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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.

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.

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))

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.

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