Thanks to the support of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) and the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at University College Cork, we are delighted to be receiving Prof. Kaisa Koskinen from University of Tampere on Tuesday 10th April 2018 for one of the key events of Translation Week. Workshop – 12 pm: Public …
MARCH 23, 2018. Rafts of Translations: Digital Horizons
Seminar by Prof Tom Cheesman Dr Tom Cheesman, from Swansea University, will be with us on Friday the 23rd of March to give a workshop of the use of digital and corpus tools to analyse multi-retranslations and a seminar about his work in the area, which includes Vision Variation Visualisation, a multilingual crowdsourcing of Shakespeare’s Othello. For those who would like …
FEBRUARY 23, 2018. Global Borders, Local Narratives
23 February 2018. The Glucksman CASiLaC Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past cluster workshop will take place at the Glucksman next Friday afternoon. The workshop includes a documentary film screening and discussion in partnership with UCC’s Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, and a tour of the current exhibition ‘Global Borders and National Boundaries’ with exhibited artist Dara …
FEBRUARY 2, 2018. CASiLaC/SLLC Book Launch
You are all warmly invited to our annual CASiLaC/School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures collective book launch. After last year’s very successful launch(es) it was decided to make it an annual event, and this year we will be celebrating many of the publications from the School from over the last year. DATE: Friday February 2 TIME: 5.00pm VENUE: Staff Common …
JANUARY 26, 2018. What Makes a Translation Difficult?
Workshop by Sophie Hughes 26 January 2018. ORB 1.32 Literary translator Sophie Hughes will be in UCC next Friday, the 26th of January, to give a 2-hour translation workshop (11-1 in ORB 1.32). Departing from the idea that theory is meaningless without the practice that engenders it and that, at the same time, practice can be influenced and benefit from …
JANUARY 23|FEBRUARY 20, 2018. Dante Public Lecture Series
The Department of Italian and CASiLaC are pleased to announce the annual series of five public lectures on the great Italian poet Dante Alighieri • Tues January 23 – Dr Daragh O’Connell (University College Cork) – “Dante’s Envy: Poetry and Punishment in the Court of Vice” • Tues January 30 – Dr Claudia Rossignoli (University of St Andrews) – “Hopes …
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017. Dante Public Lecture Series
The Department of Italian UCC and CASiLaC (Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures) are pleased to announce the annual series of five public lectures on Dante. Tues Jan 24 – Dr Tristan Kay (University of Bristol) – ‘Eros, Salvation and Vernacular Poetry in Dante’ Tues Jan 31 – Professor Corinna Salvadori Lonergan (Trinity College Dublin), ‘“Was I, O was …
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016. Dante Public Lecture Series
The Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland, the Department of Italian UCC and CASiLaC (Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures) are pleased to announce the annual series of five public lectures on Dante. Tues Jan 26 – Dr Anne O’Connor (NUI Galway) – ‘Empty Graves and Local Rivalries: Dante and the problems of commemorating a national poet’ Tues …
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015. Dante Public Lecture Series
The Department of Italian UCC and CASiLaC (Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures) are pleased to announce the annual series of five public lectures on Dante. Tues Jan 20 – Professor Simon Gilson (University of Warwick), ‘Criticizing Dante in Sixteenth-Century Italy’ Tues Jan 27 – Professor Alex Davis (UCC), ‘“Peeling off the Middle Ages bit by bit”: Modernism’s …
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014. Dante Public Lecture Series
The Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland, the Department of Italian UCC and CASiLaC (Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures) are pleased to announce the annual series of five public lectures on Dante. Tues Jan 21 – Dr Daragh O’Connell (University College Cork), – ‘Denti Alligator: The Dantification of Popular Culture’ Tues Jan 28 – Dr Robert Wilson …