Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded March 9, 2021. The launch of Trinity’s new Centre for Resistance Studies will be marked by a keynote lecture from Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Professor of History and Italian Studies, NYU), ‘How to Resist a Strongman: Lessons from a Century of Authoritarian Rule’ The Centre aims to provide an intellectual response to the growth of populism and authoritarianism across the globe by fostering...

Monday, 8 March 2021, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' with Professor Michael Cronin (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies) and hosted by Professor Barry McCrea (University of Notre Dame). Professor Cronin will discuss his career and his publications including, Irish and Ecology: An Ghaeilge agus an Éiceolaíocht (2019). About Michael Cronin Michael Cronin is 1776 Professor of French a...

Recorded March 4, 2021. This fifth episode of the Hublic Sphere, hosted by Dr Lilith Acadia, brings together five remarkable scholars, lawyers, and activists to discuss how the concept of ‘citizenship’ creates power. The January 6th insurrection in Washington DC inspired this episode, yet it has much broader relevance in the US (such as Trump’s family separation policy and the ongoing deportation...

Monday, 1 March 2021, 7 – 8:30pm What makes a political speech? From Aristotle to Hannah Arendt, philosophers have seen the arts of rhetoric and oratory as essential to the proper functioning of the public sphere. Some speeches, like Martin Luther King’s 1963 dream vision or Greta Thunberg’s 2019 ‘How dare you?’ address have defined a generation. Others have embedded lasting images, metaphors and...

Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 12:30 – 1:30pm A seminar by Neil Vickers, Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities, King's College London, 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 inclu...

23 Feb 2021 Dr Sebastian Truskolaski (King’s College London) in conversation with the author of the recently published book Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film, Dr Daniel Mourenza (TCD Hispanic Studies). The book is the first monograph devoted to analysing the writings on film that German philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin produced during his life. It examines his writings on S...

Monday, 22 February 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Padhraig Higgins (Mercer County College, New Jersey) 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 organise...

Thursday, 18 February 2021, 7 – 8pm A panel discussion as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. This panel discussion will focus on the artistic representation of refugees and direct provision. It will include as speakers Vukasin Nedeljkovic, Dr Bisi Adigun, Bulelani Mfaco, and Dr Roja Fazaeli. Vukasin Nedeljkovic compiled an archive of photo...

Recorded February 18, 2021. Research seminars by PhD candidates Eric Swartz (TCD) and Bowen Wang (TCD) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Eric Swartz will present a paper entitled "From Foundation to Demolition: Andrei Platonov, Adrian Duncan, and the Engineering of a New World," and Bowen Wang will present a paper...

Thursday, 18 February 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. The aim of the webinar is to learn from digital research infrastructures with regards to the way they foster interdisciplinary research between the humanities scholars on the one hand and computer scientists...

Friday, 4 December 2020, 4 – 5pm The Kemble Lecture 2020 will be delivered by Prof. Clare Lees (University of London). The event is sponsored by the School of English and hosted in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. This annual lecture series in honour of John Mitchell Kemble, begun in 2005, invites distinguished scholars to speak on topics associated with Kemble: the history, literature, and...

Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 4 – 5pm A research seminar by Dr Brendan O'Connell (TCD) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Brendan O’Connell is a lecturer in medieval literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He has research interests in fourteenth and fifteenth-century poetry, and particularly in the...

Monday, 8 February 2021, 10 – 11am A research presentation by Meg Collins Stoop (Department of Music) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum (SCARF) in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Abstract: As a PhD researcher at Trinity College, I composed eight works which incorporate seven different ethnic instruments into ensembles with western art music instruments. Research, that w...

Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 7 – 8pm A panel discussion as part of the ‘Sonic Spaces’ series. From the soothing sounds of lapping waves and bird song, to the uncomfortable disruption of construction work and traffic, our daily lives are subject to a wide range of natural and man-made environmental sounds. The impact of such sounds on human well-being has led to a range of interventions in recent y...

Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' with Dr Peter Hamilton (School of Histories and Humanities) and hosted by Dr Isabella Jackson, (Trinity Centre for Asian Studies) Dr Hamilton will discuss his career and his latest publication, Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization. About Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Global...

Monday, 8 February 2021, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Leonie Hannan (QUB) 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...

Monday, 1 February 2021, 1 – 2pm Christian saint or Celtic goddess, Brigit has long been associated with the spring season, representing renewal, healing and fertility. But who was the enigmatic Brigit, Brigid or Bríg and what lessons does her legend offer us today? In the midst of a global pandemic which has shaken the world, can we find ways to generate hope from centuries old wisdom and traditi...

Monday, 25 January 2021 An online lecture as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series, with Corine Wegener, Director, Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative titled 'Evidence Aiding Post-Conflict Recovery: Mosul Museum Project Zero'. In 2014, Daesh (aka ISIS) established their so-called “Caliphate” in the city of Mosul and cut a swath of intentional destruction of cultural heritage across Iraq’s...

Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 7 – 8:30pm A panel discussion organised by the Irish Historical Society in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Ireland's relationship with the highly lucrative plantation system in the Caribbean has attracted much debate and some fascinating research in recent years. The Irish Historical Society is pleased to present a panel discussion on this complex and emotive...

Recorded January 14, 2021. Please be advised that there is discussion of sexual and gendered violence, rape, and sexual harassment in the workplace. If these topics will be disturbing for you, please proceed with caution. In keeping with the theme of power and its modalities, this episode is about identities and how minoritizing and racializing minorities can limit our power in patriarchal power s...

Monday, 14 December 2020, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer (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 pub...

Recorded December 16, 2020. In this episode, Melody Barnes discusses the developments in the Black Lives Matter movement, technology and misinformation, vaccine distribution and the 2020 US election. Melody Barnes is co-director for Policy and Public Affairs for the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia. She is the Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor of Practice at the Miller Center of...

Recorded December 16, 2020. In this episode, Lilith Acadia examines the dangers of epistemic uncertainty and the possible use of post-pandemic recovery as a pretext to ignore pressing global issues, including climate emergency and social inequality, in the United States. Listen here. Lilith Acadia is a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Cofund Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub and an Assistant Profes...

Recorded December 15, 2020. In this episode, Etain Tannam explores the erosion of trust in British-Irish relations, issues of stereotyping, and the future of cross-border cooperation in the wake of Brexit and Covid-19. Etain Tannam an Associate Professor International Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She is currently writing a book on British-Irish Relations in the 21st Century. She is als...

Friday, 27 November 2020, 12 – 1pm A public lecture by Dr Rahul Mishra (University of Malaya) organised by the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies and hosted by Trinity Long Room Hub. After decades of oppressive rule by the military junta, Myanmar (Burma) made a transition to democracy in 2015. The international community and the people of Myanmar had pinned their hopes on Aung San Suu Kyi, a noble l...