Gender-Based Violence in the Pandemic and its Media Coverage: Who Gets to be Represented?

Jacopo Turini EVENTS, GENDER&VIOLENCE

Tuesday, 8 December 2020 at 09:30 This public event was organised in collaboration with the Department of French in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Dr Nathalie Ségeral, Lecturer in French at the University of Sydney presented her work on feminist activism and media coverage of GBV during the 2020 pandemic in France. Abstract: The few months leading up …

FEBRUARY/MARCH 2021. Dante Public Lecture Series

Jacopo Turini CDSI, EVENTS

The Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland is pleased to announce the annual series of five public lectures on Dante   DANTE LECTURE SERIES 2021 1) Monday 1 February – Prof. Zygmunt G. Barański (University of Notre Dame; University of Cambridge) – "Di ramo in ramo": Faith and Imagery in Paradiso XXIV". 2) Monday 8 February – Prof. Alison Cornish …

Launch of new research cluster on ‘Life Writing’

Jacopo Turini EVENTS, LIFE WRITING

  Launch of new research cluster on ‘Life Writing’ Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) Thursday 5 November 2020, 4-6 pm MS Teams Contact Rachel MagShamhráin, r.magshamhrain@ucc.ie, to attend   We invite colleagues and students interested in the broad field of Life Writing to join us for the launch of a new research cluster within the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages …

Representing Gender-Based Violence and virtual flashmob performance

Jacopo Turini EVENTS, GENDER&VIOLENCE

4pm on Thursday, 15 October 2020 This event was organised in collaboration with UCC’s Student Union for Consent Awareness Week, and was open to everyone within and beyond the university. This event was organised in response to the release of recent figures related to sexual assault on campuses across Ireland and the exacerbated impact that the confinement during the pandemic …

Cities in Conflict: Urban Space and Violence, 17 June 2019

Jacopo Turini EVENTS, SPATIAL HUMANITIES

An international, interdisciplinary conference on the theme of conflict in urban space. Speakers approach the theme from a number of fields, including urban planning, literature, film, music, sociology, among other areas. What happens to the urban fabric when conflict occurs? How does the built environment reflect, work against, or attempt to contain conflict? How are war and conflict in urban …

Dante Lecture Series 2020

Jacopo Turini EVENTS, OTHER

We are delighted to announce the line-up for this year’s Dante Lecture Series. This, in fact, is a special year as it marks the tenth anniversary of the Dante Lectures here in UCC. So, a big thank you to everyone who has participated and helped out over the years, ensuring the continued success of the series. The lectures will take …

September 21, 2019. Unprivileged Pasts, Unwritten Origins

Laura Linares EVENTS, MEMORY

  Unprivileged pasts, unwritten origins  Research Workshop The event is funded by the Irish Research Council through a New Foundations Grant and is the final outcome of the project RoOTS: Research on Origins, Traditions and Survival (PI Martina Piperno). 21 September 2019, Room G27 O’Rahilly Building, UCC   How do we moderns conceptualize the “roots” and the “beginning” of our collective identities? …

September 20, 2019. Sexual Violence(s): Against and Within the LGBT+ Community

Laura Linares EVENTS, GENDER&VIOLENCE

Sexual Violence(s) Against and Within the LGBT+ Community 20th September (10am-1pm) C_CONN_C (Connolly Building) Since the elaboration of a critique of rape in the Sixties, the political and theoretical reflections on sexual violence have been unanimously categorised as a feminist effort. Despite continuing to denounce oppression and violence against women within the heteronormative sphere of relationships, feminist movements have then …

AUGUST 24, 2019. Cork Migration Stories

Laura Linares EVENTS, MEMORY

Do you have a letter, a photo, a recipe or memento that tells your family story of emigration to or from Cork? Bring it along to Cork City Library and record your story for future generations. For Heritage Week we invite you to share your own stories of migration to or from Cork. On the day, researchers will be collecting …