Tuesday, 15 December 2020 at 14:00 In this public event, Dr Sahla Aroussi, Associate Professor in Global Security Challenges at the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds presented her work as co-investigator of a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)/ UKRI Global Network research award on Gender and Responding to Violent Extremism, focusing on the body mapping methodology employed to …
Gender-Based Violence in the Pandemic and its Media Coverage: Who Gets to be Represented?
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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 …