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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

The arts and humanities perform a key leadership role within the research ecology at UCC. I hope you enjoy exploring this small sampling of this work and achievements from 2024-2025.

Prof Yvon Bonenfant

Director Future Humanities Institute

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

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.

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

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.

Prof Yvon Bonenfant

News

Zanele Muholi: queer South African visual activist cements their global influence

Kylie Thomas, researcher at the Radical Humanities Laboratory and School of History and Art History has published an article in the Conversation. The article focuses on the work of Zanele Muholi, who was awarded the world's largest prize for photography, the Hasselblad Award, in 2026. South African visual activist Zanele Muholi’s celebrated work centres the lives and experiences of Black lesbians and trans people. For more than two decades Muholi has used photography to courageously open space for queer representation within and outside of art galleries in South Africa and across the world.

Photo (L-R): Dr Yairen Jerez Columbié, Professor Marguerite Nyhan and Dr Sarah Bezan. Photo credit: Damien Eagers.

UCC researchers selected as members of the Young Academy of Ireland

Congratulations to Dr Yairen Jerez Columbié and Dr Sarah Bezan of the College of Arts Celtic Studies and Social Sciences who have been elected to the Young Academy of Ireland.

British Academy Grant Awarded to Sarah Bezan - New Directions in Necro-Ecologies

This project explores new directions in necro-ecologies, a field that interprets death as a set of active, vital, agential, and transformative inter-species interactions (Bezan 2015).

Listening to Viruses: UCC Researchers Publish Interdisciplinary work at the Intersection of Music and Medicine.

Dr Stephen Roddy, and Colleagues at the Molecular Virology Diagnostic and Research Laboratory, APC Microbiome and the School of Medicine publish paper on the onification of virology data in Leonardo (MIT Press)

Future Humanities Institute

Institiúid na nDaonnachtaí Feasta

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

futurehumanities@ucc.ie

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