Department of French Research Seminar
2023-2024
Programme for Michaelmas Term 2023
Programme 2022-2023
Download the Research Seminar 2022-23 programme. (PDF format)2023
HILARY TERM: 4-5 p.m. in the French Departmental Library, Room 4096 of the Arts Building (unless indicated otherwise)
1 February 2023: Mr Cian Cooney (French Department, TCD): ‘The French army’s “guerre révolutionaire” doctrine and the Far-Right’.
8 February 2023: Ms Megane Mazé (French Department, TCD): ‘“Forgive scribble”: Samuel Beckett’s depistolarisation of the letter’.
22 February 2023: Professor Pittion will lead the seminar in the Old Library to consider Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Vii (Old Library, TCD, pressmark K.a.21); he will speak on ‘Vesalius 1543: an anatomical revolution?’
Please note: numbers are restricted to 12; we will meet at 3.45 p.m. at the entrance to the Berkeley Library.
1 March 2023: Dr Charlotte Berkery (French Department, UCD): 'Mapping the bourgeois night: literary street scenes in July monarchy Paris'.
15 March 2023: Ms Alexandra Corey (French Department, TCD): ‘Neoplatonism in the ‘Ode de Madame Marguerite’ (AST, Sez Corte: Storia della real casa: storie particolari [addizioni]: Emmanuel-Philibert, mazzo 10, art. 13).
22 March 2023: Professor Jean-Paul Pittion, FTCD ((French Department, TCD): ‘Printing a book in the Renaissance: from manuscript copy to printed book’.
29 March 2023: Dr Barry Nevin (French Department, Technological University Dublin): ‘From metteurs en scène to auteurs: reassessing directorial authorship in the classic French cinema's tradition de qualité’.
12 April 2023: Dr Luke Warde (French Department, TCD): ‘ “J’ai attrapé la guerre dans ma tête”: explosive sound in Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Guerre’.
TRINITY TERM: 4-5 p.m. in the French Departmental Library, Room 4096 of the Arts Building, unless indicated otherwise
17 May 2023: Dr Niall Kennedy (French Department, TCD): 'The image in Leo Carax's Holy Motors’.
24 May 2023: Third Annual Barbara Wright Memorial Lecture (speaker, time and venue tbc). The talk will be followed by a reception.
Organisers:Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey, FTCD; salynsta@tcd.ie; Dr Niall Kennedy; nikenned@tcd.ie (please contact for Zoom link)