2018 Annual Conference
The Society welcomes all delegates to University College Cork for our 59th annual conference!
This year's conference will be our largest yet, with up to ten parallel sessions. We are pleased to announce plenary lectures by Sarah Kay (New York University), Martin Crowley (University of Cambridge), and Éric Fassin (Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis). We will also be hosting a roundtable discussion on 'Crisis: the state of French studies', to be chaired by Patrick O'Donovan, with short papers from Janice Carruthers (Queen's Belfast, AHRC), Neil Kenny (Oxford, British Academy) and Patrick Crowley (University College Cork), and with Claire Gorrara (Cardiff University) responding.
A number of special events for postgraduate students are planned, and travel grants are available: further information about these opportunities is available here.
Note for delegates: if you are planning on participating in the workshop on 'Corpus-based approaches', you can download the materials in advance, here.
Scroll down this page for live updates during the conference, or follow us on Twitter.
Quick links
As it happened
Charlotte
Chapeau bas and thanks a million to @french_studies, the extraordinary @NinaParish, the brilliant team @FrenchDeptUCC and @odonovanpt for the amazing #SFSCork2018
lauren quigley
Heading back to Belfast after a wonderful @french_studies conference. Brilliant to catch up with old friends and meet new ones. Thank you @NinaParish @FrenchDeptUCC @FranceinIreland for a fantastic few days #SFSCork2018 https://t.co/Vcn8cbQWWP
Clíona Hensey
Such a lovely & unexpected honour too that my poster was chosen for the postgraduate prize - un très grand merci!! #SFSCork2018 https://t.co/w4KNlIFerq
Projet Bretez
#SFSCork2018 #SFS2018 C'est fini Merci à @NinaParish, à @UCC, et à @french_studies pour organisation et accueil Impatients pour #60SFS #SFSLondres2019 https://t.co/cRRhnG85Z6
Benjamin GIRODEAU
Quelle fantastique ambiance pendant les 3 jours de la 59e conférence annuelle de la Society for @french_studies accueillie par @FrenchDeptUCC ! Le nombre et la qualité des échanges montre la vitalité de la recherche en études françaises en Irlande et au R-U! #SFSCork2018 https://t.co/XQzxQcolb8
Close of conference
Incoming SFS president Judith Still closes the conference by thanking (in Irish!) the French department at UCC for their warm hospitality, and wishing outgoing president Bill Burgwinkle a very happy birthday!
Kate Hodgson
Really interesting papers this morning, the final day of #SFSCork2018: memory, identity, contemporary BD & novels, pieds noirs, incarceration and white Creole genealogies. thanks to all speakers on the Genealogies panel including @rhrosenberg (pictured) https://t.co/pmIbUoNFAx
Eric Fassin plenary lecture
Eric Fassin (professeur de Sociologie, Université Paris 8 St Denis) delivers the final plenary lecture of this year's conference, a barnstorming discussion of 'La Kaléidoscope du genre: politiques sexuelles et raciales en France aujourd'hui', chaired by our very own Ruth Cruickshank.
French Studies
Last but not least of #SFSCork2018: @EricFassin is gonna talk about racial and sexual politics in France today. But first: our very own @RuthCruickshank brillantly introduces the speaker https://t.co/nit4TST7dR
Dónal Hassett
This report from the City of Cork Committee about the failed French Expedition of 1796 seems to belie Cork's moniker as the Rebel County. It's just one of a whole range of fascinating documents in the #FrenchMatters exhibition put together for #SFSCork2018 https://t.co/52145YsaRQ
Steven Wilson
Sadly I couldn’t make it to #SFSCork2018 though I was tempted to go down to Cork for a day just to hear what promised to be a fascinating session on Ageism, Ageing and Old Age in Contemporary French Culture. https://t.co/aWVSGdAsJY
Patrick O’Donovan
Thank you @osheaucc @ucc for coming along to #SFSCork2018 @french_studies and for launching #MattersFrench and #ClaudePélieu #EYCH2018 #EuropeForCulture #MakeAConnection @laBnF https://t.co/zjrHLXDmTn
French Studies
Ambitious 9 am start this morning after conference dinner, prize-giving, and dancing last night. #SFSCork2018 Wakey wakey!
Dr Mathew Rickard ☘️🏳️🌈🇪🇺
My feet and legs are killing me (we won’t mention what the drink did...) but a céilí is definitely the only way to mark what’s been a fantastic conference! #SFSCork2018 https://t.co/SU29kzdbXE
Claire Gorrara
Hanna Diamond on the fabulous Barbier archive and Franco-Welsh life at Cardiff University in the 19th and 20th centuries #SFScork2018 https://t.co/inXDM3fQio
Charles Forsdick
.@gorrara67, incoming chair of @UCML, talking about importance of language activism & partnerships with policy makers, schools... Underlining need for advocacy & "language mission". Moving beyond focus on single languages to engage with multilingualism more generally #SFSCork2018
Roundtable session
Discussants Janice Carruthers (Queen's University Belfast, AHRC), Patrick Crowley (University College Cork) and Neil Kenny (University of Oxford, British Academy), and respondent Claire Gorrara (Cardiff University, AUPHF, UCML) get ready for their roundtable on 'Responding to crisis? The state of play in French studies', commenting on opportunities to ensure the future health of our discipline through engagement with policymakers, research bodies, schools...
Fiona Dakin
So great to be back in Cork for the annual @french_studies conference. @UCC is just beautiful! #SFSCork2018 https://t.co/KtkMHDYPyo
Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis
So great to hear @french_studies wanting to do more to support ECRs! Look forward to hearing more details and hope to see other scholarly societies follow suit #SFSCork2018
Charles Forsdick
Day 2 of #SFSCork2018. At panel on "bearing witness to the transnational". @CathJGilbert opening discussions with paper on transnational memory in the Rwandan diaspora. Good to see such important new work at intersection of #postcolonial & #transnational.
Prof Nina Parish
Delighted to be listening to fascinating papers about contemporary and modern poetic practice this morning - forensic poetics - dance - cognitive mapping @french_studies #SFSCork2018 @mariechouinard
Patrick O’Donovan
Today at #SFSCork2018: ‘The state of play in French Studies’, with Janice Carruthers @AHRCModernLangs, Patrick Crowley @FrenchDeptUCC, @gorrara67 @UCML, and Neil Kenny @britac_news — where next for language learning in Ireland and the UK? https://t.co/0msHRi8DCT
Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis
Enjoying a moment of scenic calm before #SFSCork2018 kicks off https://t.co/6wSDLUKPbH
Jennifer Rushworth
Wonderful keynote from Sarah Kay yesterday on 'How opera taught me to read'. Arguing that we embrace anachronism and understand the combination of image, text, and music in medieval manuscripts as operatic. Thereby remembering that texts are also soundscapes.
Patrick O’Donovan
Congratulations to @tunwin and @FrenchProfessor on their superb service as editors of @FrenchStudies #SFSCork2018 @french_studies https://t.co/upjoujrum6
PeterLangOxford
It's a beautiful day at #SFSCork2018! Come by the @PeterLangOxford stand in BHSC 101 and say hello! https://t.co/ucLY4NHjVT
Russell Goulbourne
They’re catering for every need in the #SFSCork2018 conference venue... https://t.co/OLCUh0VuCP
French Studies
Come to our AGM at 9 am today #SFSCork2018 @FrenchDeptUCC and don't forget to visit the postgraduate PhD posters in BHSC 101/102. Other things to look forward to today: a roundtable on 'Responding to crisis? The state of play in French Studies'. And innumerable panels...
Sarah Kay plenary lecture
Sarah Kay (Professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture) delivers her plenary lecture, 'How opera taught me to read'.
Martin Crowley plenary lecture
Martin Crowley (Reader in Modern French Thought and Culture, University of Cambridge) delivers the first plenary lecture of the conference, 'Imagining Civil War in the Contemporary French Novel'
French Studies
Time for the 1st plenary lecture of #SFSCork2018 : Martin Crowley from Cambridge, "Imagining Civil War in Contemporary French Novel", brillantly introduced by Jo Malt.
French Studies
The room is quivering with excitation as President Bill Burgwinckle takes the floor and opens the #SFSCork2018 https://t.co/pLVOYlH6kY
PG session on 'Life after the PhD'
Kaya Davies Hayon and Katherine Shingler give an honest (yet encouraging!) picture of post-PhD life to our PG community.
Benjamin Dalton
oh Cork, you insanely gorgeous beauty 🌈☀️😎 #SFSCork2018 @french_studies https://t.co/W7wNQYKDti
Charles Forsdick
Getting ready for #SFSCork2018 with afternoon on @SpikeIslandCork. #darktourism #penalheritage https://t.co/4VHCZu3xFM
Russell Williams
Looking forward to #SFSCork2018. Only mildly annoyed that it’s going to interfere with my football watching...
Charlotte
@BenBGDalton @maitiumacriceid @laurenlquigley Looks like the rain decided to turn around! No doubt thanks to some robust lobbying on the part of @french_studies #MicroClimateMiracle #SFSCork2018 https://t.co/Sjd9zXKUXy
Patrick O’Donovan
Discover Claude Pélieu at the @french_studies conference — https://t.co/tvC8RqiePc #EuropeForCulture #MakeAConnection #EYCH2018… a partnership between @UCCLibrary and @laBnF https://t.co/NdeQaj2grb
French Dept UCC
Parched quad, 22 degrees celsius - things hotting up for @french_studies Annual Conference @UCC July 2-4 #SFSCork2018! https://t.co/bAuXwfYBmW
Workshop on 'Corpus-based approaches'
As we approach the SFS 2018 conference in Cork, those of you planning to attend the workshop on 'Corpus-based approaches' may want to download the materials in advance - see the link further up this page.