Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Wednesday, 20 April 2022, 12:30 – 1:30pm ‘“When the pulse won’t yield a fee” the perceived relationship between medicine and the funeral trade in 18th century England’ a seminar by Dr Dan O’Brien (Bath) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Description During the long eighteenth century the management of death was incre...

Wednesday, 4 May 2022, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' event featuring Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Dr Karly Kehoe (Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia, Canada), hosted by Dr Ciaran O'Neill, Deputy Director Trinity Long Room Hub. About Dr Karly Kehoe Dr Karly Kehoe is the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities at Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia, Canada. She res...

Tuesday, 12 April 2022, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' event featuring Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Professor Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University), hosted by Professor Eve Patten, Director Trinity Long Room Hub. About Rashid Khalidi Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, where he has served as chair of the History Department and D...

14th April 2022 In the final episode of season two, Conor Brennan speaks to Dr Kasia Szymanska and Dr Karolina Watroba about the connections between Eastern and Western Europe. They discuss the Polish response to the invasion of Ukraine, and the concept of ‘Central Europe’ as a way of pushing back against the homogenisation of former Eastern Bloc countries. This includes the idea of a Central Euro...

Recorded April 11, 2022. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused immense human suffering, a refugee crisis, the renewed spectre of nuclear attack, and now, international outrage at evidence of war crimes. How is an international media reporting on these horrific developments? This panel discussion assesses the role of traditional war correspondents, citizen journalists, and open-source informat...

Monday, 4 April 2022, 6 – 7:30pm 'Swift against Empire – The Aidan Clarke Annual Lecture in Early Modern History' a seminar by Ian McBride (Oxford), 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 March 21, 2022. Frances Haugen is a data engineer, and formerly a product manager with Facebook. In 2021, she disclosed tens of thousands of Facebook's internal documents to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. In October 2021, she told the US Congress that Meta's "leadership know how to make Facebook and Instagram safer, but won't make the necessary changes because they have put th...

Recorded March 15, 2022. In this episode, Lorraine McEvoy speaks to Majella McAllister (founder, head of Youth Voices Team) and Professor Mary O ’Dowd (head of History Team) about the Museum of Childhood Ireland (MOCI, https://museumofchildhood.ie), “Ireland’s first Island-wide / diaspora / global, social history Museum of Childhood.” The ultimate aim of the voluntary group behind the Museum is to...

Recorded March 2, 2022. Introductory Remarks: Professor Ruth Barton (TCD) Presentation of methods and findings from a recent pilot research project investigating cultural value in Ireland with Dr Steven Hadley (NUI Galway) and Dr Emma McDowell (University of Leeds) Response: John O’Hagan (Professor Emeritus, Economics, TCD) This one-day symposium brought together academics, practitioners and polic...

Recorded March 2, 2022. The Centre for Cultural Value Chair: Professor Eve Patten (TCD)Overview and context of the Centre for Cultural Value - Professor Ben Walmsley (University of Leeds)Principles of Cultural Evaluation - Anne Torreggiani (Audience Agency) This one-day symposium brought together academics, practitioners and policy makers to discuss national and international perspectives on cultu...

Recorded March 2, 2022. Chair: Professor Dan Carey (NUI Galway; Interim Chair, Irish Research Council)Tania Banotti (Director, Creative Ireland)Professor Pat Cooke (former Director, MA in Cultural Policy and Arts Management, UCD)Maureen Kennelly (Director, The Arts Council, Ireland)Robert Read (CEO, National Concert Hall, Dublin)Lynn Scarff (Director, National Museum of Ireland) This one-day sympo...

Recorded March 2, 2022. Welcome and Opening Remarks Professor Eve Patten (Director, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts Humanities Institute), followed (online) by opening remarks from Professor Geoffrey Crossick (Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the School of Advanced Study, University of London) This one-day symposium brought together academics, practitioners and policy makers to discuss nati...

Monday, 14 February 2022, 10 – 11am 'Historically Informed Performance (HIP), Vocal Music of the Late Baroque, and the Employment of Female Musicians' a talk by Dr Simon Trezise as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The School of Creative Arts Research Forum meets fortnightly at 10am on Mondays during term and is led by the School's do...

Monday, 14 February 2022, 4 – 5pm 'A water bawdy house: women and the Stuart navy' a seminar by Dr Elaine Murphy (Plymouth) 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 warfare of early modern Eu...

Tuesday, 15 February 2022, 4 – 5pm ‘M. R. James: The Demon in the Library’ a seminar by Professor Darryl Jones (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 integral to the School of English research community since the 1990s. The aim of th...

Tuesday, 22 February 2022, 4 – 5pm 'Of Monsters and Women: Gender and Resistance in Galician Noir Audiovisual Media' a talk by Dr Catherine Barbour (TCD Dept of Hispanic Studies) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. This presentation contrasts strategies of resistance to gender-based violence in two...

Wednesday, 23 February 2022, 12:30 – 1:30pm ‘Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia’ a seminar by George Makari and Brendan Kelly 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, p...

Thursday, 17 February 2022, 1 – 2pm An online roundtable discussion with Neo Gilson, Jamalida Rafique, and Thirukumaran Thiruchelvan (Thiru), three of the poets who took part in our ‘Window to My World’ series for World Poetry Day 2021, showcasing poetry from refugees, asylum seekers, and exiled poets in Ireland. The discussion will be chaired by Professor Philip Coleman, School of English, TCD, a...

Tuesday, 15 February 2022, 7 – 8:15pm A panel discussion organised by Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute to mark the start of a new multiannual discussion series ‘Literature and Resistance.’ The discussion will be chaired by Professor Darryl Jones. Literature, says Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses, is “...

Recorded February 14, 2022. This podcast episode marks an important centenary: 100 years ago, in 1922, the trailblazing modern mathematician, Emmy Noether, was finally given a paid lectureship at the University of Göttingen in Germany. Despite a formidable reputation in her field, Noether had been denied paid academic work due to her gender and her Jewish heritage. She is now rightly recognized as...

Tuesday, 1 February 2022, 4 – 5pm ‘Healing the Union: Health, Illness, and Disability in the National Tale’ a seminar by Dr Matthew Reznicek (Creighton University) 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 re...

Monday, 7 February 2022, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Professor Edmund Russell (Carnegie Mellon) 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, co...

Monday, 7 February 2022, 10 – 11am ''Not in Flesh’: The Construction of the Disenfranchised Woman in Irish Theatre' a talk by Dr Salomé Paul (TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. This paper investigates the construction of the figure of the underprivileged woman in the Irish dramatic canon during the Revival movement through the...

Behind the Headlines: Falling out of Love with Dublin? Wednesday, 9 February 2022, 7 – 8:30pm In 1922 -- the year of Ulysses, James Joyce’s love letter to his native city -- Dublin of the future: the new town plan was published by Patrick Abercrombie, Sydney Kelly and Arthur Kelly, having won a competition launched by The Civics Institute of Ireland to gather ideas for the city’s development. One...

Monday, 31 January 2022, 4 – 5pm TLRH | Early Modern History Seminar | ‘Irish material in the Prize Papers collection’ ‘Irish material in the Prize Papers collection’ a seminar by Oliver Finnegan (National Archives, UK) 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 u...