News

Prof Claire Connolly (UCC School of English and Digital Humanities) and her co-editor Prof James Chandler (University of Chicago) are pleased to announce the publication Special Issue 56.2 of the journal New Literary History, on the topic of Irish Keywords.

Congratulations to Luigina Ciolfi who will be Visiting Professor in the SCIENCE Faculty at the University of Copenhagen, jointly hosted by DIKU (the Department of Computer Science) and SNM (the Natural History Museum Denmark) during March 2026.

The book launch of Afterimages of Apartheid: Photography and Resistance by Kylie Thomas was held on 14 November 2025 at University College Cork

We are delighted to launch a sample of featured research and activities across the Future Humanities Institute in the academic year 2024 - 2025. The arts and humanities perform a key leadership role within the research ecology at UCC. We have long been at the forefront of interdisciplinary and innovative research. 

On Sunday October 19th, Prof Des Fitzgerald, Radical Humanities Lab, gave a keynote presentation to Utopian Hours: The International Festival of City-Making in Turin

Visit of Yoshitaka Mōri and Tomoko Shimizu (Tokyo University of the Arts) to Cork and UCC

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.

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.

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. 

Dr Stephen Roddy of the Radical Humanities Laboratory and the Department of Digital Humanities, University College Cork and his frequent collaborator Dr. Brian Bridges of Ulster University publish their work on deriving an ethically grounded framework from the field of Cybernetics in the volume Artificial Media: Emerging Trends in Narratives, Education and Creative Practice in Springer’s series on Cultural Computing.