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...
Thanks to Amy and the other organisers for a very well planned and stimulating day of papers!
listening to a great keynote paper on harmony in late 19th c. French visual culture by @rcoombes.bsky.social at @asmcf.bsky.social and SSFH study day - lots of esotericism and occulture in the mix! @francemodern.bsky.social
Please join us in person in Cork or online for this talk - delighted to be able to welcome Professor Nidesh Lawtoo to UCC!
On this #IWD, check out @ucc.ie’s
Women’s Studies MA program and that through the eyes of two of our international students, Izzy & Sharon. Feminist pedagogy lies at the heart of what we do in our MA (and also PhD) program: youtu.be/c9kF68Lw5yE?...
Want to know more? www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/
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
This will be good!
Fantastic to hear from these high-flying recent graduates of ours in French at UCC. Inspiring talks from inspiring individuals! Thanks to all three!
Great talk indeed - thanks so much @felixtreguer.bsky.social !
Excellent work from our own @airelleamedro.bsky.social who has guest edited an issue of @francemodern.bsky.social !
Great to see this magnificent special issue published on criminal barrister turned writer Constance Debré, one of the most incisive and uncompromising new queer voices in French contemporary literature. Congratulations to guest-editor @airelleamedro.bsky.social and to all of the authors featured!
@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
Nice review of INVERSION in The Berliner.
Amazing opportunity to undertake funded PhD study for graduates of National University of Ireland institutions. A special focus on French Studies too this year! Please get in touch to discuss if you are considering applying through UCC. www.ucc.ie/en/french/re... @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
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
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...
Congratulations, Jonathan!
Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social is a professor of French at University College Cork and co-author, with Tim Dean, of Hatred of Sex, a critique of queer theory’s forgetting of sex and the wider culture’s obsession with trauma.
Read Oliver’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out now in paperback and eBook.
Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
Oliver Davis: The Great Gay Replacement
What should we do with bad gays? Reading the one-time cult erotica author Renaud Camus, Davis discovers the roots of the writer’s turn to immigration conspiracy theory in his homosexuality.
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
I heard Sinan present this wonderful paper at UCC this week. Read, read, read
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social delivers a terrific paper at Social Pathologies conference at UCC
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super paper by @maybenansi.bsky.social on Tosquelles and Fanon at the Social Pathologies conference @ucc.ie @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social
Do attend this week’s UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures Festival of Social Science 2025! You can find an overview of the social & research events here: www.ucc.ie/en/collectiv...
Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom
progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/23/g...
Such a fantastic handbook!
This is an amazing opportunity for an outstanding postdoctoral researcher. Here @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social we’re keen to support at least one applicant. It’s a 4-year award incorporating a PhD studentship and experience at co-supervision. @francemodern.bsky.social @frenchstudies.bsky.social
Trending with Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, @oliverjdavis.bsky.social, Yotam Feldman, Marcas Lancaster.
Yes really terrific talk - thank you so much!
Poster for the online event with Dr Kevin Guyan
Feel welcome to attend the online seminar by our next Political Technologies cluster speaker, Dr Kevin Guyan, and that on Tuesday 18/11 from 4-5PM. For more details, see the poster below!
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