Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded April 9, 2021. HUMAN+ presents 'The New Cybernetics? Making sense of the 21st century' a lecture by Professor Genevieve Bell, Director of the 3A Institute, Florence Violet McKenzie Chair, and a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University. Organised by Human+ project in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub and ADAPT, the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Digital...

Wednesday, 7 April 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Prof Eve Patten (Trinity Long Room Hub) 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...

Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 12:30 – 1:30pm A seminar by Stephen Post, Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, Professor of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine (Stony Brook University, USA) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. The Trinity College Dublin Medical and Health Humanities I...

Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 4 – 5pm A talk by Professor Emeritus Tomislav Z. Longinović (UW Madison) 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. This lecture examines the cultural mechanisms through which the Gothic...

Recorded March 25, 2021. A panel discussion as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. For centuries, religions travelled with people who moved across the globe – in search of work, food, safety or freedom. But religion also moves people: literally, when going on pilgrimages and mission; and emotionally, when religion provides an anchor for bui...

Monday, 22 March 2021, 7 – 8:15pm An online lecture as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series, with Professor Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University, Washington. This lecture examines the history of the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was destroyed by fire in September 2018. Araujo explores the connections between the museum's building and the formation of its collections associ...

Thursday, 18 March 2021, 12 – 1:15pm A panel discussion as part of the Shape-ID webinar series Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Partnerships with actors in civil society, industry, the cultural sector and citizens, are increasingly important to develop societally relevant research. In recent years our understanding of these relationship...

Monday, 8 March 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Leanne Calvert (University of Hertfordshire) 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,...

Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 4 – 5pm A talk by Dr Anne M. Mulhall (SLLCS TCD) 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. Recent workplace fiction and film has tended to focus on two important themes- time and death....

Thursday, 25 February 2021, 6:30 – 7:30pm This month the Art+Science Reading group returns in its new form, the Art+Science Salon. This season on the Art+Science Salon, in addition to our monthly online discussion series, we’re adding a curated collection of online resources that are open access and available to everyone online. Here we will share articles, essays, videos, and more. To kick off th...

Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 7 – 8pm A panel discussion as part of the ‘Sonic Spaces’ series. Discourse around gender and sound often reflects biases about who should be allowed to take up sonic space: from historical assumptions that women’s voices were unsuitable for the radio, to contemporary biases in institutional policies that work to exclude the work of women in the music industry, as well as...

Thursday, 11 March 2021, 1 – 2pm A lecture by Christina Cleary, O’Donovan Scholar, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies where she will discuss the small number of ascriptions of poems to women, as well as speeches and dialogues from the mouths of female characters, in the twelfth-century Book of Leinster (TCD MS 1339). Although mere interpretations of the female experience through a male lens, an...

Friday, 12 March 2021, 1 – 2pm With many Irish people mourning the closure of their local pub, we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by asking what place the Irish pub holds in our history and culture. How did people use pubs in the past, and what was the popular attitude towards them? Famous the world over, is the Irish pub indeed an imagined space embedded in the concept of “Irish hospitality”? In this...

Recorded March 9, 2021. The launch of Trinity’s new Centre for Resistance Studies will be marked by a keynote lecture from Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Professor of History and Italian Studies, NYU), ‘How to Resist a Strongman: Lessons from a Century of Authoritarian Rule’ The Centre aims to provide an intellectual response to the growth of populism and authoritarianism across the globe by fostering...

Monday, 8 March 2021, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' with Professor Michael Cronin (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies) and hosted by Professor Barry McCrea (University of Notre Dame). Professor Cronin will discuss his career and his publications including, Irish and Ecology: An Ghaeilge agus an Éiceolaíocht (2019). About Michael Cronin Michael Cronin is 1776 Professor of French a...

Recorded March 4, 2021. This fifth episode of the Hublic Sphere, hosted by Dr Lilith Acadia, brings together five remarkable scholars, lawyers, and activists to discuss how the concept of ‘citizenship’ creates power. The January 6th insurrection in Washington DC inspired this episode, yet it has much broader relevance in the US (such as Trump’s family separation policy and the ongoing deportation...

Monday, 1 March 2021, 7 – 8:30pm What makes a political speech? From Aristotle to Hannah Arendt, philosophers have seen the arts of rhetoric and oratory as essential to the proper functioning of the public sphere. Some speeches, like Martin Luther King’s 1963 dream vision or Greta Thunberg’s 2019 ‘How dare you?’ address have defined a generation. Others have embedded lasting images, metaphors and...

Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 12:30 – 1:30pm A seminar by Neil Vickers, Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities, King's College London, as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. The Trinity College Dublin Medical and Health Humanities Initiative brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines inclu...

23 Feb 2021 Dr Sebastian Truskolaski (King’s College London) in conversation with the author of the recently published book Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film, Dr Daniel Mourenza (TCD Hispanic Studies). The book is the first monograph devoted to analysing the writings on film that German philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin produced during his life. It examines his writings on S...

Monday, 22 February 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Padhraig Higgins (Mercer County College, New Jersey) 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 organise...

Thursday, 18 February 2021, 7 – 8pm A panel discussion as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. This panel discussion will focus on the artistic representation of refugees and direct provision. It will include as speakers Vukasin Nedeljkovic, Dr Bisi Adigun, Bulelani Mfaco, and Dr Roja Fazaeli. Vukasin Nedeljkovic compiled an archive of photo...

Recorded February 18, 2021. Research seminars by PhD candidates Eric Swartz (TCD) and Bowen Wang (TCD) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Eric Swartz will present a paper entitled "From Foundation to Demolition: Andrei Platonov, Adrian Duncan, and the Engineering of a New World," and Bowen Wang will present a paper...

Thursday, 18 February 2021, 12 – 1:15pm A panel discussion as part of the Shape-ID webinar series Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. The aim of the webinar is to learn from digital research infrastructures with regards to the way they foster interdisciplinary research between the humanities scholars on the one hand and computer scientists...

Friday, 4 December 2020, 4 – 5pm The Kemble Lecture 2020 will be delivered by Prof. Clare Lees (University of London). The event is sponsored by the School of English and hosted in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. This annual lecture series in honour of John Mitchell Kemble, begun in 2005, invites distinguished scholars to speak on topics associated with Kemble: the history, literature, and...

Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 4 – 5pm A research seminar by Dr Brendan O'Connell (TCD) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Brendan O’Connell is a lecturer in medieval literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He has research interests in fourteenth and fifteenth-century poetry, and particularly in the...