Episode 2 : A place of vitality and history
_A specialist in book history, Malcolm Walsby lectures at Enssib / University of Lyon and is Director of the Gabriel Naudé Research Centre. A former fellow of the Old Library at the CCI, he curated the 2022 heritage exhibition ‘Decrypting the secrets of rare books’.
_Sabine Wespieser founded her eponymous publishing house in 2002, the same year as the CCI’s inauguration. From the beginning, she published Irish author Nuala O’Faolain in French translation, branching out rapidly to include the works of Edna O’Brien, Claire Keegan, Jan Carson or John McGahern. Sabine has worked with the CCI for many years around the launching of her new Irish publications.
_Nathalie Sebbane lectures at La Sorbonne Nouvelle. A specialist in Irish studies, her research centres on State-Church relations, the history of women and secularisation as well as questions related to memory and history. Nathalie ensures that her students make the most of what the CCI has to offer.