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laurapkennedy.bsky.social
Lecturer in French at University College Cork. Conference Secretary for the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies. Interested in postcolonial literature (North Africa, French Caribbean) and comparative / world literature. Personal account
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📢 research day in the psychedelic humanities here at UCC, 24th March 2025, including a keynote talk by @manchanmagan.bsky.social. Please see Eventbrite pages: www.eventbrite.com/e/1265313379... (morning) and www.eventbrite.com/e/1265673436... (afternoon) @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social

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This Friday (7th March, 10am, 1.24, ORB), our wonderful colleague Dr Charlotte Berkery will deliver a paper on 'Night Air: The Miasmic City in Balzac's La Cousine Bette'. This talk is organised by the Rethinking Spatial Humanities research cluster. All welcome!

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Today's deadline day! Send in your abstracts, it's going to be a great conference.

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It was wonderful to share some aspects of my research as part of UCC’s History Week last night. Many thanks to the French Society and History Society for inviting me along, and congratulations on putting together such an exciting week of events!

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This is going to be 'the' Frantz Fanon centenary year event at which you need to present!!!

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Really honoured to have been invited to deliver the Kate Marsh keynote at @sfps.bsky.social in December this year. I’ll be talking about Fanon’s doomsday atmosphere… submit your abstracts and join us in London for what promises to be a wonderful conference!

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One week left to send us your abstracts for the @sfps.bsky.social annual conference (Dec 5-6th, Senate House London). Please share widely!

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This will be excellent! Make sure to join us! ✨

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Permanent full time Lectureship in Archaeology (Museum Studies) in my lovely department at UCC! Join us! www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

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Had a lovely day down in UCC. Great to catch up with old colleagues and meet some new ones. Delighted to see that both the @radhumslab.bsky.social and @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social are continuing to flourish with a good injection of new scholars doing great critical work.

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It was wonderful to catch up with our former colleague @donalh.bsky.social and to hear about his exciting COLVET- Colonial Veterans ERC Project. Looking forward to seeing how it progresses!

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Will be speaking about the COLVET project in UCC this afternoon. All welcome.

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Gentle reminder of the open CFP for the annual @sfps.bsky.social conference, on Fanon at 100, happening in the Senate House 5-6th December. It is particularly special to be welcoming my UCC colleague @maybenansi.bsky.social as one of our keynotes. We can’t wait to read your abstracts!

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It was a pleasure to share some of my research with colleagues as part of the UCC Department of French seminar series! Thank you so much to everyone who joined us in person and online!

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Looking forward to giving a paper on Michael Roch next Thursday (30th Jan, 5pm) as part of the UCC Department of French seminar series! It’ll take place in ORB 1:24, UCC, and via Teams. Send me a message for the Teams access link!

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Very excited to share the @sfps.bsky.social CFP for our 2025 conference (Dec 5-6th at @ilcs.bsky.social, Senate House London), on the revolutionary afterlives of Fanon. We look forward to reading your abstracts!

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The final panel of the Australian Society for French Studies conference was a very special one, on future directions in French studies. The perfect end to a wonderful conference! #ASFS2024

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Great to hear my wonderful UCC colleague Jemima Hodgkinson present at #ASFS2024 ! ‘Writing the Indigène into French literature: Competing Visions for La Littérature coloniale’

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Fascinating opening keynote by Prof Maeve McCusker for #ASFS2024 - Beyond the Green Atlantic: Ireland, Empire and the Antilles

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Have spent the day exploring a gloriously sunny Melbourne ahead of the Australian Society for French Studies annual conference - looking forward to catching up with colleagues and meeting many more over the next few days!

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Last night we had a wonderful evening of research, readings, and music to commemorate the life and work of Maryse Condé. Many thanks to our UCC French students for their brilliant readings of some of Condé’s work, and to Ines Khai for such a special concert!

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