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.
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Zanele Muholi: queer South African visual activist cements their global influence
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UCC researchers selected as members of the Young Academy of Ireland
13 Mar 2026
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.
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British Academy Grant Awarded to Sarah Bezan - New Directions in Necro-Ecologies
06 Mar 2026
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).
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Listening to Viruses: UCC Researchers Publish Interdisciplinary work at the Intersection of Music and Medicine.
06 Feb 2026
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)
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Visualising populist identities: populist performances on screen(s)
30 Jan 2026
On Dec 2-3 an online symposium organised by Dr Jessica Wax Edwards, the Centre for Mexican Studies, University College Cork (Ireland) and the Centre Interlangues Texte, Image, Langage, Université Bourgogne Europe (France) in collaboration with The Populism Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association too place. Featuring keynote speakers: Benjamin Moffitt (Monash University, Australia) The Visual Politics of Populism: Reflections on the (Accidental) Creation of a Subfield María Esperanza Casullo (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina) Baroque Bodies: Appearance and Performance in Latin American Populism.
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ERC Project to investigate the rise of commercial cattle farming
11 Dec 2025
Congratulations to Dr Eugene Costello an archaeologist and historian in UCC’s School of History and Radical Humanities Laboratory who has been awarded €2m European Research Council Consolidator Grant to explore commercial cattle farming.
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Irish Keywords New Literary History Special Issue
10 Dec 2025
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.
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Professor Luigina Ciolfi Awarded Visiting Scholarship at the University of Copenhagen
05 Dec 2025
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.
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Launch of Afterimages of Apartheid by Kylie Thomas
14 Nov 2025
The book launch of Afterimages of Apartheid: Photography and Resistance by Kylie Thomas was held on 14 November 2025 at University College Cork
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The Knitting Map opens in Cork City
04 Nov 2025
Art, climate science and community unite in an exhibition exploring our changing climate. Mapping Climate Change: The Knitting Map, created by 2,000 Cork women, and The Tempestry Project from the USA respond to the climate crisis at a critical time of uncertainty.
Presented by University College Cork (UCC), Mapping Climate Change opened at 1 Horgan’s Quay on 4 November and will run until 6 December 2025. Admission is free.
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