Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded January 27, 2020. A panel discussion as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series, with Catriona Crowe MRIA, Former Senior Archivist, National Archives of Ireland; Zoe Reid, Senior Conservator, National Archives of Ireland; and Lar Joye, Port Heritage Director at Dublin Port and Chair of the Irish National Committee of the Blue Shield. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ About the Out of the Ashes Lecture...

Recorded May 07, 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 (Science Gallery Dublin and School of Education) supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the series will explore the evolution...

Recorded May 06, 2020. While Covid-19 is a global threat, it is the most vulnerable who are most at risk.’ – President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins With major outbreaks already seen in some of the biggest correctional facilities in the world, there is a very real danger that Covid-19 could be a death sentence for those within criminal justice systems. Prisons are not conducive to social distanci...

Recorded April 30, 2020. Former Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Fellow Professor Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape) will sit down for a virtual 'in conversation' with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, to discuss the impact of COVID19 in South Africa and Cape Town. What have the humanities and the arts to offer during this extraordinary time?

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Recorded April 29, 2020. "This virus does not respect borders.” - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation Director-General In an effort to contain the spread of virus, many countries have tightened or closed their borders. Some are rejecting globalisation and returning to the ideal of the nation state. Nationalism is on the rise. Informed by political decisions, multilateral actio...

Recorded April 27, 2020. This Behind the Headlines, in partnership with the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanites at Columbia University, explored what pandemics and public health crises mean for democracies around the world. Social distancing, cocooning, and ‘lockdown’ measures implemented worldwide to stall the spread of Covid-19 have raised questions about what the absence of p...

Recorded April 09, 2020. A Fellow in Focus conversation with Trinity Long Room Hub Artist Rita Duffy. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded April 07, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that acting fast and decisively is key to managing this public health crisis. If we imagine the severity of the climate emergency like the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, would we act now? As the interconnectedness of global societies becomes strikingly clear, we assess how the current pandemic is changing perspectives on how we live, ho...

Recorded March 26, 2020. As Coronavirus pervades homes, societies and minds, our online Behind the Headlines discussion will ask what we can learn from pandemics and plagues of the past, in addressing a global public health crisis today. With Governments the world over taking extraordinary emergency measures to curb the spread and impact of this new virus, we seek to understand what might be learn...

Recorded November 21, 2019. A paper by Jonathan Lewis (DCU) with live streaming to clinical sites as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Initiative Seminar Series. About the Medical and Health Humanities Medical Humanities seeks to provide insights into the cultural and social contexts within which diverse but interrelated concerns such as the human condition, the individual experience of il...

Recorded October 16, 2019. A paper by Dr Oisín Wall (UCD) with discussant Prof Desmond O’Neill (TCD) with live streaming to clinical sites as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Initiative Seminar Series. About the Medical and Health Humanities Medical Humanities seeks to provide insights into the cultural and social contexts within which diverse but interrelated concerns such as the human c...

Recorded December 12, 2019. A paper by Kathleen Furman (UCC) with live streaming to clinical sites as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Initiative Seminar Series. About the Medical and Health Humanities Medical Humanities seeks to provide insights into the cultural and social contexts within which diverse but interrelated concerns such as the human condition, the individual experience of i...

Recorded February 13, 2020. An in-conversation event with our new Visiting Research Fellow Clare Hutton, Dr Samuel Slote, and Professor Eve Patten. Dr Hutton joins us from Loughborough University in association with Trinity's School of English and the Manuscript, Book and Print Cultures research theme. The focus of her research visit is a project entitled ‘Women and the Making of Ulysses.’ Learn m...

Recorded February 19, 2020. How can the Arts and Humanities contribute to the futures of this island, of its diverse communities, values, heritage and ethnicities? From religion and recession to recovery and referenda, the Arts and Humanities reflect on what it will mean to live on this island in the future. A panel discussion as part of the Trinity Long Room Hub 10th Anniversary Symposium. Speake...

Recorded February 19, 2020. Is democracy at risk? What do we mean by crises? How can the Arts and Humanities contribute to more engaged citizens and participative democracies in the future? A panel discussion as part of the Trinity Long Room Hub 10th Anniversary Symposium. Speakers : *Professor Juergen Barkhoff, Vice Provost and former Trinity Long Room Hub Director *Professor Yvonne Buckley, Depa...

Recorded February 19, 2020. Dr Angela Butler, Research Fellow and Dr Elspeth Payne, Beate Schuler Research Fellow give a brief outline of their work on this project. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded February 19, 2020. What makes us human and why is that important? How can the Arts and Humanities contribute to more human-centered innovations that enhance society for all species in a technological age? A panel discussion as part of the Trinity Long Room Hub 10th Anniversary Symposium. Speakers : *Professor Linda Doyle, Dean of Research and Professor of Engineering & The Arts *Domhnaill...

Recorded November 18, 2019. A panel discussion with Prof Marcus Collier (TCD), Maryann Harris (UCD) and Prof Michael Cronin as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' series. Like every city in the world, Dublin City is faced with multiple and complex challenges, particularly when it comes to integrating international policies into planning and design in the city. Meeting the needs of communit...

Recorded October 17, 2019. A panel discussion with Finola O'Kane Crimmins (UCD), Kathryn Milligan (UCD), Federico Cugurullo (TCD), and Brian Caulfield (TCD) Chaired by Tom Walker (TCD) as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series. From the establishment of the Wide Streets Commission in the eighteenth century through to the current BusConnects and Metro proposals, Dublin's transport and i...

Recorded October 9, 2019. A seminar by Dr John Walsh (TCD) as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series. The Centre for Contemporary Irish History promotes research in recent Irish history. This Seminar Series is intended to act as a forum where those engaged in research in Contemporary Irish History can discuss their work with like-minded people. All lectur...

Recorded April 10, 2019. A lecture by John Porter (TCD) as part of the Trinity Research Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series. About the series The Centre for Contemporary Irish History promotes research in recent Irish history. This Seminar Series is intended to act as a forum where those engaged in research in Contemporary Irish History can discuss their work with likeminded peopl...

Recorded October 22, 2019. This public lecture by Sucheta Mahajan, Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and author of Independence and Partition: The Erosion of Colonial Power in India (2000) is organised by Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series. The lecture will be followed by a conversation with Dr Anna Bryson (QUB). This lecture extends th...

Recorded November 4, 2019. Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research fellow Professor Julian Bourg joins us from Boston College in association with Trinity's School of Histories & Humanities. The focus of his research visit is a project on the conceptual history of terrorism since the eighteenth century. Dr. Daniel Geary, Mark Pigott Associate Professor in American History, will sit down with Profes...

Recorded December 4, 2019. A public lecture Fintan O’Toole to mark being awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Trinity College Dublin About Fintan O’Toole (Litt. D.) Fintan O’ Toole is a columnist with the Irish Times, visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University and former drama critic and literary adviser to the Abbey Theatre. He is internationally respected as a drama critic, a polit...

Recorded December 3, 2019. On October 1 as Beijing celebrated the seventieth anniversary of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong intensified. This was the 184th day of action by the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement. Despite the Extradition Bill being recently rescinded, the protests show no sign of stopping. You might be one of the...