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UCC Humanities Platform

The UCC Humanities Platform is supporting three
ongoing UCC projects with Text, Contexts, Cultures studentships and with conference
support monies. These projects are:

The Centre for Neo-Latin Studies. Founded by Keith Sidwell, John Barry and Hiram Morgan and managed by Jason Harris, this inter-disciplinary project, based in the department of Classics, has as its goal the study of Latin literature and scholarship from c.1400 to c.1750. Its current research is Irish Neo-Latin writing and the intellectual culture within which it was produced.

The Locus Project. Headed by Professor Pádraig Ó Riain and Dr Kevin Murray, he aim of this project based in Department of Medieval Irish is to produce a new Historical Dictionary of Irish placenames and tribal names to replace Fr Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum.

Making Books, Shaping ReadersDirected by Graham Allen,Siobhán Collins, Carrie Griffin, Mary O' Connell, this English Department research unit is focused on the materiality of the text, and how the physical appearance of the text shapes and informs both authors and readers. The UCC Humanities Platform has backed MBSR’s second international conference ‘Shaping Readers: Selection and Editing’, held at UCC, 2-4 April 2008.

 

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