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
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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
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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.
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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!
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Fantastic to see so much interdisciplinary research on the BUMIDOM- congratulations to all contributors!
Our 33.3 special issue on "The BUMIDOM and its Legacy" guest edited by @awimbush.bsky.social and Malika Danican is now available online !
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@asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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@asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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
September 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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
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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....
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'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....
The BUMIDOM and its legacy: an interdisciplinary approach/Le BUMIDOM et son héritage: une approche interdisciplinaire
This introduction to the special issue of ‘The BUMIDOM and its Legacy: An Interdisciplinary Approach/Le BUMIDOM et son héritage: une approche interdisciplinaire’ provides historical context to the ...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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....
@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
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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.
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
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....
The French care economy: between gendered inequality and feminist idealism
The care economy in France is a site of both profound gendered inequalities and of renewed feminist idealism for an alternative social model and feminist ethic. This paper focuses on the realities ...
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June 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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
May 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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
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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...
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May 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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...
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...
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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...
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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...
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April 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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 👇
Full open access PDF: parrhesiajournal.org/wp-content/u...
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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...
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Oliver Davis: Ireland may be in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance
Some academics believe ancient Irish warriors used psychoactive substances — magic mushrooms, liberty cap, and fly agaric — presaging the adoption of psychedelic drugs in modern medicine
www.irishexaminer.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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...
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
April 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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
March 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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
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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!
March 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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.
March 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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.
Peter Lamborn Wilson
March 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Peter Lamborn Wilson
listening to a great research paper by Patrick Bray on taste & Stendhal here in Cork @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
listening to a great research paper by Patrick Bray on taste & Stendhal here in Cork @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social