Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded November 25, 2019. A public lecture by Helen Walasek (University of Exeter) is organised by Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the 'Out of the Ashes' Lecture Series. Dr Walaseks lecture will be followed by a response on the topic by Dr. Balázs Apor, Director of the Centre for European Studies in TCD. It is nearly twenty-five years since the end of the 1992¬–1995 Bosnian War, a brutal confli...

Recorded November 5, 2019. The Future of Ireland: Human Rights and Children’s Rights Ireland’s future sets before us a series of questions about constitutional and Church-State relationships. The vast majority of current Church members (around 84 percent worldwide and considerably higher in Ireland) were baptized as babies. For the Catholic majority in Ireland this has resulted in the imposition o...

Recorded July 15, 2019. Professor Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin) examines the relationship between technology, globalisation, and democracy. Prof Edmond looks at how the underlying nature of some of the technologies driving social change today, such as AI, big data and social media platforms, is different from what has come before, and how the unique characteristics of their design and f...

Recorded July 15, 2019. A workshop led by Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) on the subject of refugees and statelessness, posing the question: What can art do? Responding to the current "refugee crisis" and its implications for the future of democracy, this session builds on writings about statelessness from the mid-twentieth century by Hannah Arendt and others. Looking in depth at s...

Recorded July 15, 2019. Professor Nebojša Blanuša (University of Zagreb) and Professor Balázs Apor (Trinity College Dublin) examine the role of various carriers of influence—political, military and religious leaders—as potential sources of cultural trauma. Leaders are often described as the main characters in the narratives of cultural trauma, and can assume simultaneously, the status of villains...

Recorded July 16, 2019. At the planning meeting for the GHI, which took place in Dublin in May 2018, the partners felt strongly that the terms we were working with—“democracy”, “crisis” and “cultural trauma”—needed to be discussed and defined at the beginning of our institute in Dubrovnik so that all researchers had a point of common reference. For this reason, on the second day of the GHI in Dubr...

Recorded July 15, 2019. A panel featuring Professor Stephanie McCurry (Columbia University), Professor Mary Cosgrove (Trinity College Dublin), and Professor Sucheta Mahajan (Jawaharlal Nehru University) addressing the use of violence to oppress the exercise of democratic rights and exploring positive strategies of resistance. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded September 26, 2019. “Spinal Injury strikes at the very heart of what it means to be human” – Mark Pollock A talk by explorer Mark Pollock and human rights lawyer Simone George as part of the Trinity Long Room Hub 'What does it Mean to be Human in the 21st Century?' lecture series. When faced with life's toughest circumstances, how should we respond: as an optimist, a realist or something...

Recorded October 1, 2019. The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture for 2019 delivered by Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Graduate Chair of Religious Studies. Stories of Irish slavery on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms abound as both history and conspiracy theories that obscure the actual hi...

Eminent Cambridge historian Professor John Morrill discusses his academic career and his upcoming Trinity talk on ‘Cromwell, Priestcraft and the "Deluded and Seduced People of Ireland”’ on the 23rd of September 2019. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded September 16, 2019. The Irish border has been subject to intense speculation following the 2016 Brexit referendum, when the people of the UK voted to leave the European Union. Public discourse has followed the fluctuating positions on whether there will be a hard or soft Brexit, deal or no deal, and border or no border. The increasing plausibility of a no-deal Brexit has left ongoing unce...

Recorded August 28, 2019. A lecture by physicist Danielle Bassett as part of the Trinity Long Room Hub 'What does it Mean to be Human in the 21st Century?' lecture series. The human mind is curious. It is strange, remarkable, and mystifying; it is eager, probing, questioning. Despite its pervasiveness and its relevance for our well-being, scientific studies of human curiosity that bridge both the...

Recorded July 24, 2019. The last day of the Crises of Democracy Global Humanities Institute began with a panel on strategies of positive resistance against inequality and undemocratic regimes featuring Borut Šeparović (author, theatre-maker and choreographer), Professor Eileen Gillooly (Columbia University), and Professor Mridula Mukherjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University). The afternoon was dedicated...