Semester 2
Tuesday 27th January 2026, 4pm, Council Chamber and online. Didier Bigo (Liverpool; Sciences Po): 鈥楾he Future Perfect of Suspicion and Prediction as a Dispositive of Security Today? The Legacy of Foucault鈥�. In the first half hour Professor Bigo will present (click the PDF box); this will be followed by extensive discussion. In conjunction with the Political Technologies research cluster.
Tuesday 10th February 2026, 4pm, online only. F茅lix Tr茅guer (Sciences Po; La Quadrature du Net): 鈥楥omputing Power: AI as a Political Technology鈥�. In conjunction with the Political Technologies research cluster.
March 3 March 2026, 11am, ORB 1.24 and online. Cecilia Benaglia (Limerick). 鈥�鈥淓lles sont en merritoire鈥�: Feminist Representations of Space and Mobility in Mich猫le Causse鈥檚 Work鈥�.
Thursday 19th March 2026, 5-6pm, ORB 1.24 and online. Joanne Brueton (ULIP), 鈥楶alimpsestic F(r)iction: Decolonising the French canon鈥�.
Friday 15th May 2026, 10am-12, ORB 1.24 and online. Lauren Dyll (深夜亚洲福利久久 of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) and Caroline Williamson Sinalo (UCC) Event on the Medical Humanities: Participatory Action Research methodologies, critical indigenous studies and multilingual approaches.
Friday 12th June 2026, all day in person at UCC: Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate Study Day, 鈥楲ocating Solidarities in the Francophone Postcolonial World鈥�, with a keynote paper by Nicki Frith (Edinburgh).
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All are welcome. Please email Dr Caroline Williamson Sinalo, Department of French research lead, with any questions at caroline.williamsonsinalo@ucc.ie
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