Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded November 7th, 2024. A hybrid seminar by Dr Brian Hurwitz (Emeritus Professor of Medicine and the Arts at the Centre for the Humanities and Health, King’s College London) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Abstract: Medicine is strewn with anecdotes, brief, pointed accounts of human episodes, drawn from scattered zones of healthcare experience. Traditionally viewe...

Recorded October 3rd, 2024. A hybrid seminar by Dr Ghaiath MA Hussein (Assistant Professor in Medical Ethics and Law, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. This presentation examines how armed conflict reshapes the concept of self, particularly in the Global South. Drawing from his experiences as a medical doctor and his bioethics...

Recorded November 5th, 2024. A lecture by Ema Vyroubalová as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. The paper discusses how productions of Shakespeare’s plays from East-Central Europe that transcend various geographical, national, and linguistic boundaries have influenced the theatrical-political discourse in this region from 1989 onwards. It focuses primarily on the work of four i...

Recorded October 8th 2024. A lecture by Daria Moskvitina (Zaporizhzhia State Medical University) as part of the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series. For Ukraine, Shakespeare is an iconic figure, a symbol of European culture and European values. This talk will try to give a systematic understanding of how the Ukrainian reception of Shakespeare was formed, and explain its peculiarities at the...

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Closing panel on Heavy Metal, from thrash to doom and beyond, with Philip Coleman (English), Richard Duckworth (Music), Eimear Rouine (Transition to Trinity), ft. Ron Davies (UCD) & Elizabeth Boyle (NUI Maynooth). Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Darryl Jones (English) assesses the enduring relevance of The Beatles, and Jonathan Hodgers (Music) introduces his new book about Bob Dylan and film. In conversation with James Denis McGlynn (Film). Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Balazs Apor (Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies) on the legacies of underground music in late-socialism, and the role of non-conformist songs in expressing dissident (and dissonant) voices. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Eoin O’Dell (Law) examines the fundamentals of copyright law and AI through recent high-profile music cases, involving Pink Floyd, Marvin Gaye, Robin Thicke, Olivia Rodrigo, and more. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. A Long Table event with novelist and screenwriter Eoin McNamee (Director of the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre) who will tackle the big question alongside Nick Johnson (Creative Arts) with contributions from Trinity colleagues including Neville Cox (Law), Jane Ohlmeyer (History), Shane O'Meara (Neuroscience), Kata Szita (Human+...

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Nicole Grimes (Music) explores expansive forms in women's compositions and considers the gaps in our knowledge of women in music from C19th to the present. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Trinity’s expert Assyriologist Martin Worthington (Near & Middle Eastern Studies) shows extracts from his new film about the recovery of lost languages and introduces student participants in the project. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Patrick Houlihan (History) discusses his new book on humanitarianism between the World Wars and considers humanitarian motivations in this era. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Brendan Browne (Religion) shows a new documentary on the threatened Bedouin communities of the West Bank and talks about his role as Executive Producer . Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Trinity's Environmental History Network. Katja Bruisch, Tim Stott, Diogo de Carvalho Cabral and Francis Ludlow delve into the history of wild and wonderfully bad ideas about climate and nature including wetland reclamation, geoengineering and Spaceship Earth. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Hub former artist-in-residence Mairead McClean presents her film, made as Decade of Centenaries partner with the Beyond 2020 Virtual Record Treasury project. Includes discussion with Jennifer O’Meara (Film). Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Mark Faulkner (English), Nicole Volmering (History), Anna Pitts (NLI) & Charlie Kerrigan (Classics), explore how writing has confronted city-dwellers throughout history, from graffiti in Pompeii to Gaelic script on street signs, and to slogans, stickers and QR codes on Dublin lampposts. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroom...

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Library staff go dewey-eyed at their favourites from Trinity’s collections featuring a C15th recipe against the plague, the secrets of Trinity’s banned books room, and other wonders. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Trinity Centre for Contemporary History research showcase with Carole Holohan (History), researchers Susan Byrne, Lorraine McEvoy & Conor Murphy. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Amy Prendergast (English) introduces her work on C18th Irish women’s diaries, and Professor of Modern History Lindsey Earner-Byrne discusses the challenges in writing about sexual violence through the lens of micro-history. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Philippa Byrne (History) invites the Festival audience to experience pre-modern soundscapes in this hands-on session. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Critics talk about composer Charles Stanford's The Critic with Wexford Festival Opera's Rosetta Cucchi & Conor Hanratty, TUD Professor of Performance Una Hunt, and Trinity theatre expert Chris Morash (English). Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar opening session, with Jane Carroll (English), children's literature expert, on fashion and the Katy Keene comic. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. David Kenny (Law), author of a new book on the subject, asks how novels and other literary works can change legal mindsets. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Nicole Basaraba (Digital Humanities), Jarlath Kileen (English) & Peter Arnds (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies) on the culture of supernatural stories across time. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2024. Trinity's Seamus Heaney Professor Chris Morash (English) joins Hub Visiting Fellow Chris Danta (Australian National University) to talk about what happens when the Humanities meet Cybernetics. Learn more: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/