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- A Socio-Economic Study of Cork City Northwest Quarter Regeneration (CNWQR)
- Children’s Voices in Housing Estate Regeneration
- Cork Folklore Project
- Deep Maps: West Cork Costal Cultures
- Developing research to deliver high impacts in homelessness service provision by Cork Simon
- Moving On Ireland
- Project DaRT - Discussions and Reflections on Translation
- The Cork Folklore Project’s Memory Map
- The World-Tree Project
- The Augustinian Friars in Late Medieval Ireland
- (Re)Sounding Holy Wells
- Atlas of the Irish Revolution
- False Memories for Fake News in the Irish Abortion Referendum
- Atlas of the Great Irish Famine 1845-1852
- Hidden Galleries
- Movie Memories
- Between Two Unions: The constitutional future of the islands after Brexit
- CACSSS Postdoctoral Research Fellows
- Dr Giovanni Pietro Vitali
- Dr Ailbhe McDaid
- Dr James McNally
- Dr Janne Rantala
- Dr Robert Bolton
- Dr James L. Smith
- Dr Leyla Livraghi
- Dr Donna de Groene
- Dr Federica Coluzzi
- Dr Reana Maier
- Dr Jesse Harrington
- Dr Cliona Loughnane
- Dr Paolo Saporito
- Dr Gabriel Lins De Holanda Coelho
- Dr Anna Viola Sborgi
- Dr Miguel Garcia Godinez
- Dr Sophie Corser
- Dr. Leonardo D’Amico
- Dr Alan McCarthy
- Dr Michael Kurzmeier
- Dr Claire Nolan
- Dr Philip Murphy
- Dr Gustavo Souza Marques
- Dr Iulia Buyskykh
- Dr James Chetwood
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- Speaking the Predicament: Empowering Reflection and Dialogue on Ecological Crisis
- Participatory arts for advocacy, activism and transformational justice with young people living in Direct Provision
- Make Film History Wins FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Award
- Dr. Marie Kelly (School of Film, Music & Theatre) co-edits : Scene 8 Volumes 1 and 2 (2021) – Special Issue: ‘Performance and Ireland’ (Intellect)
- The significance of humanities scholarship in challenging times
- Dr Sarah Foley, a Lecturer in the School of Applied Psychology, was awarded an NUI Grant for Early Career Academics in 2020
- NUI Awards Grant for #DouglassWeek: 8th-14th February, 2021
- Humanities for the Anthropocene
- Forgotten Lord Mayor: Donal Óg O’Callaghan, 1920-1924
- Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary
- Dr Siobhan O’Sullivan - Agency and ageing in place in rural Ireland
- Launch of new research cluster on 'Life Writing'
- What keeps us going?
- Through the lens of the secret police: Images from the religious underground in Eastern Europe
- Dr. Amanullah De Sondy - The Pocket Facts Guide for Jewish, Christian and Muslim People 2020
- Issue 19 of Alphaville published by The Department of Film and Screen Media
- Digital Edgeworth Network
- Make Film History: Opening up the Archives to Young Filmmakers
- Establishment of monthly online reading group on Abolition and Decarceration
- Dr Anne Marie Devlin (Applied Linguistics) published a special issue on Study abroad and the Erasmus+ programme in Europe
- Dr. Barbara Siller (Department of German), has co-published an edition on literary multilingualism.
- Postgraduate Researchers from MA in Medieval History produce Mapping Cork online exhibition
- Adaptation Considered as a Collaborative Art: Process and Practice, (Eds.: Bernadette Cronin, Rachel MagShamhráin and Nikolai Preuschoff
- (Non)Spectacular Infrastructure: Enacting Resource Circulation in Stages, Studios and Communities
- Dr. Clíona O’Carroll (Department of Folklore) has received an IRC New Foundations grant
- Dr Catherine Forde from the School of Applied Social Studies has been awarded an IRC New Foundations grant
- Elderly (non)migrants’ narratives of home: A comparative study of place-making in Ireland and Slovakia (EMNaH)
- Dr. Ken Ó Donnchú, lecturer in the Department of Modern Irish, has received an IRC New Foundations Award
- Decolonizing Irish Public Heritage
- EMBRACE - Exploring Mobility: Borders Refugees and Challenging Exclusion
- Dr. Marica Cassarino (School of Applied Psychology) awarded Royal Irish Academy and British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Network Funding
- CACSSS Postdoc wins Charlemont Grant
- Childhood, Religion and School Injustice by Karl Kitching
- New Collaboration between UCC, RTÉ and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Cork Movie Memories - Dan O’Connell and Gwenda Young (Department of Film and Screen Media
- Chronicles of COVID-19/Cuntais COVID-19’ initiative: testimony collection by Cork Folklore Project
- Dr. Rachel MagShamhrain (Head of Department of German) has published a co-edited collection on Adaptation
- Professor Caitríona Ní Dhúill (Department of German) has published a new monograph
- Two School Postdoctoral Fellows Awarded Royal Irish Academy and British Academy Funding
- Funding Success for Dr Joanna Hofer-Robinson
- New Collaboration between UCC, RTÉ and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- CACSSS Postdoc wins Charlemont Grant
- Applied Social Studies team win ESWRA Outstanding Publication Award 2020
- CACSSS postdoc is awarded Maurice J. Bric Medal of Excellence at IRC’s Researcher of the Year Awards 2019.
- Past postdoctoral researchers in the College
- Dr Mastoureh Fathi
- Dr Michalis Poupazis
- Dr Richard Mason
- Dr Martin Wall
- Dr Rebekah Brennan
- Dr Tatiana Vagramenko
- Dr Anca Maria Șincan
- Dr Agnes Hesz
- Dr Gabriela Nicolescu
- Dr Kinga Povedák
- Dr Declan Taggart
- Dr Anne-Julie Lafaye
- Dr Ken Keating
- Dr Laura Maye
- Dr Martina Piperno
- Dr Brandon Yen
- Dr Annie Cummins
- Dr Rebecca Boyd
- Dr Sean Hewitt
- University Staff Recognition Awards
- CACSSS Welcome new MSCA Funded Fellows
- College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences opens a research facility on Wandesford Quay
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- IRC awards funding to 3 projects in the Dept of Archaeology: DAEICS - Digital Atlas of Early Irish Carved Stones (PI Dr Tomas O’Carragain)
- IRC awards funding to 3 projects in the Dept of Archaeology: NEW PASTURES (PI Dr Katharina Becker)
- CIPHER project shortlisted for Times Higher Ed (THE) Award
- CACSSS Researcher funded through HEA North South Research Programme with UU to explore Critical Epistemologies Across Borders (CEAB)
- Leabhar Nua ar an bhFiannaíocht/New Publication on the Finn Cycle
- Cork and Belfast north south prison-university classroom partnerships secure funding from government’s shared island initiative
- Women of the Borderlands: A Walking Biographical Study of Women’s Everyday Life on the UK/Irish Border funded through the HEA North-South Partnership
- Ultonia - Cultural Dynamics in medieval Ulster and beyond: a shared inheritance
- IRC awards funding to 3 projects in the Dept of Archaeology: IPeAT - Irish Peatland Archaeology Across Time (PI Dr Ben Gearey)
- Dr Edward Molloy, School of English and DH - wins Maurice J. Bric Medal of Excellence in IRC’s Researcher of the Year Awards 2020.
- Professor Claire Connolly (School of English and Digital Humanities) appointed to the Irish Research Council
- Dr Máirín MacCarron FRHistS wins the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize 2021
- ERC Hidden Galleries project publishes The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe
- CACSSS researchers to host EPA funded online workshop
- €1.5 million ERC Starter Grant Award for Researcher in Dept of Music, School of Film Music and Theatre
- Three PhD students in Applied Psychology commence projects funded through SFI research centre Lero
- CACSSS Researcher co-authors paper for Science on the ‘ecological’ survival of rare manuscripts and texts
- 2021 Research Awardees recognised
- New Foundations Call 2022 open
- C21 Editions
- University College Cork and the Arts Council have appointed Alan Gilsenan as the 2019/20 Film Artist in Residence.
- School of Applied Psychology hold an open house showcase for People and Technology Research Group
- CACSSS Researcher secures major IRC Laureate award for project GENCHRON to explore gender, chronology and time in the Medieval world
- CACSSS Researcher secures major IRC Laureate award for project Cyber Social
- New York Times reports on CACSSS Researcher Dr Alexander Khalil’s (School of Film, Music & Theatre) collaborative music and neuroscience work
- project MUSLIMWOMENFILM project selected for publication in the ‘Results in Brief’ section of the European Commission’s CORDIS website
- GendeResearchIreland Symposium: Reflections on Institutionalising Gender Equality in Higher Education
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Dr Paolo Saporito
School of Film, Music and Theatre

Bio
Dr. Paolo Saporito is Government of Ireland-IRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork. He has a PhD in Italian Studies from McGill University, where he also taught courses on Italian culture and cinema and eco-cinema. His research focuses on the ethics and politics of films, literature and online media.
Project Title: Positively Modern: Michelangelo Antonioni and Affirmative Cinematic Ecologies
The aim of Positively Modern is to produce a radical change in our current understanding of the oeuvre of Michelangelo Antonioni and to challenge the critical belief that reduces the stories of his protagonists to grim accounts of alienation. The project redefines these stories in affirmative terms, as experiences of transformation in which human characters explore alternative and non-alienating social and physical relations. The core of Antonioni’s reception negatively characterizes his protagonists’ subjectivity as essentially alienated and also deterministically associates alienation with a specific set of filmic techniques such as long takes, slow camera movements, and decentred human figures.
The project will read this reception against the backdrop of contemporary philosophies of alienation in order to, first, illuminate its flawed assumption that alienation entails the subject’s total loss of relations with his/her environment and, second, redefine the concept as a feeling of powerlessness, constriction in social roles and indifference to the world that hinders but does not interrupt these relations. Through the close analysis of nine films, the project will demonstrate that Antonioni’s protagonists react to their alienating feelings by rethinking their agency, social relations and perception of the world from a non-anthropocentric perspective. Moreover, the project will show that Antonioni does not conceive of the cinematic apparatus as a passive instrument of representation of alienation, but as a machine that establishes non-anthropocentric relations with the human and non-human entities (bodies, objects, environments) included in the image. Through the analysis of Antonioni’s films, the project proposes a much-needed ethical reflection that invites us to imagine more sustainable human–non-human relations from a non-anthropocentric standpoint.
Email: PSaporito@ucc.ie