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03 Oct 2025
Tokyo Art School Professors visit UCC
Visit of Yoshitaka Mōri and Tomoko Shimizu (Tokyo University of the Arts) to Cork and UCC
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01 Oct 2025
Two year British Academy funded project on Cryoconservation and Frozen Biobanking concludes
Animals on Ice: Extinction in an Age of Cryoconservation (PI: Dr. Sarah Bezan) is a 2 year interdisciplinary project that explores how meanings of extinction are shifting in light of recent technological developments in cryoconservation. Through art-science exploration, the collaborators Sarah Bezan, Adam Searle (University of Nottingham), Robert McKay (University of Sheffield), Peter Sands (University of York), and Lucy Mercer (University of Exeter) worked together to examine cultural and textual representations of thawing/freezing in relation to biodiversity loss.
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19 Sep 2025
Dealing with Difficult Pasts
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.
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12 Sep 2025
(Un)Silencing: A Symposium on Sonic Practice & Research
Friday September 5, 2025 saw a community of scholars and artists working in and with sound gather in UCC for (Un)Silencing: A Symposium on Sonic Practice & Research.
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