Analysing the Anniversary: Memory-Making in National Moments of Commemoration

Jacopo Turini EVENTS, MEMORY

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) …

‘Democracy and Defeat: Morante, Moravia and Malaparte in Capri, 1946’ – Franco Baldasso (Bard College)

Jacopo Turini EVENTS, MEMORY

Democracy and Defeat: Morante, Moravia and Malaparte in Capri, 1946 Franco Baldasso Bard College   Thursday, 26 January 4.00 pm ORB 1.24     How Italy’s shared memory of Fascism and its cultural heritage took shape remains the most disputed question in the country’s modern history. Taking a cue from the unlikely meeting of Jewish authors Elsa Morante and Alberto …

Memory, Mobility and Material Culture – Roundtable and Book Launch

Jacopo Turini EVENTS, MEMORY

Join us on Friday 25th November, at 3:30 pm in Mary Ryan Room, for a roundtable discussion with some of the contributors to the volume Memory, Mobility and Material Culture edited by Chiara Giuliani (Dept of Italian) and Kate Hodgson (Dept of French). Siobhán Browne and Clíona O’Carroll (Folklore), Chiara Giuliani (Italian), Kate Hodgson (French), Cara Levey (SPLAS) and Mastoureh …

Hauntings from the Present and the Future

Jacopo Turini EVENTS, MEMORY

Dr Chiara Giuliani, Dr Till Weingärtner, and the CASiLaC Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past research cluster invite you all to the upcoming seminar on hauntology and spectrality by Prof Esther Peeren from the University of Amsterdam on Thursday 28th January, 4 pm, on Teams (link below). Click here to join the meeting   Prof Peeren’s abstract In this …

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? …

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 …

MARCH 28/29, 2019. Masterclass: Fiction and Remembrance

Laura Linares EVENTS, MEMORY

PG 7004 “Fiction and Remembrance” Masterclass Programme CACSSS Seminar Room – G27 O’Rahilly Building, Ground Floor Thursday 28thMarch 2019 h. 17 Introduction by Daragh O’Connell (UCC: CASiLaC) Keynote address Robert Gordon (Cambridge): Fiction Before Memory: Italy 1945-48 Chair: Martina Piperno (UCC) Friday, 29thMarch 2019 h. 10 Introduction by Kate Hodgson (UCC: CASiLaC/Memory cluster) Panel I – Chair: Daragh O’Connell (UCC: …