UCC Futures - Future Humanities

Skip to main content

Our Research Groups

The Future Humanities Institute comprises the Radical Humanities Laboratory, and a range of research groupings that synergise within and across disciplines.

Radical Humanities Laboratory

Radical Humanities Laboratory

Digital Cultures, New Media & Cultural Analytics

Digital Cultures, New Media & Cultural Analytics

Centre for Arts Research and Practice

Centre for Arts Research and Practice

Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures

Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures

Eco-Humanities Research Group

Eco-Humanities Research Group

Spotlight On

The arts and humanities perform a key leadership role within the research ecology at UCC. I hope you enjoy exploring this small sampling of this work and achievements from 2024-2025.

Prof Yvon Bonenfant

Director Future Humanities Institute

Working with members of villages in China’s multi-ethnic Southwest, ECura seeks out ways to empower communities to adopt digital technologies to become curators of their traditional music and dance.

Dr. Lijuan Qian, PI, ECura Project

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

The CASCADE team is excited to be partnering with some of the leading experts in text and cultural analytics and machine learning from across the UK and Europe.

Dr James O’Sullivan, PI, CASCADE

Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments. An MSCA Doctoral Network.

MIGMOBS is a huge and ambitious project on the root of global inequalities: on the neo-colonial relations implied in a world of selective borders which dictate who can be mobile and who is excluded.

Professor Adrian Favell, PI, MIGMOBS

MIGMOBS - The Orders and Borders of Global Inequality: Migration and Mobilities in Late Capitalism

Future Humanities seed funds interdisciplinary experiments that open new doors to collaboration within and outside the arts and humanities. This exciting work sets the stage for new research pathways.

Prof Yvon Bonenfant

News

Listening to Viruses: UCC Researchers Publish Interdisciplinary work at the Intersection of Music and Medicine.

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)

Visualising populist identities: populist performances on screen(s)

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. 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 was held.

Dr Costello is pictured in front of The Bull and Drover, a sculpture by Kevin Holland, Madden's Buildings in Blackpool, Cork. Image: Provision

ERC Project to investigate the rise of commercial cattle farming

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.

Irish Keywords New Literary History Special Issue

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.

Future Humanities Institute

Institiúid na nDaonnachtaí Feasta

O'Rahilly Building (ORB) 2.20, University College Cork,

futurehumanities@ucc.ie

Top