Our 34.3 August issue is now available online ! @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/3...

My ‘Ten theses on the politics of psychedelics’: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to new colleagues at UCC and the other interlocutors who helped shape this work.

Ten theses on the politics of psychedelics

This article liberates discussion of the politics of psychedelics from its present impasse. Across ten theses, it asserts that psychedelics are interr…

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***History at the "End of History"*** Prof Toby Green will be giving the 2026 Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture on Thurs, June 18th at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, discussing the general crisis, political assaults on the discipline and the impact of AI. Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Williamson Sinalo’s paper introduced the concept of ‘syndemic witnessing’ to reflect on the ways African journalistic storytelling articulated agency, solidarity and leadership in the face of the complex health challenges around the 2024 Mpox syndemic from an African cultural perspective.

Fantastic to have our wonderful colleague Dr Caroline Williamson Sinalo represent the department at the College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences Research Showcase today!

Thanks to the Journal of Simone de Beauvoir Studies for inviting me to review historian Tamara Chaplin's Becoming Lesbian: A Queer History of Modern France (Chicago, 2024): brill.com/view/journal...

Please join us in person in Cork on Bealtaine, Friday 1st May, for a research workshop on Psychedelic Mysticism. Speakers include Julian Vayne, Sophie Casey, Timmy Davis, Mark Elliott, Danny Forde, Jenny Butler, Patrick Everitt, Chris Read and me. To book: www.eventbrite.com/e/psychedeli...

listening to a great keynote paper on harmony in late 19th c. French visual culture by @rcoombes.bsky.social at @asmcf.bsky.social and SSFH study day - lots of esotericism and occulture in the mix! @francemodern.bsky.social

Please join us in person in Cork or online for this talk - delighted to be able to welcome Professor Nidesh Lawtoo to UCC!

Evelien Geerts@egeertsphd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Looking forward to the final talk in this year’s seminal Political Technologies seminar series at @ucc.ie & that by the wonderful Prof Nidesh Lawtoo (Leiden University). Join us on the 27th! @maybenansi.bsky.social @oliverjdavis.bsky.social @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social

On this #IWD, check out @ucc.ie’s Women’s Studies MA program and that through the eyes of two of our international students, Izzy & Sharon. Feminist pedagogy lies at the heart of what we do in our MA (and also PhD) program: youtu.be/c9kF68Lw5yE?... Want to know more? www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/

Discover Women’s Studies at UCC - Student voices

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Research Master’s scholarship in French available at UCC for 2026-7, covering fees and a contribution to maintenance. Please get in touch with any queries. @francemodern.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social @adeffi.bsky.social @frenchstudies.bsky.social

Laura Kennedy@laurapkennedy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Fantastic opportunity to join our research community!

This will be good!

Evelien Geerts@egeertsphd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Looking forward to Prof @debbieging.bsky.social’s talk on Thursday! Organized by @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social & the CASiLaC Political Technologies cluster and part of #IWD & our PG7044 PhD module! @uccresearch.bsky.social @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social

Fantastic to hear from these high-flying recent graduates of ours in French at UCC. Inspiring talks from inspiring individuals! Thanks to all three!

French Dept UCC@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What a pleasure to welcome back some of our UCC graduates of French who are now pursuing exciting careers in diverse fields. Thanks to Imasha, Kevin, and Siobhán for sharing their post-UCC journeys with us. A testimony to the many career pathways available to UCC students of French!

Great talk indeed - thanks so much @felixtreguer.bsky.social !

Evelien Geerts@egeertsphd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Another thought-provoking UCC Political Technologies series talk earlier today, this time by Dr @felixtreguer.bsky.social. Merci! Check out the cluster’s website (shorturl.at/00PDZ) for more info & upcoming seminars. @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social

Excellent work from our own @airelleamedro.bsky.social who has guest edited an issue of @francemodern.bsky.social !

Modern & Contemporary France@francemodern.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our 34.1 special issue on Constance Debré, guest edited by @airelleamedro.bsky.social is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/c... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social @warwick-smlc.bsky.social

Great to see this magnificent special issue published on criminal barrister turned writer Constance Debré, one of the most incisive and uncompromising new queer voices in French contemporary literature. Congratulations to guest-editor @airelleamedro.bsky.social and to all of the authors featured!

Modern & Contemporary France@francemodern.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our 34.1 special issue on Constance Debré, guest edited by @airelleamedro.bsky.social is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/c... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social @warwick-smlc.bsky.social

@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social research seminar in conjunction with the Political Technologies group, Tues 10th Feb, 4-5pm Irish time, online. Teams link on this page: www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/r... Please join us! @egeertsphd.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social

Nice review of INVERSION in The Berliner.

Amazing opportunity to undertake funded PhD study for graduates of National University of Ireland institutions. A special focus on French Studies too this year! Please get in touch to discuss if you are considering applying through UCC. www.ucc.ie/en/french/re... @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social

NUI Travelling Doctoral Scholarships | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

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The Political Technologies research cluster and Department of French will welcome Professor Didier Bigo to UCC on Tues 27 January. Join us in person or online! Links here: www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/r... @uccresearch.bsky.social @egeertsphd.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social

Last update of the year - but do come and take a look at our Political Technologies research cluster website & our upcoming events! Co-convened with the brilliant Prof @oliverjdavis.bsky.social & Dr @maybenansi.bsky.social: www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/r...

Political Technologies | University College Cork

This is the homepage of the Political Technologies research cluster of CASiLaC, the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures at UCC

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Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social is a professor of French at University College Cork and co-author, with Tim Dean, of Hatred of Sex, a critique of queer theory’s forgetting of sex and the wider culture’s obsession with trauma.

Read Oliver’s essay in INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual Out now in paperback and eBook. Order at buff.ly/MbsI3BS @oliverjdavis.bsky.social

Oliver Davis: The Great Gay Replacement What should we do with bad gays? Reading the one-time cult erotica author Renaud Camus, Davis discovers the roots of the writer’s turn to immigration conspiracy theory in his homosexuality. @oliverjdavis.bsky.social

I heard Sinan present this wonderful paper at UCC this week. Read, read, read

Maybe: Sinan@maybenansi.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Really proud of my new free-to-access article on Fanon, Tosquelles and Lacan on madness and triggering the end of the colonial world ! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

@oliverjdavis.bsky.social delivers a terrific paper at Social Pathologies conference at UCC @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social

super paper by @maybenansi.bsky.social on Tosquelles and Fanon at the Social Pathologies conference @ucc.ie @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

Do attend this week’s UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures Festival of Social Science 2025! You can find an overview of the social & research events here: www.ucc.ie/en/collectiv...

UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures Festival of Social Science 2025 | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

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Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/23/g...

Gordon and Tina Wasson, Slavic Studies in the Cold War, and the Hallucinogenic Mushroom

R. Gordon Wasson was Vice President at the American investment bank J.P. Morgan & Co., a major supporter of Slavic Studies in the United States during the Cold War, and fascinated by hallucinog…

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Such a fantastic handbook!

Queer Death Studies Network🌻@queerdeath.bsky.social · 9mo ago

BIG NEWS! The Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies, eds. Nina Lykke, Tara Mehrabi, and Marietta Radomska is finally out! 63 chapters and 73 contributors. You can order - or better, ask your local library to order - this behemoth of a book via: www.routledge.com/9781032504384