ECura

Everyone is a Curator: Digitally Empowering Ethnic Minority Music Sustainability in China

ECura innovatively designs a new research framework for applied ethnomusicology (and related areas) that capitalizes on newly emergent possibilities for sustaining intangible culture arising from the rising participation of ethnic minority members in digital social media platforms. It addresses a central question: How can we empower ethnic minority groups to become the main actors in sustaining their indigenous cultural heritage via their wide participation in mobile digital media platforms? 

Find out more at: https://ecura.ie/description-of-the-action/

MIGMOBS

The European Research Council funded MIGMOBS project investigates how and why global inequalities are reproduced through the shifting classification of mobile populations. Building a database with studies across 22 sending and receiving countries, it charts how nations have preserved power through the era of neoliberalism by selectively opening and closing channels of mobility. 

Find out more at: https://www.ucc.ie/en/migmobs/ 

HIDE

HIDE offers the first concentrated study of the process of transitional justice based on an innovative, in-depth reconsideration of recently declassified Soviet-era political police archives in Ukraine focusing on the Soviet repression of religious minorities. HIDE focuses on sensitive issues in Cold war Europe: state control, the role of secret police surveillance and collaboration in shaping cultures of dissent, marginalization of minority communities and creative responses to power and domination of non-conformist groups. 

Find out more at: History Declassified | University College Cork

CEAB

Critical Epistemologies Across Borders

The aim of this study is to ensure that women are included in political discussions of changing relationships on the island of Ireland. This project uses innovative conflict mediation methods to facilitate women’s discussions on transitions in North-South relationships.

Find out more at: Critical Epistemologies Across Borders : Ulster University | Women Constitutional Futures

NorseMap

Mapping the Reception and Legacy of the Vikings in Europe

This ERC-funded project sets out to map the complex history of the Vikings across Europe and investigate the impact of the Vikings on politics, culture and identity. It will investigate how the modern understanding of the Vikings has developed over a thousand years and been reimagined in increasingly diverse ways.

Find out more https://www.ucc.ie/en/norsemap/ 

LINC

Lines of Communication: Telegraphy, Literature, and Security in Ireland and the British Empire, 1794–1850

Taking an interdisciplinary approach that combines literary studies, cultural and social history, and history of science and technology, LINC offers new perspectives on pre-electrical telegraphic cultures. Led by Dr Joanna Wharton, LINC explores the development of infrastructures of secret intelligence in Ireland and across the British Empire, emphasising the optical telegraph’s connection to evolving concepts of state security and insecurity. 

Find out more here

Assessing the Contemporary Art Novel in Spanish and Portuguese: Cultural Labour, Personal Identification and the Materialisation of Alternative Art Worlds (ARTFICTIONS) is an Irish Research Council (IRC) Laureate Consolidator project seeking to understand the ways in which we make sense of ourselves and our futures by making sense of artistic creativity.

Artfictions will run from September 2023 until September 2027 and will be developed by a group of five researchers.

For further information please see the ARTFICTIONS project website https://www.ucc.ie/en/artfictions/ 

CASCADE

Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments

This international network of 10 doctoral research projects aims to train new researchers in developing and using creative methods for analyzing how the meaning of words changes in different situations. They will focus on understanding how language expresses meaning in various contexts, particularly over time.

Find out more at: https://www.horizoncascade.net/ 

GENCHRON Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD900

The overarching aim of the GENCHRON project is to integrate gender into a re-evaluation of time and chronology in medieval sources and modern historiography. A formidable challenge when studying women and gender concerns the fact that women disappear and reappear in our records far more readily than men do. We address this challenge by investigating the systemic and extensive biases of chronological systems and historical writing via two interdisciplinary strands. 

The project is funded by Research Ireland from 2022 to 2026, for more information please visit https://www.ucc.ie/en/genchron/

CIPHER

CIPHER is the world’s first global hip hop knowledge mapping project. This major initiative, funded by the ERC's Consolidator Grant, investigates the international spread of hip hop culture and its attendant musical, lyrical, artistic, and performative forms on six continents. It addresses the central question: why has this highly localised and authenticising African American music translated so widely to far-flung communities and contexts around the globe?

Find out more at https://globalcipher.org/ 

C21 Editions

C21 Editions is an international collaboration between University College Cork, the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield, and the University of Glasgow. The project seeks to explore and make a direct contribution to the future of digital scholarly editing and digital publishing. 

Find out more at: https://www.ucc.ie/en/dah/projects/c21editions/

Tempestries

Tempestries is focussed on the ways movement and textiles shape a sense of place within an Irish context. Its spliced science and speculative history are anchored in the  story of  a 7^th Century bog skeleton and her textiles found on Cloonshannagh Bog in Co. Roscommon. This choreographic research asks how dance might entwine with smart textiles (textiles with integrated technologies) to ask provocative dancing questions in our time of climate emergency. 

Find out more at https://joolsgilson.com/portfolio/tempestries-2022-2023/ 

The FHI Interdisciplinary Research Funding Scheme provides seed funding for research initiatives led by Arts and Humanities Scholars in response to emerging and changing societal challenges. Seed funding is intended to help start scholarly collaborations that will build new relationships, partnerships, and bodies of work with the potential to lead on to further projects. 

Find out more about three recently completed FHI projects at Seed funded projects 23-24