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MA in European Regional & Minority Cultures

2010/11

UCD School of Languages and Literatures Scoil na dTeangacha agus na Litríochta UCD

MA in European Regional & Minority Cultures 2010/11

Programme Description

Modern day western Europe prides itself on its rich culture of diversity incorporating regions and minorities, which has led to a significant debates regarding rights, status and protection within the EU. Therefore, the MA in ERMC will offer students a wide range of courses on Europe with particular reference to regionalism and minority issues. These courses will provide students with a grounding in the broader context of European developments and in-depth analysis of specific issues, debates and movements in order to facilitate a multi-disciplinary understanding of the European Union, its regions and minorities.

Students in ERMC will be able to design their MA degree with the greatest possible flexibility choosing from the wide range of courses. The course offerings are widely spread across participating schools allowing access to social, historical, linguistic, literary and film studies to provide for both in-depth analysis of specific cases and theoretical approaches to the subjects. Students can, if they wish, enhance their existing language competencies in French and German by participating in language modules designed to support the more content-based modules.

Choosing to do an MA in ERMC provides a unique opportunity for students from Ireland, Europe and further afield to study the ―roots of Europe‖ and undertake detailed research in areas within this framework. Students will acquire knowledge in specialist areas, valuable skills in analysis and research and expert knowledge in European Regionalism and Minorities. Upon successful completion of the MA students will be in an ideal position to pursue a career in a wide range of areas, for example, the public and private sectors of the European economy. The successful completion of the MA programme also provides students with the potential to pursue further academic studies at Ph.D. level.

The language of instruction in all programme components is English, unless stated otherwise in the module descriptions. All modules are self-contained units and students can make their choice of modules according to their interests.

This MA in European Regional and Minority Cultures (ERMC) is the first of its kind in any European University as it draws together the wide expertise and scholarship of UCD’s academic staff across disciplines to provide a comprehensive multi-disciplinary programme focused on European regionalism and minorities. It is hosted by the College of Arts & Celtic Studies, and the Graduate School, and it includes contributions from other schools in the College of Human Sciences.


Full or Part-Time Study The MA in European Regional and Minority cultures is offered as a full-time or part-time programme. Full-time students are required to accumulate 90 credits in one year. The course work is worth 60 credits and the minor dissertation 30 credits.

Part-time students may spread the required modules over two years. We recommend that part-time students cover at least half the required modules in year one (30 credits). However, the appropriate workload will be discussed with each part-time student on an individual basis. Fees

Students are liable to pay programme fees to the University which is in line with fees for other MA programmes. In 2010/11 it amounts to €5,400. For information on fees for Graduate programmes please consult: www.ucd.ie/graduatestudies/fees_scholarships_funding.htm Entry Requirements

Applicants are expected to hold a university degree graded B or equivalent. Reading competence in at least one major European language other than English is desirable, but not essential.

Application Process

Applications for this programme are welcome immediately until August 15, 2010. Applicants are required to fill out the online application form and to return it with their complete university transcripts or equivalent qualifications, a CV, one reference and an administration fee. Further general information can be obtained from the UCD website (http://www.ucd.ie/prospective.html), follow the Graduate Taught Programmes path, or, for specific academic details, from the Programme Director Dr. Georg Grote ([email protected]).

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Programme Details

Students commence their taught MA or Graduate Diploma in September. All students participate in the two core modules ―From Nationalism to Regionalism in Europe‖ (semester one) and ―Minorities and the Development of Minority Policies in Europe‖ (semester two). These modules serve as the overarching structure and a general survey over the specialised modules contributing to the MA programme. Students are also obliged to participate and pass the ―Research Skills‖ modules offered in each semester. The core element of the MA degree amounts to 30 credits. In addition to the core modules, students are required to choose optional modules to the value of 30 credits in two semesters. They may select from a number of modules from the module offerings according to their own preference and interest. Finally, MA students write a 30 credit minor thesis of approximately 15,000 words on an approved topic of their choice. The thesis topic has to be submitted by 15 April 2011 to the Programme Director in the form of a preliminary title and a brief project description. The Programme Director in consultation with the contributors to the MA programme formally approves topics and assigns supervisors. The thesis has to be submitted by July 31. Graduate Diploma students finish their one-year course (without the MA thesis) at the end of April.


Core Modules

Optional Modules

Semester 1: SLL 40160 Workshop Academic Conference ―Südtirolismen‖ 5 credits FR 40220 French for Academic Purposes 5 credits GER 40160 German for Academic Purposes 5 credits GER 40140 The German Minority in Northern Italy 10 credits HIS 41720 War Studies Academic Seminar 10 credits Semester 2: ITAL 40150 Languages & Identities in Italy 10 credits LING 40220 Minority Languages 10 credits HIS 41720 War Studies Academic Seminar 10 credits HIS 40870 Gender & Medicine 10 credits FR 40200 French Cinema in the 1930s 10 credits FR 40230 French for Academic Purposes 5 credits GER 40170 German for Academic Purposes 5 credits Please note that this list is as accurate as possible. However, in some instances it may be necessary to make changes to the programme.

Recommended Relevant Undergraduate Modules

Semester 1: SLL 10010 European Civilisation I – The Great Dictators 5 credits SLL 20200 European Civilisation II – Modern Europe 5 credits FR 10050 Early Modern France: Landscape & Timelines 5 credits PHPS 20020 Social Anthropology 5 credits Semester 2: SOC 30050 Political Sociology 5 credits

Semester 1: (September-December 2010) SLL 40200 From Nationalism to Regionalism in Europe 10 credits SLL 40100 Research Skills 5 credits Semester 2: (January- April 2011) SLL 40170 Minorities in Europe & Minority Policies 10 credits SLL 40110 Research Skills 5 credits Semester 3: (May-July 2011) SLL 40210 MA Thesis 30 credits


Minor Thesis

Semester 3: SLL 40210 MA Thesis in European Regional & Minority Cultures 30 credits

Exit Strategy

Students who, during the course of Semester 2, decide not to complete their MA may want to complete a 60 credit Graduate Diploma in European Regional and Minority Cultures by successfully completing all necessary taught modules.


SEMESTER 1 CORE MODULES

SLL 40200: From Nationalism to Regionalism in Europe Co-ordinator: Dr. Georg Grote Module places: 20 Day and time: TBA

This module analyses the strategies collective identities in Western Europe, such as people and nations, have used to organise themselves. We will look at the emergence of nationalism in the 19th century as a way to determine borders and spheres of influence and juxtapose it with regionalism in the EU in the late 20th and early 21st century - an era in which the moving of borders between the member states of the EU is no longer an issue. Is this regionalism the modern reply to the questions posed in the era of historical nationalism in the 19th century, or does regionalism address issues which are far removed from Fichte, Herder, Garibaldi, Mazzini and Bismarck? Students will be introduced to different ways of national organisation in a changing global and European environment. Through the

study of key theroretical texts on nationalism and regionalism they will become familiar with both concepts and realte them to the historical reality in the 19th and early 20th century and our modern political world of today. As we will study relevant case studies students will realise that Europe and its institutions are subject to change and modification and that the institutional bodies they accept as fixed realities, are in fact fluid and transient and respond to the needs of our time in the way historical phenomena and institutions were contemporary products, too Assessment: Class presentation 30%, essay 70%


SLL 40100: Research Methods Co-ordinator: Dr. Maria Rosario Hernandez Module places: 20 Day and time: Thursday 14.00 – 16.00 This Level 4 module has the objective of introducing students to sourcing and accessing research material efficiently. The module furthermore trains students in basic research skills through certain practical tasks which aid in the development of a critical attitude towards primary and secondary sources. The module also aims to provide students with essential skills in the formulation of research proposals, conference paper proposals, and funding applications, and so prepare them for independent research. Finally, the module encourages students to present work in a proper academic manner and it offers practical advice on common writing difficulties, such as getting started, writer’s block, etc. Assessment: Continuous task-based assessment

OPTIONAL MODULES

GER 40140: The German Minority in Italy

Co-ordinator: Dr. Georg Grote Module places: 15 Day and time: TBA Language Requirements: knowledge of German and/or Italian would be helpful, but is not mandatory Exclusions: prior or parallel participation in GER 30030 This is a level 4 module for students interested in German and Italian history and in phenomena of western European nationalism and regionalism. This module focuses on the historical and present-day reality of the German-speaking population in Northern Italy. This module examines the strategies of maintenance of culture and language of a linguistic minority through the turmoils the 20th century and demonstrates how a collective identity such as the German South Tyrolean had to change to adopt the changes of a modern European organisational framework. The analysis of South Tyrol concludes with an investigation into the establishment of what has repeatedly been labelled the ―Regional State South Tyrol‖ and the challenging relationship between its three populations, the German-speaking Tyroleans, the Italian and the Ladin populations. Assessment: Document analysis 30%, end of term essay 70%


SLL 40160: Workshop Academic Conference: “Südtirolismen – Identities and Histories in and around South Tyrol / Alto Adige”, October 2/3, 2010, Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD

Module coordinator: Dr. Georg Grote Module places: 20 Day and time: 3 prep sessions + October 2/3 Language requirements: Oral and written knowledge of the German language is mandatory to participate and successfully complete this module Students are invited to participate in an academic conference which is taking place in the Humanities Institute of Ireland in UCD on October 2/3, 2010, organised by the module coordinator. This conference focuses on the position of South Tyrol as a successful European Region within Europe and on its domestic cultural, political and societal situation, which poses major challenges to the longevity of its international success. Preparation: In the three weeks leading up to the conference students will read and familiarize themselves with the issues at stake. They will be briefed and prepared by the module coordinator in weekly two hour sessions. On the content side, students will learn about the latest intellectual developments in the Tyrol area and will be exposed to cutting edge expertise by local and international experts. Students will experience (controverse) academic exchange about the (political and societal) topics at stake and recognize that different academic disciplines present different views and possible solutions to the same problems posed by reality. As students attend the conference very well informed, they will be able to formulate opinions about the issues discussed. They may thus participate in the conference procedures by engaging in the discussions and by asking significant questions which will further their own research. Furthermore, they will be introduced to the practicalities of an academic conference: organisational decisions, presentation techniques, discussions & controversies which will influence further research and historiography. After the conference students will write a 4-5,000 word essay on a selected conference issue (in close coordination with and supervision by the module coordinator). Its primary task will be to embed the selected conference contribution in the state of current research on the South Tyrol issue. Assessment: Term essay 4-5,000 words 70%, attendance and participation 30%


HIS 41720: War Studies Academic Seminar

Module Coordinator: Dr. William Mulligan Module places: 10 Day and time: TBA This module is based on the seminar series run by the UCD Centre for War Studies. The seminars take place about 4 times each semester and cover a range of topics. For a clearer idea about the kinds of seminar topics, you should consult the website: www.ucd.ie/warstudies The seminar programme is normally finalised in September.

This module is intended for very strong graduate students. Students will be required to attend the War Studies Seminar series, actively listen to professional research papers, and to distil the information which is presented. This will be assessed by means of a research diary. At the end of the semester, students will present a 20 minute research paper of their own which deals with one of the subjects/themes raised during the course of the semester. For example, if Professor Sanborn gave a paper on warlords and the Russian Civil War (as he did last year), a student may present a paper on this topic or on a related topic such as the Bolshevik army during the Civil War or on Tolstoy and Soviet military thinking. For further information please contact Dr. William Mulligan at [email protected]

Assessment: Research Diary and a Research Paper

GER 40160: German for Academic Purposes

Module coordinator: NN Module places: 20 Day and time: TBA This module aims to provide graduate students with a sound reading competence in the language, thus enabling them to study academic texts in German in areas ranging from historiography, politics and literary criticism to musicology and philosophical works. The module aims to develop student strategies for reading, translating, and negotiating meaning in the context of their specific subject areas. In this regard, the module teaches key vocabulary and linguistic structures and addresses grammatical issues specific to German academic discourse. This module does not require previous knowledge of the language and beginners are welcome. Assessment: Written assessments during the semester 50% and a written class test at the end 50%

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FR 40220: French for Academic Purposes

Module Coordinator: Dr. Phyllis Gaffney Module places: 10 Day and Time: TBA Prior Learning: At least Leaving Cert (Honours) French or equivalent

This level-four module is aimed at non-specialist students of French who wish to develop their knowledge of the language in order to enhance their specialist studies in another field. It aims to provide learners with a sound reading competence in the language with a view to being able to undertake the study of scientific and literary works in French. The module seeks to develop independent learners who are prepared to invest a considerable amount of personal study time outside the classroom, while it also provides: a) a focused approach to learning French that requires learners to engage in autonomous learning strategies in general, and reading strategies in particular, in the context of specific subject areas; and b) a solid foundation in the grammar of the language. On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: read short descriptive and narrative texts and extract basic information related to their academic fields; engage competently with a variety of written materials specific to their area of research; demonstrate a high level of awareness of the grammar of the language; manage their individual learning through the completion of specified learning activities. Assessment: Class Test 50%, Continuous Assessment 50%

RECOMMENDED RELEVANT UNDERGRADUATE MODULES

SLL 10010: European Civilisation I – The Great Dictators

Module coordinator: Dr. Georg Grote Module places: 10 Day and time: TBA Modern Europe, its societies and political constellations, cannot be properly understood without a solid historical understanding of the early part of the 20th century that shaped today’s world most significantly. This module provides a fundamental understanding of today’s organization of Western Europe and introduces interested students to the world of dictatorship of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s in Russia, Italy, Germany and Spain.


SLL 20200: European Civilisation II – Modern Europe

Module coordinator: Dr. Georg Grote Module places: 10 Day and time: TBA

This module investigates how Western Continental European societies have developed after 1945 and how they accommodated the emergence and establishment of the EU as a supernational institution. Through detailed analysis of France, Germany, Italy and Spain this module highlights the major cultural, political and societal corner stones in the development of the resepective societies. The individual analyses are complemented by an introduction into the history of the EU from 1945 to 2000. On successful completion of the module students will have acquired essential knowledge about the history of post-war Europe and the emergence and establishment of the European Union, its aims and objectives. They will also gain knowledge about the way individual countries have dealt with the Europeanisation of their societies and how Europe has shaped national issues. Assessment: Attendance and contribution 10%, document analysis 30%, 1,500-2,000 word end of term essay 60%

PHPS 20020: Social Anthropology, Northern Ireland & Basque Country

Module coordinator: Dr. Ronald G. Moore / Dr. Andreas Hess Module places: 10 Day and time: Wed 16.00-18.00 The aim of this course is to introduce students to social anthropology (sometimes also referred to as cultural anthropology or ethnology). The course has a theoretical and an applied dimension. In the theoretical part we will introduce students to some classical and modern examples of anthropological theory including classics such as Bronislav Malinowski and Claude Levi-Strauss and more modern approaches such as Clifford

Geertz and Jared Diamond. For the second, more applied part we will mainly focus on two cases and related filed studies, Northern Ireland and the Basque Country.

Assessment: Term essay 80%, two in class assessments 10% each


FR 10050: Early Modern France: Landscape & Timelines

Module Coordinator: Professor Jean-Michel Picard Module places: 10 Day and time: TBA Language Requirements: Passive knowledge of French This level 1 module has been designed for students interested in France, its people, its history and its landscape. The making of early modern France, as a large country sharing a common language, was a slow progress, which brought together different regions, with their own language, culture and beliefs. This multicultural past (Celtic, Roman, Germanic, Italian) is still present in the modern landscape and plays an important part in the modern perception of French identity. This is a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) module, which includes presentations in French by staff and Enquiry-Based Learning (EBL) activities in English by students. Inclusive assessment strategy is used, whereby students can choose their preferred method of assessment from a set list of options. Assessment: Participation in seminars 15%, Group report or poster 35%, 2,000 word essay or audio-visual presentation 50%


SEMESTER 2 CORE MODULES

SLL 40170: Minorities in Europe / Development of Minority Policies

Module coordinator: Dr. Georg Grote Module places: 20 Day and Time: TBA This module, part two of the analysis of Europe’s past and present, focuses on the role of minorities in Western Europe, minorities that can differ in ethnicity, language, culture and economic patterns from the majority culture they live with. We will analyse the role of minorities in the nationalist age and then examine the EU’s approach to the challenges minorities on its territory pose. Exemplary cases will be employed to demonstrate the EU’s strategies and their develoments since the 1950s. Students will acquire in-depth knowledge about the EU and the theoretical framework behind its policies for minority protection and representation. Students will realise that historical lessons have influenced modern policy making and that the issue of minority protection is equally complex and challenging, yet potentially very beneficial for the EU and its variation of cultures and languages. Assessment: 1 class presentation 30%, 4-5,000 word end of semester essay 70%

SLL 40110: Research Methods

Module Coordinator: Dr. Maria Rosario Hernandez Module places: 20 Day and Time: TBA This is the continuation of semester one module SLL 40100, similar in content description and assessment.


OPTIONAL MODULES

SLL 40150: Languages and Identities in Italy

Module Coordinator: Dr. Paolo Acquaviva Module places: core/option 6, in-programme 3, general elective 3 Day and Time: TBA Exclusions: prior or parallel participation in ITAL 30030: Italian Sociolinguistics, or ITAL 20100: Italy’s Language and Society This module describes the great linguistic diversity of contemporary Italy and analyses how it relates to the social context. It surveys the varieties of Italian in use, their interplay with the regional languages (so-called 'dialects') spoken alongside Italian, and the cultural factors that determine the distribution of these varieties in the Italian society of today. To this purpose, the course introduces some basic notions of sociolinguistics and applies them to the Italian context.

Assessment: In class presentation and written report 50%, end of term essay 50%

LING 40220: Minority Languages

Module Coordinator: Dr. Máire Ní Chiosáin Module places: 20 Day and Time: TBA This course examines a broad range of topics relating to minority languages including the assessment of language vitality, language documentation, language rights, language policies, minority languages in education, language attitudes, language shift, and language revitalisation. The broader context is that in which there is general acceptance that more than half of the 6,900 or so languages that exist are in danger of dying within a few generations. Thus the threat to linguistic diversity is also examined as are the parallels between language endangerment and global species endangerment. Students will explore the growing literature on a range of topics involving minority languages in a European context. They will also develop skills in locating and evaluating descriptions of minority languages internationally, along with exploring the complexity of multilingual situations and evaluating different approaches to determining the vitality or the level of endangerment of a minority language. Assessment: Class presentations 30%, term essay 70%


FS 40200: French Cinema in the 1930s

Module Coordinator: Dr. Douglas Smith / Dr. Laurent Marie Module places: 12 Day and time: TBA

French cinema of the 1930s offers a particularly rich and varied field of study in terms of form, content and context. At the beginning of the decade, French cinema was struggling with the transition to sound and reacting to the shock of Surrealist experimentation; towards the end of the 1930s, French film had developed a narrative style

equally adapted to the energetic optimism of Popular Front politics and the melancholy pessimism of Poetic Realism. The longstanding critical consensus that has given classic status to the films of Jean Vigo and Jean Renoir testifies to the aesthetic achievements of French film in the 1930s. But these films were often considered failures in their own time and belong to a very specific historical context. The arrival of talking cinema ‘nationalized’ French cinema through a new emphasis on linguistic specificity, but the 1930s also saw the arrival of émigré filmmakers and technicians from elsewhere in Europe whose important contribution effectively ‘internationalized’ or ‘trans-nationalised’ the medium. The tensions between nationalism and internationalism are part of the turbulent history of the period, also marked by economic depression, social conflict and the unmistakable signs of an imminent world war. These historical factors provided the films of the period not simply with a backdrop but with their essential raw materials. This module offers a panorama of the themes and techniques of French cinema in the 1930s, while also situating film production in a wider industrial, social and political context. The module will be conducted in English. Assessment: in class presentation 20%, end of semester essay 80%

HIS 41720: War Studies Academic Seminar

Module Coordinator: Dr. William Mulligan This is the continuation of semester one module HIS 41720, similar in content description and assessment.


HIS 40870: Gender & Medicine

Module Coordinator: Dr. Catherine Cox Module places: 5 Day and time: TBA This module explores the relationship between medicine, gender, health and illness in Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It will concentrate on the manner by which men and women, femininity and masculinity, were defined by medicine and by the medical profession. The module examines how responses to men’s and women’s health and welfare issues were influenced by local social, cultural and political contexts. In particular, it will concentrate on ideologies concerning male and female reproduction, domesticity and family life. It will consider how state and medical intervention in health and welfare issues became increasingly gendered. Assessment: Weekly journal 20%; attendance 10% and presentation and final essay (5,000 words) 70%

FR 40230: French for Academic Purposes

Module Coordinator: Dr. Phyllis Gaffney Module places: 10 Day and Time: TBA Prior Leaning: This module is a logical follow-on from FR40220 and students should already have attained Leaving Certificate (Honours) French or equivalent

This Level-Four module is aimed at non-specialist students of French who wish to develop their knowledge of the language in order to enhance their specialist studies in another field. It is a continuation of FR40220 and is aimed at consolidating and developing students’ reading competence in the language with a view towards being able to undertake more advanced study of scientific and literary works in French. The module seeks to develop independent learners who are prepared to invest a considerable amount of personal study time outside the classroom, while it also provides: a) a focused approach to learning French that requires learners to engage in autonomous learning strategies in general, and reading strategies in particular, in the context of specific subject areas; and b) a solid foundation in the grammar of the language. On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: read longer descriptive and narrative texts and extract from them more advanced information related to their academic fields; engage in a more in-depth way with a variety of written materials specific to their area of research; demonstrate a high level of awareness of the grammar of the language; manage their individual learning through the completion of specified learning activities.

Assessment: Class Test: 50%, Continuous Assessment: 50%


GER 40170: German for Academic Purposes

Module Coordinator: NN This module is a continuation of the first semester module GER 40160. It is similar in content and assessment. RECOMMENDED RELEVANT UNDERGRADUATE MODULE

SOC 30050: Political Sociology

Module Coordinator: Dr. Iarfhlaith Watson Module places: 15 Day and time: Tue 10.00-11.00, Thurs 10.00-11.00, one hour seminars in weeks 4-11 What is political sociology? Earlier sociological approaches to the political tended to concentrate on the exercise of power by and within the state. More recently, however, New Political Sociology has expanded this vision to wider society. In this context, even the question 'who are we?' becomes a political question. In this module the student will be introduced to debates about 'the political' at the level of civil society rather than the state, focusing on concepts such as civil society, public sphere, identity and democracy. The student is expected, at the end of the module, to be able to: critique and compare scholarship relating to sociological views of the political;

summarise and critique the main areas of interest to political sociologists; and apply the relevant theoretical concepts and tools.

The student will also gain experience of working from and within an inter- and cross-disciplinary perspective. Assessment: Two hour end of semester examination 100%


Staff Contributors School of History & Archives

Dr. Catherine Cox [email protected] Catherine Cox is a Lecturer at the School of History and Archives, UCD, and is also the UCD Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland. She has published articles and book chapters on medical practitioners and practice in the 19th century and on

institutionalisation in Ireland. She has also worked on the history of insanity and asylums in 19th century Ireland (Managing Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Manchester University Press, forthcoming, 2010)). With Prof. Hilary Marland, University of Warwick, she is currently working on a Wellcome Trust funded project that is investigating the relationship between Irish migrants, ethnicity and mental illness from c.1850 to 1921.

Dr. William Mulligan [email protected] William Mulligan completed his PhD in 2001. He worked in the Department of History and the Scottish Centre for War Studies at the University of Glasgow between 2004 and 2008. He is currently writing a

history of the origins of the First World War and has research interests in international and military history in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular reference to Germany and Britain. School of Sociology

Dr. Andreas Hess [email protected] Andreas Hess is a senior lecturer in Sociology. He holds a diploma in Social Science from Mercator University Duisburg and PhD in Political Science from Free University Berlin.

Dr. Ronnie G. Moore [email protected] Dr Ronnie Moore has joint honours degrees in social anthropology and sociology. He is a social anthropologist with an interested in identity and in health and is considered an expert in the field of conflict theory. He was a member of the commissioning panel for the ESRC (UK) New Security Challenges Programme 2003-2006 and has been guest speaker

at a number of colloquium and conferences, including, Reconciling Mobility and Social Inclusion – The Irish Presidency and the European Union’s Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs, 2004; and, the Colloquium on Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Ethnically Divided Societies’, Johannesburg, 10-13 July 1995; as well as the WHO and various international media agencies. Sample works include: Protestants and Protestant Habitus in Northern Ireland. Chapter in S O’Sullivan R.

Moore, K. Allen, and T Inglis (Advisory Eds) Contemporary Ireland: A Sociological Map. Dublin, UCD Press

Lambegs and Bodhrans: Religion, Identity and Health, in Identity and Health, (Edited by D. Kelleher and G Leavy, London and New York, Routledge.

'Formations of Culture: Nationalism and Conspiracy Ideology in Ulster Loyalism'.






Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 18 (6).

R. G. Moore and A. D. Sanders, (1996) The Limits of an Anthropology of Conflict? Loyalist and Republican Paramilitary Organisation in Northern Ireland. In, Wolfe A. and H. Yang (Eds), (1996) Anthropological Contributions to Conflict Resolution, University of Georgia Press, Athens and London. Pages 130-143.

Dr. Iarfhlaith Watson [email protected] Iarfhlaith has been a lecturer in the School since 1996. He has been President of the Sociological Association Ireland (as well as Honorary Membership Secretary and Vice-President), elected member of the Board of the International Visual Sociology Association and an Associate Editor of Visual Studies. He has also been Managing Editor of the Irish Journal

of Sociology. His research interests, publications and teaching have been in the area of sociology of the media, visual sociology, minority languages and the media, national identity, sociology of development, sociology of knowledge and the work of Jürgen Habermas. School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore & Linguistics Dr. Máire Ní Chiosáin [email protected]

PhD University of Massachusetts, Amherst Máire Ní Chiosáin lectures on Phonology and Phonetics as well as on Minority and Endangered Languages. Her research focuses predominantly on the phonology of Irish, most recently on the perception of syllables and of secondary consonant articulations. She has also published on language shift in early 20th century Ireland.

School of Languages & Literatures

Professor Jean-Michel Picard [email protected] Born 1952 in Marseille, Provence-Côte d'Azur, France. Undergraduate degree (Licence-ès-Lettres) from Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence. Postgraduate degrees: Maîtrise es-Lettres (Université de Provence); MPhil in Medieval Studies (UCD, National University of Ireland,

Dublin) ; Doctorat-ès-Lettres (Université de Paris-Sorbonne — Paris IV). Irish Government Scholar in 1976-77, UCD staff since 1978 (Assistant Lecturer in French 1978-83, College Lecturer 1983-93, Statutory Lecturer 1993-2003, Associate Professor since 2003); member of the Board of Medieval Studies (1983-2006); Associate Dean of Arts for Postgraduate Studies (1991-1994); Head of the French Department (2001-2004); Head of the School of Languages and Literature (2007-present).

Dr. Paolo Acquaviva [email protected] Paolo Acquaviva is a graduate of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he obtained his doctorate in 1993. He worked at UCD from 1990 to 1996, and then again since 1999, after 3 years at the University of Venice. His research has developed from generative syntax to theoretical

morphology, especially in its relation with semantics and theories of the lexicon. The two main areas of interest have been negation (in syntax) and plurality (in morphology and semantics), always in a cross-linguistic perspective but with an empirical focus on Italian and Irish. He won an IRCHSS Senior Fellowship for 2004-5, which enabled him to spend two months to work with Mark Aronoff at the University






of New York (SUNY). That research project resulted in the monograph Lexical Plurals, Oxford University Press, 2008. He obtained an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for 2007-8, which launched a project on the conceptual and linguistic bases of nominality, addressing the question of what can be a possible noun, and more generally a possible lexical entry, in natural language.

Dr. Douglas Smith [email protected] Academic Degrees/Diplomas: BA (1st Hons) French and German (Oxon): 1988; PGCE (QUB): 1989; DPhil (Oxon): 1992. Positions Held: Laming Junior Fellow, The Queen's College, Oxford, 1992-93; Lecturer in French Studies, University of Warwick, 1993-1997; College Lecturer in French,

UCD, 1997-2004; Senior Lecturer in French, UCD; 2005-present, Head of French Studies.

Dr. Laurent Marie [email protected] Laurent Marie teaches language, translation and cinema in the French and Francophone Studies section in UCD School of Languages and Literatures. Publications include a book on the relationship between the French Communist Party (PCF) and French Cinema since the Liberation and a number of articles on French cinema (covering 1950’s French

cinema, New Wave, Jacques Tati, French anti-globalisation documentaries, popular cinema and heritage cinema amongst others). He is currently working on the relationship between Jean Renoir and the PCF. Academic Degrees/Diplomas: BA (1989), MA (1993), PhD (2000)Positions Held: Lecteur, UCD (1989-1992) Assistant

Lecturer in French Studies, UCD (1992-1997) College Lecturer in French, UCD, 1997-present.

Dr. Maria Rosario Hernandez [email protected] Charo Hernandez is a lecturer in the School of Languages and Literatures. Her primary degree was in Education and she also holds a BA and MA in Hispanic Studies. She has just completed a PhD in Education focusing on an analysis of the practices adopted in undergraduate Hispanic Studies programmes to assess students'

learning. She has presented her work at international conferences, and published several articles on the impact that alternative assessment practices have on students' learning. Research interests include second language teaching and learning, assessment of student learning, teaching methodologies, the professional development of teachers and ICT in teaching. She has recently been awarded a Fellowship in Teaching and Academic Development as part of a new initiative at UCD to develop more innovative teaching and learning practices and to enhance student learning.

Dr. Phyllis Gaffney [email protected] UCD graduate in French and History (1972). Phyllis Gaffney took a master's in medieval history at the University of Strasbourg (1973) and a doctorate in Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge (1982). She lectured in French at Carysfort College of Education (1976-88), taught Old French on a part-time basis at TCD

(1981-84), moved to UCD French Department in 1988 and joined UCD School of Languages and Literatures in 2005. She was Head of French & Francophone Studies from 2004-2007.






Dr. Georg Grote [email protected] Georg Grote is College Lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures and the Head of German Studies. He graduated from the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität in Münster, Germany in 1993 and completed his

Ph.D. thesis with the same institution in 1997. Since 1998 he has been working in the School's German Section. As a trained historian, his teaching comprises Western European history of the early modern and modern periods. His research areas include Western European History with special focus on historical and contemporary collective organisation of peoples through nationalisms and regionalisms. He is the author of two monographs on the Irish issue: Torn Between Politics and Culture: The Gaelic League 1893-1993 (Waxmann, Münster 1994) & Anglo-Irish Theatre and the Formation of a Nationalist Political Culture between 1890-1930 (Mellen, Lampeter 2003) and has co-edited: German Memory Contests. The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (with Anne Fuchs, Mary Cosgrove, Camden House, New York 2006). He has published several articles on South Tyrolean history and recently completed a monograph on the transformation of the German South Tyroleans’ collective identity in the 20th century ("I bin a Südtiroler". Kollektive Identität zwischen Nation und Region im 20. Jahrhundert, Athesia, Bozen 2009).


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