Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded June 18, 2020. The Trinity Long Room Hub Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Fellow Dr Lindy Brady (University of Mississippi) sat down for a virtual 'in conversation' with Dr Immo Warntjes, Ussher Assistant Professor in Early Medieval Irish History (TCD) to discuss Brady's current book project, Framing History: The Origin Legends of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. About Dr Brady Dr. Lin...

Recorded June 16, 2020. The word pandemic – from the Greek πάνδημος – means that which belongs to all people and so works as a kind of plural to the word everyman. Indeed, the Covid-19 pandemic is universal in that it touches everyone, yet it is also singular, each country, indeed, each person experiences it differently. Likewise, Ulysses is the great novel of the universal made individual, as emb...

Recorded June 11, 2020. As we move exclusively online for work, education and communication, our Behind the Headlines discussion explores how the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the immersion of technology into our lives. Covid-19 has given us a glimpse of what a technological-based future might look like. As society applies technology to recover from global events that trigger a shift in human...

Recorded June 10, 2020. Police murders of African Americans are deeply rooted in American history and society and token solutions will do little to prevent them. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded December 5, 2019. A panel discussion as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series. Racist attacks in Dublin have been in the news recently, and for the first time for decades there is an organised far-right In Ireland. Yet racism is not a preserve of the far right but an everyday experience for a growing number of Dubliners. Considering the experiences of Dublin’s ethnic minoriti...

Recorded May 27, 2020. ‘People need agency and voice in a crisis. This is a time when, more than ever, governments need to be open and transparent, responsive and accountable to the people they are seeking to protect ….’ – Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres, António Guterres As large gatherings of people are prohibited under the measures introduced to prevent the spread of Co...

Recorded May 21, 2020. An online symposium to celebrate the launch of the Cambridge University Press six-volume essay series Irish Literature in Transition (2020), a new and dynamic account of Ireland’s literary history over 300 years. The event is a collaboration between the Trinity Long Room Hub and the British Association for Irish Studies 2020 online conference. The event featured introductory...

Recorded May 20, 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 evolu...

Recorded May 20, 2020. 'And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently …' - Kitty O'Meara As health systems struggle to cope with the rapid spread of...

Recorded May 18, 2020. A joint initiative between Queen's University Belfast (QUB) and the Trinity Long Room Hub chaired by Jane Ohlmeyer, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub with a conversation facilitated by Richard English, Professor of Politics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Internationalization and Engagement at QUB. Jonathan Powell and Rory Montgomery have had distinguished careers which have...

Recorded May 14, 2020. The SHAPE-ID project (Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe) is funded by the European Commission to develop recommendations and tools for policy makers, funders, researchers, Universities and others on improving interdisciplinary cooperation between the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) and STEMM (Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine...

Recorded May 13, 2020. ‘They tell us corona-virus is a great leveller. It’s not. It’s much much harder if you are poor. How do we stop it from making social inequality even greater.’ – Emily Maitlis, BBC Newsnight Racial and ethnic minority communities are disproportionately affected by Covid-19. They are more likely to have the underlying health conditions that make the virus fatal. They are also...

Recorded January 27, 2020. A panel discussion as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series, with Catriona Crowe MRIA, Former Senior Archivist, National Archives of Ireland; Zoe Reid, Senior Conservator, National Archives of Ireland; and Lar Joye, Port Heritage Director at Dublin Port and Chair of the Irish National Committee of the Blue Shield. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ About the Out of the Ashes Lecture...

Recorded May 07, 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 (Science Gallery Dublin and School of Education) supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the series will explore the evolution...

Recorded May 06, 2020. While Covid-19 is a global threat, it is the most vulnerable who are most at risk.’ – President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins With major outbreaks already seen in some of the biggest correctional facilities in the world, there is a very real danger that Covid-19 could be a death sentence for those within criminal justice systems. Prisons are not conducive to social distanci...

Recorded April 30, 2020. Former Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Fellow Professor Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape) will sit down for a virtual 'in conversation' with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, to discuss the impact of COVID19 in South Africa and Cape Town. What have the humanities and the arts to offer during this extraordinary time?

 Professor Prem...

Recorded April 29, 2020. "This virus does not respect borders.” - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation Director-General In an effort to contain the spread of virus, many countries have tightened or closed their borders. Some are rejecting globalisation and returning to the ideal of the nation state. Nationalism is on the rise. Informed by political decisions, multilateral actio...

Recorded April 27, 2020. This Behind the Headlines, in partnership with the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanites at Columbia University, explored what pandemics and public health crises mean for democracies around the world. Social distancing, cocooning, and ‘lockdown’ measures implemented worldwide to stall the spread of Covid-19 have raised questions about what the absence of p...

Recorded April 09, 2020. A Fellow in Focus conversation with Trinity Long Room Hub Artist Rita Duffy. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded April 07, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that acting fast and decisively is key to managing this public health crisis. If we imagine the severity of the climate emergency like the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, would we act now? As the interconnectedness of global societies becomes strikingly clear, we assess how the current pandemic is changing perspectives on how we live, ho...

Recorded March 26, 2020. As Coronavirus pervades homes, societies and minds, our online Behind the Headlines discussion will ask what we can learn from pandemics and plagues of the past, in addressing a global public health crisis today. With Governments the world over taking extraordinary emergency measures to curb the spread and impact of this new virus, we seek to understand what might be learn...

Recorded November 21, 2019. A paper by Jonathan Lewis (DCU) with live streaming to clinical sites as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Initiative Seminar Series. About the Medical and Health Humanities Medical Humanities seeks to provide insights into the cultural and social contexts within which diverse but interrelated concerns such as the human condition, the individual experience of il...

Recorded October 16, 2019. A paper by Dr Oisín Wall (UCD) with discussant Prof Desmond O’Neill (TCD) with live streaming to clinical sites as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Initiative Seminar Series. About the Medical and Health Humanities Medical Humanities seeks to provide insights into the cultural and social contexts within which diverse but interrelated concerns such as the human c...

Recorded December 12, 2019. A paper by Kathleen Furman (UCC) with live streaming to clinical sites as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Initiative Seminar Series. About the Medical and Health Humanities Medical Humanities seeks to provide insights into the cultural and social contexts within which diverse but interrelated concerns such as the human condition, the individual experience of i...

Recorded February 13, 2020. An in-conversation event with our new Visiting Research Fellow Clare Hutton, Dr Samuel Slote, and Professor Eve Patten. Dr Hutton joins us from Loughborough University in association with Trinity's School of English and the Manuscript, Book and Print Cultures research theme. The focus of her research visit is a project entitled ‘Women and the Making of Ulysses.’ Learn m...