For the final event in our inaugural research seminar programme, the Political Technologies cluster is delighted to welcome Professor Nidesh Lawtoo (Leiden) to UCC. Professor Lawtoo will speak at 4pm on Friday 27th March, in The Shtepps and online. This is the Teams link to join online.

All are very welcome to join us for any of the programme of talks and events organized by the Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past research cluster.

Debbie Ging, Professor of Digital Media and Gender in the School of Communications at Dublin City University and Director of the DCU Institute for Research on Genders and Sexualities, will be joining us in person at UCC on Thursday March 5 in the Shtepps at 4.15PM. All are welcome. Professor Ging's talk, "NoFappers, Tradwives, and Fitfluencers: the new ideological entrepreneurs of the manosphere", will zoom in on the manosphere; a diverse ecosystem of online anti-feminist and male supremacist groups that has been attracting scholarly attention for well over 10 years, but has only recently entered public debates. More recently, a constellation of economic, technological and socio-cultural factors has significantly transformed the size, reach and communicative politics of this online ecosystem, resulting in four key developments which distinguish it from the earlier manosphere; namely migrations to new platforms, mainstreaming and monetization, ideological and ethnic diversification, and overlap with other extreme ideologies, most of which are driven by recommender algorithms. 

In addition to the keynote on the poster, the event will also feature a keynote by Dr Kristin Dowell (Florida State University) entitled: “Beacons of Light: The Role of Digital Media in Native American Language Reclamation”.

The Translation and Creative Practice cluster announces its programme of events for the first half of 2026

The Rethinking Spatial Humanities research cluster have launched the schedule for seminar series 2025-2026.

Please join us. 

Dr Laura Kennedy organised and introduced '40 Years On: The Legacies of Frances Molloy’s No Mate for the Magpie’, Saturday 22 November 2025 at the Museum of Free Derry, with the support of the Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past research cluster. The event was a brilliant success – we had a full house comprised of academics, students (from undergraduate to PhD level), a local book club, acclaimed booksellers, writers, editors, and publishers based in the North, and family members of Frances Molloy. The hope is that this event will help get the novel republished (it is currently out of print), as well as leading to an academic special issue. 

We are delighted to welcome Professor Didier Bigo to UCC. Professor Bigo is one of the most significant thinkers in Critical Security Studies and a founder of the 'Paris School' of the discipline. He will be presenting a recent article, which draws and reflects on Michel Foucault's legacy. Please join us at 4pm (Irish time and UK time) on Tuesday 27th January 2026 in the Council Chamber at UCC, or online. This seminar is organised in conjunction with the Department of French.

• This is a link to the article which will be presented and discussed in this seminar (click PDF box to read or download).
• This is a Teams link to join the seminar. 

The Political Technologies cluster launched its inaugural research seminar series this year with this full programme of events. Please join us in person or online!