On the 20th of June, the day before the start of Performing Translation, Project DaRT, in collaboration with CASiLaC and the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at UCC will hold a PhD masterclass entitled Intercultural Conversations: Community, Translation and Cultural Representation. This masterclass will be relevant to students and staff across the Social Sciences and Humanities interested …
The Future of EU-China Business Relations 7th June 2019 on UCC main campus Venue: CACSSS Seminar Room, ORB_G27 Time: 13:15 – 17:00 The Department of Asian Studies is organizing a public event on ‘The Future of EU-China Business Relations’ on 7 June from 13:15 to 17:00 in the CACSSS Seminar room (see flyer attached below). The talks will be followed by a lively panel discussion and the whole …
Transnational Memories. Vladimir Vertlib in UCC/Cork, 14th May. Reading & Discussion with the author.
The Italian photographer Mario Badagliacca’s exhibition Frammenti [Fragments, 2013] focuses on objects taken from asylum seekers and migrants as they arrive on the island of Lampedusa. Mobile phone parts, battered guidebooks, broken compasses and cigarette packets were all taken, and later disposed of, by the police. In documenting this collection of lost belongings, Badagliacca encourages us to reflect on the …
Since the elaboration of a feminist critique of rape, the presence of debates on sexual violence in the public sphere has increased, resulting in a growing awareness and in legislative interventions. The reverberations of the social media campaign #MeToo against sexual harassment in the workplace is the most recent example of the new challenges that feminist activism has imposed on …
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: …
As part of the ‘Irish in Italy’ exhibition UCC library, the Department of Italian and CASiLaC warmly invite you to the seminar Imagining Irish Theatre in Early Fascist Italy: W.B. Yeats at the Volta Conference in Rome, 1934, by Professor Lauren Arrington (University of Liverpool). 6 pm on Monday 11 March in the UCC Library Creative Zone.
As you may be aware, next week, 4-8 March 2019, is Equality Week in UCC. As part of the programme of events for Equality Week, the Centre for Advanced Study in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures would like to invite you to join us in the Creative Space in the Boole Library on …
In an effort to redress the lack of representavity on Wikipedia, we are organising an Equality Edit-A-Thon. This event is open to all students, academic, and administrative staff. The event will take place on Monday March 4th 16:00-17:30 in Boole 2. In order to facilitate the event, we would like to encourage as many participants as possible to register for …
CALL FOR PAPERS 1. DESCRIPTION Each language has a value in itself that transcends a mere collection of interchangeable words from one code to another. Each language has a particular way of analysing and reflecting reality, of moulding it in thought. This is the basic precept of what is known as linguistic relativity and according to this, the fewer languages …
