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French Dept UCC
@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
All things French and francophone, past and present. We teach and do research on those and similar matters in Cork.
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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
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Campus is looking beautiful for the UCC open day - make sure to come visit us!
October 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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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.
October 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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!
September 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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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
September 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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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
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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...
Annual Meeting – French Colonial Historical Society
frenchcolonial.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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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.
A fantastic start to our research seminar series this evening with a fascinating paper on ‘Why ChatGPT Loves French Philosophy’ by Dr Madeleine Chalmers!
September 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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!
September 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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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...
Behind the scenes of journal publishing: A conversation with CCS contributors and editors
8 July 2025 2-3:30 p.m. (London) Virtual: Register below to receive the Zoom link Hosted by two of the Comparative Critical Studies editors, Adhira Mangalagiri and Elisa Segnini, this virtual roundta...
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July 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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...
July 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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
May 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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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
May 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Happening today!
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!
May 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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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...
Henri Michaux, Mescaline and the use of psychedelics in the creative act and as treatment for psychiatric disorders
Timed to coincide with The Courtauld Gallery current exhibition "Henri Michaux: The Mescaline Drawings", this Study Day aims to investigate Henri Michaux’s approach to the use of psychedelics, and rev...
courtauld.ac.uk
May 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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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.
May 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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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.
May 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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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.
May 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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!
May 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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!
April 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
There’s still time to register for this series of brilliant events, happening this Wednesday! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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!
April 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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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...
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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!
April 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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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...

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CFP: Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate Study Day – Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
sfps.org.uk
April 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM