Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “EVENTS”
On 1 November 2023 SPLAS together with the Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster hosted a screening of Crisálida (Chrysalis), a short documentary about the Day of the Dead, death, loss and transformation during the Covid pandemic and beyond, as told by three women, Cecilia Gamez, Emily Wood Ramirez Ahmed and Elisa Ponce from different Mexican communities in Cork, Bournemouth and London. …
The cluster meets for monthly reading groups and all members are warmly invited to share a text they would like to discuss. On 25 October 2023, Noreen Kane led a discussion on an article by East African feminist scholar and activist Jessica Horn: “Decolonising Emotional Well-Being and Mental Health in Development: African Feminist Innovations” (2020). On 29 November 2023, Dr …
Rethinking Spatial Humanities Cluster-Theme 2023/2024: Mobilities / Immobilities In Focus: CYCLING Fionn Rogan (Environmental Research Institute): Bicycle Haiku Workshop Thursday, 23rd November, 12pm (ORB_Mary Ryan meeting room) What are the emotions, encounters, and sensory experiences of a commuting cyclist? This presentation will outline a personal project of the author: a series of 100 haiku poems composed while …
Kicking with the Other Foot: Commemorating Dante in Ireland, between Nationalism and Sectarianism Dr Daragh O’Connell Thursday, 3 November CACSSS Seminar Room This seminar will interrogate the function of commemoration in relation to Dante and Ireland in four anniversary years: 1921, 1965, 2015 and 2021. These commemorative acts reflect many of the tensions inherent in Ireland at the moment …
The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism Prof. Ana Lucia Araujo Ana Lucia Araujo is a social and cultural historian writing transnational and comparative history. Currently, she is a Full Professor of History at the historically black Howard University in Washington DC, United States. Her work explores the history of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and their …
SURVIVOR TESTIMONIES THROUGH TECHNOLOGY Holocaust Education in the Digital Age Workshop Life Writing Cluster, SLLC, CACSSS Organised by Dr Claire O’Reilly, Co-Convenor Life Writing Cluster, CASiLAC In this innovative, interdisciplinary seminar, two leading scholars from Munich and Nottingham and experts in digital Holocaust education will deliver a workshop in UCC. Open to all and free of charge, this seminar …
Faced with discussion of her party’s roots in historical fascism, Giorgia Meloni often dismisses their relevance — claiming that the Italian right “handed fascism over to history decades ago”. Far from simply “nostalgic” for the regime, leaders of the postfascist right have since the 1990s increasingly called for a “pacified” view of history, focused on the remembrance of victims, from …
6th October, 12pm C_ORB_255_SR Reading Group: Palimpsests, Rhizomes, Nodes. Texts as Structural and Functional Urban Models (Jens Martin Gurr) (chapter 3 in https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003111009/charting-literary-urban-studies-jens-martin-gurr ) 13th October, 11pm Online Seminar by Jens Martin Gurr: Charting Literary Urban Studies. Texts as Models of and for the City MS Teams Link: http://bit.ly/gurr-seminar
IABA (International Auto/Biography Association) World Conference 2024 in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature, University of Iceland Reykjavik, 12-15 June 2024 Call for papers Fragmented Lives The IABA World Conference 2024 will be held at the University of Iceland in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature 12-15 June 2024. The theme of …
On 29 June, Professor Emeritus Árpád Szakolczai (Sociology, UCC) addressed the SLLC Life Writing Cluster on the subject of “Biography as a way of understanding (the social life of an age).” The Life Writing Research Cluster, which looks at all and any connections between the lived life / life experience / bios and acts of inscription or recording. In this …
