Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Thursday, 10 December 2020, 7 – 8:30pm The recent anti-government protests in Belarus and Poland have attracted significant media attention across the world, with commentators highlighting not only the remarkable resilience of the protesters in the face of violence but also the predominance of women at the forefront of the protests themselves. In this Behind the Headlines discussion, our panel of...

Thursday, 10 December 2020, 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. SHAPE-ID has found that a clear and well-defined process is needed for inter- and transdisciplinary research projects in order to manage such innovative interactions and ensure long-lasting results. This web...

Recorded December 7, 2020. An 'in conversation' event featuring Dr Lilith Acadia and hosted by Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub. Dr Acadia will discuss her career and her latest research, as well as her time with the Trinity Long Room Hub as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Fellow for 2019–20, in association with Trinity’s Identities in Transformation Research Theme. Dr L...

Tuesday, 7 December 2020, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (MMU) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English research communit...

Tuesday, 8 December 2020, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (MMU) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English research communit...

Recorded December 3, 2020. In this episode, Siobhán Callaghan(School of English) speaks to Dr Alison Waller about the powerful act of rereading books from childhood. Alison is the author of Rereading Childhood Books: A Poetics (2019), in which she explores what it means to return to texts from our childhood and develops a new model for understanding lifelong reading. For many of us, the events of...

Wednesday, 2 December 2020, 7 – 8pm A panel discussion as part of the ‘Sonic Spaces’ series. Wind-up music boxes; phonograph cylinders; gramophones; microphones; radio; magnetic tape; compact discs; MP3 players; synthetic voices. These are just a few of the sound technologies that have framed our experience of listening since the 19th century until the present day. And while audio transmission and...

Tuesday, 1 December 2020, 7 – 8pm A panel discussion to mark the launch of Journalist Bill Emmott’s latest book Japan’s Far More Female Future - Increasing Gender Equality and Reducing Workplace Insecurity Will Make Japan Stronger (2020). In addition to a presentation by Bill Emmott, guest speakers include: A recorded video conversation between Bill and Ambassador Mari Miyoshi, Japanese Ambassador...

Monday, 30 November 2020, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Susan Flavin (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...

Monday, 23 November 2020, 4 – 5pm A seminar by Dr Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library) 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, confer...

Wednesday, 24 November 2020 Research Seminars entitled "'Blue Disfigurement': Colour, Race and the Freak Body in Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch" and "Decomposing the Innocent Child: Jo and the Churchyard in Dickens's Bleak House" by PhD candidates Esther Reilly (TCD) and Rebecca Easler (TCD) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Lo...

Recorded November 23, 2020. An online lecture as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series, with David M Anderson Professor of African History University of Warwick. In April 2011, Foreign Secretary William Hague informed the British Parliament that a collection of some 25,000 historical files, that had been illegally held by his department for over 50 years, would be speedily transferred to The...

Tuesday, 17 November 2020, 4 – 5pm A talk by Prof. Martin Worthington (TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. The study of Babylonian poetry as poetry is still in its infancy — largely because so much energy has to go into textual reconstruction. But we now have a number of reasonably well preserv...

Recorded November 19, 2020. A panel discussion as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. A follow-up to our social class panel in last year’s series: this panel will ask a focused question: how do we fix inequality in education in our city? Most fee-paying schools cluster in the Dublin commuter belt, and some of the most disadvantaged schools...

Recorded November 16, 2020. A seminar by Manon Nouvian (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 lecture...

Recorded November 17, 2020. A panel discussion with the Global Irish Network in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub for Arts and Humanities Research This panel will address recent debates over Ireland’s links to the legacies of Empire, including the transatlantic slave economy, networks of cultural appropriation, and embedded financial inheritances, from the perspective of the Irish univers...

Recorded November 16, 2020. An 'in conversation' with Dr Clare Clarke (School of English) hosted by Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub. Dr Clarke will discuss her career and her latest publication, with a selected reading performed by a special guest. About Dr Clare Clarke Clare Clarke is Assistant Professor in Nineteenth Century Literature, specialising in crime and detec...

Recorded November 9, 2020. A public event on the anniversary of Kristallnacht organized by the Herzog Centre at Trinity College Dublin, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. "Why Talk About The Holocaust?" will feature Lenny Abrahamson and Oliver Sears in conversation, and the event will be moderated by Sarah Carey. Lenny Abrahamson Lenny is the director of the critically-acclaimed Room....

Recorded November 10, 2020. A panel discussion as part of the SHAPE-ID webinar series Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. The SHAPE-ID Policy Brief recommends that funders and policy makers invite greater Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) participation in designing and evaluating inter- and transdisciplinary research funding call...

Recorded November 4, 2020. A panel discussion as part of the ‘Sonic Spaces’ series. A rise in the number of sound-focused cultural productions is one of the key trends to emerge in the performing arts in recent years, including the reworking of various literary works and figures in the direction of sound and music centred experiences. How do artists and practitioners adapt written works into coher...

Recorded November 3, 2020. A seminar by Dr Jade Dillon (Mary Immaculate College) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Dr Jade Dillon is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting whic...

Recorded November 2, 2020. A seminar by Dr Tim Murtagh (Beyond 2022) and Dr Neil Johnston (UK National Archives) 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 Centr...

Recorded November 3, 2020. A research seminar as part of the Identities in Transformation Postgraduate Seminar Series, in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. Continuing on from last year's series, this seminar explores the concept of embodiment, and will seek to interrogate how concepts of the body and embodiment influence our knowledge of, perception of, and negotiation with the world through...

Recorded November 3, 2020. A lecture by Prof Nicholas Allen (University of Georgia) organised by the Oscar Wilde Centre in partnership with Trinity School of English and the Willson Institute, University of Athens, Georgia. The coast is the scene of some of Irish literature’s most famous moments. James Joyce drew the imperial history of Ireland in the tangled outlines of Molly Bloom's memories of...

Recorded October 27, 2020. A talk by Professor Michael Cronin (TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. The future of travel is central to contemporary debates about pandemics and ‘flight shaming’. The nature and status of travel as an absolute right or unquestionable good are being called into ques...