Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded April 12, 2023. An in-person lecture by Prof Andy Murphy (TCD) organised by the School of English in conjunction with Trinity College Library and the Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the First Folio celebrations. As part of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays -- the 'First Folio' -- Prof Andy Murphy of the Scho...

Recorded May 25, 2023. The French Department's in-person 'End-of-Year Lecture in French Studies' will be delivered by Prof Mary Orr (University of St. Andrews), and is organised by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. In this talk Professor Orr (Buchanan Chair of French at the University of Saint Andrews) will discuss some key learning points for interdisciplinary and interme...

Recorded May 26. 2023. An in-conversation event featuring Prof Rosie Lavan (School of English TCD) and comics artist Deena Mohamed organised by the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Deena Mohamed is an Egyptian comics artist, writer and designer. She began her career with the satirical webcomic 'Qahera', about a visibly Muslim Egyptian superheroin...

Recorded May 23, 2023. An in-person lecture by Prof Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University) organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub in partnership with the School of History, UCD. Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1970 and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974, and has taught at the Lebanese University,...

Recorded May 18, 2023 An in-person 'in conversation' event featuring Prof Genevieve Bell (Australian National University), Andrew Meares (Australian National University), and Prof Chris Morash (TCD), organised by the School of English. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/ When we look forward to possible technological futures, we often do so from the perspective of a very foreshor...

Recorded May 16, 2023 An in-person 'in conversation' event featuring Dr Svitlana Khyliuk (Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine) and Dr David Kenny (TCD), organised by the School of Law in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Ukraine’s constitutional structures have regularly been revised since its independence. While it was already moving on a path towards closer association with...

Recorded May 12, 2023. An in-person lecture by Prof Richard Dyer(King's College London) as part of the Irish Screen Studies seminar organised by the Department of Film in the School of Creative Arts. This paper by Professor Richard Dyer starts from a consideration of the trope of ‘our song’, the song, that is, that film characters feel in some way is associated with or even expresses their relatio...

Recorded April 25, 2023. An in-person seminar by Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Prof Dariusz Komorowski (University of Wroclaw) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Seminar Series. After decades of being trapped in discourse, where signs referred to other signs rather than reality, sentences were quotations or paraphrases of other sentences, and text...

Recorded April 13, 2023. A lecture by Dr Rebecca McLaughlan (University of Sydney) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. McLaughlin's research investigates the relationship of the environment to wellbeing; how do healthcare environments make people feel, and how do can they best support staff in the delivery of patient care? Once we have this research, how can it be successf...

Recorded April 25, 2023. A lunchtime 'in conversation' event featuring Visiting Research Fellow Dr Roisín Higgins (Teesside University) in conversation with Dr Mark Hennessy (School of Natural Sciences, TCD), organised by the Long Room Hub. Roisín Higgins is an Associate Professor at Teesside University with a research focus on historical memory. Her book on the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter...

Recorded April 20, 2023. A lunchtime discussion featuring Professor Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape) in conversation with Professor Eve Patten (Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub). Professor Lalu will discuss his new book ‘Undoing Apartheid’, which he worked on while a visiting fellow at the Hub in 2019. Premesh Lalu is the former Director of the DSI-NRF Flagship on Critical Though...

Recorded April 5, 2023 Panelists: Dr Jane Suzanne Carroll (TCD), Dr David Kenny (TCD), Dr Martina Devlin, and Dr Nicholas Johnson (TCD). With the recent news that publishers Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company have decided to rewrite potentially sensitive or offensive elements of the popular children’s books, our Behind the Headlines panel considers whether languages, images, and texts should...

A lunchtime 'in conversation' event on March 28th, 2023, featuring Visiting Research Fellow Prof Dariusz Komorowski (University of Wroclaw) in conversation with Prof Jürgen Barkhoff (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, TCD). Dariusz Komorowski is a Professor of German Philology at the University of Wroclaw in Poland. Since 2005 he has been the Head of the Research Centre for Ger...

A lunchtime 'in conversation' event on April 4th, 2023, featuring Rooney Writer Fellow Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe in conversation with Dr Sean Hewitt (School of English, TCD), organized by Trinity Long Room Hub. Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and fabulist. Auguries of a Minor God, her first collection, was published by Faber & Faber in 2021. A finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, John Pollard Fo...

Recorded March 16, 2023. A lecture by Martina Zimmermann (King's College London) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Cultural pessimism about ageing is grounded in a decline narrative that upholds youth as embodying the independent, vital self. Scientific accounts of senescence, by comparison, describe ageing as a life-time continuum involving ‘growth, development, and mat...

Recorded February 27, 2023. An 'in conversation' event featuring Visiting Research Fellow Dr Susan Manly (University of St Andrews) in conversation with Prof Aileen Douglas (Professor of English, TCD) and organized by Trinity Long Room Hub. Susan Manly is a Reader in English at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her research interests are in Romantic-period Irish and English literature. She...

Recorded 16 February 2023. A hybrid lecture by Evi Numen (TCD) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Medical museums begun their existence as galleries of wonder, a way to celebrate God’s creations through collecting and publicly accessible display. As medical knowledge and teaching developed, medical collections moved from this quasi-religious domain to establishments of sc...

Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' event featuring Visiting Research Fellow Dr Şebnem Susam-Saraeva in conversation with Dr James Hadley (Ussher Assistant Professor in Literary Translation, Trinity College Dublin) and organized by Trinity Long Room Hub. Şebnem Susam-Saraeva is a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. Her research...

Recorded February 21, 2023 Global conversations centred on custodianship and care of historic human remains provide the focus for the Trinity Long Room Hub’s latest Behind the Headlines discussion, which highlights the complexities and tensions surrounding the retention or reburial of human remains. As many international news sites have recently reported, Trinity College Dublin is currently workin...

An online seminar by Professor Leszek Drong (University of Silesia) organised by the School of English, recorded January 26, 2023. “Partition narratives and regions of memory” will focus on Upper Silesia (a historical region in the south of Poland) and its history articulated in regional memory, which often stands in sharp contrast to national historical narratives taught in Polish schools. The po...

A roundtable discussion hosted by Dr Qian Xiao as part of the Human+ Tech Talks series, recorded November 22, 2022. Online education has become a mainstream form of education in many countries during the pandemic. The market for AI-enhanced personalized tutoring systems is therefore growing in great demand and popularity. This allows recording rich information of learner's interactions, thus openi...

An online roundtable discussion hosted by Dr Nicola Palladino as part of the Human+ Tech Talks series, recorded November 1, 2022. Building trust around a disruptive technology such as AI is deemed crucial in order to realise its full potential while minimising the risks to people and communities. Trustworthiness has become a key concept in AI development and governance, as testified by recent EU,...

Recorded Oct 27, 2022 Prof. Julian Goodare (University of Edinburgh) delivers the keynote address of the "Demons: Good and Bad" interdisciplinary conference, organised by the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies and funded by the Trinity Long Room Hub Research Incentive Scheme. How could you rule a magical world – a world pervaded by supernatural powers? You would have to make sure that...

Recorded November 10, 2022 Responding to the devastation of the First World War, in 1922 T.S. Eliot wrote of showing us ‘fear in a handful of dust’, in his monumental poem, The Waste Land. On the centenary of the poem’s first full publication, this Behind the Headlines discussion confronts the ecological devastation of contemporary global landscapes, and ask: does the creative imagining of landsca...

Recorded November 8, 2022 A special event exploring poetry and resistance organized by the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies and Poetry Ireland as part of the Literature and Resistance Series. Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and Anthony Anaxagorou joined us to read from their work, and to discuss how ideas of resistance inform and emerge from their writing, and how such ideas have also shaped their work b...