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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.  

A range of transdisciplinary approaches were explored in this event, hosted by the Future Humanities Institute.

The Cork Folklore Project, the Cork Traveller Women’s Network, and the Environmental Research Institute, UCC, were delighted to launch a range of outputs from their project exploring urban thrift, resource re-use and Traveller skills.

Irish Keywords, a symposium hosted at University College Cork with support from the University of Virginia (New Literary History) and the Future Humanities Institute.

An inaugural performative lecture celebrating the work of Professor Jools Gilson, hosted by the Future Humanities Institute.

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

Researchers at University College Cork will contribute to a new project which has received over €2.8m in funding under the HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MCSA) Doctoral Networks scheme. The project, called CASCADE, will train a cohort of early-stage researchers in text and cultural analytics.

Find out more at: https://www.horizoncascade.net/ 

Event with the ERC CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation Team at UCC.