great to see this terrific article on the French care economy by @sarahwatersleeds.bsky.social out online with @francemodern.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
11.06.2025 15:43 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
radical democracy, political technologies, psychedelics, French philosophy, queer studies - Professor of French at UCC but this is a personal account
great to see this terrific article on the French care economy by @sarahwatersleeds.bsky.social out online with @francemodern.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
11.06.2025 15:43 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0great presentation by @maybenansi.bsky.social from @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social of his work on Lacan and Fanon at the @ucc.ie CACSSS research day today
14.05.2025 10:15 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0I'll be speaking in London this Friday in a day of free talks exploring Henri Michaux's mescaline adventures, to accompany the exquisite ongoing Courtauld exhibition of his drug drawings. Link to register below. @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/hen...
Amazingly evocative photo!
30.04.2025 18:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I will be talking about my work on the politics of psychedelics at a Zoom event this coming Wednesday, which is ticketed to raise money for the great work of The Psychedelic Experience Clinic: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-psyche...
26.04.2025 09:30 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0There's a new special issue of the Parrhesia journal, dedicated to the work of Michel Serres:
Full open access PDF: parrhesiajournal.org/wp-content/u...
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Thank you, Alex. There will be more - I hope you can join us next time.
15.04.2025 05:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0psychedelics in Ireland: my op-ed for today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social, reflecting on our recent @ucc.ie workshop in the psychedelic humanities @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
a big thank you to everyone who attended and spoke at our recent UCC research day on the psychedelic humanities! @manchanmagan.bsky.social @erikadyck.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
10.04.2025 06:52 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0still thinking about this splendid paper yesterday on the nightcap as a figure for the bourgeois in July Monarchy caricature, by our colleague Dr Charlotte Berkerey @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
28.03.2025 07:51 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Getting ready for the psychedelic humanities research day, hosted by Prof @oliverjdavis.bsky.social and kicking off at 11am this morning in the Aula Maxima!
24.03.2025 10:15 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Heathrow: presumably itβs either the GRU or an attempt to frame the GRU for leverage with Trump. Either way, UK security services have questions to answer. Forgive me for not buying the tiresome stories of virtuous Hounslow EV demand and all of the cant about resilience.
22.03.2025 20:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Peter Lamborn Wilson
22.03.2025 16:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0listening to a great research paper by Patrick Bray on taste & Stendhal here in Cork @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
19.03.2025 15:53 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0LΓ‘ FhΓ©ile PΓ‘draig sona dhaoibh go lΓ©ir. Looking forward to great talks next Monday on the Psychedelic Humanities from the amazing @erikadyck.bsky.social, respected Plains Cree elders Kelly and Reanna Daniels and the inimitable @manchanmagan.bsky.social, among many talented others.
17.03.2025 11:36 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0π’ 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
04.03.2025 10:45 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 2Poster UCC event with Prof Iris van der Tuin
Thrilled to announce this event with Prof Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University) as part of our @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social PG module, supported by @uccphilosophy.bsky.social & ISS21. With responses from Prof Maggie OβNeill & myself and moderated by Prof Nuala Finnegan!
@uccresearch.bsky.social
This will be excellent! Make sure to join us! β¨
19.02.2025 15:03 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"The research produced there is world-leading. If we lose these courses, we will lose more than thousands of devoted and pioneering academics. We will create a system where only the wealthy and privileged get to study the very subjects that make Britain what it is."
13.02.2025 08:24 β π 11 π 10 π¬ 0 π 0If you have queries about becoming a member of the Editorial Board/North America Editor, please contact the Executive Editor, @oliverjdavis.bsky.social (odavis@ucc.ie) We wish you good luck with your application and look forward to eventually introducing you in a future #MeetTheCommitteeMonday! 5/
10.02.2025 18:59 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks to our amazing authors, readers, reviewers and publisher for contributing to the life of our journal! @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
03.02.2025 13:28 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1In numbers, we:
β’ Published nearly 30 groundbreaking articles.
β’ Reviewed 26 books, sparking new conversations.
β’ Released 3 podcasts, exploring everything from Michel Serres to Memory Studies in the French-speaking world.
β’ Our articles were downloaded 67,901 times
Poster with QR code for an event on February 4, 3-5PM, that is titled "Intersectional queer activism in post-homonationalist times"
Thrilled to announce this upcoming @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social webinar on "Intersectional queer activism in post-homonationalist times" on February 4, 3-5PM w the wonderful Dino SuhoniΔ & Dr Amanullah De Sondy. See QR code or register here: shorturl.at/Ymgyl
26.01.2025 19:45 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1really happy to be joining as one of the Editors of this great @livunipress.bsky.social book series - please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have an idea for a book within our remit @asmcf.bsky.social @francemodern.bsky.social
liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2024/12/18/n...
Cover of Languages of Punishment
Melissa Pawelski, Languages of Punishment: Translating Foucault in English and German - MHRA, Autumn 2024
Hardback and e-book initially, but paperback to follow
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
βBeam weaponβ, βbracket creepβ, βcodependencyβ, βmajor depressive disorderβ, βuploadβ
06.10.2023 15:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0pleased to share this recent podcast - a conversation with the very knowledgeable and urbane Oshan Jarow:
www.musingmind.org/podcasts/psy...
Excited to share some new research next week.
Here's FaladΓ© in 1995: "But I think we should be proud - or at least I am - that in our country β because it is our country β what we used to call this βblack race,β this population that suffered as it did, can now teach the world a lesson like this."