Radical Humanities Laboratory

New OA publication from our lab member, Dr Kheira Arrouche, "Afterlives of decolonisation: the racialisation of West and Central African migrants in contemporary Algeria." www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Go check this out, folks!
Also might benof interest to our @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social students & folks at the @radhumslab.bsky.social

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Antiquity Vol. 100, No. 409 (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @antiquity.ac.uk @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org
@sarahkerr.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social @royvanbeek.bsky.social @mpdavies.bsky.social @waltros.bsky.social

This is a great reflective discussion on #archaeology that also is proactive. Delighted to have been able to join the conversation on this! @ucc.ie @radhumslab.bsky.social

We must reclaim and rejuvenate urban spaces WHEN my wife and I moved W back to Cork from the UK a few years ago, we agreed we'd only live in one of two places. We'd dig ourselves into the side of a rock somewhere in the Beara peninsula and settle in beside the sheep. Or we'd try to find some-where to live in Cork city centre. Where we absolutely would not live, we agreed, was where we had both grown up: The mind-numbing. spirit-crushing suburbs of the city's southside, and in particular the Suburbs are not the solution to our issues, writes Des Fitzgerald desolate borderlands of Ballinlough and Douglas, where dreams don't go to die, exactly, but do sometimes go to settle down quietly in a row of unchanging, semi-detached houses, each of them extended and rendered until any trace of interest or character has even care fully removed. The French anthro-pologist Marc Augé uses the term "non-places" to describe bland, tran-sient and interchange-able modern spaces, which seem to exist out-side of the usual human references to history, culture, and identity. That's probably a bit strong for, say, Bishop-stown. But still, there's something about the long roads and narrow footpaths of the south-side suburbs, the pre ponderance of shopping centres and petrol station forecourts, the near-total absence of commercial and civic excitement, that seems almost calibrated to prevent anything that

For the Cork crowd, the @irishexaminer.bsky.social has a big supplement on the future of the city today, and I have an article in it about how much I hate the southside in general, Douglas in particular. #speirgorm

My unsung hero of science: Frank Malina – fearless rocket engineer, groundbreaking artist and communist ‘traitor’ The first in a new series dedicated to little-known but highly influential scientists.

A fearless rocket engineer, groundbreaking artist and communist ‘traitor’

Dr @stephenroddy.bsky.social shares the life and legacy of Frank Malina in a new series dedicated to unsung heroes of science on @theconversation.com.

Generative Sonification of Synthetic Virology Data with Waveshaping and Granular Synthesis Techniques Abstract. As the field of ubiquitous music has matured and developed since its inception, it has turned its attention to the question of sonification and how sonification techniques might be used to c...

Article on the Sonification of Synthetic Virology data with colleagues from the School of Medicine at @ucc.ie is out today in Leonardo. It spans music, media engineering and the biosciences doi.org/10.1162/LEON...

@leonardoisast.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

I’m talking to Martin on Shush this coming Monday at 11am on UCC98.3FM. We’ll be chatting music, research and libraries with a nice playlist lined up. Tune in!
www.ucc.ie/en/983fm/

Genuinely sorry to do a "delighted to announce" while the world is in such a state, but anyway, @lauramca.bsky.social are now the co-directors of @radhumslab.bsky.social and I'm actually delighted about it. Lots of very cool stuff incoming. Look out for more vomit-inducing announcements in 2026! 🥳🤮

Looks like a very interesting @posthumanresinst.bsky.social online event on conceptualization of the #Anthropocene!

@maggieoneill.bsky.social @desfitzgerald.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social please share!

Irish Romanticism Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Irish Romanticism

'the heart is sick with hoping and hoping before books reach Ireland' Maria Edgeworth in 1816

Publication day for @universitypress.cambridge.org Irish Romanticism was yesterday but no sign of any books in Cork yet!

www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

We could not be more thrilled at UCC @radhumslab.bsky.social that our brilliant colleague, Dr Eugene Costello, has been awarded a €2m European Research Council Consolidator Grant for his project, "DeepCattle." www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

Hi all. We’ve got two calls open.

A new book on Irish Digital Art edited by, McCarthy, Yip & myself: www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-...

And calls for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...

#irishart #newmedia #mediaart #opencall #digitalart

Des wearing a white shirt and navy jacket standing in front of an image of a topless RFK Jr working out.

My favourite image of our excellent @radhumslab.bsky.social roundtable this week, "The medical humanities in a new biological age" - with @ciarab.bsky.social, @felicitycallard.bsky.social and @dyutic.bsky.social (Thanks @egeertsphd.bsky.social for taking it!!)

UCC researchers receive €1.1m to address national and global societal challenges

UCC has been awarded funding for five interdisciplinary projects in @researchireland.ie's COALESCE 2025 programme.

For more, see:
www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

@uccresearch.bsky.social

A poster saying Des Fitzgerald, The Biopolitics of Urban Green Space from 1 to 2pm, in the room LR3.

Cork people, I will be doing a guest lecture, ;The Biopolitics of Urban Green Space' at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education, Monday the 10th, from 1 to 2. Open to all comers as far as I know.

Are cities bad for us, or are we just telling the wrong story about urban life?🌆

Join us for @desfitzgerald.bsky.social’s public lecture, The City of Today is a Dying Thing, exploring the complex relationship between cities, health + the environment.

📆 Mon 3 Nov
📍 @york.ac.uk
🎟 buff.ly/z4D0Jv4

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...

applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome

pls share with your networks

Nice shot of the debut performance of ‘Noise for Waves and Grains’ from the IEEE concerts for the ElettroAQustica 10 festival in L’Aquila this week.

Tomorrow (w ISS21 & @radhumslab.bsky.social)! Come join us!

Poster of event with Prof Bernstein

Looking forward to this RHL, @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social & ISS21 event with Prof Elizabeth Bernstein!

Utopian Hours in Turin: A Festival for Bold New Directions in City-Making Explore city-making at Utopian Hours 2025 in Turin, with global experts discussing urban innovation, ecology, and community-driven design.

This weekend I'll be at the Utopian Hours festival in Turin, to talk about the politics of green urbanism: www.archdaily.com/1034043/utop...

Arts Council Digital Artist in Residence at University College Cork (Pilot) - The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Applications for our digital artist in residence pilot close this Friday at 5:30. More info at the link:

artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...

The City of Today is a Dying Thing - Des Fitzgerald Join YESI's Environment and Health theme for a talk by Des Fitzgerald about his book 'The City of Today is a Dying Thing

🏙️✨ The City of Today is a Dying Thing

Join us for a public lecture by @desfitzgerald.bsky.social (@ucc.ie ), exploring how cities, health + the environment intertwine — and what “green urbanism” really means.

📅 Mon 3 Nov | 🕔5–7pm
📍 @york.ac.uk
🎟️ Book here➡️https://buff.ly/RvbkKuw

Music & Machines at the 5th IEEE Internet of Sounds Symposium | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

Putting finishing touches on a performance and a paper for the IEEE Internet of Sounds Symposium at L'Aquila later this month.

@comsoc.bsky.social

www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...

‘It’s a monster’: How generative AI is forcing university professors to rethink learning As students turn to ChatGPT, educators warn that critical thinking, academic integrity and the future of the humanities are at stake

I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Join the @radhumslab.bsky.social on Friday September 5th at @ucc.ie for (Un)Silencing, our one-day symposium exploring exciting work from the fields of sound studies and sound art, in collaboration with Resonance: the Journal of Sound & Culture.

London commuters, a tree is 'on its way'. Can it save you? ‘Tree on its way.’ Commuters between London Bridge and the Monument may have seen this rather startling message, stencilled on the pavement in stark black and white, at regular intervals in recent wee...

I wrote about saviour trees and manly super-nature for the Evening Standard: www.standard.co.uk/comment/lond...

Cybernetic Resurgences: Machine Music Beyond AI Slop This chapter explores contemporary trends in the application of machine learning technologies in music composition and performance contexts. It argues that there is a resurgence of cybernetic approach...

Our (@bridgesbb.bsky.social) piece developing a Musical Cybernetics as an antidote to gen-AI slop music goes online this week. DM for pre-print access: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Performed a new musical piece for AM.ICAD this month sonifying synthetic virology data provided by colleagues at
@ucc.ie's MVDRL. Our paper on the process will be published in @leonardoisast.bsky.social's in early 2026. Art-science collaborations are one of the more exciting aspects of this job.