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We’re delighted to announce the first of the research cluster events for 2024, a talk on non-binary identities and language by Dr Sebastian Cordoba (Senior Lecturer in Psychology, London Metropolitan University), which will take place next Wednesday, 17th January, at 1pm on Teams. In this talk, introduced by cluster member and PhD researcher El Plaza, Dr Cordoba will discuss his recently …
The 16 Days of Activism is an annual international campaign that kicks off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day. The campaign was started by activists at the inauguration of the Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991. It is used as an organizing strategy by individuals …
On 13 November 2023 Chilean feminist collective, LASTESIS visited UCC for a public conversation and a two-hour workshop. The workshop entitled “Feminist and political collage: interdisciplinary strategies for performance”, emphasised the importance of acting with urgency in response to gender-based violence, and had participants engage with the topic through words, images, and movement. The event was generously supported by several …
On 1 November 2023 SPLAS together with the Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster hosted a screening of Crisálida (Chrysalis), a short documentary about the Day of the Dead, death, loss and transformation during the Covid pandemic and beyond, as told by three women, Cecilia Gamez, Emily Wood Ramirez Ahmed and Elisa Ponce from different Mexican communities in Cork, Bournemouth and London. …
The cluster meets for monthly reading groups and all members are warmly invited to share a text they would like to discuss. On 25 October 2023, Noreen Kane led a discussion on an article by East African feminist scholar and activist Jessica Horn: “Decolonising Emotional Well-Being and Mental Health in Development: African Feminist Innovations” (2020). On 29 November 2023, Dr …
Rethinking Spatial Humanities Cluster-Theme 2023/2024: Mobilities / Immobilities In Focus: CYCLING Fionn Rogan (Environmental Research Institute): Bicycle Haiku Workshop Thursday, 23rd November, 12pm (ORB_Mary Ryan meeting room) What are the emotions, encounters, and sensory experiences of a commuting cyclist? This presentation will outline a personal project of the author: a series of 100 haiku poems composed while …
Kicking with the Other Foot: Commemorating Dante in Ireland, between Nationalism and Sectarianism Dr Daragh O’Connell Thursday, 3 November CACSSS Seminar Room This seminar will interrogate the function of commemoration in relation to Dante and Ireland in four anniversary years: 1921, 1965, 2015 and 2021. These commemorative acts reflect many of the tensions inherent in Ireland at the moment …
The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism Prof. Ana Lucia Araujo Ana Lucia Araujo is a social and cultural historian writing transnational and comparative history. Currently, she is a Full Professor of History at the historically black Howard University in Washington DC, United States. Her work explores the history of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and their …
SURVIVOR TESTIMONIES THROUGH TECHNOLOGY Holocaust Education in the Digital Age Workshop Life Writing Cluster, SLLC, CACSSS Organised by Dr Claire O’Reilly, Co-Convenor Life Writing Cluster, CASiLAC In this innovative, interdisciplinary seminar, two leading scholars from Munich and Nottingham and experts in digital Holocaust education will deliver a workshop in UCC. Open to all and free of charge, this seminar …
Faced with discussion of her party’s roots in historical fascism, Giorgia Meloni often dismisses their relevance — claiming that the Italian right “handed fascism over to history decades ago”. Far from simply “nostalgic” for the regime, leaders of the postfascist right have since the 1990s increasingly called for a “pacified” view of history, focused on the remembrance of victims, from …
