Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy between Journalism and Literature: Femminicidio Narratives
The Violence, Conflict and Gender Cluster, with the Department of Italian, invites you to join us for the launch of Dr Nicoletta Mandolini’s book, Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy between Journalism and Literature: Femminicidio Narratives (Routledge 2021) on Friday, 6 May at 1pm. Professor Nuala Finnegan will present the book, followed by a wine reception. All welcome.
The Poetic Tongue: Poets Translating Poets II
Wednesday 4th May 2022 2:00 – 3:30 pm Online via MS Teams ‘The Poetic Tongue’, the second symposium of the series ‘Poets Translating Poets’, brings together scholars, translators and creative writers to reflect on the process of translating poetry. These three papers analyse the challenges, celebrate the aesthetic findings and explore the close contacts between writing poetry …
Mario Luzi and Irish Poets
Mario Luzi and Irish Poets Wed 4 May, 4pm, Creative Zone, Boole Library Mini-Symposium celebrating the launch of Mario Luzi, Persone nel viaggio (People on a Journey), edited by Alessandro Gentili (The volume contains 20 poems translated by 20 Irish poets) With Daragh O’Connell, Dario Galassini, Catherine O’Brien, Alessandro Gentili and John Fitzgerald. Followed by Readings and Wine Reception in …
Translation Slam – With translators Rahul Bery and Laura McGloughlin
Translation Slam With translators Rahul Bery and Laura McGloughlin Chaired by Clara Ministral, Literary Translator in Residence Friday 25th March 2022 3:00-5:00 pm CACSSS Seminar Room (ORB G.27) Kindly sponsored by CASiLaC and the department of SPLAS ________________________________________ Two translators. One literary text. Infinite possibilities. The two slammers will have prepared their translations into English of the same text beforehand. Presenting …
‘Yeats’s Stanzas, Yeats’s Rooms’ – Talk by Adam Hanna (Dept. of English, UCC) for the Rethinking Spatial Humanities cluster
On March 23rd 2022, 3pm the cluster will host Adam Hanna’s (Department of English, UCC) talk ‘Yeat’s Stanzas, Yeat’s Rooms’. The event will be preceded by a reading group on March 16th, 3pm. Abstract In ‘Yeats’s Stanzas, Yeats’s Rooms’, I suggest that some of the poetic forms that the poet frequently wrote in for the dozen-or-so years from 1919 — grand, …
Global Feminism Seminar Series. The Representation of Transgender Characters in Contemporary British Female Fiction
The Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster in the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC), together with Women’s Studies, invites you to join is for the next event in our Global Feminisms seminar series. This Friday, 11 March, at 12 midday, join us as we welcome Lisselot Martín Plaza, Erasmus visiting scholar and cluster member, to deliver …
Cocoon Nights
Cocoon Nights is an informal open mic event series that aims to raise awareness of the concerning and growing numbers of femicides in Ireland, as well as providing a space to grieve and process the emotions that arise from such experiences. It facilitates a space for our UCC community to come together, to showcase, and support each other’s creative responses to femicide, …