Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded 13th February 2025. A hybrid seminar by Prof Cathriona Russell (School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Healthcare faces comparable challenges to those of every other sector in society in the context of a changing climate. In relation to ongoing international agreements, healthcare will, for example, have to enact mitiga...

Recorded January 16th, 2025. A hybrid seminar by Dr Tylor Brand (Near & Middle Eastern Studies, TCD) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Children were among the most vulnerable groups within the famine that struck Lebanon during World War I, which made them a special focus of humanitarian interventions during the wartime period. However, shifting social perceptions of pove...

Recorded 09 December 2024. Emina Ćerimović, Associate Director Disability Rights Division, Human Rights Watch A symposium on food insecurities organised by the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences.  Funded in part by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund. Learn more at https://www.tcd.ie/triss/people/SADIE/index.php and https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroo...

Recorded 09 December 2024. Dr Mershen Pillay Associate Professor Massey University & UKZN South Africa A symposium on food insecurities organised by the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences.  Funded in part by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund. Learn more at https://www.tcd.ie/triss/people/SADIE/index.php and https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded 09 December 2024. Dr Brendan Ciaran Browne, Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin A symposium on food insecurities organised by the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences.  Funded in part by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund. Learn more at https://www.tcd.ie/triss/people/SADIE/index.php and https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded 09 December 2024. Claire O’Reilly Research Fellow Trinity College Dublin & Co-founder of SADIE A symposium on food insecurities organised by the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences.  Funded in part by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund. Learn more at https://www.tcd.ie/triss/people/SADIE/index.php and https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded 09 December 2024. Dr Caroline Jagoe, Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Co-Founder of SADIE A symposium on food insecurities organised by the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences.  Funded in part by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund. Learn more at https://www.tcd.ie/triss/people/SADIE/index.php and https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongro...

Recorded 09 December 2024. Pratima Gurung, General Secretary of Indigenous Persons with Disabilities Global Network A symposium on food insecurities organised by the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences.  Funded in part by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund. Learn more at https://www.tcd.ie/triss/people/SADIE/index.php and https://www.tcd.ie/trinityl...

Recorded 09 December 2024. Anne-Laure Duval, Deputy County Director WFP Cambodia Opening Remarks by Karen Williams, Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs A symposium on food insecurities organised by the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences. Funded in part by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/triss/people/SADIE/index.php...

Recorded 09 December 2024. Kavita Brahmbhatt, Senior Disability Advisor WFP A symposium on food insecurities organised by the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences.  Funded in part by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund. Learn more at https://www.tcd.ie/triss/people/SADIE/index.php and https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded 09 December 2024. Bulelani Mfaco, Spokesperson for the Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland (MASI) A symposium on food insecurities organised by the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences.  Funded in part by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund. Learn more at https://www.tcd.ie/triss/people/SADIE/index.php and https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub...

Recorded 09 December 2024. Mohamed Jama, Chairperson National Disability Agency, Somalia A symposium on food insecurities organised by the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences.  Funded in part by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund. Learn more at https://www.tcd.ie/triss/people/SADIE/index.php and https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded November 27th, 2024. A lecture by the Hon. Sir Donnell Deeny, Pro-Chancellor TCD for the Centre for the Book Seminar Series. This year’s Trinity Centre for the Book Seminar series brings together libraries, publishers, book collectors and activists to talk about their contribution to Ireland’s contemporary book culture. They reflect on the importance of books, reading and the conservation...

Recorded December 5th, 2024. A hybrid seminar by Dr Lorraine Grimes (Maynooth University) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Bio: Lorraine Grimes is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Applied Social Studies at Maynooth University. Lorraine has a PhD from the National University of Ireland Galway. Her thesis is forthcoming in the form of a monograph with Bloomsbury Academic in 2...

Recorded December 11, 2024. As humanitarian crises play out across our devices and screens, our latest ‘Behind the Headlines’ panel will explore the changing mandate for humanitarianism. Bringing together world experts, including our academic partners at Boston College, we ask: what is a humanitarian mission, and how has it evolved in view of past and current global conflicts, climate catastrophe,...

Recorded November 15, 2024. “The Founding of Ireland-Italy Projects” Dr Brenda Moore McCann and Jane Adams An outline of how the idea for Ireland-Italy Projects came about and what it hopes to achieve, plus an overview of activities in Italy connecting conservation and education, and, plans for future projects. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Recorded November 15, 2024. “Restoring in Florence, tradition versus innovation” Dr Roberta Lapucci Head of the Art Conservation Department, Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici, Florence. Internationally renowned for her conservation research and conservation practice connected to Caravaggio, her recent teaching projects have included a focus on the art of Plautilla Nelli. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinity...

Recorded November 15, 2024. My Lorenzo de’ Medici experience: The Restoration of Plautilla Nelli William Johnson Art restoration and conservation graduate and Teaching Assistant to Dr Roberta Lapucci, Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici, Florence “Technical Art History and Nelli” Trisha Dalke Currently an MSc student in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the University of Amsterdam speci...

Recorded December 3rd, 2024. A lecture by Zoe Patterson and Chiara Mastronardo as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. This weeks seminar will cover two lectures: Shortcuts Across Sandymount Strand: Joycean Companion Texts and Abridgement and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: Art and Islandness in Sinéad Gleeson’s Hagstone. English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fo...

Recorded November 26, 2024. Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Professor Anthony Caleshu (University of Plymouth) in conversation with Professor Philip Coleman (School of English, TCD). Bio I wrote my PhD at National University of Ireland, Galway (on the American poet, James Tate), and began working at University of Plymouth in 2003. I became Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing in...

Recorded December 5, 2025. Trinity Long Room Hub Rooney Writer Fellow Mark O'Connell in conversation with Professor David Kenny (School of Law, TCD). Mark O’Connell is the author of A Thread of Violence, Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine, which was awarded the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non...

Recorded December 5th, 2024. Rooney Writer Fellow Mark O’Connell (A Thread of Violence, 2023) in conversation with historian Maurice Casey (Hotel Lux, 2024) about writing across the academic/commercial publishing boundary. Mark O’Connell is the author of A Thread of Violence, Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine, which was awarded the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, the 2019 Rooney Prize for Ir...

Recorded November 26th, 2024. The Trinity Long Room Hub is delighted to welcome author and columnist Fintan O'Toole to present the 2024 Edmund Burke Lecture, 'Terror and Self-Pity: The Reactionary Sublime', which is supported by a generous endowment in honour of Padraic Fallon by his family. Fintan O'Toole is an author and columnist. His books include We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of...

Recorded November 19, 2024. A lecture by Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford) as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. The rich corpus of Old English biblical prose remains a missing chapter in the history of the translation of the Bible. This paper will explore how, centuries before the Reformation, Old English prose authors sought to make the sacred words of the Bible availab...

Recorded November 18, 2024. Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Dr Shreya Atrey (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford) in conversation with Prof Mark Bell (School of Law, TCD). Shreya Atrey is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and is based at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She is an associate member of th...