News and Events - Academic Term 2022/23
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22nd-23rd June 2023: 19th-Century Hispanists Network Annual Conference
Annual conference focused on 19th-century Hispanic topics. All welcome to attend. No registration fee. Keynote: tbc. [More information to follow soon]
26th and 27th May 2023: Passages, International Conference 26-27 May 2023,
This interdisciplinary hybrid conference seeks to interrogate the multiplicity of meanings associated with ‘passages’ and welcomes contributions pertaining to the various Francospheres and encompassing as broad an historical range as possible.
Ad Astra Fellows, UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Applications are sought for Ad Astra Fellows within the UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics.
10th May 2023, 5.30pm: Snu (Movie screening)
The Portuguese Embassy and the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics invite you to the movie screening of 'Snu' in celebration of World Portuguese Language Day (5th May).
26th April 2023, 6.30pm: Literature, ethics and the law: a literary trial in early-twentieth-century Italy
You are all warmly invited to the final event of this term in our Crossing Cultures Seminar Series: 'Literature, ethics and the law: a literary trial in early-twentieth-century Italy' with Cristina Savettieri (University of Pisa)
17th - 21st April 2023: 68th annual conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
The 68th annual conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland will comprise of 2 face-to-face days in Dublin (Monday 17th – Tuesday 18th April) and one day fully online (Friday 21st April).
17th April 2023, 5.30pm: The Making of Arcadia in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Join us for our next online seminar with Professor Eric Haywood on Monday 17 April at 17.30. Professor Haywood's presentation will discuss 'The Making of Arcadia in Sixteenth-Century Italy'. Register online.
Leuven Study Trip 2023: Student Reflections
From 13th - 15th March 20 language students travelled to Leuven. Here are a couple of their reflections on the trip.
3rd April 2023, 5.30pm: UCD Italian Seminar with Prof Catherine O'Rawe (University of Bristol)
As part of the UCD Italian Seminar Series, we are delighted to host a talk by Prof Catherine O'Rawe (University of Bristol). The seminar will take place on Zoom, please register.
30th March, 6pm: Cultural Production as Political Activism: Creative Potentials and Precarities
You are warmly invited to join us for the fifth event of our 2022-2023 Crossing Cultures Seminar Series: Talks by Dr Carlos Garrido Castellano (University College Cork) and Dr Cyd Sturgess (Utrecht University)
8th March, 6.30pm: Common People: Human Sciences, Individuals, and the Novel
Public lecture by Professor Guido Mazzoni (Universita' di Siena). Wednesday 8 March 2023, 6.30 pm in Theatre N, Newman building. All welcome.
7th March 2023, 5.30pm: A Modern Poetry - a Conversation
A double interview and poetry reading with Irish debut writer Victoria Kennefick and Italian poet and essayist Guido Mazzoni. All welcome to attend.
2nd March 2023, 6pm: A pen of one’s own: The legacy of Women Letter-Writers in 17th-century France
Please join us for the fourth event of our 2022-2023 Crossing Cultures. UCD@SLCL Seminar Series with Dr. Nathalie Freidel (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Emma Gauthier-Mamaril (Université de Montréal) followed by a Q &A conversation.
Helga and Hugh Staunton Scholarship 2023/24
The scholarship covers either local MA fees (currently €7610) or local PhD fees (currently €6790) for the year of the award. It is awarded to a registered postgraduate student of proven academic excellence who wishes to pursue PG studies in German.
9th February - 2nd March 2023, 5:30-7:00pm: Theatre and the Body Acting Workshop
A 4-session workshop which explores the relationship between the human body and theatrical practice. The aim of this workshop is to explore through practice how the embodied nature of theatre can build a sense of community and social integration.
7th February 2023, 5pm: Book Launch of 'Classical Comedy 1508-1786. A Legacy from Italy and France (Legenda, 2022)'
We are delighted to invite you to the book launch of the latest volume by Richard Andrews (Emeritus Professor of Italian, University of Leeds) on 7 February, 5pm in D301, Newman Building, UCD
25th January 2023, 6.30pm: Dante and Sectarianism: Reception and Reformation in the Long Nineteenth Century (Theatre N, Newman Building, UCD)
The lecture examines the tensions and compromises in the reception of Dante straddling the sectarian divide & the role of contemporary discourses on toleration, freedom of worship and freedom of speech in facilitating the accommodation of diverse readings.
Call for Papers: Passages, 26-27 May 2023, UCD (Deadline: 9th January 2023)
This interdisciplinary hybrid conference seeks to interrogate the multiplicity of meanings associated with ‘passages’ and welcomes contributions pertaining to the various Francospheres and encompassing as broad an historical range as possible.
8th December 2022, 6pm: Crossing Cultures
'Arts, Genre and Gender: Intersections in the Italian Baroque'. Roundtable with Jessica Goethals (University of Alabama) and Marianna Liguori (University of Padua)
25th November 2022, 5pm: Health, Violence and the Female Body. Social and Legal Perspectives
A conversation between Professor Sara De Vido and Dr Sara Delmedico will discuss the role of the body as a means of control and power, and discrimination as something which affects health and includes the State among its perpetrators.
24th November 2022, 7pm: Crossing Cultures
'Mediating & Translating Taboo in Contemporary France and Italy'. Roundtable with Erica Bellia (University of Cambridge) and Nadine Gassie (Literary translator)
22nd November 2022, 5pm: Jose and Pilar (SLCL Foreign Film Series)
"José and Pilar", a documentary by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, is a deeply moving story about love, loss and literature. It follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his beloved wife, Pilar del Rio.
10th November 2022, 6pm: Crossing Cultures
'Revolutionary Women in a Revolutionary Country. Gender and Class during the Portuguese Estado Novo and the Carnation Revolution'.A talk with Giulia Strippoli (Nova University of Lisbon)
28th & 29th October 2022: The Irish Proust Conference
To mark the centenary of the death of Marcel Proust, this conference will bring together scholars and writers from Ireland, France, UK & North America to explore the French novelist’s influence on Irish literature as well as Irish themes within his writing
19th October 2022, 5.30pm: Welcome Venice (SLCL Foreign Film Series)
As part of ' La settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo' the UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and the IIC Dublino invite you to the screening of 'Welcome Venice' on 19th October at 5.30pm at the UCD Cinema.
18th October 2022, 6pm: SLCL Research Series
Our first School research seminar this term will feature a presentation by Dr Marco Bellardi (Italian): "Cinematic Writing: Theories and Approaches"
13th & 14th October 2022: Women and Work Conference
Femmes et Travail dans la sphère francophone du XVIIIe siècle | Women and Work across the 18th-century Francophone Globe