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Dr Till Weingärtner (Asian Studies, UCC) Thursday 6 December at 5.00 pm ORB 1.24 Takamine Hideko (1924-2010) was one of the most prolific and respected Japanese film stars of the 20th century. Starting out as a child star at the age of five, over the course of over 50 years, she starred in many notable films that spanned the war …
The Department of Italian is delighted to welcome the distinguished Italian poet Alberto Masala to UCC for a reading ahead of the Winter Warmer Festival. The even is co-sponsored by the Translation and Creative Practice Cluster of CASiLaC. Alberto will read from his various collections and discuss his translations in conversation with staff and students. Friday, 23 November 2018, CASiLaC …
Jean Lartéguy’s 1960 novel, The Centurions, which follows a group of French paratroopers through the wars in Indochina and Algeria, is one that has achieved cult status, becoming required reading among American generals prosecuting their own counterinsurgency wars. While the novel is often described as an invaluable how-to guide for counterinsurgents, the use of sexual violence is at the core …
All Things Considered… Material Culture and Memory 9 – 10 November 2018, UCC CASiLaC: ‘Memory, Commemoration and the Uses of the Past’ research cluster Departments of French and Italian, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UCC Keynote speakers: Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland in the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies Nathan Mannion is senior curator at …
Workshop by Anabel Galán-Mañas On the 19th July 2018, Project DaRT and the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at University College Cork was lucky enough to welcome Dr. Anabel Galán-Mañas from the Departament de Traducció i d’Interpretació i d’Estudis de l’Àsia Oriental at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Whilst undertaking a research stay in Cork, Dr Galán-Mañas was kind …
Seminar by Dr David Mwambari 21 May 2018, 1pm. ORB 1.01 For the past two decades, women have sought to be included and recognized in peace processes including peace agreements, peacekeeping missions and in peace-building processes in their post-conflict mostly patriarchal societies. These struggles have been led by women for example as individual activists, through non-governmental organizations and as politicians. …
Seminar by Caterina Peroni – University of Padua (Italy) 1 May 2018. CASiLaC Room (ORB 1.24) The presentation will focus on the genealogy of the political discourse and imaginaries used in social media for the two feminist strikes launched on the 8th of March 2017 and 2018 by “Non una di meno”, the Italian feminist movement established in 2016 within …
Seminar by Dr Alan Gibbs 19 April 2018. CASiLaC Room (ORB 1.24) Cultural production in the United States since 9/11 has, for a variety of reasons, witnessed a shift towards deterministic narratives, many of which echo the literary naturalism of roughly a century earlier. A number of explanations might be advanced to account for this, but the one explored in …
Project DaRT and University College Cork present a complete week of events for anybody with an interest in the theory and practice of translation. Join us for a number of workshops, taster lessons, and research seminars featuring scholars and practitioners with experience in a wide range of areas within the discipline. ALL WELCOME! Monday, 9th April CAREERS WITH LANGUAGES …
Thanks to the support of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) and the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at University College Cork, we are delighted to be receiving Prof. Kaisa Koskinen from University of Tampere on Tuesday 10th April 2018 for one of the key events of Translation Week. Workshop – 12 pm: Public …
