Radical Humanities Laboratory

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.

New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Project at the School of History and the Radical Humanities Laboratory | University College Cork Explore the latest news and events from the Future Humanities Institute.

Happy to have some news on the UCC website @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social - read more about my work here; www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

Stephen Roddy to debut new musical work at AM.ICAD 2025 | University College Cork Explore the latest news and events from the Future Humanities Institute.

Debuting a new piece at AM.ICAD 2025 in Coimbra soon. More details from @ucc.ie's Future Humanities Institute here:
www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

Reading as therapy: medicalising books in an era of mental health austerity In the UK, a range of everyday activities are being re-framed as interventions to promote public mental health. Drivers of this include the rising burden of mental ill-health and constrained fundin...

What happens when reading books gets positioned as a health intervention? And what does this case tell us about the wider landscape of austerity therapeutics? I'm glad to have contributed to a new paper addressing these questions, led by Hayley Redman. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dr @stephenroddy.bsky.social from @radhumslab.bsky.social and @ucc.ie School of English and Digital Humanities speaks to us about his Corpus/Mimesis project exploring the relationship between body & sound. All part of @CACSSS research showcase day.

Alternating Current 2025 Alternating Current 2025 carries the theme ‘Urban Scores’. Drawn from Elena Biserna’s writing, the theme seeks to provoke responses which both score the city and use the city as their score. 2025’s pr...

Pieces from my Signal to Noise Loops series turning Dublin's urban sensor data into music are on the @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social radio programme for the 2025 Alternating Current: Urban Scores. The festival launches tonight with more info here:

bit.ly/AC-US-25

Journal of War & Culture Studies Cold War Visual Legacies. Volume 18, Issue 2 of Journal of War & Culture Studies

The new issue of the Journal of War & Culture Studies is a special issue on cold war visual legacies, co-edited by our lab colleague, Dr Kylie Thomas: Cold War Visual Legacies: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ywac20/1...

Prisoners’ Bodies

Oisín Wall’s new book, Prisoner’s Bodies, is available free online or as a PDF here:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK609...

Or you can buy a paperback here: www.mqup.ca/prisoners---...

Stephen Roddy - Corpus/Mimesis [Fiadh Productions] - Industrial Complexx Corpus/Mimesis is a visceral sonic interpretation of the work of Jean-Luc Nancy that permanently resides in the listener’s subconscious. It emerged from a collaboration between AMAE, Pier Giorgio De P...

Corpus/Mimesis is out today.

There's a nice overview of the project on Industrial Complexx:

industrialcomplexx.com/stephen-rodd...

Digital downloads here: stephenroddy.bandcamp.com/album/corpus...

Order Cassettes through @fiadh.bsky.social here: fiadh.bandcamp.com/album/corpus...

Next week I'l be in Sheffield for two free events. One is a workshop on public-facing scholarship (www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/e...) and the author is an author-meets-critics book panel on green urbanism, with some brilliant folks from Sheffield Uni. Tickets: www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/e...

a collage of images from a zine-making workshop; they include prints of hands, craft materials, cut-out- pieces of paper, and a yellow flyer that says "so long as women are not free, people are not free"

The RHL zine-making workshop on feminist visual activism is underway, led by Dr Kylie Thomas.

The dark side of the green cities movement - ABC listen The green cities movement is based on the notion that green spaces are healthier for our bodies and our minds. But Des Fitzgerald says the movement hides a dark past - where these ideas were connected...

The dark side of the green cities movement

@desfitzgerald.bsky.social, Professor of Medical Humanities at UCC Radical Humanities Laboratory, explores the history and politics of green urbanism on Late Night Live with David Marr.

Join us Thurs Mar 20th 3:30- 5:00 PM (PDT) an IN PERSON talk in SWH 9152: Dr. Laura McAtackney ( @lauramca.bsky.social ) “Ways of Knowing Difficult and Contested Pasts: Researching the ‘Troubles' and Peace Process in the North of Ireland” with the Dept of History, SFU. Also on Zoom: buff.ly/F2xUzHC

What a wonderful experience with amazing colleagues and such hospitality at UVA in Charlottesville! So many connections and such rich conversations. Looking forward to keeping those connections going! #difficulthistories

Australians! You can hear me having an enjoyably combative conversation on the history of green urbanism on ABC's 'Late Night Live with David Marr' tomorrow night. Includes an unexpected detour on why 'fresh air' is a cultural construct, and bad actually.

Great talk ongoing by Sarah Bezan at The Stories We Need Workshop on Storytelling Approaches to Climate Communication at @ucc.ie’s Aula Maxima.

Ears Have Eyes – CJSW Radio

My piece 21, 7, & 3 will be on EARS HAVE EYES tonight at 8pm MT. It re-airs on Golden Co-op Radio and @naisasoundart.bsky.social later in the week.

cjsw.com/program/ears...

Ready for your next role? Brand new leadership role in @ucclibrary.bsky.social to lead our Digital Scholarship Studio & other technology-rich spaces and services embedding them into the teaching, learning and research landscape in UCC. Closing 25th March at noon! Come join our super team! #lisjobsie

This month’s best paperbacks: Percival Everett, Judith Butler and more Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some exciting new paperbacks, from politicians’ visions for the UK to a Booker shortlisted novel

Oh! The City of Today is a Dying Thing is one of the Guardian's best paberbacks for February, along with some really great other titles: www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Had a lovely day down in UCC. Great to catch up with old colleagues and meet some new ones. Delighted to see that both the @radhumslab.bsky.social and @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social are continuing to flourish with a good injection of new scholars doing great critical work.