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.
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As it happened
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!
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.
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...
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'
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.
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.