| 18 Feb 2026 |
The Uses of Romanticism Conference February 18 |
Reading by Maureen McLane (New York University), chaired by Liz Quirke (UCC Creative
Writing) |
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The Hub, The Dr Dora Allman room |
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| 19 Feb 2026 |
The Uses of Romanticism February 19 |
As a convenient way to organise knowledge — to describe a historical period, to address questions of cultural style, to open up comparative debates — romanticism remains a useful term. But what does it mean to think about romanticism as useful? What kinds of knowledge, in which languages and from what places, does the term collect and organise? |
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The Hub, The Dr Dora Allman room and HUB Atrium |
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| 19 Feb 2026 |
Irish Romanticism: a Literary History book launch Prof Claire Connolly |
Irish Romanticism: a Literary History book launch Prof Claire Connolly
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The Hub, HUB Atrium |
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| 27 Jan 2026 |
The Future Perfect of Suspicion and Prediction as a Dispositive of Security Today? The Legacy of Foucault |
Professor Bigo will present a 2024 article in the first half hour, followed by discussion. The article can be accessed here https://www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/researchclustersandcentres/politicaltechnologies/ |
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Main Quad - North Wing, Council Room |
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| 26 Jan 2026 |
The (non) Myth: Dante, Florence and Boccaccio |
As is well known, Florence is very important in Dante’s works—not only in the Commedia, but also in the Vita nova, where the city fulfils an important narrative function. |
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Main Quad - North Wing, Council Room |
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| 3 Feb 2026 |
Lunchtime talks Feb 3,10 and 17 with 2026 UCC/Arts Council Film Artist in Residence |
Lunchtime talks on Feb 3,10 and 17 on aspects of filmmaking by UCC/Arts Council Film Artist in Residence, Brendan Canty |
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Kane Building, B10b Film and Media Auditorium |
https://www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/film/news/brendan-canty-to-deliver-public-film-talks-at-ucc---3-10-17-feb--1pm.html |
| 15 Jan 2026 |
Rethinking Spatial Humanities Seminar Series 2025-2026 |
A seminar series organized by the Rethinking Spatial Humanities Research Cluster featuring 8 interdisciplinary seminars spanning literature, performance, history, and culture. An exiting opportunity to explore spatial research across the humanities and social sciences. The series run from January to April, on Thursdays from 4 to 5pm in ORB 1.24. |
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| 10 Feb 2026 |
Computing Power: AI as a Political Technology |
CASiLaC Political Technologies research cluster seminar, in conjunction with the Department of French |
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online via MS Teams |
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| 14 Apr 2026 |
Constructing masculinities: Historical and Cultural Framings |
Hybrid panel discussing the construction of masculinities in cultural production across diverging linguistic, temporal, and geographic contexts. |
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Online via MS Teams |
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| 9 Feb 2026 |
UCC Dante Public Lecture IV: ‘De Defututa Vulgari Eloquentia: On Joyce’s Eloquent Vulgarities’ |
This talk begins with a review of aspects of his monograph Freedom Readers (University of Notre Dame Press), specifically of African American authors from the 19th century to more recent times, including Jesmyn Ward, who amplified Dante’s voice that speaks truth to power, before examining several white authors from the Deep South--Richard Henry Wilde, Augusta Evans Wilson, Robert Penn Warren--who read Dante in the context of the “peculiar American institution,” slavery, with attention to the ongoing problems that derive from it--racism, segregation, and systemic inequality. Lorna Goodison's Caribbean version of a Southern Dante has the last word. |
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Online |
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| 6 Feb 2026 |
Arts Council/UCC Film Artists in Residence Public Event: Tom Hall (2025 Artist) and Brendan Canty (2026 Artist): A Dialogue |
2025 and 2026 Arts Council/UCC Film Artists in Residence: A Dialogue |
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Film and Screen Media auditorium. Kane B10b |
https://www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/film/news/the-department-of-film-and-screen-media-annual-film-artists-event--thur-12th-feb-1715.html
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| 17 Feb 2026 |
UCC Dante Public Lecture V: ‘“Per te poeta fui, per te cristiano.” Dante’s Statius and the Authority of Virgil’. |
In this lecture I propose to expand the critical view of the triangular relationship between Dante, Statius and Virgil by placing the religious dimension in the background and focusing instead on the poetic one. |
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Main Quad - North Wing, Council Room |
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| 13 Apr 2026 |
Character Reference: A Structural and Computational Approach to Literary Character |
This talk will present a structural model of literary character that lends itself to answering interpretive questions and to computational representation.
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O'Rahilly Building, G27 |
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| 5 Mar 2026 |
Digital Sustainability for Minoritized Language: Challenges and Opportunities |
Maintaining language vitality and diversity are ongoing challenges for the digital age. |
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Main Quad - North Wing, Rooms 1 and 2 |
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| 13 Mar 2026 |
A Jazz Age evening |
A Jazz Age evening of silent films from 1926, accompanied by live music |
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Aula Maxima |
https://www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/news/university-college-cork-to-host-a-jazz-age-evening-gala-screening.html |
| 5 Mar 2026 |
NoFappers, Tradwives, and Fitfluencers: the new ideological entrepreneurs of the manosphere |
Professor Debbie Ging's talk will zoom in on the manosphere. |
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The Hub, Shtepps |
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| 5 Mar 2026 |
Architecture in the Critical Zone |
Cork Centre for Architectural Education (CCAE) is hosting the 15th All Ireland Architectural Research Group (AIARG) annual conference and exhibition on the theme of Architecture in the Critical Zone at our home in Douglas Street next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. |
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Cork Centre for Architectural Education, Douglas Street |
https://www.ucc.ie/en/architecture/research/aiarg2026/ |
| 23 Mar 2026 |
RUINation |
An interdisciplinary panel will discuss how ruination, the wilful destruction or deliberate abandonment of a building, intersects with aesthetics, identity, climate change, and Ireland’s housing crisis. After a lunch break, a conversational workshop will explore collaborative pathways through the issues that de-centre the authorised voice.
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O'Rahilly Building, CACSSS Seminar Room |
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| 15 Apr 2026 |
New Pastures - Iron Age Research in Ireland and Beyond. International Conference |
The Irish Iron Age has only recently started to emerge from the archaeological record and this conference brings together current research on the period to take stock of current knowledge and state of the art. |
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O'Rahilly Building, 123 |
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