We are delighted to announce the launch of New Literary History’s special issue 56.2—IRISH KEYWORDS—co-edited by Professor Claire Connolly (UCC) and Professor James Chandler (University of Chicago).
This groundbreaking open-access collection reimagines central ideas in Irish culture, from “Home” to “Memory,” and features contributions from leading voices across disciplines and the arts.
🎤 Includes essays by:
Aileen Dillane
Rashid Khalidi
Iarla Ó Lionáird
Jane Ohlmeyer
Breandán Mac Suibhne
Heather Laird
Clíona Ó Gallchoir
… and more.
The project builds on the vibrant Irish Keywords Symposium held at University College Cork in November 2024, supported by:
University of Virginia
Future Humanities Institute
UCC School of English & Digital Humanities
This special issue continues our commitment to rethinking the past, present, and future of Irish literary and cultural history—open to all.
Want to learn more about the symposium that started it all? Visit: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/news/irish-keywords-symposium-.html
For inquiries, contact [email protected]
#FutureHumanities #IrishKeywords #IrishStudies #LiteraryHistory #UCC DigitalHumanities
Magic Happens When STEM Meets Theatre! ✨
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for UCC’s Light Laboratory: Optical Science — Past, Present, Futureduring #ScienceWeek.
From immersive demonstrations in our light-box theatre to imagining the future of light-based technologies, your curiosity helped make this interdisciplinary journey truly illuminating. 💡🎭
👉 Swipe through the highlights from the granary Theatre @ucc_cacsss and Tyndall National Institute.
Grateful to Research Ireland, funded under the Discover Science Week Programme, for supporting this experience.
📸 Image Credits: Sound of Photography
#UCCLightLaboratory #ResearchIreland #ThenTodayTomorrow #STEM #OpticalScience #UCC #GranaryTheatre #Tyndall
⏳ The countdown is on for UCC Light Laboratory’s #Science Week event!
Delighted to be bringing the Light Laboratory on 16 November to the Granary Theatre @ucc_cacsss and Tyndall National Institute for Optical Science: Past, Present, Future - a unique event where science meets imagination.
Find out more athttps://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/projectsoutputs/lightlaboratory/
Funded by Research Ireland under the Discover Science Week programme.
UCC Research | Future Humanities Institute - University College Cork
#ScienceWeek #UCCLightLaboratory
Have you ever wondered how Optical Science has shaped our past? What are its applications today and the possibilities we have yet to imagine?
This Science Week, UCC invites you to Light Laboratory: Optical Science Past, Present, Future - a unique event that blends STEM and Theatre to engage with those questions.
Join us across two iconic venues:the Granary Theatre and Tyndall National Institute for live demonstrations and collaborative dialogue.
Find out more @: https://lnkd.in/gG95UTfz
Funded by @researchireland under the Discover Science Week programme.
#ScienceWeek2025 #UCCLightLaboratory #ResearchIreland #Tyndall #CACCSS
Dive into the world of light: immerse yourself in light’s past, present and future.
This Science Week, experience the Light Laboratory to find out more about current light-based technology breakthroughs. This unique STEAM event is taking place at The Granary Theatre, @ucc_cacsss and Tyndall National Institute.
For updates, please visit https://lnkd.in/g2MR2P9Z
Funded by Research Ireland, under the Discover Science Week programme. #ScienceWeek2025
The sounds of research and creativity filled UCC last week!
We’re still buzzing from the incredible energy at the (Un)Silencing Symposium on Sonic Practice & Research.
Huge thanks to the amazing artists and scholars who shared their work—from wearable tech that turns movement into music to recreating lost soundscapes through spatial audio. It was a powerful day of discussion, discovery, and community.
A special highlight was exploring Cork’s influential role in the world of sound art. This feels like just the beginning.
Swipe through to get a glimpse of the day!
Organised by Dr.Stephen Roddy @radicalhumanitieslab and supported by UCC Futures - Future Humanities Institute, in association with Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture.
Want to know more? Drop a comment below or follow the link in our bio to the full story!
#UnSilencing #SoundArt #SoundStudies #SonicResearch #UCC #UCCFutures #FutureHumanities #CorkArt #IrishArt #AcademicConference #PracticeLedResearch #RadicalHumanities #MusicTech
Many congratulations to Dr. @stephen.roddy ,Lecturer in Digital Humanities at University College Cork and researcher at the Radical Humanities Laboratory, and his collaborator Dr. Brian Bridges of Ulster University on their groundbreaking publication in Springer’s Cultural Computing series:
“Cybernetic Resurgences: Machine Music Beyond AI Slop” (Artificial Media: Emerging Trends, 2025).
The chapter’s revolutionary approach calls for:
* Small ethically sourced data and well-curated datasets paired with
* The correct ML architectures to address the artistic questions at hand.
* Sustainable training techniques to minimise environmental impacts
* Minimal computation (e.g. embedded systems) to encourage resource-appropriate designs.
Thanks,
Stephen
🔍 Read and find out more about the publication:
https://lnkd.in/gaYyQPyv
The Future Humanities Institute would like to congratulate
Dr Kevin Cawley’s on his latest book, The Emplantation of Catholicism in Pre-Modern Korea which has received an outstanding review in Religious Studies Review!
The book has been praised for its gripping storytelling & rigorous scholarship. It covers gender, religious conversion & Confucian resistance and it is a must-read for fans of religion, gender & East Asian studies.
#UCCFutures #FutureHumanities #KoreanStudies #AcademicLife #BookReview #CatholicismInAsia #ResearchMatters
📚 Exciting news for Future Humanities Institute and Radical Humanities Laboratory at University College Cork
We are thrilled to welcome Dr Aisling Shalvey, who joins UCC as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow for her project #UCARE1945
This unique research explores how unaccompanied child survivors of the Holocaust accessed healthcare between 1945–1950. Through life stories, archives, and medical records, Dr Shalvey will uncover how age, gender & statelessness shaped their care.
This work contributes to the EU’s fight against antisemitism & racism, with links to SDGs 5 & 10.
📍Based at the Radical Humanities Lab. @uccfuturehumanities
📅 July 2025 – June 2027
#FutureHumanities #MSCAfellow #RadicalHumanities #HolocaustHistory #ChildSurvivors #MedicalHumanities #UCCResearch #UCARE1945 #HumanRights #SDG5 #SDG10
Don’t miss this powerful exhibition at UCC’s Boole Library!
🗞️ “How the African American Press Reported the Irish Revolution (1919–23)”
Curated by Dr. Jemima Hodgkinson, Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, this exhibition explores how key moments in the Irish struggle for independence were covered by Black newspapers like the Chicago Defender, Negro World, and Philadelphia Tribune.
🤝 Highlighting transnational solidarity between Irish nationalists and Black civil rights activists, this exhibition connects histories across the Atlantic.
🗓️ Running until end of July 2025
📍 Boole Library, University College Cork
🎥 Check out a short video with Jemima via @futurehumanitiesucc
#UCC #IrishRevolution #BlackHistory #AfricanAmericanPress #PublicHistory #JemimaHodgkinson #UCCEvents #BooleLibrary #FutureHumanities #TransnationalSolidarity #HistoryExhibition
We are pleased to introduce Blue Death Studies workshop: A New Theoretical & Artistic Intervention that took place on May 29th at UCC.
Organized by Dr. Sarah Bezan, Dr. Kate Falconer, and Dr. Jesse Peterson of the Radical Humanities Laboratory at UCC, hosted a groundbreaking symposium to workshop Blue Death Studies—a bold new framework bridging queer death studies and blue humanities.
The highlight of the event:
🔹 It challenged terrestrial biases in death studies through aquatic perspectives.
🔹It featured a keynote by Prof. Nina Lykke (Linköping University) on queer ecologies.
🔹 It included an immersive artistic workshop with Cork artist Aoife Desmond, exploring human-nature relationships. 🔹 It fostered collaboration across academia, art, and activism to interrogate ecological and existential futures.
🔗 Want to learn more? Visit: Future Humanities Institute - University College Cork official website
#UCCResearch #QueerEcologies #DeathStudies #InterdisciplinaryResearch
We are thrilled to share that on 14th and 15th June, The Opposite of Queer Trauma theatre performance performed, as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival, which was led by Professor Yvon Bonenfant (Director of UCC’s Future Humanities Institute).
Supported by The Arts Council, the community integrated performance The Opposite of Queer Trauma is part of a longer programme of work that asks the question: is there an event, an experience, that can mark the body and mind as positively as traumatic events do negatively? What might this be? The performance is the creation of a mutual experience that might mark people positively from a Queer perspective in a transformative manner.
🔗 Learn more: UCC Research News or Future Humanities Institute - University College Cork official website.
#UCCResearch #QueerArt #InclusiveArts #CorkMidsummerFestival #FutureHumanities
