Please join us in person in Cork on Bealtaine, Friday 1st May, for a research workshop on Psychedelic Mysticism. Speakers include Julian Vayne, Sophie Casey, Timmy Davis, Mark Elliott, Danny Forde, Jenny Butler, Patrick Everitt, Chris Read and me. To book: www.eventbrite.com/e/psychedeli...
So excited to be welcoming Joanne! Feel free to join us online or in person
Please join us in person in Cork or online for this talk - delighted to be able to welcome Professor Nidesh Lawtoo to UCC!
Our next research seminar will be by Dr Joanne Brueton on Thursday 19 March, 5pm (UCC’s ORB 1,24 and online).
Joanne’s paper is entitled ‘Chamoiseau’s Palimpsests: On the odds and ends of the canon’
See here for more info and link to join: www.ucc.ie/en/french/ne...
An outlier for condemning Israel’s Gaza genocide, Spain says no to Iran war
An outlier for condemning Israel’s Gaza genocide, Spain says no to Iran war https://aje.news/vvpz24
‼️ MRes Scholarship opportunity ‼️
UCC’s Department of French will award one Research Master’s scholarship for academic year 2026-7. This scholarship is designed to help one exceptional applicant intending to pursue a career in the discipline
For more information, see: www.ucc.ie/en/french/po...
Fantastic opportunity to join our research community!
Research Master’s scholarship in French available at UCC for 2026-7, covering fees and a contribution to maintenance. Please get in touch with any queries. @francemodern.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social @adeffi.bsky.social @frenchstudies.bsky.social
UCC event poster for event w Prof Debbie Ging on March 5
Looking forward to Prof @debbieging.bsky.social’s talk on Thursday! Organized by @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social & the CASiLaC Political Technologies cluster and part of #IWD & our PG7044 PhD module!
@uccresearch.bsky.social @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social
Rennes, aujourd'hui.
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Early modern Frenchies! Oxford Modern Languages/Trinity College is looking for a Departmental Lecturer, a 3 year position to replace me while I'm on secondment my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Great talk indeed - thanks so much @felixtreguer.bsky.social !
Picture of some presentation slides as part of the PolTec seminar series
Another thought-provoking UCC Political Technologies series talk earlier today, this time by Dr @felixtreguer.bsky.social. Merci!
Check out the cluster’s website (shorturl.at/00PDZ) for more info & upcoming seminars.
@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social
@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social research seminar in conjunction with the Political Technologies group, Tues 10th Feb, 4-5pm Irish time, online. Teams link on this page: www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/r... Please join us! @egeertsphd.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social
For the Palestinian people, psychic life is just as much a site of struggle for liberation as social life. Palestinians are persistently refused psychological amplitude, characteristics easily granted to those who are never worried they might fall out of what is constituted as the category of the human. Abdaljawad Omar’s writings in English published since October 7, 2023 (as well as writings by other Palestinians, other Arabs, and those of Palestinian descent) offer means of understanding material resistance in relation to the terrain of the psyche. Omar offers distinctive accounts of mourning, loss, and ruins, as well as of how settler colonialism reorganizes experiences of time and relations between past, present, and future. The article reads Omar’s writings against other accounts of mourning and of psychic phenomena that are indebted to psychoanalysis. Omar’s analyses of Palestinians’ resistance to unfreedom and annihilation open up other ways of understanding the psychic vicissitudes of those who suffer, grieve, and struggle to exit a colonial condition characterized by the colonizer’s repeated attempts to break psychic worlds as well as erase bodily life. Understandings of psychic life that do justice to how Palestine is redrawing the world are central to the work of ‘cracking history open’.
I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance
– to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Really exciting event taking place Tuesday 27th Jan 4pm Irish time online and in person with Didier Bigo!
The Political Technologies research cluster and Department of French will welcome Professor Didier Bigo to UCC on Tues 27 January. Join us in person or online! Links here: www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/r... @uccresearch.bsky.social @egeertsphd.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
A wonderful initiative
The Society for French Studies is now on LinkedIn! 🖇️ You can find us and join our new SFS LinkedIn Group via the link below. We will post SFS news on LinkedIn as on here, but you can also use the group to advertise events and opportunities related to the discipline.
www.linkedin.com/groups/16713...
"the only thing in the world worth starting: the end of the world, goddamn it"
#eschatologie #barocktheorie
👀 @rheinze.myatproto.social
And influence of Lacan evident obv (as I explain) despite the naysayers
My lecture on the end of the world in Fanon’s writing is up on YouTube:
youtube.com/watch?v=0qSJ...
Delighted to share the CFP for the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate and ECR Study Day, happening on Friday 12th June at @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social. This year we are also opening the call up to final-year UG students and MA students. Please share widely!
We look forward to welcoming early career scholars of francophone postcolonial studies to our campus in June! Make sure to send in your abstracts!
@sfps.bsky.social @sfhs.bsky.social @frenchstudies.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social @afcork.bsky.social @adeffi.bsky.social
Gaza City's landscape was once packed with concrete residential blocks. In the weeks before a ceasefire in October, Israel widely deployed a new weapon: M113 Armoured Personnel Carriers repurposed to carry between 1 and 3 tons of explosives, Reuters found reut.rs/49fw0cd
Last update of the year - but do come and take a look at our Political Technologies research cluster website & our upcoming events! Co-convened with the brilliant Prof
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social & Dr @maybenansi.bsky.social: www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/r...
A banner that reads: Early Career Researcher: First Book PrizeOxford University Press proudly announces that submissions for the annual First Book Prize for Early Career Researchers will be open between 1-31 January 2026.Explore the information page for submission details.
Oxford University Press @academic.oup.com is pleased to announce that the First Book Prize will open for submissions in Jan 2026. The prize offers up to 10 early-career researchers the opportunity to publish their first academic book fully open access on Oxford Academic, with the full OA fee waived.
Image with the conference title “Fanon at 100: revolutionary afterlives - SFPS Conference 2025” with the label “this is a past event” at the top
Another successful conference in the books! Thanks to organisers @laurapkennedy.bsky.social and Sonia Lamrani, to @ilcs.bsky.social for hosting us in style, to @livunipress.bsky.social for their sponsorship, and especially to all the panelists for two days of thoughtful engagement w Fanon’s legacy