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Images of the Garden Conference, 25-26 May 2012
The French Department and the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin invite you to a 2-day international conference
Images of the Garden: The French Garden as Cultural Palimpsest
Keynote Speaker: John Dixon Hunt
Date: 25-26 May 2012
Venue: Neill Hoey Theatre, Long Room Hub, Fellows' Square
For details and registration, please contact Donna Canada-Smith: FrenchGardensTCD@gmail.com
CMRS
Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,
Trinity College Dublin
TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP - OWEN SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON MEMORIAL
A memorial was established in 1973 from funds contributed in memory of Dr Owen Sheehy Skeffington, which includes a travel scholarship (value €2,000) awarded in alternate years. It is open to any student in third level education in Ireland (e.g. registered at a Regional Technical College, College of Technology, School of Art, University).
Selection will be made by the Travel Scholarship Committee on the educational merits of the applications received and with regard to the personal circumstances of the applicants.
The only limitation is that the award must be used for travel in France related to the development of the applicant’s course of study which need not necessarily include the French language. However, applicants must show clearly in their letter of application how the visit will benefit their work.
Please click here for application form, which should be submitted by Friday 4th May 2012, with the name of one person in the institution at which they registered to whom reference may be made, to:
The Secretary
Owen Sheehy Skeffington Travel Scholarship committee
C/O Head of Department
French Department
Trinity College
Dublin 2
VIOLENCE AND CONFLICT IN FRENCH CINEMA
Location: The Swift Theatre (Arts Building)
Time: 7.00 p.m.
The French Department is pleased to launch a series of lectures and film screenings which will explore the representation of violence and conflict in French cinema over a variety of periods and in a range of contexts. Each screening will be preceded by a short lecture. Films will be subtitled in English.
26 January 2012 L'Ennemi intime (Florent Emilio Siri, 2007), Dr Edward Arnold
2 February 2012 Entre les murs (Laurent Cantet, 2008), Dr James Hanrahan
9 February 2012 La Reine Margot (Patrice Chéreau, 1991), Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey
16 February 2012 La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937), Ms Annick Ferré
23 February 2012 Le Prophète (Jacques Audiard, 2009) Dr Hannes Opelz
8 March 2012 La Guerre des boutons (Yann Samuell, 2011), Dr Paule Salerno-O’Shea
15 March 2012 Cet Obscur objet du désir (Luis Buñuel, 1977), Ms Donna Canada-Smith
ALL WELCOME
NB. There is no charge for this course but enrolment is required. For enrolment and further details, please contact Sarah Alyn Stacey; salynsta@tcd.ie; tel. 896 2686
IRISH LAUNCH OF VOLUME TWO OF SAMUEL BECKETT’S LETTERS
On Friday 2 December 2011 at 6 p.m. in The Long Room Hub, the French Department, Trinity College Dublin, held the Irish launch of volume 2 of Samuel Beckett’s letters.
The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1941-1956 (Cambridge, CUP, 2011), was edited by George Craig, University of Sussex; Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Emory University, Atlanta; Dan Gunn, The American University of Paris, France; Lois More Overbeck, Emory University, Atlanta. Quite apart from the fact that Beckett’s sustained connections with Trinity, made during his student years here, so regularly punctuate the volume (as the first volume of his letters, 2010), the decision to host the Irish launch was inspired primarily by the French Department’s wish to give publicity to this highly significant publication which will throw important new light on Beckett’s work, notably those written in French, the primary language in which he writes during the post-war period.
Two of the editors, George Craig and Daniel Gunn, were in attendance, and they read from the letters at the launch. Other speakers included the editor of the Irish Times, Mr Kevin O’Sullivan; Monsieur Hadrien Laroche, cultural attaché of the French Embassy; Emeritus Professor Barbara Wright (TCD); Ms Linda Bree, Commissioning Editor at Cambridge University Press; and the organiser, Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey of Trinity’s French Department. Apart from Trinity staff and students, guests included actor Barry McGovern; Professor Claude Rawson of Yale University; representatives of the various Embassies; members of the public who participate in the French Department’s Outreach Programme.
The following day, on Saturday 3 December, a seminar on the translation of Beckett’s letters was given by Dan Gunn and George Craig (with the participation of Dr Sandrine Brisset of TCD). This gave undergraduates, post-graduates (mainly those studying French or those enrolled on the MPhil in Translation Studies), members of staff and the public, the opportunity to discuss the complex process of translation evident in the volume.
These two events were most graciously sponsored and made possible by The Irish Times, the French Embassy and Dunne and Crescenzi.
Click here for Irish Times report on the event
Events
French Pub
French Pub in the Duke (Duke Street, Dublin 2) from around 20h30 on Wednesdays during term-time - an informal gathering (in French) between members of French Department, lecteurs, assistant(e)s, lectrices and students. All welcome.