Jean Lartéguy’s 1960 novel, The Centurions, which follows a group of French paratroopers through the wars in Indochina and Algeria, is one that has achieved cult status, becoming required reading among American generals prosecuting their own counterinsurgency wars. While the novel is often described as an invaluable how-to guide for counterinsurgents, the use of sexual violence is at the core …
NOVEMBER 9-10, 2018. All Things Considered: Material Culture and Memory
All Things Considered… Material Culture and Memory 9 – 10 November 2018, UCC CASiLaC: ‘Memory, Commemoration and the Uses of the Past’ research cluster Departments of French and Italian, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UCC Keynote speakers: Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland in the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies Nathan Mannion is senior curator at …
JULY 19, 2018. Teaching Translation
Workshop by Anabel Galán-Mañas On the 19th July 2018, Project DaRT and the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at University College Cork was lucky enough to welcome Dr. Anabel Galán-Mañas from the Departament de Traducció i d’Interpretació i d’Estudis de l’Àsia Oriental at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Whilst undertaking a research stay in Cork, Dr Galán-Mañas was kind …
JUNE 28-29, 2018. Beyond Borders? New formulations in Hispanic & Lusophone Studies
This symposium aims to offer postgraduate and early-career researchers the opportunity to gather in a formative space to transverse spatial, temporal, and linguistic borders and perspectives. The current situation of the disciplines beneath the epithets ‘Hispanic’ and ‘Lusophone’, studies, although positively emphasises the common linguistic patrimony of diverse territories, also upholds and reproduces the isolation of the colonised spaces and …
JUNE 11, 2018. CASiLaC Day
As part of the process of formally constituting the Board of CASiLaC we will be having a day dedicated to the work of the Centre. Two of our external advisory board members will be with us for the day: Prof. Charles Forsdick (Liverpool) and Prof. Jürgen Barkhoff (TCD). Below you’ll find a programme for the day’s activities. Secondly, as a …
MAY 21, 2018. Beyond Rhetoric: Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Transformation in Africa
Seminar by Dr David Mwambari 21 May 2018, 1pm. ORB 1.01 For the past two decades, women have sought to be included and recognized in peace processes including peace agreements, peacekeeping missions and in peace-building processes in their post-conflict mostly patriarchal societies. These struggles have been led by women for example as individual activists, through non-governmental organizations and as politicians. …
MAY 1, 2018. The International Women’s Strike
Seminar by Caterina Peroni – University of Padua (Italy) 1 May 2018. CASiLaC Room (ORB 1.24) The presentation will focus on the genealogy of the political discourse and imaginaries used in social media for the two feminist strikes launched on the 8th of March 2017 and 2018 by “Non una di meno”, the Italian feminist movement established in 2016 within …
APRIL 27, 2018. Poetry and Translation: Voices from Galicia, Ireland and Mexico
Friday 27 April 2018. North Wing Council Room Organised by the Irish Centre for Galician Studies in collaboration with the research cluster Translation and Creative Practice (CASiLaC), the department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (UCC), and the Cervantes Institute, this symposium brings together a number of poets and translators to share their experiences and to reflect on the …
April 18, 2018. Violence, Determinism and the Beset While Male in Twenty-First-Century US Television: The Shield, Dexter, and Breaking Bad
Seminar by Dr Alan Gibbs 19 April 2018. CASiLaC Room (ORB 1.24) Cultural production in the United States since 9/11 has, for a variety of reasons, witnessed a shift towards deterministic narratives, many of which echo the literary naturalism of roughly a century earlier. A number of explanations might be advanced to account for this, but the one explored in …
APRIL 9-13, 2018. Translation Week
Project DaRT and University College Cork present a complete week of events for anybody with an interest in the theory and practice of translation. Join us for a number of workshops, taster lessons, and research seminars featuring scholars and practitioners with experience in a wide range of areas within the discipline. ALL WELCOME! Monday, 9th April CAREERS WITH LANGUAGES …