Haunted Futures Conference 2025

“Haunted Technologies”

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Event: Haunted Futures Conference 2025: “Haunted Technologies”
Venue: University College of Cork
Dates: 12th to 14th of November 2025

 

 

A report of the third annual Haunted Futures Conference convened by Dr Ellen Scally and Dr Rachel Gough, convened in the Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork.

Author Biographies

  • Rachel Gough, University College Cork

    Writer, lecturer, and researcher based at University College Cork. She engages in interdisciplinary research on climate and sustainability—at the Sustainability Institute—and lectures on film theory, video game theory, screenwriting and national cinema in the Department of Film and Screen Media. She is the Public Relations Officer for Women in Research Ireland. She is a member of the Estudios Irlandeses editorial board and the co-founder of Haunted Futures. Her creative work includes poetry published in Quarryman and One Good Day as well as short fiction broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in The Waxed Lemon, Outpost, Bealtaine, The National Flash Fiction Anthology, and Best Small Fictions. In 2025, she was awarded first place in the flash fiction category at the Write by the Sea Literary Festival. Dr Gough was awarded the Lord Puttnam Scholarship in 2023. In 2024 she was an awardee of the CACSSS Creative Connections Fund.

  • Ellen Scally

    A recent PhD from the Department of Film & Screen Media at University College Cork. She is a former graduate of the MA in Film and Screen Media at UCC. Her PhD project concerns the history of amateur film and cine-culture in Ireland, and research interests include Irish cinema history, amateur film practice, community cinema culture, and the audio-visual archive. Her research was awarded an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, and from April-June 2025 she was a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies in Bochum, Germany. She is a co-convener of the annual Haunted Futures conference at University College Cork

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2026-02-12

Issue

Vol. 11 (2025): Response: Reflection and Action

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Event Reports

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