Remises de prix et bourse ADEFFI

L’AMOPA Irlande a le privilège et le plaisir de collaborer avec l’ADEFFI (L’Association des Etudes Françaises et Francophones d’Irlande) notammant par l’attribution de la Bourse Doctorale AMOPA Irlande. Ci-dessous, vous trouverez les témoignages d’un certain nombre de Lauréats de la Bourse Doctorale AMOPA.
L’AMOPA Irlande a aussi le plaisir de remettre un certain nombre de prix.

2021

Bourse ADEFFI

HELEN MCKELVEY

Voici le témoignage de Ms Helen McKelvey (Queen’s University Belfast), Lauréate de la Bourse Doctorale AMOPA 2021 et de son directeur de thèse, le Dr Steven Wilson.

My doctoral project, ‘Religious Imagery in Nineteenth-Century French Slavery Narratives’, uses a rich critical framework of historiography, colonial studies, critical race theory, gender studies, theology and literary analysis to examine the multifaceted ways in which tropes and narratives of religion are used to represent slavery in nineteenth-century French literature. Focussing on writing produced predominantly in the 1820s and 1830s, my analysis of a multi-generic corpus (spanning prose, poetry, short stories, print media and archival writings) reveals the extent to which religion played a key and understudied role in the nineteenth-century French imagination of slavery. I also assert that the nineteenth century’s tendency to represent slavery through the lens of religion has unmistakable echoes in writing about the historic slave trade in the twenty-first century. The thesis therefore fills an important lacuna in the field and seeks to redress the marginalisation of the intersection of religion and literature in Francophone post/colonial studies more generally. By reassessing the role of religion in writing about slavery and the slave trade, we expand our understanding of, and challenge our (mis)conceptions about, historical slavery, its perpetrators, victims, and opponents.

An important aspect of my doctoral project has been the comparison of literary sources with archival sources. The ADEFFI Bourse Doctorale, sponsored by AMOPA, will allow me to undertake a period of archival research in Paris and to examine further the presence of black women within French convents in the nineteenth century. Accessing these archives will allow a more thorough investigation of the experiences of black women within the cloisters, as well as considering, for the first time, those who helped these black women find freedom, and their fellow nuns’ perceptions of them. Using archives comparatively to underscore the development of and inspiration for fictional texts, I will develop my analysis of how this element of religious discourse defines and shapes writing about slavery in the nineteenth century. This will be crucial to developing my research beyond the thesis into publication.

MS MCKELVEY’S SUPERVISOR, DR STEVEN WILSON:

Helen’s work on representations of religion in slavery writing of the early nineteenth century is innovative and timely. As part of her research, Helen has uncovered an exciting variety of texts – including novels, short stories, poems, letters, archival material and obituaries – and read them through an enabling methodological framework that combines close readings, historiography, theology and critical race theory. Her work demonstrates, for the first time, the role played by religion (considered capaciously) in framing French understandings of, and responses to, the difficult and sensitive topics of slavery, race and empire. Helen’s work also sheds important new light on the twenty-first-century legacy of representations of slavery that draw on religion, at a time when the novel on historical slavery, and, tragically, the phenomenon of slavery itself, form part of the socio-cultural landscape. It is a genuine pleasure, and privilege, to supervise, along with my colleague Dr Maeve McCusker, the work of such a committed and engaged young scholar.

2020

Bourse ADEFFI

Marc Olivier-Loiseau received the ADEFFI Bourse doctorale. His doctoral thesis examines the morphosyntax of a subclass of pronouns (clitics) in Old French. Marc is interested in their position with regards to infinitives, a context that remains under-documented. We observe a series of differences with other Romance languages: for instance, Spanish and Italian have the order infinitive-clitic, whereas Modern French shows clitic-infinitive. Assuming that clitics appeared during the common Proto-Romance stage, Marc seeks to situate in time when French branched off from the Spanish/Italian ordering. More generally, he looks into how clitic placement evolved in French from the earliest records we have. Marc Olivier-Loiseau, Ulster University PhD Researcher in Linguistics Supervision: Dr Christina Sevdali and Prof Raffaella Folli.

2019

Remise des prix de notre concours annuel et de la Bourse doctorale de l'ADEFFI

Mardi 28 mai 2019 – Cérémonie de remise des prix de notre concours annuel et de la Bourse doctorale de l’ADEFFI dans les jardins de la Résidence de France à Dublin. Les prix suivants ont été décernés :

Premier prix du concours AMOPA Irlande/Dis-Moi Dix Mots 2019 : les classes 102 et 103 de la Scoil Mhuire Strokestown, Co. Roscommon (enseignante de français : Mme Ann BRUDELL)

Deuxième prix du concours AMOPA Irlande/Dis-Moi Dix Mots 2019 : la classe 101 de la Scoil Mhuire Strokestown, Co. Roscommon (enseignante de français : Mme Ann BRUDELL).

Troisième prix du concours AMOPA Irlande/Dis-Moi Dix Mots 2019 : la classe de Transition Year de Loreto College Cavan, Co. Cavan (enseignante de français : Mme Finola McEVOY).

Bourse doctorale de l’ADEFFI 2019 (sponsorisée par l’AMOPA Irlande) : Mme Emma DUNNE, doctorante à University College Dublin (directrice de thèse : Mme Siofra PIERSE).

Emma Dunne, PhD Candidate in French, UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar. Emma was the 2019 recipient of the ADEFFI bourse doctorale. Here is what she wrote : « … the bursary greatly contributed to my research progress as it permitted me to make a research trip to the French National Library, the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand (BNF). My research benefited greatly from the many literary riches on offer in the BNF and allowed me to further advance my research on Isabelle de Charrière, the eighteenth-century Dutch-Swiss author. My thesis considers the key eighteenth-century theme of happiness in Isabelle de Charrière’s complete works, examining her idiosyncratic vision of, and approach to, happiness, through analysis of her novels, plays, and personal correspondence. Specifically, my thesis addresses the pursuit of happiness in Charrière’s writings, focusing on obstacles encountered in its pursuit, such as marriage, societal conventions, and the French Revolution and its related exile, while also addressing the many opportunities for happiness as elucidated in her works, notably through friendship, writing, and musical endeavours. While my thesis reveals Charrière’s perspectives on happiness, it also serves to situate Charrière and her ideas on happiness within the wider debates on happiness in the eighteenth-century French narrative. »

2018

Mardi 15 mai 2018
Cérémonie de remise des prix de notre concours annuel et de la Bourse doctorale de l’ADEFFI à la Résidence de France. Les prix suivants ont été décernés :

Premier prix du concours AMOPA Irlande 2018 « Make our planet great again » : Alex McCABE, lycéen à Sancta Maria College, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo (enseignate de français : Mme Keira KENNELLY).

Deuxième prix du concours AMOPA Irlande 2018 : Eimear MOORE, Edmond NOONAN et Celenia SHERIN-WHITE, lycéens à John the Baptist Community School, Hospital, Co. Limerick (enseignante de français : Mme Alexandra CRANSAC).

Troisième prix du concours AMOPA Irlande 2018 : Aoibhe KELLY, lycéenne à Scoil Mhuire Strokestown, Co. Roscommon (enseignante de français : Mme Ann BRUDELL).

Bourse doctorale de l’ADEFFI 2018 (sponsorisée par l’AMOPA Irlande) : Mme Rachael STOCKDALE, doctorante à Queen’s University Belfast (directeurs de thèse : M. Steven WILSON et Mme Claire MORAN).

2017

Mercredi 17 mai 2017
Cérémonie de remise de prix lors d’un déjeuner à la Résidence de France gracieusement offert par M. Jean-Pierre THEBAULT, ambassadeur de France en Irlande. Remise du premier prix de notre concours « AMOPA Irlande – CLAUDEL 2017 » à Eimear HEARNE, élève au lycée St Angela de Waterford.

Remise du premier prix de notre concours « AMOPA Irlande – CLAUDEL 2017 » à Eimear HEARNE, élève au lycée St Angela de Waterford.

Remise de la Bourse doctorale de l’ADEFFI (Association des Etudes Françaises et Francophones d’Irlande), sponsorisée cette année par l’AMOPA Irlande, à M. James ILLINGWORTH, doctorant à Queen’s University Belfast.

Samedi 8 avril 2017
Le nom du gagnant de la Bourse doctorale 2017 de l’ADEFFI (Association des Etudes Françaises et Francophones d’Irlande) a été révélé lors de la journée des doctorants de l’ADEFFI qui s’est tenue à Trinity College Dublin. Le gagnant est M. James ILLINGWORTH, doctorant à Queen’s University Belfast. La bourse doctorale 2017 de l’ADEFFI, d’un montant de 500€, est entièrement sponsorisée par l’AMOPA Irlande grâce à la générosité de ses membres. Cette bourse est attribuée chaque année à un(e) doctorant(e) travaillant dans le domaine des Etudes françaises et inscrit(e) dans une université de l’île d’Irlande. Pour plus d’informations sur l’ADEFFI et la Bourse doctorale, cliquez ici.