Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

From October 6, 2022, Professor Michael Ignatieff delivered the Annual Edmund Burke Lecture for 2022, 'Democracy and the Legacy of Revolutionary Violence.' Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian writer, historian and former politician, now Rector Emeritus of the Central European University in Vienna and a professor in the history department. He has been a leader of the Liberal Party of Canada as well as...

From October 11, 2022, a roundtable conversation hosted by Dr Pat Treusch as part of the Human+ Tech Talks series. Robots that will populate our social everyday lives have become an ubiquitous figure of the sociotechnical imaginary of the Global North. They can take the shape of smaller artifacts to life-sized humanoid robots. Researchers have been examining the gendered, racialized and ableist di...

From September 27, 2022 | In the first event of the new academic year in the Literature & Resistance series, the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies and the Trinity Long Room Hub welcomed Ankhi Mukherjee, Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford, to discuss her book Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor (Cambridge University Press, 2021).    Professor Muk...

A seminar by Dr Kata Szita (TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum. Recorded October 3, 2022. Dr Kata Szita is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and ADAPT Centre of Excellence for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her research involves the cognitive studies of immer...

Recorded September 27, 2022. This discussion focuses on whether avatars and digital personas should be considered humans and reflects on the impacts of these on inclusivity, social dynamics, and digital practices. Combining angles of human psychology and behavior, society, digital technology, and aesthetics, we aim to dissect the following questions: ● How does humanity's engagement with digital m...

To launch the Human+ Tech Talks series, an online roundtable discussion hosted by Professor Vincent Wade, Chair of Computer Science (1990), Trinity College Dublin, brought together a distinguished panel of industry and academic experts to explore the ethical dimensions to human-centred AI. This panel was recorded September 13, 2022. Speakers: Vincent Wade, co-Principal Investigator of the Human+ P...

A seminar by Maria Zukovs (University of St Andrews), as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series, recorded November 7, 2022. 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 lectures on the early modern history o...

A seminar by Dr Nicholas Johnson (TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum from September 25, 2022. Nicholas Johnson is Associate Professor of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, where he has worked full-time since 2008. He co-founded the Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies, within which he co-directs the Beckett Summer School and the Samuel Beckett Laboratory. With Jonathan Heron (W...

Recorded October 18, 2022. A seminar by Prof Elizabeth Barry (Warwick) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. This seminar examines the concept and lived experience of frailty understood in relation to factors such as risk and change. Informed by the work on frailty of sociologist Susan Pickard and gerontologist Amande Grenier, and on the phenomenology of illness by Havi Care...

Recorded October 4, 2022. A conversation with Galician writer Xesús Fraga, organised by the Department of Hispanic Studies. Born in London and raised between the UK and Galicia, award-winning writer Xesús Fraga discussed his celebrated book Virtudes (e misterios) (Virtues and Mysteries) about his family’s migration history. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded September 22, 2022. An online seminar by Dr Kelly Gray as part of the Medical & Health Humanities Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Drug dependency became an increasingly serious problem in nineteenth-century America, and most of this use began with medical use. The problem remained largely hidden until the late 1860s, because habitual opiate users did not behave e...

Recorded April 19, 2022. ‘Intersecting and contiguous identities in African narratives: ontological and anthropological perspectives' a talk by Dr Théophile Munyangeyo (TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Socio-political and economic crises that many African societies have experienced are gener...

Recorded April 12, 2022. Trinity College Dublin’s Oscar Wilde Centre Postgraduate Showcase as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2021-22 in association with the 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 pro...

Recorded April 11, 2022. 'The popular politics of local petitioning in early modern England' a seminar by Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck, Univ. of London) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Trinity Centre for Early Modern History promotes understanding of the culture, society, economy, religion, politics and w...

Recorded April 5, 2022. A talk by Mícheál Hoyne (TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. In 1563, Queen Elizabeth I made funding available ‘for making of Carecter to printe the New Testament in Irish’. At that point, not a single book had ever been printed in the language. The Irish New Testament f...

Recorded March 29, 2022. 'What Happened a Hundred Years Ago is Happening Again!': Confronting the Ghosts of the California Past in John Carpenter's The Fog (1980)’ a seminar by Dr Bernice Murphy (TCD) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2021-22 in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been...

Recorded march 22, 202. 'The 'German Catechism' Revisited: The Holocaust in Public Memory Culture' a talk by Professor A. Dirk Moses (Chapel Hill, USA) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Whether an orthodoxy about historical remembrance exists in Germany is hotly contested, not least by members of...

Recorded March 21, 2022. 'Microhistory, creative, collaborative public history, and early modern witch trials' a seminar by Dr Andrew Sneddon (Ulster) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Trinity Centre for Early Modern History promotes understanding of the culture, society, economy, religion, politics and...

Recorded March 16, 2022. 'Inventing Global Ireland: the idea and influence of the Irish Race Convention' a seminar by Dr Darragh Gannon (University College Dublin) as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Centre for Contemporary Irish History promotes research in recent Irish history. This Seminar Series...

Recorded March 15, 2022. ‘“The Storm Centre of the World”: Tourism and the Gothic Frontier in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Tragedy of the Korosko' A presentation by Orla Donnelly as part of the School of English research seminar series. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded March 14, 2022. 'Women, men and the experience of work in early modern England: a work task approach' a seminar by Prof Jane Whittle (Exeter), Dr Mark Hailwood (Bristol), Dr Taylor Aucoin (Exeter) and Dr Hannah Robb (Exeter) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Trinity Centre for Early Modern Hist...

Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 12:30 – 1:30pm A seminar by Amir Cohen-Shalev, University of Haifa as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Prof Shalev has written widely on ageing through cinema and literature, including a seminal book, Visions of Aging, in 2009. The Trinity College Dublin Medical and Health Humanities Initiati...

Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 12:30 – 1:30pm A seminar by Dr Erin Lamb 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 including history, philosophy, sociology, drama, health sciences, religion, cultural stud...

Wednesday, 23 March 2022, 12:30am – 1:30pm 'Making Breath Visible: A Medical Humanities Approach' a seminar by Professor Jane MacNaughton (Durham) 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 including h...

Wednesday, 6 April 2022, 12:30 – 1:30pm ‘“They attached no blame to the staff in charge”: The Role of Dublin Workhouse Officials in Preventing and Contributing to Institutional Mortality, 1872-1913’ a seminar by Shelby Zimmerman (TCD) 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 Humani...