Oliver Davis
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
radical democracy, political technologies, psychedelics, French philosophy, queer studies - Professor of French at UCC but this is a personal account
Fantastic to hear from these high-flying recent graduates of ours in French at UCC. Inspiring talks from inspiring individuals! Thanks to all three!
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!
A testimony to the many career pathways available to UCC students of French!
February 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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 !
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
Check out the cluster’s website (shorturl.at/00PDZ) for more info & upcoming seminars.
@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Great talk indeed - thanks so much @felixtreguer.bsky.social !
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Excellent work from our own @airelleamedro.bsky.social who has guest edited an issue of @francemodern.bsky.social !
Our 34.1 special issue on Constance Debré, guest edited by @airelleamedro.bsky.social is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/c...
@tandfresearch.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social
@warwick-smlc.bsky.social
@tandfresearch.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social
@warwick-smlc.bsky.social
Modern & Contemporary France
Constance Debré. Volume 34, Issue 1 of Modern & Contemporary France
www.tandfonline.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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!
Our 34.1 special issue on Constance Debré, guest edited by @airelleamedro.bsky.social is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/c...
@tandfresearch.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social
@warwick-smlc.bsky.social
@tandfresearch.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social
@warwick-smlc.bsky.social
Modern & Contemporary France
Constance Debré. Volume 34, Issue 1 of Modern & Contemporary France
www.tandfonline.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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
February 4, 2026 at 10:38 AM
@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
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Nice review of INVERSION in The Berliner.
January 30, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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
NUI Travelling Doctoral Scholarships | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
www.ucc.ie
January 29, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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
January 18, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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
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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...
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social & Dr @maybenansi.bsky.social: www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/r...
Political Technologies | University College Cork
This is the homepage of the Political Technologies research cluster of CASiLaC, the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures at UCC
www.ucc.ie
December 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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...
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social & Dr @maybenansi.bsky.social: www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/r...
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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.
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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.
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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
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
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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
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
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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
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
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I heard Sinan present this wonderful paper at UCC this week. Read, read, read
Really proud of my new free-to-access article on Fanon, Tosquelles and Lacan on madness and triggering the end of the colonial world !
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
December 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I heard Sinan present this wonderful paper at UCC this week. Read, read, read
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@oliverjdavis.bsky.social delivers a terrific paper at Social Pathologies conference at UCC
@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social delivers a terrific paper at Social Pathologies conference at UCC
@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
@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
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
super paper by @maybenansi.bsky.social on Tosquelles and Fanon at the Social Pathologies conference @ucc.ie @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social
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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...
UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures Festival of Social Science 2025 | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
www.ucc.ie
November 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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...
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Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/23/g...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/23/g...
Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom
R. Gordon Wasson was Vice President at the American investment bank J.P. Morgan & Co., a major supporter of Slavic Studies in the United States during the Cold War, and fascinated by hallucinog…
progressivegeographies.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/23/g...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/23/g...
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Such a fantastic handbook!
BIG NEWS! The Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies, eds. Nina Lykke, Tara Mehrabi, and Marietta Radomska is finally out! 63 chapters and 73 contributors.
You can order - or better, ask your local library to order - this behemoth of a book via: www.routledge.com/9781032504384
You can order - or better, ask your local library to order - this behemoth of a book via: www.routledge.com/9781032504384
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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
‼️ 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 (odavis@ucc.ie) for more information
www.ucc.ie/en/french/re...
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 (odavis@ucc.ie) for more information
www.ucc.ie/en/french/re...
Research Pathway Ireland 26 | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
www.ucc.ie
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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
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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.
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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.
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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
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social
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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.
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.
September 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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.
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.
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Tomorrow! Come join us!
Looking forward to this RHL, @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social & ISS21 event with Prof Elizabeth Bernstein!
October 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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
"Aesthetic Ruptures: Revolution and Dissensus in Jacques Rancière and Gianni Vattimo" — III International Workshop with IDSVA. October 23, 2025 - Centre d’Estudis i Arxiu Gianni Vattimo de la UPF - UP...
In his unpublished manuscript “Art in the World of Media” (approx. 1960),
Gianni Vattimo asserts that aesthetic experience is an experience of truth
because it does not put us in front of a...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I will be discussing Catherine Malabou’s reading of Jacques Rancière later today www.upf.edu/web/gianni-v... @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
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Campus is looking beautiful for the UCC open day - make sure to come visit us!
October 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Campus is looking beautiful for the UCC open day - make sure to come visit us!