay Replacement What should we do with bad gays? Reading the one-time cult erotica author Renaud Camus, Davis discovers the roots of the writer’s turn to immigration conspiracy theory in his homosexuality. @oliverjdavis.bsky.social

I heard Sinan present this wonderful paper at UCC this week. Read, read, read

@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

Do attend this week’s UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures Festival of Social Science 2025! You can find an overview of the social & research events here: www.ucc.ie/en/collectiv...

Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/23/g...

Such a fantastic handbook!

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

Trending with Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, @oliverjdavis.bsky.social, Yotam Feldman, Marcas Lancaster.

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

Announcing: INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual Out 12 November. Pre-order now: buff.ly/cYWH4jK With Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, Oliver Davis, Yotam Feldman, Marcas Lancaster.

Tomorrow! Come join us!

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!

Fantastic to see so much interdisciplinary research on the BUMIDOM- congratulations to all contributors!

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

Pleased to see the introduction to our special issue of @francemodern.bsky.social 'The BUMIDOM and its legacy: an interdisciplinary approach', written with Malika Danican! Can't wait to see the rest of the issue & congratulations to all contributors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

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.

great to see this terrific article on the French care economy by @sarahwatersleeds.bsky.social out online with @francemodern.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

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...

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...

There's a new special issue of the Parrhesia journal, dedicated to the work of Michel Serres: Full open access PDF: parrhesiajournal.org/wp-content/u... TOC 👇

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

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

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!

Heathrow: presumably it’s either the GRU or an attempt to frame the GRU for leverage with Trump. Either way, UK security services have questions to answer. Forgive me for not buying the tiresome stories of virtuous Hounslow EV demand and all of the cant about resilience.