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FUTURE HUMANITIES Securing Our Future Through Research Excellence

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Our Research Groups

The Future Humanities Institute comprises the Radical Humanities Laboratory, and a range of research groupings that synergise within and across disciplines.

Radical Humanities Laboratory

Radical Humanities Laboratory

Digital Cultures, New Media & Cultural Analytics

Digital Cultures, New Media & Cultural Analytics

Centre for Arts Research and Practice

Centre for Arts Research and Practice

Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures

Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures

Eco-Humanities Research Group

Eco-Humanities Research Group

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MIGMOBS is a huge and ambitious project on the root of global inequalities: on the neo-colonial relations implied in a world of selective borders which dictate who can be mobile and who is excluded.

Professor Adrian Favell, PI, MIGMOBS

MIGMOBS - The Orders and Borders of Global Inequality: Migration and Mobilities in Late Capitalism

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The CASCADE team is excited to be partnering with some of the leading experts in text and cultural analytics and machine learning from across the UK and Europe.

Dr James O’Sullivan, PI, CASCADE

Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments. An MSCA Doctoral Network.

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Working with members of villages in China’s multi-ethnic Southwest, ECura seeks out ways to empower communities to adopt digital technologies to become curators of their traditional music and dance.

Dr. Lijuan Qian, PI, ECura Project

Everyone’s a Curator:
Digitally Empowering Ethnic Minority
Music Sustainability in China

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Future Humanities seed funds interdisciplinary experiments that open new doors to collaboration within and outside the arts and humanities. This exciting work sets the stage for new research pathways.

Dr Yvon Bonenfant

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News

Dr Kate Falconer, Dr Jesse Peterson and Dr Sarah Bezan introduce Blue Death Studies
27 Jun 2025

Introducing Blue Death Studies - An academic and artistic workshop

On May 29th 2025, a symposium was held at UCC to introduce and workshop a new theoretical intervention: Blue Death Studies.
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20 Jun 2025

Practice-inclusive research in the arts takes centre stage

Led by Professor Yvon Bonenfant, UCC artist and director of the Future Humanities Institute, The Opposite of Queer Trauma theatre performance performed two sold out shows last weekend (June 14/15) as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival.
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13 Jun 2025

Stephen Roddy to debut new musical work at AM.ICAD 2025

Dr Stephen Roddy to debut a new musical work employing generative music and sonification technqiues entitled 'Bacteriophage in Granular Waves' for AM.ICAD 2025 at Coimbra, Portugal.
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06 Jun 2025

Dr Stephen Roddy's Musical Works Performed for Alternating Current 2025

Dr Stephen Roddy of the Department of Digital Humanities and the Radical Humanities Laboratory had several musical pieces from his Signal to Noise Loops and Human Cost series' featured in the radio program for the 2025 Edition of Dublin Digital Radio's Alternating Current Festival
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