Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded February 26, 2024. Organised by TriCON - Trinity Centre for Constitutional Governance. Panellists Prof David Kenny, Trinity College Dublin Prof Laura Cahillane, University of Limerick Prof Conor O'Mahony, University College Cork Prof Aileen Kavanagh, Trinity College Dublin Supported by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded February 13, 2024. The upcoming referendums to amend the Irish constitution propose to introduce a wider definition of family and remove the text on the role of women in the home. As interested parties set out their cases for and against the suggested changes, a recent Irish Times column has argued that the editing out of the word ‘home’ is not accidental. But what is the Irish home? Is i...

Recorded February 9th, 2024. Hosted by the School of English of Trinity College Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. The way violence is represented always influences its reception and integration within the cultural imaginary. The narration of violence is ingrained in our perception of ourselves and our communities, and those who report traumatic events then...

Recorded January 29th, 2024. A seminar by Cáit Murphy (TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded April 19, 2023. The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture for 2023 was delivered by Prof Lyndsey Stonebridge (Interdisciplinary Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham). In February 2023, photos appeared on social media of piles of books dumped in the streets outside the Pryazovskyi State University in Mariupol, allegedly by occupying Ru...

Recorded January 24, 2024. An interactive seminar by Jakob Summerer (TCD) Therapeutic Metaphor Use: Lessons from Eating Disorder Autopathography as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Ever since Susan Sontag’s pioneering studies Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Aids and its Metaphors (1989), research into the potential effects of metaphor use in health-related talk and thought...

Recorded December 12, 2023. The Trinity Long Room Hub hosted the distinguished Yeats scholar Professor Marjorie Howes (Boston College) to mark the centenary of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature award to W.B. Yeats in a special lecture, ‘Yeats, the Nobel, and the Labour of Writing’. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded December 1, 2023. Dr Peter Crooks: Department of History; Academic Director, Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (virtualtreasury.ie). Paper: ‘No Good Deed Goes Unpunished? Trinity’s Dublin Deeds and The Case for a Meta-Collection’. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded December 11, 2023. The Trinity Long Room Hub was pleased to host "Addressing 'Democracy, Governance and Education' Today" in partnership with Boston College. Speakers: Jonathan Laurence Professor of Political Science, Boston College, and Director, Clough Centre for the Study of Constitutional Democracy Linda Hogan Chair of Ecumenics, School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies, Trinity...

Recorded December 1, 2023. Professor Ruth Mazo Karras: Lecky Professor of History, TCD. Paper: ‘The Holy Acrobat in the Beatus Initial, TCD MS 53’ Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded December 1, 2023. Dr Ann Buckley: Medieval History Research Centre, TCD. Paper: ‘The Many Lives of the Medieval Liturgy: The Relevance of the Carnegie Digitisation Project for Irish and Insular Studies’. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded December 1, 2023. Dr Claire McNulty: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, TCD. Paper: ‘Mirrors, Morality, and the Virgin Mary: TCD MS 103’. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded December 1, 2023. Dr Colleen Curran: Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Galway and Dr Lucy McKenna: Postdoctoral Researcher, TCD. Paper: ‘The Searobend Project: Digitising the Resources’. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded December 1, 2023. Dr David Woodman: Associate Professor and Fellow in History, Robinson College, Cambridge. Paper: ‘John of Worcester’s Chronicula: TCD MS 503’. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded December 1, 2023. Dr Laura Cleaver: Senior Lecturer in Manuscript Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. Paper: ‘TCD MS 93: Digitisation and the Potential of Linked Open Data’. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded December 1, 2023. Dr Niamh Pattwell: Associate Professor, School of English, Drama, and Film, UCD. Paper: ‘Sixteenth-Century Heralds: Guardians of the Manuscripts’ TCD MS 505. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded December 1, 2023. Dr Mark Faulkner: Ussher Assistant Professor in Medieval Literature, TCD and Elisabetta Magnanti: PhD Candidate, University of Vienna. Paper: ‘Using AI to Transcribe Trinity’s Manuscripts’. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded December 6th, 2023. A lunchtime 'in conversation' event featuring Visiting Research Fellow Professor Sean Moore (University of New Hampshire) in conversation with Professor Aileen Douglas (School of English, TCD). Sean Moore's first book with Johns Hopkins University Press in 2010, was awarded the Murphy Prize for distinguished First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies. He...

Recorded December 1, 2023. Conor McDonough: OP, St Saviour’s Priory, Dublin 1. Paper: ‘TCD MS 667: A Manuscript to Change Lives’. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded November 30, 2023. A lecture by Dr Orla Fitzpatrick (Ireland's Border Culture Project, Trinity College Dublin) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. During the 1860s, photographic studios such as Allen of Westland Row, Foster of Westmoreland Street and Lawrence of Sackville Street provided the source imagery for articles in...

Recorded November 27, 2023. This month’s Machine Learning Meet-Up took place recently on Monday 27th Nov in the Trinity Long Room Hub hosted by Human+. Human+ is an interdisciplinary fellowship programme connecting computer science researchers with researchers from the arts and humanities and enterprise to forge a human-centric approach to technology development. The event was moderated by Prof Vi...

Recorded November 21, 2023. Literature & Resistance: Poetry Reading with Éireann Lorsung, Majed Mujed, and Hua Xi Hosted by the Centre for Resistance Studies and Poetry Ireland Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Tuesday 21 November, 6pm The Centre for Resistance Studies is delighted to be partnering again with Poetry Ireland to welcome three acclaimed poets for a special reading in our...

Recorded October 26th, 2023. A lecture by Professor Kimberly Campanello (University of Leeds) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Professor Kimberly Campanello (University of Leeds) will read from recent work on her experience of chronic illness and disability and discuss her writing process and approach with reference to key touchstones, including Dante's acedia, Proust's...

Recorded November 21, 2023. The Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series is organizing a panel discussion chaired by Nicholas Canny (University of Galway) featuring Jane Ohlmeyer (TCD), Micheál Ó Siochrú (TCD), Ciaran O Neill (TCD) and Finola O'Kane (University College Dublin). The Trinity Centre for Early Modern History promotes understanding of the culture, society, economy, religi...

Recorded November 28th, 2023. A lunchtime 'in conversation' event featuring Visiting Research Fellow Professor Yevheniia Orestivna Kanchura, Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, in conversation with Professor Jane Suzanne Carroll, Trinity College Dublin Yevheniia Orestivna Kanchura, PhD, an associate professor at the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Department of Zhytomyr Polytechnic State Un...