Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded October 29, 2020. The subject of countless songs, films, novels and works of art, 'the American Dream' has been a defining theme of the modern American ethos. As US election day approaches in the midst of a global pandemic, climate catastrophe and escalating racial tensions, we want to ask if this dream -- with its emphasis on equality, opportunity and freedom -- has become a nightmare. W...

Recorded October 28, 2020. What does equity in brain health look like? How do artists and scientists approach this question together? This month we’ll be hosting another evening chat with a panel of experts from the Global Brain Health Institute. Join us for a discussion on health equity, social memory and the role of music in brain health and research. As Atlantic Fellows with GBHI, neuroscientis...

Recorded October 29, 2020. In this episode, Dr Clare Moriarty talks with three leading scholars of carceral institutions in recent Irish history. Claire McGettrick, Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholar, UCD Sociology and Co-Founder of Justice for Magdalenes Research/Adoption Rights Alliance, Katherine O’Donnell, Associate Professor, History of Ideas, UCD School of Philosophy, and Maeve O’Ro...

Recorded October 22, 2020. Voices of the past, stories for the future: a Research Showcase from the 1641 Depositions Project On the 10th anniversary of its launch and almost 380 years since the outbreak of the 1641 Rebellion, the 1641 Depositions Project celebrates its legacy and impact in a virtual research showcase this October 22nd, 2020. A flagship transdisciplinary digital humanities endeavou...

Recorded October 22, 2020. Voices of the past, stories for the future: a Research Showcase from the 1641 Depositions Project How can we best tell our research stories and demonstrate the value of investing in Arts and Humanities projects? How can we be better prepared to capture a project’s impact along the way? On the 10th anniversary of its launch, we example the legacy and impact of 1641 Deposi...

Recorded October 19, 2020. A panel discussion featuring TCD PhD candidates James Greaney, Joel Herman, Grace Hoffman and Kasper Kop 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 moder...

Recorded October 20, 2020. A seminar by Dr Clare Clarke (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 convivial atmo...

Recorded October 20, 2020. A panel discussion as part of the SHAPE-ID webinar series Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub. What can the experiences of researchers working in the emerging area of the Neurohumanities teach us about the challenges and potential of interdisciplinary research between the Arts and Humanities and STEM disciplines?...

Recorded October 15, 2020. A panel discussion as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series. Unlike Cork, Waterford and Galway, Dublin is not a ‘healthy city’. Why is this? And what makes a city ‘healthy’? What policies and actions are in place? And how can evidence-based research inform such policies and actions? A panel of distinguished experts discusses these and related issues. Contrib...

Recorded October 09, 2020. In this episode, Dawn Seymour Klos talks with Dr Caoimhe Whelan and Dr Sparky Booker about the Friends of Medieval Dublin and the representation of the Middle Ages in popular media and western politics. The Hublic Sphere is a new podcast series created and produced by early career researchers at the Trinity Long Room Hub in Trinity College Dublin. The title reflects our...

Global White Nationalism: From Apartheid to Trump Thursday, 8 October 2020, 7 – 8:30pm This panel discussion will consider the historical roots of contemporary white nationalism. Speakers will stress the importance of understanding white nationalism as an interconnected global movement. And they will analyze how white supremacism adapted to the challenged posed by decolonization and movements for...

Recorded October 06, 2020. There is a growing sense that the one certainty we can count on over the coming weeks, months, and years, is uncertainty. From the ancient stoics and philosophers to contemporary historians, writers and economists, thinkers have grappled with this concept and its implications. What can they tell us about our current predicament, and can we learn to tolerate uncertainty i...

Recorded October 05, 2020. A seminar by Dr Robert Armstrong, Dr Graeme Murdock and Dr Simon Lewis (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 organis...

Recorded September 24, 2020. The Art + Science Reading Group is now a virtual gathering of thinkers, researchers and the incurably curious. Organised by PhD candidates Amelia McConville (School of English and Institute of Neuroscience) and Autumn Brown (School of Education and Science Gallery Dublin) and supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the series will explore the...

Recorded March 09, 2020. A public lecture by Professor Philip Dwyer (University of Newcastle) is organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series. The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 brought the question of iconoclasm and cultural heritage into stark relief for the first time in many years. The Taliban were portrayed as “barbarians” and “vandals”, bu...

Recorded September 04, 2020. The Art + Science Reading Group is a virtual group where researchers, artists, thinkers, and revolutionaries come to share ideas. Organised by PhD candidates Autumn Brown (Science Gallery Dublin and School of Education) and Amelia McConville (School of English and Institute of Neuroscience) and supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the seri...

Recorded October 14, 2019. A lecture by David Lloyd organised by the School of Creative Arts. David Lloyd is a seasoned UK radio programmer who's worked across a variety of formats for over forty years – from rock to pop to talk, news and contemporary music stations – as broadcaster, producer, and executive. His books How to Make Great Radio and Radio Secrets are proving essential for those seekin...

Recorded September 02, 2020. This special Trinity Long Room Hub online event, which marked the seventh anniversary of the poet’s death (on 30th August, 2013) looked at the work of Seamus Heaney through five images which reflect his preoccupations and help us to understand his achievement in poetry. These images, were discussed by two leading scholars of Heaney’s work, Rosie Lavan and Chris Morash,...

Recorded July 16, 2020. The Art + Science Reading Group is a virtual cafe where researchers, artists, thinkers, and revolutionaries come to share ideas. Organised by PhD candidates Autumn Brown (Science Gallery Dublin and School of Education) and Amelia McConville (School of English and Institute of Neuroscience) and supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the series exp...

Recorded June 30, 2020. Unlocking the Archives: A Research Showcase from the Beyond 2022 Project Marking the anniversary of the terrible fire of June 30th, 1922, which destroyed seven centuries of Ireland's historical memory, the Beyond 2022 Project presents "Unlocking the Archives"—a virtual research showcase and panel discussion on the 98th anniversary of the fire (June 30th, 2020). Unlocking th...

Recorded June 30, 2020. Unlocking the Archives: A Research Showcase from the Beyond 2022 Project Marking the anniversary of the terrible fire of June 30th, 1922, which destroyed seven centuries of Ireland's historical memory, the Beyond 2022 Project presents "Unlocking the Archives"—a virtual research showcase and panel discussion on the 98th anniversary of the fire (June 30th, 2020). Unlocking th...

Recorded June 25, 2020. A webinar as part of the "Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research" series, organised by the SHAPE-ID project. Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research We are pleased to announce the second in our series of webinars on the integration of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in inter- and transdisciplinary research. Some of these events will stage broad...

Recorded June 24, 2020. Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Fellow for 2019-20 Dr Torsten Wollina sat down for a virtual 'in conversation' with Professor Anna Chahoud (Department of Classics, TCD), to discuss Arabic manuscripts at Trinity Library and about the Library’s history more generally, with particular reference to the digital exhibition "Why were Arabic manuscripts collected in 17th-century Dubl...

Recorded June 18, 2020. The Art + Science Reading Group is now a virtual gathering of thinkers, researchers and the incurably curious. Organised by PhD candidates Amelia McConville (School of English and Institute of Neuroscience) and Autumn Brown (School of Education and Science Gallery Dublin) and supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the series will explore the evol...

Recorded June 11. 2020. Dr Jennifer Edmond discusses zoom fatigue, why zoom it is far from perfect and how we make virtual meetings work better. This talk was from the 'Behind the Headlines' panel discussion Human+Technology Beyond Covid-19, you can listen back to the full discussion here https://soundcloud.com/tlrhub/behind-the-headlines-humantechnology-beyond-covid-19 Jennifer Edmond is Associat...