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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

Spotlight On

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

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.

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

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

News

The Emplantation of Catholicism in Pre-Modern Korea reviewed by Religious Studies Review

Congratulations to Dr Kevin Cawley, Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies and Director of the Irish Institute of Korean Studies, on the publication of an outstanding review of his latest book: The Emplantation of Catholicism in Pre-Modern Korea - Texts, Teachings and Gender Relations by the journal Religious Studies Review.

New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Project at the School of History and the Radical Humanities Laboratory

Welcome to Dr Aisling Shalvey who has joined the School of History as a MSCA fellow under the mentorship of Dr Kylie Thomas for the project UCARE1945 (Unaccompanied Children’s Access to Healthcare (1945-1950))

Boole Library Exhibition - Dr Jemima Hodgkinson

Launched on April 14 2025 and curated by Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Jemima Hodgkinson, this exhibition which runs until the end of July 2025 shows how key events in the Irish Revolution were reported on in the African American press, 1919-23.

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

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.

Future Humanities Institute

Institiúid na nDaonnachtaí Feasta

O'Rahilly Building (ORB) 2.20, University College Cork,

futurehumanities@ucc.ie

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