ADEFFI Post Graduate Symposium in UCC

The ADEFFI (l'Association des Études françaises et francophones en Irlande)
Post Graduate Symposium took place in University College Cork on Saturday 2 April 2011. It provided post graduate students from universities and colleges in Ireland who are involved in the area of French studies to come together and present their work before their peers.

I was one of the co organisers of the symposium and I also presented a paper on the day. My paper dealt with the friendship between the journalist, painter and poet AE, or George Russell to give him his real name and Simone Téry (one of the French journalists whose work I am examining as part of my PhD). Ten post graduate students, including students from University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin, two students from universities in the UK and a student from a French university presented papers on the day. The wide range of topics covered included Beckett, Baudelaire, Nerval, Perec, Rwanda's genocide in the 1990s and French involvement in Rhodesia's push for independence in the 1980s.

The picture at the top of the post is of some of the symposium participants in the UCC campus.