We welcome you to UCC’s first “Asian Studies Lecture Series”, under which we are going to host 4 leading academics and renowned experts on Asia from around Irish Universities to give public talks in UCC. The event series is part of UCC’s outreach activities and is open to the public. This project will facilitate knowledge exchange and dialogue between the …
Cultural Memory of Past Dictatorships: Narratives of Implication in a Global Perspective Symposium Date: 20 May 2022 Mode of Delivery: Online Host Institution: University College Cork, Ireland Deadline for Submitting abstracts: 17 December 2021 Keynote Speakers will include: Professor Jie-Hyun Lim (Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University) Professor Juliane Prade-Weiss (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Professor Michael Lazzara (University of California, Davis) Professor David Martin-Jones (University of Glasgow) …
Technologies of the Self: New Departures in Self-Inscription is an international, interdisciplinary conference that addresses new media, film, the avant-garde and new theoretical approaches to autobiography post-Lejeune. Conference organisers: Patrick Crowley (French, UCC), Kerstin Fest (German, UCC), Rachel MagShamhráin (German, UCC), Laura Rascaroli (Italian, UCC) Conference website: http://www.ucc.ie/en/german/events/selfinscription/
In the first of a series of practitioner-led Life-Writing discussions, Irish Novelist and Screenwriter John Banville discusses his work on and with other people’s lives, including in his novels Copernicus and Kepler, and his fictional treatment of Anthony Blunt in Untouchable. The online event takes place today Thursday 18 Febraury at 4pm. His prolific output has often taken the bare raw material of “real” lives and subjected it to …
Recognising and Responding to Genocide Denial: The Case of Rwanda Volume edited by Catherine Gilbert, Paul Rukesha and Caroline Williamson Sinalo Denial of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda has significantly increased in recent years, with prominent intellectuals and journalists finding a growing voice in the mainstream media and in academic institutions. This volume will bring together Rwandan …
Despite increased interest in the field of reception within Translation Studies, the readers of translated literature remain an under-researched field of enquiry. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars and professionals to begin to address the issue of who we are referring to when we talk about a “reader” of translated literature in the anglophone context and …
Rethinking Spatial Humanities Cluster in Conversation with Barbara Piatti (Switzerland) Wednesday, 12 May, 9 am Please write to Barbara Siller for the link to the meeting. We are happy to announce the upcoming event with the literary and cultural scholar Barbara Piatti who is best known for her work on literary mapping. Barbara Piatti’s work on spatial concepts includes her …
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures CASiLaC’s Research Cluster Translation and Creative Practice SYMPOSIUM ‘If suddenly the angel at your table…’: Poets Translating Poets University College Cork Thursday 29th April 2021 2:00-4:00 pm Link to the event on MS Teams: Click here to join the meeting ‘If suddenly the angel/at your table decides to love you’, …
Rethinking Spatial Humanities, CASiLaC at University College Cork and the Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Joint Online ‘Cities and Water’ Event Series ‘CITIES AND FLOODING: CORK AND VENICE’ Monday, 26 April 2021, 4.00 pm (Irish Time)/5.00 pm (Italian Time) Speakers in dialogue: Jane Da Mosto, We Are Here Venice John Hegarty, …
This public event was organised in collaboration with the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Dr Sara Motta, Associate Professor in University of Newcastle (NSW) presented her work on decolonising feminist methodologies and the importance of enfleshed and embodied experiences when undertaking these practices. Abstract: In this presentation I …
