Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded October 05, 2020. A seminar by Dr Robert Armstrong, Dr Graeme Murdock and Dr Simon Lewis (TCD) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. The Trinity Centre for Early Modern History promotes understanding of the culture, society, economy, religion, politics and warfare of early modern Europe. The Centre organis...

Recorded September 24, 2020. The Art + Science Reading Group is now a virtual gathering of thinkers, researchers and the incurably curious. Organised by PhD candidates Amelia McConville (School of English and Institute of Neuroscience) and Autumn Brown (School of Education and Science Gallery Dublin) and supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the series will explore the...

Recorded March 09, 2020. A public lecture by Professor Philip Dwyer (University of Newcastle) is organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series. The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 brought the question of iconoclasm and cultural heritage into stark relief for the first time in many years. The Taliban were portrayed as “barbarians” and “vandals”, bu...

Recorded September 04, 2020. The Art + Science Reading Group is a virtual group where researchers, artists, thinkers, and revolutionaries come to share ideas. Organised by PhD candidates Autumn Brown (Science Gallery Dublin and School of Education) and Amelia McConville (School of English and Institute of Neuroscience) and supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the seri...

Recorded October 14, 2019. A lecture by David Lloyd organised by the School of Creative Arts. David Lloyd is a seasoned UK radio programmer who's worked across a variety of formats for over forty years – from rock to pop to talk, news and contemporary music stations – as broadcaster, producer, and executive. His books How to Make Great Radio and Radio Secrets are proving essential for those seekin...

Recorded September 02, 2020. This special Trinity Long Room Hub online event, which marked the seventh anniversary of the poet’s death (on 30th August, 2013) looked at the work of Seamus Heaney through five images which reflect his preoccupations and help us to understand his achievement in poetry. These images, were discussed by two leading scholars of Heaney’s work, Rosie Lavan and Chris Morash,...

Recorded July 16, 2020. The Art + Science Reading Group is a virtual cafe where researchers, artists, thinkers, and revolutionaries come to share ideas. Organised by PhD candidates Autumn Brown (Science Gallery Dublin and School of Education) and Amelia McConville (School of English and Institute of Neuroscience) and supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the series exp...

Recorded June 30, 2020. Unlocking the Archives: A Research Showcase from the Beyond 2022 Project Marking the anniversary of the terrible fire of June 30th, 1922, which destroyed seven centuries of Ireland's historical memory, the Beyond 2022 Project presents "Unlocking the Archives"—a virtual research showcase and panel discussion on the 98th anniversary of the fire (June 30th, 2020). Unlocking th...

Recorded June 30, 2020. Unlocking the Archives: A Research Showcase from the Beyond 2022 Project Marking the anniversary of the terrible fire of June 30th, 1922, which destroyed seven centuries of Ireland's historical memory, the Beyond 2022 Project presents "Unlocking the Archives"—a virtual research showcase and panel discussion on the 98th anniversary of the fire (June 30th, 2020). Unlocking th...

Recorded June 25, 2020. A webinar as part of the "Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research" series, organised by the SHAPE-ID project. Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research We are pleased to announce the second in our series of webinars on the integration of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in inter- and transdisciplinary research. Some of these events will stage broad...

Recorded June 24, 2020. Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Fellow for 2019-20 Dr Torsten Wollina sat down for a virtual 'in conversation' with Professor Anna Chahoud (Department of Classics, TCD), to discuss Arabic manuscripts at Trinity Library and about the Library’s history more generally, with particular reference to the digital exhibition "Why were Arabic manuscripts collected in 17th-century Dubl...

Recorded June 18, 2020. The Art + Science Reading Group is now a virtual gathering of thinkers, researchers and the incurably curious. Organised by PhD candidates Amelia McConville (School of English and Institute of Neuroscience) and Autumn Brown (School of Education and Science Gallery Dublin) and supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the series will explore the evol...

Recorded June 11. 2020. Dr Jennifer Edmond discusses zoom fatigue, why zoom it is far from perfect and how we make virtual meetings work better. This talk was from the 'Behind the Headlines' panel discussion Human+Technology Beyond Covid-19, you can listen back to the full discussion here https://soundcloud.com/tlrhub/behind-the-headlines-humantechnology-beyond-covid-19 Jennifer Edmond is Associat...

Recorded June 18, 2020. The Trinity Long Room Hub Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Fellow Dr Lindy Brady (University of Mississippi) sat down for a virtual 'in conversation' with Dr Immo Warntjes, Ussher Assistant Professor in Early Medieval Irish History (TCD) to discuss Brady's current book project, Framing History: The Origin Legends of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. About Dr Brady Dr. Lin...

Recorded June 16, 2020. The word pandemic – from the Greek πάνδημος – means that which belongs to all people and so works as a kind of plural to the word everyman. Indeed, the Covid-19 pandemic is universal in that it touches everyone, yet it is also singular, each country, indeed, each person experiences it differently. Likewise, Ulysses is the great novel of the universal made individual, as emb...

Recorded June 11, 2020. As we move exclusively online for work, education and communication, our Behind the Headlines discussion explores how the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the immersion of technology into our lives. Covid-19 has given us a glimpse of what a technological-based future might look like. As society applies technology to recover from global events that trigger a shift in human...

Recorded June 10, 2020. Police murders of African Americans are deeply rooted in American history and society and token solutions will do little to prevent them. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded December 5, 2019. A panel discussion as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series. Racist attacks in Dublin have been in the news recently, and for the first time for decades there is an organised far-right In Ireland. Yet racism is not a preserve of the far right but an everyday experience for a growing number of Dubliners. Considering the experiences of Dublin’s ethnic minoriti...

Recorded May 27, 2020. ‘People need agency and voice in a crisis. This is a time when, more than ever, governments need to be open and transparent, responsive and accountable to the people they are seeking to protect ….’ – Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres, António Guterres As large gatherings of people are prohibited under the measures introduced to prevent the spread of Co...

Recorded May 21, 2020. An online symposium to celebrate the launch of the Cambridge University Press six-volume essay series Irish Literature in Transition (2020), a new and dynamic account of Ireland’s literary history over 300 years. The event is a collaboration between the Trinity Long Room Hub and the British Association for Irish Studies 2020 online conference. The event featured introductory...

Recorded May 20, 2020. The Art + Science Reading Group is now a virtual gathering of thinkers, researchers and the incurably curious. Organised by PhD candidates Amelia McConville (School of English and Institute of Neuroscience) and Autumn Brown (School of Education and Science Gallery Dublin) and supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the series will explore the evolu...

Recorded May 20, 2020. 'And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently …' - Kitty O'Meara As health systems struggle to cope with the rapid spread of...

Recorded May 18, 2020. A joint initiative between Queen's University Belfast (QUB) and the Trinity Long Room Hub chaired by Jane Ohlmeyer, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub with a conversation facilitated by Richard English, Professor of Politics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Internationalization and Engagement at QUB. Jonathan Powell and Rory Montgomery have had distinguished careers which have...

Recorded May 14, 2020. The SHAPE-ID project (Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe) is funded by the European Commission to develop recommendations and tools for policy makers, funders, researchers, Universities and others on improving interdisciplinary cooperation between the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) and STEMM (Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine...

Recorded May 13, 2020. ‘They tell us corona-virus is a great leveller. It’s not. It’s much much harder if you are poor. How do we stop it from making social inequality even greater.’ – Emily Maitlis, BBC Newsnight Racial and ethnic minority communities are disproportionately affected by Covid-19. They are more likely to have the underlying health conditions that make the virus fatal. They are also...