Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Tuesday, 17 November 2020, 4 – 5pm A talk by Prof. Martin Worthington (TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. The study of Babylonian poetry as poetry is still in its infancy — largely because so much energy has to go into textual reconstruction. But we now have a number of reasonably well preserv...

Recorded November 19, 2020. A panel discussion as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. A follow-up to our social class panel in last year’s series: this panel will ask a focused question: how do we fix inequality in education in our city? Most fee-paying schools cluster in the Dublin commuter belt, and some of the most disadvantaged schools...

Recorded November 16, 2020. A seminar by Manon Nouvian (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 lecture...

Recorded November 17, 2020. A panel discussion with the Global Irish Network in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub for Arts and Humanities Research This panel will address recent debates over Ireland’s links to the legacies of Empire, including the transatlantic slave economy, networks of cultural appropriation, and embedded financial inheritances, from the perspective of the Irish univers...

Recorded November 16, 2020. An 'in conversation' with Dr Clare Clarke (School of English) hosted by Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub. Dr Clarke will discuss her career and her latest publication, with a selected reading performed by a special guest. About Dr Clare Clarke Clare Clarke is Assistant Professor in Nineteenth Century Literature, specialising in crime and detec...

Recorded November 9, 2020. A public event on the anniversary of Kristallnacht organized by the Herzog Centre at Trinity College Dublin, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. "Why Talk About The Holocaust?" will feature Lenny Abrahamson and Oliver Sears in conversation, and the event will be moderated by Sarah Carey. Lenny Abrahamson Lenny is the director of the critically-acclaimed Room....

Recorded November 10, 2020. A panel discussion as part of the SHAPE-ID webinar series Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. The SHAPE-ID Policy Brief recommends that funders and policy makers invite greater Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) participation in designing and evaluating inter- and transdisciplinary research funding call...

Recorded November 4, 2020. A panel discussion as part of the ‘Sonic Spaces’ series. A rise in the number of sound-focused cultural productions is one of the key trends to emerge in the performing arts in recent years, including the reworking of various literary works and figures in the direction of sound and music centred experiences. How do artists and practitioners adapt written works into coher...

Recorded November 3, 2020. A seminar by Dr Jade Dillon (Mary Immaculate College) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Dr Jade Dillon is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting whic...

Recorded November 2, 2020. A seminar by Dr Tim Murtagh (Beyond 2022) and Dr Neil Johnston (UK National Archives) 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 Centr...

Recorded November 3, 2020. A research seminar as part of the Identities in Transformation Postgraduate Seminar Series, in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Continuing on from last year's series, this seminar explores the concept of embodiment, and will seek to interrogate how concepts of the body and embodiment influence our knowledge of, perception of, and negotiation with the world through...

Recorded November 3, 2020. A lecture by Prof Nicholas Allen (University of Georgia) organised by the Oscar Wilde Centre in partnership with Trinity School of English and the Willson Institute, University of Athens, Georgia. The coast is the scene of some of Irish literature’s most famous moments. James Joyce drew the imperial history of Ireland in the tangled outlines of Molly Bloom's memories of...

Recorded October 27, 2020. A talk by Professor Michael Cronin (TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. The future of travel is central to contemporary debates about pandemics and ‘flight shaming’. The nature and status of travel as an absolute right or unquestionable good are being called into ques...

Recorded October 29, 2020. The subject of countless songs, films, novels and works of art, 'the American Dream' has been a defining theme of the modern American ethos. As US election day approaches in the midst of a global pandemic, climate catastrophe and escalating racial tensions, we want to ask if this dream -- with its emphasis on equality, opportunity and freedom -- has become a nightmare. W...

Recorded October 28, 2020. What does equity in brain health look like? How do artists and scientists approach this question together? This month we’ll be hosting another evening chat with a panel of experts from the Global Brain Health Institute. Join us for a discussion on health equity, social memory and the role of music in brain health and research. As Atlantic Fellows with GBHI, neuroscientis...

Recorded October 29, 2020. In this episode, Dr Clare Moriarty talks with three leading scholars of carceral institutions in recent Irish history. Claire McGettrick, Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholar, UCD Sociology and Co-Founder of Justice for Magdalenes Research/Adoption Rights Alliance, Katherine O’Donnell, Associate Professor, History of Ideas, UCD School of Philosophy, and Maeve O’Ro...

Recorded October 22, 2020. Voices of the past, stories for the future: a Research Showcase from the 1641 Depositions Project On the 10th anniversary of its launch and almost 380 years since the outbreak of the 1641 Rebellion, the 1641 Depositions Project celebrates its legacy and impact in a virtual research showcase this October 22nd, 2020. A flagship transdisciplinary digital humanities endeavou...

Recorded October 22, 2020. Voices of the past, stories for the future: a Research Showcase from the 1641 Depositions Project How can we best tell our research stories and demonstrate the value of investing in Arts and Humanities projects? How can we be better prepared to capture a project’s impact along the way? On the 10th anniversary of its launch, we example the legacy and impact of 1641 Deposi...

Recorded October 19, 2020. A panel discussion featuring TCD PhD candidates James Greaney, Joel Herman, Grace Hoffman and Kasper Kop 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 moder...

Recorded October 20, 2020. A seminar by Dr Clare Clarke (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 convivial atmo...

Recorded October 20, 2020. A panel discussion as part of the SHAPE-ID webinar series Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. What can the experiences of researchers working in the emerging area of the Neurohumanities teach us about the challenges and potential of interdisciplinary research between the Arts and Humanities and STEM disciplines?...

Recorded October 15, 2020. A panel discussion as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series. Unlike Cork, Waterford and Galway, Dublin is not a ‘healthy city’. Why is this? And what makes a city ‘healthy’? What policies and actions are in place? And how can evidence-based research inform such policies and actions? A panel of distinguished experts discusses these and related issues. Contrib...

Recorded October 09, 2020. In this episode, Dawn Seymour Klos talks with Dr Caoimhe Whelan and Dr Sparky Booker about the Friends of Medieval Dublin and the representation of the Middle Ages in popular media and western politics. The Hublic Sphere is a new podcast series created and produced by early career researchers at the Trinity Long Room Hub in Trinity College Dublin. The title reflects our...

Global White Nationalism: From Apartheid to Trump Thursday, 8 October 2020, 7 – 8:30pm This panel discussion will consider the historical roots of contemporary white nationalism. Speakers will stress the importance of understanding white nationalism as an interconnected global movement. And they will analyze how white supremacism adapted to the challenged posed by decolonization and movements for...

Recorded October 06, 2020. There is a growing sense that the one certainty we can count on over the coming weeks, months, and years, is uncertainty. From the ancient stoics and philosophers to contemporary historians, writers and economists, thinkers have grappled with this concept and its implications. What can they tell us about our current predicament, and can we learn to tolerate uncertainty i...