Understanding the Past to (re-)Inform the Future: The Role of NS-Resistance yesterday and its Relevance today
Understanding the Past to (re-)Inform the Future: The role of NS-Resistance yesterday and its Relevance today February 23, 2023 Dora Allman Lecture Room, University College Cork The 22nd of February 2023, marking the 80th anniversary of Sophie Scholl’s death, was the decisive starting point for this symposium, organised by Dr Claire O’Reilly, Department of German, entitled ‘Understanding the Past …
Everytrans*, everywhere, all at once: A workshop on Trans* Cultural Representation
Tuesday 2 May 15:00-17:00 Organised in collaboration with the Violence, Conflict and Gender cluster’s Erasmus+ visiting researcher, El Plaza, this event facilitates conversations across languages, time periods and contexts to explore the cultural representation of trans* lives with a view to questioning depictions lacking in nuance, or the creation of trans-exclusive narratives. Following contributions from the four speakers, all at …
Irish Writing and Literary Translation: Author Donal Ryan and Translator Anna-Nina Kroll in Conversation
Irish Writing and Literary Translation: Author Donal Ryan and Translator Anna-Nina Kroll in Conversation Monday 24th April 2023 CACSSS Seminar Room – O’Rahilly Building, ORB G.27 4:00 pm You all warmly welcome to this event that brings together the award-winning writer Donal Ryan and his German translator Anna-Nina Kroll, who is also the UCC/Literature Ireland Translator in Residence, 2022-2023. …
Analysing the Anniversary: Memory-Making in National Moments of Commemoration
A roundtable discussion organised by the CASiLaC research cluster, Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past, chaired by Chiara Giuliani (UCC) and featuring: Dónal Hassett (University College Cork) Heather Laird (University College Cork) Louisa Esther Mugabo (University College Cork) Kevin O’Sullivan (University of Galway) John Paul Newman (University of Maynooth) Monday 3rd April, 3-5pm, Mary Ryan Room (ORB – O’Rahilly Building) …
Radical Translation(s) / Translating the Radical
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Book Launch: Representing Gender-Based Violence
Representing Gender-Based Violence Monday 20 March North Council Room at 2pm The Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster in the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) warmly invites you to the launch of Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan 2023) edited by Dr Caroline Williamson Sinalo (UCC) and Dr Nicoletta Mandolini (Universidade do Minho). Dr Alan Gibbs …
Two Seminars on Literary Translation, with Anna-Nina Kroll and Clara Ministral
The research cluster Translation and Creative Practice cordially invites you to the following two seminars on literary translation: Of Strange Flowers, Snowflakes and Milkmen – an introduction to the work of a literary translator EN-GER Anna-Nina Kroll, 2022-2023 Literature Ireland/SLLC Literary Translator in Residence Thursday 9thMarch 2023 O’Rahilly Building, ORB. 132 4:00–6:00 pm Anna-Nina Kroll, currently Literary Translator …
Decolonising Place through Anticolonial Feminist Activist Practice – Prof Karen Till
Decolonising Place through Anticolonial Feminist Activist Practice Prof Karen E. Till Maynooth University – Department of Geography 23 February 2023 1pm Room 1.24 (ORB) This talk advocates a geographical approach to decolonising the concept of place, and hence practices of placemaking, as part of feminist activist collaborative approaches to contribute to creating more just and healthy worlds. A starting …
Strangers wandering – Seminar with Translator Stephen Beechinor
Strangers wandering A new translation of Juan Rulfo’s El Llano en llamas Book as terrain / Translation as map A seminar with translator Stephen Beechinor on his new 2019 translation of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo’s remarkable short stories. Aspects of practice for the literary translator. Working with an independent publisher, contract & rights. Preparing the ground. Approach on method and style. Editorial process …