Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Monday, 6 December 2021, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' event featuring Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Loyola University Chicago), hosted by Dr Daniel Geary (TCD). About Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Elizabeth Tandy Shermer is an associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, where she teaches courses on labor, capitalism, and politics. She has written about those topics in op-eds, academic articl...

Thursday, 2 December 2021, 7 – 8:30pm 'Novel approaches to Dublin History: Historic Fiction and the City' is an online panel discussion organised by Dublin History Research Network and supported by the Trinity Long Room Hub. Historians of Dublin use primary research to write the story of the city but many readers learn Dublin’s story from historical fiction. The two forms of writing are distinct b...

Monday, 22 November 2021, 10 – 11am Surfáil sna Scannáin: The History and Cultural Politics of the Irish Surf Film Genre A talk by Stephen Boyd (PhD Candidate, Film Dept) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Attendance is open to all with relevant interests inside and outside TCD. Please indicate if you have any access requirements,...

Monday, 22 November 2021, 7 – 8:30pm ‘Work is a necessary evil’, wrote the American author Mark Twain. But as we emerge from the pandemic, during which working life for many changed dramatically, do we need to reconsider our attitude to the culture of work? As we transition to remote and flexible working arrangements, is there a nostalgia for the collective rotas and routines of industrial capital...

Tuesday, 16 November 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Alex Alonso 'Seamus Heaney and the Radio Imaginary' as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2021-22 in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English research community since the 1990s. The aim of the seminar seri...

Monday, 15 November 2021, 7 – 8pm Freemen out with the Tribe: Exiles for Christ from Saints Patrick to Kilian Online Lecture by Dr Alexander O'Hara, Department of Celtic Languages & Literatures, Harvard University in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The event will be chaired by Dr Ciaran O'Neill, Deputy Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub. This year marks the 15th centenary of the bir...

15th Nov 2021 Can archaeology be ethical? Posthumanism and our connection to the past. This episode explores the issues of ethical archaeology in museums and political arenas with special guest Dr. Craig Cipolla of the Royal Ontario Museum. Craig and I discuss how these issues play out in cultural institutions and in the field. Through these discussions, we also explore the role that archaeology,...

Recorded November 11, 2021. In 1858 the first ever message to be transmitted across an ocean – a note of congratulations from Queen Victoria to President Buchanan of the United States -- was sent from Valentia Island in County Kerry to Trinity Bay in Newfoundland. The 98-word message took 16 hours to transmit, and the US President’s 143-word response was sent in just 10 hours. Improvements in cabl...

Monday, 8 November 2021, 6 – 7:30pm A public online lecture on 'Resistance and Responsibility: A Vulnerability Analysis, by Professor Martha Albertson Fineman (Emory University), organised by the Trinity's Centre for Resistance Studies in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Martha Albertson Fineman Martha Albertson Fineman is a Robert W. Woodruff Professor. An internationally recognized la...

Monday, 8 November 2021, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' event featuring Dr Kenneth Pearce (TCD), hosted by Professor Paul O'Grady (TCD). About Kenneth Pearce Kenneth Pearce is Ussher Assistant Professor in Berkeley Studies (Early Modern Philosophy) and Head of Philosophy in TCD. He is the author of Language and the Structure of Berkeley’s World (Oxford University Press, 2017) and, together with Grah...

Thursday, 4 November 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Professor Chris Morash (TCD) 'Voices Off: Reflections on Unseen Plays' as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2021-22 in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English research community since the 1990s. The aim of...

Recorded November 2, 2021. A lecture entitled ‘Shakespeare from the Periphery’ by Professor Murphy held to mark Professor Murphy’s appointment as Professor of English Literature (1867) at the School of English. The lecture demonstrated how Shakespeare’s position as a central figure in global culture is due in part to the efforts of a set of little known figures operating – largely unremarked – in...

Monday, 11 October 2021, 4 – 5pm 'Rethinking George Berkeley’s legacy' a seminar by Scott Breuninger (Virginia Commonwealth University) 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 m...

Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' event featuring TLRH visiting research fellow Dr Aidan O'Malley (University of Rijeka), hosted by Professor Michael Cronin, 1776 Professor of French and Director of the Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation in Trinity College Dublin. About Aidan O’Malley Aidan O’Malley is an Assistant Professor, and Chair of the Literature section, at t...

Recorded October 14, 2021. In this first episode of season two, we discuss Lucy Sweeney Byrne’s debut short story collection, Paris Syndrome (2019), and widen the conversation to touch on how ‘Paris syndrome’ as a concept speaks to feelings of millennial disconnection in a globalised world, particularly for young women. We also widen the conversation, examining the parallels between autofiction an...

Tuesday, 21 September 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Professor Eve Patten, Trinity College Dublin, as part of the School of English Staff Postgrad Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. In 1919 D.H. Lawrence wrote of Ireland as ‘a blank round O on the map – a sort of nowhere’, yet Irish references permeate his later novels, often in relation to his fears of an English revolution. Th...

Monday, 27 September 2021 In the wake of the US and British withdrawal from Afghanistan and the crisis that has ensued, how should the world reflect on the history of western intervention in this region, and how should we reassess the concept and protocols of international responsibility? What is the best way forward for those trying to respond to the humanitarian disaster, and to the implications...

Friday, 17 September 2021, 12 – 1pm What can we learn about a writer from reading their letters? This online roundtable, organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub as part of Culture Night 2021, invites a panel of experts to reflect on the letters of three major writers, American author Shirley Jackson, American poet John Berryman, and Irish novelist John McGahern. The roundtable will feature Bernice...

15th Sep 2021 A lecture by Mark Little to launch the Trinity Long Room Hub’s Schuler Democracy Forum on the United Nations International Day of Democracy 2021. Mark Little has spent 30 years working on the faultline of media, technology and democracy. In 'Media for Humanity - a brief history of the future of journalism', his inaugural talk as Schuler Democracy Forum Media Fellow, he looks back on...

Thursday, 15 July 2021, 12:30 – 2pm Interdisciplinary Panel - The Challenges of Integrating Interdisciplinarity in Academia A panel discussion linking to our first event, where experts in the field discuss the challenges of interdisciplinarity and Neurohumanities. The newly formed NeuroHumanities Networking Group is dedicated to providing a functional framework for postgraduates engaged or interes...

Thursday, 1 July 2021, 12:30 – 1:30pm Guest Lecture - Mani Ramaswami on the Importance of Integrating Neurohumanities Professor Mani Ramaswami (TCIN) will give a presentation on Neurohumanities and its potential and importance within Trinity, followed by a Q&A. Professor Mani Ramaswami (TCIN) presentation will touch on the history thus far of NeuroHumanities and NeuroHumanities research at Trinity...

Monday, 28 June 2021, 7 – 8pm A panel discussion organised by the School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences in association with the Bosnia Herzegovina Association of Ireland, and hosted by Trinity Long Room Hub. Over twenty-five years since the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, atrocities such as the Srebrenica genocide, in which over 8000 boys and men were killed by Bosnian S...

Recorded June 15, 2021. An online event hosted by Trinity Long Room Hub to mark the launch of Approximate Formality - Morphology of Irish Towns by Valerie Mulvin architect of the TLRH. Professor Linda Doyle (Provost Elect of Trinity College Dublin) will speak, along with an introduction to the book by author Valerie Mulvin, followed by Q&A. "Approximate Formality" discusses the origin, originality...

Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 4 – 5pm A talk by Dr Kasia Szymanska (TCD Russian and Slavonic Studies) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. All webinars take place at 4pm. Presenters speak for a maximum of 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A. In recent decades, projects called "translation multiples" have emerged...

Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 4 – 5pm A research seminar by Dr Sinéad Moriarty (TCD) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English research community since the 1990s. The aim of the seminar series is to provide a relaxed and...