At the Future Humanities Institute, we are engaged with urgent and pressing questions that activate and reveal the human condition. The arts and humanities play a leading role in understanding and fostering the ways humankind can become impassioned to enact constructive change. The thematic clusters in the Future Humanities Institute straddle a wide array of disciplines, and adventure outward, into collaboration with other fields, in ground-breaking ways. Our vanguard Radical Humanities Laboratory – within which world-leading scholars explore boundary-expanding and cross-cutting themes, bringing the humanities to a range of other fields – is key to leading the way to reimagined futures. The arts’ and humanities’ capacity to involve people, and our ability to bring together seemingly disparate threads of thought, analysis, creation and action in order to propose and communicate innovative solutions, are critical components of what research needs to for society and with society. Our members work with themes and come from disciplines as wide ranging as politics and government; the eco-humanities; the digital humanities; creative writing; film, music and theatre; the study of religions; archaeology; education; languages, literatures and cultural studies; translation; feminisms; queer studies; minority and migration studies; architectures and urban planning; anthropology; histories; traditional Irish cultures; folklore; and many others.

At the Future Humanities Institute, we reach out and collaborate to enrich research partnerships with the empirical sciences, medicine, the social sciences, environmental science, engineering, entrepreneurship and beyond. We imagine, and imagination is the at the root of reinvention.

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