Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 4 – 5pm A talk by Prof Edhem Eldem (Collège de France) 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. From Chateaubriand to Owen Jones, and from Washington Irving to Jean-Léon Gérôme, travel...

Monday, 19 April 2021, 4 – 5pm Limits of Napoleon’s powers. The resilience of Dutch overseas trade networks during the Continental System A seminar by Prof. Marjolein t’Hart (Huygens Institute, The Hague) 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...

Monday, 22 March 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Ms Kathleen McCrudden (Yale) 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 pu...

Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Paul Corthorn (QUB) as part of the Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. The Centre for Contemporary Irish History promotes research in recent Irish history. This Seminar Series is intended to act as a forum where those engaged in research in Contemporary Irish History can discuss their work with like-...

Monday, 1 March 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Mr David Briscoe (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 le...

Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 4 – 5pm Research seminars by Dearbhaile Houston (TCD) and Hannah Mathew (TCD) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Dearbhaile Houston will present a paper entitled "‘You have to rise above your circumstances’: The Neoliberal University in Nicole Flattery’s “Abortion, A Love Story”." Hannah Math...

Recorded April 21, 2021. The Age of the Technocene: Why we need the Arts and Humanities in the 4th Industrial Revolution The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture for 2021 will be delivered by Professor Andrew Thompson CBE (Professor of Global and Imperial History, Nuffield College, Oxford and co-chair of the Global and Imperial History Centre at the University of Oxford). With...

Thursday, 15 April 2021, 6:30 – 7:30pm Named for the informal gatherings of radical thinkers and reformers of the 19th century, we’re excited to come together once more to discuss projects and ideas beyond discipline. This month the Art+Science Salon is returning to explore the evolution of musical tastes and mutations across time. How have our experiences, histories and increasingly connected and...

Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 7 – 8pm A roundtable discussion with Eoin McNamee, Catherine Ryan Howard, & Dr. Eva Burke. This event is presented by the School of English and the Trinity Long Room Hub. What does it mean to write fiction inspired by true-life crime? How does the literary imagination engage with, and transform, real-life tragic events? Can fiction tell us things about true crime that nonfi...

Thursday, 15 April 2021, 7 – 8:30pm The years since 1998 have seen a major decline in violence in Northern Ireland, continued growth in North-South co-operation, the expansion of mixed religion workplaces and significant economic recovery. Despite this, media, academic and public attention is currently consumed by headlines around the NI Protocol and the tensions within the British-Irish relations...

Monday, 12 April 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Prof. Sarah Covington (CUNY) 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 pu...

Monday, 12 April 2021, 10 – 11am A research presentation by Dr Denis Murphy (Department of Film, TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum (SCARF) in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Although filmmaking in Ireland dates back to the silent era, Irish film workers have not always enjoyed easy access to employment on the international productions on which the Irish film indust...

Recorded April 9, 2021. HUMAN+ presents 'The New Cybernetics? Making sense of the 21st century' a lecture by Professor Genevieve Bell, Director of the 3A Institute, Florence Violet McKenzie Chair, and a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University. Organised by Human+ project in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub and ADAPT, the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Digital...

Wednesday, 7 April 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Prof Eve Patten (Trinity Long Room Hub) as part of the Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. The Centre for Contemporary Irish History promotes research in recent Irish history. This Seminar Series is intended to act as a forum where those engaged in research in Contemporary Irish History can discuss their...

Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 12:30 – 1:30pm A seminar by Stephen Post, Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, Professor of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine (Stony Brook University, USA) 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 I...

Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 4 – 5pm A talk by Professor Emeritus Tomislav Z. Longinović (UW Madison) 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. This lecture examines the cultural mechanisms through which the Gothic...

Recorded March 25, 2021. A panel discussion as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. For centuries, religions travelled with people who moved across the globe – in search of work, food, safety or freedom. But religion also moves people: literally, when going on pilgrimages and mission; and emotionally, when religion provides an anchor for bui...

Monday, 22 March 2021, 7 – 8:15pm An online lecture as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series, with Professor Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University, Washington. This lecture examines the history of the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was destroyed by fire in September 2018. Araujo explores the connections between the museum's building and the formation of its collections associ...

Thursday, 18 March 2021, 12 – 1:15pm A panel discussion as part of the Shape-ID webinar series Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Partnerships with actors in civil society, industry, the cultural sector and citizens, are increasingly important to develop societally relevant research. In recent years our understanding of these relationship...

Monday, 8 March 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Leanne Calvert (University of Hertfordshire) 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,...

Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 4 – 5pm A talk by Dr Anne M. Mulhall (SLLCS TCD) 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. Recent workplace fiction and film has tended to focus on two important themes- time and death....

Thursday, 25 February 2021, 6:30 – 7:30pm This month the Art+Science Reading group returns in its new form, the Art+Science Salon. This season on the Art+Science Salon, in addition to our monthly online discussion series, we’re adding a curated collection of online resources that are open access and available to everyone online. Here we will share articles, essays, videos, and more. To kick off th...

Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 7 – 8pm A panel discussion as part of the ‘Sonic Spaces’ series. Discourse around gender and sound often reflects biases about who should be allowed to take up sonic space: from historical assumptions that women’s voices were unsuitable for the radio, to contemporary biases in institutional policies that work to exclude the work of women in the music industry, as well as...

Thursday, 11 March 2021, 1 – 2pm A lecture by Christina Cleary, O’Donovan Scholar, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies where she will discuss the small number of ascriptions of poems to women, as well as speeches and dialogues from the mouths of female characters, in the twelfth-century Book of Leinster (TCD MS 1339). Although mere interpretations of the female experience through a male lens, an...

Friday, 12 March 2021, 1 – 2pm With many Irish people mourning the closure of their local pub, we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by asking what place the Irish pub holds in our history and culture. How did people use pubs in the past, and what was the popular attitude towards them? Famous the world over, is the Irish pub indeed an imagined space embedded in the concept of “Irish hospitality”? In this...