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Founded in 2006, the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute is dedicated to advancing Trinity College Dublin’s rich tradition of research excellence in the Arts and Humanities, on an individual, collaborative and inter-disciplinary basis.

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Trinity Long Room Hub episodes:

04.12.2024
Actually, It Was Always About The Plays!
As part of Rough Magic’s 40th anniversary celebrations, Trinity College School of English and The Drama Department, Samuel Beckett Centre, TCD host a special series of discussions delving into the beginnings and workings of forty years of magic!
04.12.2024
It Was Always About The Applause…
As part of Rough Magic’s 40th anniversary celebrations, Trinity College School of English and The Drama Department, Samuel Beckett Centre, TCD host a special series of discussions delving into the beginnings and workings of forty years of magic!
04.12.2024
It Was Always About The Actors…
As part of Rough Magic’s 40th anniversary celebrations, Trinity College School of English and The Drama Department, Samuel Beckett Centre, TCD host a special series of discussions delving into the beginnings and workings of forty years of magic!
04.12.2024
It Was Always About The Directors..?
As part of Rough Magic’s 40th anniversary celebrations, Trinity College School of English and The Drama Department, Samuel Beckett Centre, TCD host a special series of discussions delving into the beginnings and workings of forty years of magic!
04.12.2024
We Are All Still Talking To Each Other!
As part of Rough Magic’s 40th anniversary celebrations, Trinity College School of English and The Drama Department, Samuel Beckett Centre, TCD host a special series of discussions delving into the beginnings and workings of forty years of magic!
03.28.2024
“We Won’t be Hungry Much Longer” : Survival Cannibalism in North American Folk Horror Narratives
Recorded March 26, 2024. A talk by Dr Bernice Murphy (TCD) - “We Won’t be Hungry Much Longer”: Survival Cannibalism in North American Folk Horror Narratives. English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English research...
03.28.2024
Courage, Justice and Resistance: Lessons from Ukraine
Recorded March 26, 2024. The Centre for Resistance Studies organised an evening lecture by Dr Olesya Khromeychuk, in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Dr Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer. She has taught the history of East-Central Europe at...
03.15.2024
Fellow in Focus: Professor Bassey Edem Antia
Recorded February 27, 2024. Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Professor Bassey Edem Antia (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) in conversation with Professor Lorna Carson (School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, TCD). Bassey Edem Antia is Professor of...
03.15.2024
Landscapes of Mourning in Irish Women's Poetry
Recorded March 12, 2024. For the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series this week Dr Lucy Collins (UCD) will present a talk on 'Landscapes of Mourning in Irish Women's Poetry'. The English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to...
03.08.2024
Drawing Support: Graphic Narratives and Resistance
In this latest event in the Literature & Resistance series, we explore role comic books and graphic novels are playing in reflecting and critiquing some of the most pressing contemporary issues, and in fostering community and inspiring activism among their...
03.06.2024
Revealing the Invisible - a Conservation Conversation from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Recorded March 4th, 2024. Conservation and scientific specialists from the Core Partner archives within the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland at Trinity College Dublin discuss the fascinating discoveries being revealed by their latest investigations into ancient archival records. _____________________________ Long before the...
03.01.2024
The Drama of Dissection
The Drama of Dissection: Performance Making, the Medical School Anatomy Laboratory and the Critical Medical Humanities Recorded February 22, 2024. A hybrid seminar by Dr Alex Mermikides (Kings College London) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Bio Alex Mermikides is the...
03.01.2024
Women, Family, and Care in the Constitution
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.
02.14.2024
Behind the Headlines: No place like home?
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...
02.13.2024
AfterWords: Three Academics Reconsidering Narratives of Trauma and Violence in the Humanities
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...
02.06.2024
A Caméra-stylo for the Social Media Era
Recorded January 29th, 2024. A seminar by Cáit Murphy (TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum.
01.26.2024
2023 | Totalitarianism and the Humanities
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...
01.26.2024
Therapeutic Metaphor Use: Lessons from Eating Disorder Autopathography
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...
12.14.2023
Yeats, the Nobel, and the Labour of Writing
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,...
12.13.2023
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished? - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium
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’.
12.13.2023
Addressing 'Democracy, Governance and Education' Today
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...
12.12.2023
The Holy Acrobat in the Beatus Initial - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium
Recorded December 1, 2023. Professor Ruth Mazo Karras: Lecky Professor of History, TCD. Paper: ‘The Holy Acrobat in the Beatus Initial, TCD MS 53’
12.12.2023
The Many Lives of the Medieval Liturgy - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium
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’.
12.12.2023
Mirrors, Morality, and the Virgin Mary - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium
Recorded December 1, 2023. Dr Claire McNulty: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, TCD. Paper: ‘Mirrors, Morality, and the Virgin Mary: TCD MS 103’.
12.12.2023
The Searobend Project - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium
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’.
12.12.2023
John of Worcester’s Chronicula - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium
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’.
12.12.2023
Digitisation and Potential of Linked Open Data - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium
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’.
12.12.2023
Sixteenth-Century Heralds - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium
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.
12.12.2023
Using AI to Transcribe Trinity’s Manuscripts - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium
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’.
12.11.2023
Fellow in Focus: Professor Sean Moore
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...
12.11.2023
TCD MS 667: A Manuscript to Change Lives - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium
Recorded December 1, 2023. Conor McDonough: OP, St Saviour’s Priory, Dublin 1. Paper: ‘TCD MS 667: A Manuscript to Change Lives’.
12.11.2023
Dublin Photographic Studios and the Medical Press of the 1860s
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...
12.07.2023
Machine Learning Meet-Up hosted by Human+ featuring ADAPT Researchers
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...
11.30.2023
Literature & Resistance: Poetry Reading with Éireann Lorsung, Majed Mujed, and Hua Xi
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...
11.30.2023
Writing Chronic Illness Just in Time
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...
11.30.2023
Making Empire and the After Lives of Empire in Ireland
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...
11.30.2023
Fellow in Focus: Professor Yevheniia Orestivna Kanchura
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...
11.21.2023
Fellow in Focus: Professor Van Gosse
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...
11.21.2023
TLRH | 2023 Annual Edmund Burke Lecture | Professor Joanna Bourke
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...
11.13.2023
All we want is the Earth! Land, Labour and Movements beyond Environmentalism
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.
11.13.2023
Historians Resisting Tyranny: A Preliminary Evaluation
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...
11.06.2023
AI and Music - a ‘History of the Future’ conversation
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.
10.05.2023
Writing Nature, Remembering Heaney - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival
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...
10.05.2023
Who needs footnotes? - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival
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.
10.05.2023
The Terrestrial University - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival
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.
10.05.2023
Slainte: Would You Drink a Beer from 1574? - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival
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...
10.04.2023
Securing Human Rights in the Anthropocene - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival
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.
10.04.2023
Where next for Children’s Literature studies? - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival
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.
10.04.2023
Old Ghosts: the Opera -Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival
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...
10.04.2023
Long Shadows of Communism... - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival
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...

What's Trinity Long Room Hub about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Trinity Long Room Hub episodes:

Actually, It Was Always About The Plays!

It Was Always About The Applause…

It Was Always About The Actors…

It Was Always About The Directors..?

We Are All Still Talking To Each Other!

“We Won’t be Hungry Much Longer” : Survival Cannibalism in North American Folk Horror Narratives

Courage, Justice and Resistance: Lessons from Ukraine

Fellow in Focus: Professor Bassey Edem Antia

Landscapes of Mourning in Irish Women's Poetry

Drawing Support: Graphic Narratives and Resistance

Revealing the Invisible - a Conservation Conversation from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

The Drama of Dissection

Women, Family, and Care in the Constitution

Behind the Headlines: No place like home?

AfterWords: Three Academics Reconsidering Narratives of Trauma and Violence in the Humanities

A Caméra-stylo for the Social Media Era

2023 | Totalitarianism and the Humanities

Therapeutic Metaphor Use: Lessons from Eating Disorder Autopathography

Yeats, the Nobel, and the Labour of Writing

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished? - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium

Addressing 'Democracy, Governance and Education' Today

The Holy Acrobat in the Beatus Initial - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium

The Many Lives of the Medieval Liturgy - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium

Mirrors, Morality, and the Virgin Mary - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium

The Searobend Project - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium

John of Worcester’s Chronicula - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium

Digitisation and Potential of Linked Open Data - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium

Sixteenth-Century Heralds - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium

Using AI to Transcribe Trinity’s Manuscripts - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium

Fellow in Focus: Professor Sean Moore

TCD MS 667: A Manuscript to Change Lives - The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium

Dublin Photographic Studios and the Medical Press of the 1860s

Machine Learning Meet-Up hosted by Human+ featuring ADAPT Researchers

Literature & Resistance: Poetry Reading with Éireann Lorsung, Majed Mujed, and Hua Xi

Writing Chronic Illness Just in Time

Making Empire and the After Lives of Empire in Ireland

Fellow in Focus: Professor Yevheniia Orestivna Kanchura

Fellow in Focus: Professor Van Gosse

TLRH | 2023 Annual Edmund Burke Lecture | Professor Joanna Bourke

All we want is the Earth! Land, Labour and Movements beyond Environmentalism

Historians Resisting Tyranny: A Preliminary Evaluation

AI and Music - a ‘History of the Future’ conversation

Writing Nature, Remembering Heaney - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival

Who needs footnotes? - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival

The Terrestrial University - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival

Slainte: Would You Drink a Beer from 1574? - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival

Securing Human Rights in the Anthropocene - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival

Where next for Children’s Literature studies? - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival

Old Ghosts: the Opera -Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival

Long Shadows of Communism... - Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival