Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 4 – 5pm Research presentations by Jason Marrott, Tom Hedley, and Conor Brennan as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Speaking to the Mirror: A Brief Cultural History of Solitude JASON MARROTT There is an inherently paradoxical aspect to the mediation of solitude, for to express i...

For the past 2.5 years, the SHAPE-ID project has been addressing the challenge of how to strengthen the integration of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in inter- and transdisciplinary research with STEM disciplines and societal partners. On the 10th June 2021, we launched our final project toolkit, which offers tools and resources to help researchers, research organisations, funders, polic...

Recorded June 1, 2021. A celebration of John Scattergood's Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Middle English and Some Old English, organised by the Manuscript, Book and Print Cultures Research Theme in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub. To over a million visitors a year, Trinity is synonymous with the Book of Kells, But that ninth-century Irish manuscript is only part of the...

Recorded May 31, 2021. During the first covid-19 lockdown in Ireland, four early career researchers and two postdocs at Trinity’s arts and humanities institute, The Trinity Long Room Hub ('The Hub'), started chatting about new possibilities for producing and sharing academic knowledge through a podcast. Each team member was responsible for an episode around the season's theme, “Modalities of Power...

Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 2:30 – 5pm People, Place and Power: Grand Jury Records and Local History Presented in association with Local Government Archivists and Records Managers. Links to videos in podcast - People, Place and Power: Grand Jury Records and Local History - Donegal - YouTube -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5csuCtgQFY8 People, Place and Power: Grand Jury Records and Local History - Wickl...

25th May 2021 An online lecture by Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian, University of Oxford, and author of Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge (John Murray Press). Richard Ovenden's lecture will discuss the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq t...

Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 1 – 2pm May 2021 marks the publication of a major new intellectual biography of Bishop George Berkeley by Tom Jones (University of St Andrews), George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life (Princeton University Press, 2021). Trinity Long Room Hub is pleased to host a conversation with Dr Jones that will centre on Berkeley’s life, connections to Trinity and Ireland, and his relatio...

Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 1 – 2pm A lecture by Dr Angela Griffith organised by the Manuscript, Book and Print Cultures Research Theme in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Elizabeth Corbet Yeats used the term ‘art printing’ to describe the work of the Cuala Press. She promoted the press as a hand-craft enterprise, one that celebrated the best of Irish materials and skills. Under Yeats’ stewar...

Thursday, 13 May 2021, 6 – 7pm A public event organized by Holocaust Awareness Ireland and the Herzog Centre at Trinity College Dublin, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. "Why Talk About The Holocaust?" is the second event in this series. Daniel Mendelsohn author of the internationally bestselling Holocaust family saga, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million will be in conversation...

Friday, 7 May 2021, 11am – 12:15pm This special centenary joint symposium will address the cultural, political and social legacies of Irish partition in 1921. The symposium consists of two panels: the first, from Trinity College, Dublin, will discuss the cultural and literary legacies of partition; the second, from Queen’s University, Belfast, will cover the political and social consequences. Each...

Recorded May 7, 2021. This special centenary joint symposium will address the cultural, political and social legacies of Irish partition in 1921. The symposium consists of two panels: the first, from Trinity College, Dublin, will discuss the cultural and literary legacies of partition; the second, from Queen’s University, Belfast, will cover the political and social consequences. Each panel consis...

Recorded April 26, 2021. Classical Athens excluded groups of people from political power – enslaved people, metics (non-Athenian residents) and women. In this episode, Elizabeth Foley talks with Dr. Carrie Sawtell and Dr. Katherine Backler about women in Classical Athens in the context and question of “power” and through a selection of material and literary sources discusses how women experienced...

Tuesday, 6 April 2021, 4 – 5pm A research seminar by Dr Ian Hickey (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) 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 i...

Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 4 – 5pm A talk by Prof Edhem Eldem (Collège de France) 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. From Chateaubriand to Owen Jones, and from Washington Irving to Jean-Léon Gérôme, travel...

Monday, 19 April 2021, 4 – 5pm Limits of Napoleon’s powers. The resilience of Dutch overseas trade networks during the Continental System A seminar by Prof. Marjolein t’Hart (Huygens Institute, The Hague) 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...

Monday, 22 March 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Ms Kathleen McCrudden (Yale) 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 organises seminars, conferences and pu...

Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Paul Corthorn (QUB) as part of the Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. 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-...

Monday, 1 March 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Mr David Briscoe (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 organises seminars, conferences and public le...

Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 4 – 5pm Research seminars by Dearbhaile Houston (TCD) and Hannah Mathew (TCD) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Dearbhaile Houston will present a paper entitled "‘You have to rise above your circumstances’: The Neoliberal University in Nicole Flattery’s “Abortion, A Love Story”." Hannah Math...

Recorded April 21, 2021. The Age of the Technocene: Why we need the Arts and Humanities in the 4th Industrial Revolution The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture for 2021 will be delivered by Professor Andrew Thompson CBE (Professor of Global and Imperial History, Nuffield College, Oxford and co-chair of the Global and Imperial History Centre at the University of Oxford). With...

Thursday, 15 April 2021, 6:30 – 7:30pm Named for the informal gatherings of radical thinkers and reformers of the 19th century, we’re excited to come together once more to discuss projects and ideas beyond discipline. This month the Art+Science Salon is returning to explore the evolution of musical tastes and mutations across time. How have our experiences, histories and increasingly connected and...

Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 7 – 8pm A roundtable discussion with Eoin McNamee, Catherine Ryan Howard, & Dr. Eva Burke. This event is presented by the School of English and the Trinity Long Room Hub. What does it mean to write fiction inspired by true-life crime? How does the literary imagination engage with, and transform, real-life tragic events? Can fiction tell us things about true crime that nonfi...

Thursday, 15 April 2021, 7 – 8:30pm The years since 1998 have seen a major decline in violence in Northern Ireland, continued growth in North-South co-operation, the expansion of mixed religion workplaces and significant economic recovery. Despite this, media, academic and public attention is currently consumed by headlines around the NI Protocol and the tensions within the British-Irish relations...

Monday, 12 April 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Prof. Sarah Covington (CUNY) 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 organises seminars, conferences and pu...

Monday, 12 April 2021, 10 – 11am A research presentation by Dr Denis Murphy (Department of Film, TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum (SCARF) in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Although filmmaking in Ireland dates back to the silent era, Irish film workers have not always enjoyed easy access to employment on the international productions on which the Irish film indust...