Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts

Recorded November 15th, 2023. A lunchtime 'in conversation' event featuring Visiting Research Fellow Prof Van Gosse (Franklin & Marshall College) and Prof Daniel Geary (Mark Pigott Associate Professor in American History, School of Histories and Humanities TCD). Professor Van Gosse is Professor of History at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania. His teaching and scholarship focus on the Afr...

Recorded November 16th, 2023. The Trinity Long Room Hub 2023 Annual Edmund Burke Lecture was delivered by Professor Joanna Bourke on ‘Contemplating Evil: “Monstrous” Women in History, Politics, and Law, 1890s to the Present’. Joanna Bourke is Professor Emerita of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is also the Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College...

Recorded November 1st, 2023. A book presentation with Dr Patrick Bresnihan (Maynooth) as part of the Environmental History Research Seminar hosted by the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded October 17th 2023. A lecture by Antoon De Baets (University of Groningen) organised by the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Antoon De Baets is Emeritus Professor of History, Ethics and Human Rights at the University of Groningen, and coordinator of the Network of Concerned Historians. He has worked extensively on academic freedom, censor...

Recorded Thursday, September 28th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. The Democracy Forum's Ellie Payne and Mark Little join AI Musicologist Martin Clancy to predict a riot. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded Monday, September 25th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. Award-winning Trinity writers Sean Hewitt and Yairen Jerez Columbié join the Hub’s Rooney Writer Fellow Nidhi Zak to launch a new poem for Seamus Heaney's tenth anniversary. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded Monday, September 25th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. School of English scholars Sam Slote (Ulysses) and Darryl Jones (Sherlock Holmes Stories) share the joy of scholarly annotations and editions. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded Tuesday, September 26th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. Trinity’s Chair of French (1776) Michael Cronin looks at language, geography, and our place on the planet. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded Friday, September 29th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. In September 2021, after several years of preparation, the FoodCult team recreated a beer last brewed in the sixteenth century. In Ireland and across early modern Europe, beer was central to social life and a vital source of nutrition. But up to now, we have had little sense of what that beer was...

Recorded Wednesday, September 27th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. Securing Human Rights in the Anthropocene: the Role of Religion, with Trinity’s Professor of Ecumenics, Linda Hogan. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded Friday, September 29th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. Pádraic Whyte (English) joins other experts for a panel discussion on exciting new research directions. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded Thursday, September 28th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. James Joyce and Nora Barnacle are visited by ghosts in Trieste in this new chamber opera, a first-time collaboration between Irish National Opera and ANU. Screening and discussion with composer Evangelia Rigaki (Music) and librettist Marina Carr, chaired by Melissa Sihra (Drama). Learn more at:...

Recorded Friday, September 29th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. Balazs Apor (European Studies), co-ordinator of Trinity’s Centre for Resistance Studies, on the cultic veneration of leaders in Eastern Europe, and John Murray (Russian & Slavonic Studies) on ‘The Soviet Gaze’, images in the USSR’s print media. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded Friday, September 29th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History (1762), shares new work on this topical subject from the perspective of the early modern period. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded Tuesday, September 26th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. Fascists at the Gate: The Strange Tale of Coriolanus in Irish Trinity’s 1867 Professor of English Andrew Murphy on Shakespeare translated. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded Thursday, September 28th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. Trinity Professor of German (1776) Jürgen Barkhoff talks to his predecessor, scholar and memoirist Professor Eda Sagarra.

Recorded Monday, September 25th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. Chris Morash, Trinity’s Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, on Technology, Landscape and Irish Modernity. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded Monday, September 25th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. Cross-disciplinarians Amelia McConville and Autumn Brown join tech festival founder Aisling Murray to talk about art, science and tech events both in and beyond the university. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded Tuesday, September 26th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. Zohar Hadromi-Allouche (School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies) takes a new look at the Qur'an and modern Yiddish poetry. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded on Thursday, September 28th 2023 as part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2023. Aileen Douglas, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, School of English. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded September 19th, 2023. *Please note that this discussion contains topics of sexual violence and graphic descriptions of war. Please listen at your own discretion. ‘Women and War’ is the theme of the 2023 Wexford Festival Opera (24 Oct-5 Nov). Developed by Wexford’s Artistic Director, Rosetta Cucchi, this year’s programme uses the medium of opera to explore how war is experienced, endured,...

Recorded June 27, 2023. An 'in conversation' event featuring Prof Jim Hicks (University of Massachusetts Amherst) in conversation with Dr Krzysztof Rowiński (TCD) organised by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. The heightened visibility of translators and interpreters, with Arrival (2016) or the 2021 controversy over translators of Amanda Gorman's presidential inauguration...

Recorded June 13, 2023. What does ‘resistance’ mean? What motivates one person to spy on another? And how do we rescue language from the politics of oppression? In this podcast, acclaimed poet, memoirist and critic Carmen Bugan explores these questions in conversation with Balázs Apor and Rosie Lavan as part of the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies' Literature and Resistance series, drawing on...

Recorded June 14, 2023. An in person in-conversation event with Carmen Bugan and Prof Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (TCD) chaired by Prof Michael Cronin (TCD) organised by the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Poet, memoirist and critic Carmen Bugan will be reading and in conversation with poet and professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, School of English TCD....

Recorded June 12, 2023. An in-person lecture by Prof Nelson Lichtenstein (University of California, Santa Barbara) organised by the School of Histories and Humanities. Nelson Lichtenstein, the author of a forthcoming major revisionist history of the Bill Clinton presidency, will speak on the major themes of his book. When Bill Clinton became president, his campaign's catch phrase, "The Economy, St...