Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded February 19, 2020. How can the Arts and Humanities contribute to the futures of this island, of its diverse communities, values, heritage and ethnicities? From religion and recession to recovery and referenda, the Arts and Humanities reflect on what it will mean to live on this island in the future. A panel discussion as part of the Trinity Long Room Hub 10th Anniversary Symposium. Speake...

Recorded February 19, 2020. Is democracy at risk? What do we mean by crises? How can the Arts and Humanities contribute to more engaged citizens and participative democracies in the future? A panel discussion as part of the Trinity Long Room Hub 10th Anniversary Symposium. Speakers : *Professor Juergen Barkhoff, Vice Provost and former Trinity Long Room Hub Director *Professor Yvonne Buckley, Depa...

Recorded February 19, 2020. Dr Angela Butler, Research Fellow and Dr Elspeth Payne, Beate Schuler Research Fellow give a brief outline of their work on this project. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded February 19, 2020. What makes us human and why is that important? How can the Arts and Humanities contribute to more human-centered innovations that enhance society for all species in a technological age? A panel discussion as part of the Trinity Long Room Hub 10th Anniversary Symposium. Speakers : *Professor Linda Doyle, Dean of Research and Professor of Engineering & The Arts *Domhnaill...

Recorded November 18, 2019. A panel discussion with Prof Marcus Collier (TCD), Maryann Harris (UCD) and Prof Michael Cronin as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' series. Like every city in the world, Dublin City is faced with multiple and complex challenges, particularly when it comes to integrating international policies into planning and design in the city. Meeting the needs of communit...

Recorded October 17, 2019. A panel discussion with Finola O'Kane Crimmins (UCD), Kathryn Milligan (UCD), Federico Cugurullo (TCD), and Brian Caulfield (TCD) Chaired by Tom Walker (TCD) as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series. From the establishment of the Wide Streets Commission in the eighteenth century through to the current BusConnects and Metro proposals, Dublin's transport and i...

Recorded October 9, 2019. A seminar by Dr John Walsh (TCD) as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series. 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-minded people. All lectur...

Recorded April 10, 2019. A lecture by John Porter (TCD) as part of the Trinity Research Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series. About the series 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 likeminded peopl...

Recorded October 22, 2019. This public lecture by Sucheta Mahajan, Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and author of Independence and Partition: The Erosion of Colonial Power in India (2000) is organised by Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series. The lecture will be followed by a conversation with Dr Anna Bryson (QUB). This lecture extends th...

Recorded November 4, 2019. Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research fellow Professor Julian Bourg joins us from Boston College in association with Trinity's School of Histories & Humanities. The focus of his research visit is a project on the conceptual history of terrorism since the eighteenth century. Dr. Daniel Geary, Mark Pigott Associate Professor in American History, will sit down with Profes...

Recorded December 4, 2019. A public lecture Fintan O’Toole to mark being awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Trinity College Dublin About Fintan O’Toole (Litt. D.) Fintan O’ Toole is a columnist with the Irish Times, visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University and former drama critic and literary adviser to the Abbey Theatre. He is internationally respected as a drama critic, a polit...

Recorded December 3, 2019. On October 1 as Beijing celebrated the seventieth anniversary of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong intensified. This was the 184th day of action by the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement. Despite the Extradition Bill being recently rescinded, the protests show no sign of stopping. You might be one of the...

Recorded November 25, 2019. A public lecture by Helen Walasek (University of Exeter) is organised by Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the 'Out of the Ashes' Lecture Series. Dr Walaseks lecture will be followed by a response on the topic by Dr. Balázs Apor, Director of the Centre for European Studies in TCD. It is nearly twenty-five years since the end of the 1992¬–1995 Bosnian War, a brutal confli...

Recorded November 5, 2019. The Future of Ireland: Human Rights and Children’s Rights Ireland’s future sets before us a series of questions about constitutional and Church-State relationships. The vast majority of current Church members (around 84 percent worldwide and considerably higher in Ireland) were baptized as babies. For the Catholic majority in Ireland this has resulted in the imposition o...

Recorded July 15, 2019. Professor Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin) examines the relationship between technology, globalisation, and democracy. Prof Edmond looks at how the underlying nature of some of the technologies driving social change today, such as AI, big data and social media platforms, is different from what has come before, and how the unique characteristics of their design and f...

Recorded July 15, 2019. A workshop led by Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) on the subject of refugees and statelessness, posing the question: What can art do? Responding to the current "refugee crisis" and its implications for the future of democracy, this session builds on writings about statelessness from the mid-twentieth century by Hannah Arendt and others. Looking in depth at s...

Recorded July 15, 2019. Professor Nebojša Blanuša (University of Zagreb) and Professor Balázs Apor (Trinity College Dublin) examine the role of various carriers of influence—political, military and religious leaders—as potential sources of cultural trauma. Leaders are often described as the main characters in the narratives of cultural trauma, and can assume simultaneously, the status of villains...

Recorded July 16, 2019. At the planning meeting for the GHI, which took place in Dublin in May 2018, the partners felt strongly that the terms we were working with—“democracy”, “crisis” and “cultural trauma”—needed to be discussed and defined at the beginning of our institute in Dubrovnik so that all researchers had a point of common reference. For this reason, on the second day of the GHI in Dubr...

Recorded July 15, 2019. A panel featuring Professor Stephanie McCurry (Columbia University), Professor Mary Cosgrove (Trinity College Dublin), and Professor Sucheta Mahajan (Jawaharlal Nehru University) addressing the use of violence to oppress the exercise of democratic rights and exploring positive strategies of resistance. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded September 26, 2019. “Spinal Injury strikes at the very heart of what it means to be human” – Mark Pollock A talk by explorer Mark Pollock and human rights lawyer Simone George as part of the Trinity Long Room Hub 'What does it Mean to be Human in the 21st Century?' lecture series. When faced with life's toughest circumstances, how should we respond: as an optimist, a realist or something...

Recorded October 1, 2019. The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture for 2019 delivered by Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Graduate Chair of Religious Studies. Stories of Irish slavery on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms abound as both history and conspiracy theories that obscure the actual hi...

Eminent Cambridge historian Professor John Morrill discusses his academic career and his upcoming Trinity talk on ‘Cromwell, Priestcraft and the "Deluded and Seduced People of Ireland”’ on the 23rd of September 2019. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded September 16, 2019. The Irish border has been subject to intense speculation following the 2016 Brexit referendum, when the people of the UK voted to leave the European Union. Public discourse has followed the fluctuating positions on whether there will be a hard or soft Brexit, deal or no deal, and border or no border. The increasing plausibility of a no-deal Brexit has left ongoing unce...

Recorded August 28, 2019. A lecture by physicist Danielle Bassett as part of the Trinity Long Room Hub 'What does it Mean to be Human in the 21st Century?' lecture series. The human mind is curious. It is strange, remarkable, and mystifying; it is eager, probing, questioning. Despite its pervasiveness and its relevance for our well-being, scientific studies of human curiosity that bridge both the...

Recorded July 24, 2019. The last day of the Crises of Democracy Global Humanities Institute began with a panel on strategies of positive resistance against inequality and undemocratic regimes featuring Borut Šeparović (author, theatre-maker and choreographer), Professor Eileen Gillooly (Columbia University), and Professor Mridula Mukherjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University). The afternoon was dedicated...