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Events Schedule

Events Winter/Spring 2025 - 2026

Date Talk Title About the talk Topic Location / Room More Info
23 Nov 2025 Light Laboratory presents Astronomy & Art Welcome to this special Science Week workshop, inspired by the theme Then, Today, Tomorrow where we invite you to explore the relationship between astronomy, architecture, and geometric design. The Hub, Crawford Observatory & the Dr Dora Allman room, the HUB /en/future-humanities/eventsschedule/light-laboratory-presents-astronomy--art-.html
5 Dec 2025 Climate Science and Arts Practice: Arts & Sustainability in Cork City Join us for this day of discussion / arts practice at Horgan’s Quay beside the Mapping Climate Change exhibition. Horgan’s Quay 1, Cork City / T23 AK13 /en/future-humanities/eventsschedule/climate-science-and-arts-practice-arts--sustainability-in-cork-city.html
27 Nov 2025 Last Resort? US Diplomacy and the Gulf War 1991 After Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait (August 1990) an international coalition was assembled by the United States, and twelve UN Security Council Resolutions were put in place. Seminar room in Tyrconnell, UCC /en/future-humanities/eventsschedule/last-resort-us-diplomacy-and-the-gulf-war-1991.html
28 Nov 2025 Living Well With the Dead Research Collective Professor Luigina Ciolfi (Applied Psychology, UCC) and Dr Valeria Borsotti (Public Health, University of Copenhagen) will discuss their work on 'Digitising the Dead - Understanding 'Data Hauntings' to Support Equitable Data Work with Human Remains'. Professor Ciara Breathnach (History, UCC) will be speaking on 'Newspapers, Death and Daily Life in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland'. The Hub, Shtepps /en/future-humanities/eventsschedule/digitising-the-dead---understanding-data-hauntings-to-support-equitable-data-work-with-human-remains.html
28 Nov 2025 The Afterlife of Catastrophe by Veera Ojala Veera Ojala will be visiting the Department of Digital Humanities this November and giving a talk on her research at the Radical Humanities Laboratory. Wandesford Quay Research Facility /en/future-humanities/eventsschedule/the-afterlife-of-catastrophe-by-veera-ojala.html
18 Feb 2026 The Uses of Romanticism Conference February 18 Reading by Maureen McLane (New York University), chaired by Liz Quirke (UCC Creative  Writing) The Hub, The Dr Dora Allman room /en/future-humanities/eventsschedule/the-uses-of-romanticism-conference-.html
19 Feb 2026 The Uses of Romanticism February 19 As a convenient way to organise knowledge — to describe a historical period, to address questions of cultural style, to open up comparative debates — romanticism remains a useful term. But what does it mean to think about romanticism as useful? What kinds of knowledge, in which languages and from what places, does the term collect and organise? The Hub, The Dr Dora Allman room and HUB Atrium /en/future-humanities/eventsschedule/the-uses-of-romanticism-conference.html
19 Feb 2026 Irish Romanticism: a Literary History book launch Prof Claire Connolly Irish Romanticism: a Literary History book launch Prof Claire Connolly The Hub, HUB Atrium /en/future-humanities/eventsschedule/book-launch-claire-connolly.html
27 Jan 2026 The Future Perfect of Suspicion and Prediction as a Dispositive of Security Today? The Legacy of Foucault Professor Bigo will present a 2024 article in the first half hour, followed by discussion. The article can be accessed here https://www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/researchclustersandcentres/politicaltechnologies/ Main Quad - North Wing, Council Room /en/future-humanities/eventsschedule/the-future-perfect-of-suspicion-and-prediction-as-a-dispositive-of-security-today-the-legacy-of-foucault.html

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