Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' event featuring TLRH visiting research fellow Dr Aidan O'Malley (University of Rijeka), hosted by Professor Michael Cronin, 1776 Professor of French and Director of the Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation in Trinity College Dublin. About Aidan O’Malley Aidan O’Malley is an Assistant Professor, and Chair of the Literature section, at t...

Recorded October 14, 2021. In this first episode of season two, we discuss Lucy Sweeney Byrne’s debut short story collection, Paris Syndrome (2019), and widen the conversation to touch on how ‘Paris syndrome’ as a concept speaks to feelings of millennial disconnection in a globalised world, particularly for young women. We also widen the conversation, examining the parallels between autofiction an...

Tuesday, 21 September 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Professor Eve Patten, Trinity College Dublin, as part of the School of English Staff Postgrad Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. In 1919 D.H. Lawrence wrote of Ireland as ‘a blank round O on the map – a sort of nowhere’, yet Irish references permeate his later novels, often in relation to his fears of an English revolution. Th...

Monday, 27 September 2021 In the wake of the US and British withdrawal from Afghanistan and the crisis that has ensued, how should the world reflect on the history of western intervention in this region, and how should we reassess the concept and protocols of international responsibility? What is the best way forward for those trying to respond to the humanitarian disaster, and to the implications...

Friday, 17 September 2021, 12 – 1pm What can we learn about a writer from reading their letters? This online roundtable, organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub as part of Culture Night 2021, invites a panel of experts to reflect on the letters of three major writers, American author Shirley Jackson, American poet John Berryman, and Irish novelist John McGahern. The roundtable will feature Bernice...

15th Sep 2021 A lecture by Mark Little to launch the Trinity Long Room Hub’s Schuler Democracy Forum on the United Nations International Day of Democracy 2021. Mark Little has spent 30 years working on the faultline of media, technology and democracy. In 'Media for Humanity - a brief history of the future of journalism', his inaugural talk as Schuler Democracy Forum Media Fellow, he looks back on...

Thursday, 15 July 2021, 12:30 – 2pm Interdisciplinary Panel - The Challenges of Integrating Interdisciplinarity in Academia A panel discussion linking to our first event, where experts in the field discuss the challenges of interdisciplinarity and Neurohumanities. The newly formed NeuroHumanities Networking Group is dedicated to providing a functional framework for postgraduates engaged or interes...

Thursday, 1 July 2021, 12:30 – 1:30pm Guest Lecture - Mani Ramaswami on the Importance of Integrating Neurohumanities Professor Mani Ramaswami (TCIN) will give a presentation on Neurohumanities and its potential and importance within Trinity, followed by a Q&A. Professor Mani Ramaswami (TCIN) presentation will touch on the history thus far of NeuroHumanities and NeuroHumanities research at Trinity...

Monday, 28 June 2021, 7 – 8pm A panel discussion organised by the School of Linguistic Speech and Communication Sciences in association with the Bosnia Herzegovina Association of Ireland, and hosted by Trinity Long Room Hub. Over twenty-five years since the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, atrocities such as the Srebrenica genocide, in which over 8000 boys and men were killed by Bosnian S...

Recorded June 15, 2021. An online event hosted by Trinity Long Room Hub to mark the launch of Approximate Formality - Morphology of Irish Towns by Valerie Mulvin architect of the TLRH. Professor Linda Doyle (Provost Elect of Trinity College Dublin) will speak, along with an introduction to the book by author Valerie Mulvin, followed by Q&A. "Approximate Formality" discusses the origin, originality...

Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 4 – 5pm A talk by Dr Kasia Szymanska (TCD Russian and Slavonic Studies) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. All webinars take place at 4pm. Presenters speak for a maximum of 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A. In recent decades, projects called "translation multiples" have emerged...

Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 4 – 5pm A research seminar by Dr Sinéad Moriarty (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...

Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 4 – 5pm Research presentations by Jason Marrott, Tom Hedley, and Conor Brennan as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Speaking to the Mirror: A Brief Cultural History of Solitude JASON MARROTT There is an inherently paradoxical aspect to the mediation of solitude, for to express i...

For the past 2.5 years, the SHAPE-ID project has been addressing the challenge of how to strengthen the integration of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in inter- and transdisciplinary research with STEM disciplines and societal partners. On the 10th June 2021, we launched our final project toolkit, which offers tools and resources to help researchers, research organisations, funders, polic...

Recorded June 1, 2021. A celebration of John Scattergood's Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Middle English and Some Old English, organised by the Manuscript, Book and Print Cultures Research Theme in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub. To over a million visitors a year, Trinity is synonymous with the Book of Kells, But that ninth-century Irish manuscript is only part of the...

Recorded May 31, 2021. During the first covid-19 lockdown in Ireland, four early career researchers and two postdocs at Trinity’s arts and humanities institute, The Trinity Long Room Hub ('The Hub'), started chatting about new possibilities for producing and sharing academic knowledge through a podcast. Each team member was responsible for an episode around the season's theme, “Modalities of Power...

Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 2:30 – 5pm People, Place and Power: Grand Jury Records and Local History Presented in association with Local Government Archivists and Records Managers. Links to videos in podcast - People, Place and Power: Grand Jury Records and Local History - Donegal - YouTube -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5csuCtgQFY8 People, Place and Power: Grand Jury Records and Local History - Wickl...

25th May 2021 An online lecture by Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian, University of Oxford, and author of Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge (John Murray Press). Richard Ovenden's lecture will discuss the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq t...

Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 1 – 2pm May 2021 marks the publication of a major new intellectual biography of Bishop George Berkeley by Tom Jones (University of St Andrews), George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life (Princeton University Press, 2021). Trinity Long Room Hub is pleased to host a conversation with Dr Jones that will centre on Berkeley’s life, connections to Trinity and Ireland, and his relatio...

Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 1 – 2pm A lecture by Dr Angela Griffith organised by the Manuscript, Book and Print Cultures Research Theme in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Elizabeth Corbet Yeats used the term ‘art printing’ to describe the work of the Cuala Press. She promoted the press as a hand-craft enterprise, one that celebrated the best of Irish materials and skills. Under Yeats’ stewar...

Thursday, 13 May 2021, 6 – 7pm A public event organized by Holocaust Awareness Ireland and the Herzog Centre at Trinity College Dublin, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. "Why Talk About The Holocaust?" is the second event in this series. Daniel Mendelsohn author of the internationally bestselling Holocaust family saga, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million will be in conversation...

Friday, 7 May 2021, 11am – 12:15pm This special centenary joint symposium will address the cultural, political and social legacies of Irish partition in 1921. The symposium consists of two panels: the first, from Trinity College, Dublin, will discuss the cultural and literary legacies of partition; the second, from Queen’s University, Belfast, will cover the political and social consequences. Each...

Recorded May 7, 2021. This special centenary joint symposium will address the cultural, political and social legacies of Irish partition in 1921. The symposium consists of two panels: the first, from Trinity College, Dublin, will discuss the cultural and literary legacies of partition; the second, from Queen’s University, Belfast, will cover the political and social consequences. Each panel consis...

Recorded April 26, 2021. Classical Athens excluded groups of people from political power – enslaved people, metics (non-Athenian residents) and women. In this episode, Elizabeth Foley talks with Dr. Carrie Sawtell and Dr. Katherine Backler about women in Classical Athens in the context and question of “power” and through a selection of material and literary sources discusses how women experienced...

Tuesday, 6 April 2021, 4 – 5pm A research seminar by Dr Ian Hickey (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) 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 i...