The 2026 Collective Social Futures Seminar Series got underway on 13 January with a presentation from Professor James Kapaló, Study of Religions Department, School of Society, Politics and Ethics.

On 10 December a full-day interactive seminar was held with Jacqui Dillon, a trainer with both personal and professional experience, awareness, and skills in the understanding of Hearing Voices.

Thank you to everyone who made the UCC Futures – Collective Social Futures third annual Festival of Social Science such a resounding success. Multiple events were held on campus over several days celebrating the social sciences. 

The Department of German and CASiLaC are delighted to host a series of lectures with Peter Waterhouse from 19-20 November.

We have a wonderful line-up of contributors and events taking place over the week Monday 24 November - Friday 28 November.

On 6 November a half-day symposium on the themes of homemaking, bordering and belonging was hosted by Collective Social Futures in collaboration with the ISS21 Migration and Integration Cluster and the Department of Sociology & Criminology.

This interdisciplinary symposium brought together scholars of politics, psychology and social sciences to discuss some of the new difficulties that democracies face, and to consider some possible ways forward.

This half-day event explored how we know and interpret difficult, recent pasts in the North of Ireland, focusing on two main themes: institutional abuse; and gendered experiences and sexual violence.