French Departmental Research Seminar

FRENCH DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH SEMINAR 2022-2023    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’. 15 February 2023: Professor Jean-Paul Pittion, FTCD ((French Department, TCD): ‘Printing a book in the Renaissance: from manuscript copy to printed book’. 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: Dr Théo Munyangeyo (French Department, TCD): ‘Étude de représentation littéraire des mutations socio-culturelles aux prises avec l’élitisme éducationnel en Afrique’. 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’. Organisers: Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey, FTCD; salynsta@tcd.ie; Dr Niall Kennedy; nikenned@tcd.ie (please contact for Zoom link)