Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Monday, 8 February 2021, 10 – 11am A research presentation by Meg Collins Stoop (Department of Music) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum (SCARF) in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Abstract: As a PhD researcher at Trinity College, I composed eight works which incorporate seven different ethnic instruments into ensembles with western art music instruments. Research, that w...

Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 7 – 8pm A panel discussion as part of the ‘Sonic Spaces’ series. From the soothing sounds of lapping waves and bird song, to the uncomfortable disruption of construction work and traffic, our daily lives are subject to a wide range of natural and man-made environmental sounds. The impact of such sounds on human well-being has led to a range of interventions in recent y...

Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' with Dr Peter Hamilton (School of Histories and Humanities) and hosted by Dr Isabella Jackson, (Trinity Centre for Asian Studies) Dr Hamilton will discuss his career and his latest publication, Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization. About Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Global...

Monday, 8 February 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Leonie Hannan (QUB) 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...

Monday, 1 February 2021, 1 – 2pm Christian saint or Celtic goddess, Brigit has long been associated with the spring season, representing renewal, healing and fertility. But who was the enigmatic Brigit, Brigid or Bríg and what lessons does her legend offer us today? In the midst of a global pandemic which has shaken the world, can we find ways to generate hope from centuries old wisdom and traditi...

Monday, 25 January 2021 An online lecture as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series, with Corine Wegener, Director, Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative titled 'Evidence Aiding Post-Conflict Recovery: Mosul Museum Project Zero'. In 2014, Daesh (aka ISIS) established their so-called “Caliphate” in the city of Mosul and cut a swath of intentional destruction of cultural heritage across Iraq’s...

Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 7 – 8:30pm A panel discussion organised by the Irish Historical Society in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Ireland's relationship with the highly lucrative plantation system in the Caribbean has attracted much debate and some fascinating research in recent years. The Irish Historical Society is pleased to present a panel discussion on this complex and emotive...

Recorded January 14, 2021. Please be advised that there is discussion of sexual and gendered violence, rape, and sexual harassment in the workplace. If these topics will be disturbing for you, please proceed with caution. In keeping with the theme of power and its modalities, this episode is about identities and how minoritizing and racializing minorities can limit our power in patriarchal power s...

Monday, 14 December 2020, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer (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 pub...

Recorded December 16, 2020. In this episode, Melody Barnes discusses the developments in the Black Lives Matter movement, technology and misinformation, vaccine distribution and the 2020 US election. Melody Barnes is co-director for Policy and Public Affairs for the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia. She is the Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor of Practice at the Miller Center of...

Recorded December 16, 2020. In this episode, Lilith Acadia examines the dangers of epistemic uncertainty and the possible use of post-pandemic recovery as a pretext to ignore pressing global issues, including climate emergency and social inequality, in the United States. Listen here. Lilith Acadia is a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Cofund Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub and an Assistant Profes...

Recorded December 15, 2020. In this episode, Etain Tannam explores the erosion of trust in British-Irish relations, issues of stereotyping, and the future of cross-border cooperation in the wake of Brexit and Covid-19. Etain Tannam an Associate Professor International Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She is currently writing a book on British-Irish Relations in the 21st Century. She is als...

Friday, 27 November 2020, 12 – 1pm A public lecture by Dr Rahul Mishra (University of Malaya) organised by the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies and hosted by Trinity Long Room Hub. After decades of oppressive rule by the military junta, Myanmar (Burma) made a transition to democracy in 2015. The international community and the people of Myanmar had pinned their hopes on Aung San Suu Kyi, a noble l...

Thursday, 10 December 2020, 7 – 8:30pm The recent anti-government protests in Belarus and Poland have attracted significant media attention across the world, with commentators highlighting not only the remarkable resilience of the protesters in the face of violence but also the predominance of women at the forefront of the protests themselves. In this Behind the Headlines discussion, our panel of...

Thursday, 10 December 2020, 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. SHAPE-ID has found that a clear and well-defined process is needed for inter- and transdisciplinary research projects in order to manage such innovative interactions and ensure long-lasting results. This web...

Recorded December 7, 2020. An 'in conversation' event featuring Dr Lilith Acadia and hosted by Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub. Dr Acadia will discuss her career and her latest research, as well as her time with the Trinity Long Room Hub as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Fellow for 2019–20, in association with Trinity’s Identities in Transformation Research Theme. Dr L...

Tuesday, 7 December 2020, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (MMU) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English research communit...

Tuesday, 8 December 2020, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (MMU) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English research communit...

Recorded December 3, 2020. In this episode, Siobhán Callaghan(School of English) speaks to Dr Alison Waller about the powerful act of rereading books from childhood. Alison is the author of Rereading Childhood Books: A Poetics (2019), in which she explores what it means to return to texts from our childhood and develops a new model for understanding lifelong reading. For many of us, the events of...

Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 7 – 8pm A panel discussion as part of the ‘Sonic Spaces’ series. Wind-up music boxes; phonograph cylinders; gramophones; microphones; radio; magnetic tape; compact discs; MP3 players; synthetic voices. These are just a few of the sound technologies that have framed our experience of listening since the 19th century until the present day. And while audio transmission and...

Tuesday, 1 December 2020, 7 – 8pm A panel discussion to mark the launch of Journalist Bill Emmott’s latest book Japan’s Far More Female Future - Increasing Gender Equality and Reducing Workplace Insecurity Will Make Japan Stronger (2020). In addition to a presentation by Bill Emmott, guest speakers include: A recorded video conversation between Bill and Ambassador Mari Miyoshi, Japanese Ambassador...

Monday, 30 November 2020, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Susan Flavin (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...

Monday, 23 November 2020, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library) 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, confer...

Wednesday, 24 November 2020 Research Seminars entitled "'Blue Disfigurement': Colour, Race and the Freak Body in Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch" and "Decomposing the Innocent Child: Jo and the Churchyard in Dickens's Bleak House" by PhD candidates Esther Reilly (TCD) and Rebecca Easler (TCD) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Lo...

Recorded November 23, 2020. An online lecture as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series, with David M Anderson Professor of African History University of Warwick. In April 2011, Foreign Secretary William Hague informed the British Parliament that a collection of some 25,000 historical files, that had been illegally held by his department for over 50 years, would be speedily transferred to The...