Upcoming workshop at the Radical Humanities laboratory will explore strategies of resistance in the age of AI.

In August 2026, almost fifty years since the original inquest found no one to blame for his death, an inquest into the murder of anti-apartheid activist Stephen Bantu Biko re-opened at the High Court in Gqeberha, South Africa.

PhD Fellow from Aalborg University Jonas Yurtsever Vesterdal visits the Radical Humanities Laboratory.

Disrupting Historical Amnesia: Archives and Contested Pasts' will take place at the Shtepps, 2-4pm on Friday 18 September. 

The Radical Humanity Laboratory hosted its symposium: Radical Humanities: Problems, Methods & Actions on April 24th.

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

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. It included two panel discussions and a keynote address by investigative journalist, author and former BBC reporter Chris Moore. Professor Laura McAtackney opened the event.  

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. 

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))

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

Friday 25 April saw the launch of an important new book - Prisoners’ Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972–1985, by Dr Oisín Wall (School of History and Radical Humanities Laboratory, UCC).

On April 2nd 2025 a Feminist Visual Activism Zine-making workshop was held at UCC.

This panel discussion event addressed critical questions about current trends and historical legacies in contemporary migration scholarship and research.  

Radical Futures, the inaugural conference of the Radical Humanities Laboratory, took place on 8 – 9 May.

Dr. Stephen Roddy launched his new album, Leviathan, with a performance and discussion at the Radical Humanities Laboratory.