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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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‘Women and War’: Representa...

09.22.2023

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). ...

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09.22.2023 ‘Women and War’: Representations in the Creative Arts 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). ...
07.06.2023 The Interpreter’s Tale from Sarajevo to Trieste: Jim Hicks in conversation with Krzysztof Rowiński 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, ...
06.15.2023 Centre for Resistance Studies: A Conversation with Carmen Bugan 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 ...
06.14.2023 Poetry, Translation and Oppression: Carmen Bugan and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin 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. ...
06.13.2023 A Fabulous Failure: Managing American Capitalism during the Clinton Presidency 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 ...
06.02.2023 The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare: Four Hundred Years of the First Folio Recorded April 12, 2023. An in-person lecture by Prof Andy Murphy (TCD) organised by the School of English in conjunction with Trinity College Library and the Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the First Folio celebrations. As part of ...
05.29.2023 'It ‘grow’d’. Or Fostering Discipline in Interdisciplinary Research Recorded May 25, 2023. The French Department's in-person 'End-of-Year Lecture in French Studies' will be delivered by Prof Mary Orr (University of St. Andrews), and is organised by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. In this talk Professor ...
05.29.2023 Lunchtime Conversation with Egyptian Comics Artist Deena Mohamed Recorded May 26. 2023. An in-conversation event featuring Prof Rosie Lavan (School of English TCD) and comics artist Deena Mohamed organised by the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Deena Mohamed is an ...
05.24.2023 The Hundred Years' War on Palestine Recorded May 23, 2023. An in-person lecture by Prof Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University) organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub in partnership with the School of History, UCD. Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia ...
05.22.2023 Technology's Deep Time Recorded May 18, 2023 An in-person 'in conversation' event featuring Prof Genevieve Bell (Australian National University), Andrew Meares (Australian National University), and Prof Chris Morash (TCD), organised by the School of English. When we look forward to possible technological futures, ...
05.22.2023 Visions of Europe: Ukraine's Constitutional Future Recorded May 16, 2023 An in-person 'in conversation' event featuring Dr Svitlana Khyliuk (Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine) and Dr David Kenny (TCD), organised by the School of Law in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. Ukraine’s constitutional ...
05.16.2023 Irish Screen Studies Keynote Lecture Recorded May 12, 2023. An in-person lecture by Prof Richard Dyer(King's College London as part of the Irish Screen Studies seminar organised by the Department of Film in the School of Creative Arts. This paper by Professor Richard Dyer starts ...
05.02.2023 Things and Ideas of Community in the Literary Works of Matthias Zschokke. Recorded April 25, 2023. An in-person seminar by Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Prof Dariusz Komorowski (University of Wroclaw) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Seminar Series. After decades of being trapped in ...
04.27.2023 Environment… as Medicine? Understanding the Various Ways that Architecture Supports Wellbeing Recorded April 13, 2023. A lecture by Dr Rebecca McLaughlan (University of Sydney) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. McLaughlin's research investigates the relationship of the environment to wellbeing; how do healthcare environments make people feel, ...
04.27.2023 TLRH \| Fellow in Focus with Dr Roisín Higgins (Teesside University) Recorded April 25, 2023. A lunchtime 'in conversation' event featuring Visiting Research Fellow Dr Roisín Higgins (Teesside University) in conversation with Dr Mark Hennessy (School of Natural Sciences, TCD), organised by the Long Room Hub. Roisín Higgins is an Associate ...
04.24.2023 TLRH \| Fellow in Focus with Prof Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape) Recorded April 20, 2023. A lunchtime discussion featuring Professor Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape) in conversation with Professor Eve Patten (Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub). Professor Lalu will discuss his new book ‘Undoing Apartheid’, which he ...
04.11.2023 Behind the Headlines \| REWRITES: Necessity or travesty? Recorded April 5, 2023 Panelists: Dr Jane Suzanne Carroll (TCD), Dr David Kenny (TCD), Dr Martina Devlin, and Dr Nicholas Johnson (TCD). With the recent news that publishers Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company have decided to rewrite potentially ...
04.11.2023 TLRH \| Fellow in Focus with Prof Dariusz Komorowski(University of Wroclaw). A lunchtime 'in conversation' event on March 28th, 2023, featuring Visiting Research Fellow Prof Dariusz Komorowski (University of Wroclaw) in conversation with Prof Jürgen Barkhoff (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, TCD). Dariusz Komorowski is a Professor of German ...
04.11.2023 TLRH \| Fellow in Focus with Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe(Rooney Writer Fellow) A lunchtime 'in conversation' event on April 4th, 2023, featuring Rooney Writer Fellow Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe in conversation with Dr Sean Hewitt (School of English, TCD), organized by Trinity Long Room Hub. Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and ...
03.27.2023 Life Narratives and the Biological Reality of Ageing A lecture by Martina Zimmermann (King's College London) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Cultural pessimism about ageing is grounded in a decline narrative that upholds youth as embodying the independent, vital self. Scientific accounts of ...
03.06.2023 TLRH \| Fellow in Focus with Dr Susan Manly (University of St Andrews) An 'in conversation' event featuring Visiting Research Fellow Dr Susan Manly (University of St Andrews) in conversation with Prof Aileen Douglas (Professor of English, TCD) and organized by Trinity Long Room Hub. Susan Manly is a Reader in English at ...
03.03.2023 Talking with the Dead: Narratives from The Old Anatomy Museum Recorded 16 February 2023. A hybrid lecture by Evi Numen (TCD) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Medical museums begun their existence as galleries of wonder, a way to celebrate God’s creations through collecting and publicly ...
02.28.2023 TLRH \| Fellow in Focus with Dr Şebnem Susam-Saraeva (University of Edinburgh) Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' event featuring Visiting Research Fellow Dr Şebnem Susam-Saraeva in conversation with Dr James Hadley (Ussher Assistant Professor in Literary Translation, Trinity College Dublin) and organized by Trinity Long Room Hub. ...
02.23.2023 Behind the Headlines \| Returning Remains: Context, Consent, and Colonialism Recorded February 21, 2023 Global conversations centred on custodianship and care of historic human remains provide the focus for the Trinity Long Room Hub’s latest Behind the Headlines discussion, which highlights the complexities and tensions surrounding the retention or reburial ...
02.15.2023 Partition Narratives and Regions of Memory: Upper Silesia as a European Mnemo-Region An online seminar by Professor Leszek Drong (University of Silesia) organised by the School of English, recorded January 26, 2023. “Partition narratives and regions of memory” will focus on Upper Silesia (a historical region in the south of Poland) and ...
02.03.2023 Human+ Tech Talks \| Learning to Learn: How Can AI Unlock Learning Patterns? A roundtable discussion hosted by Dr Qian Xiao as part of the Human+ Tech Talks series, recorded November 22, 2022. Online education has become a mainstream form of education in many countries during the pandemic. The market for AI-enhanced personalized ...
01.31.2023 Human+ Tech Talks \| In Tech We Trust: Embedding Human Values and Ethical Standards Into AI An online roundtable discussion hosted by Dr Nicola Palladino as part of the Human+ Tech Talks series, recorded November 1, 2022. Building trust around a disruptive technology such as AI is deemed crucial in order to realise its full potential ...
01.17.2023 How to Rule a Magical World: Europe, 1400–1700 Recorded Oct 27, 2022 Prof. Julian Goodare (University of Edinburgh) delivers the keynote address of the "Demons: Good and Bad" interdisciplinary conference, organised by the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies and funded by the Trinity Long Room Hub ...
01.13.2023 Behind the Headlines \| Waste Lands: Imagining Climate Catastrophe Recorded November 10, 2022 Responding to the devastation of the First World War, in 1922 T.S. Eliot wrote of showing us ‘fear in a handful of dust’, in his monumental poem, The Waste Land. On the centenary of the poem’s ...
01.12.2023 Literature & Resistance: Poetry Reading with Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and Anthony Anaxagorou Recorded November 8, 2022 A special event exploring poetry and resistance organized by the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies and Poetry Ireland as part of the Literature and Resistance Series. Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and Anthony Anaxagorou joined us to read ...
01.11.2023 The Annual Edmund Burke Lecture 2022: Democracy and the Legacy of Revolutionary Violence From October 6, 2022, Professor Michael Ignatieff delivered the Annual Edmund Burke Lecture for 2022, 'Democracy and the Legacy of Revolutionary Violence.' Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian writer, historian and former politician, now Rector Emeritus of the Central European University ...
01.10.2023 Human+ Tech Talks: The Future of Robots in our Everyday Lives From October 11, 2022, a roundtable conversation hosted by Dr Pat Treusch as part of the Human+ Tech Talks series. Robots that will populate our social everyday lives have become an ubiquitous figure of the sociotechnical imaginary of the Global ...
01.09.2023 Literature & Resistance \| Unseen City: Ankhi Mukherjee in Conversation with Ian Robertson From September 27, 2022 \| In the first event of the new academic year in the Literature & Resistance series, the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies and the Trinity Long Room Hub welcomed Ankhi Mukherjee, Professor of English and World ...
01.06.2023 HUMANXR: Mapping Social Behaviour in Virtual and Augmented Reality A seminar by Dr Kata Szita (TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum. Recorded October 3, 2022. Dr Kata Szita is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research ...
12.21.2022 Human+ Tech Talks \| Your Avatar and You: Identity and Behaviour in the Digital World This discussion focuses on whether avatars and digital personas should be considered humans and reflects on the impacts of these on inclusivity, social dynamics, and digital practices. Combining angles of human psychology and behavior, society, digital technology, and aesthetics, we ...
12.20.2022 Human+ Tech Talk: The Ethical Dimension of Human-Centred AI To launch the Human+ Tech Talks series, an online roundtable discussion hosted by Professor Vincent Wade, Chair of Computer Science (1990), Trinity College Dublin, brought together a distinguished panel of industry and academic experts to explore the ethical dimensions to ...
12.15.2022 The Dublin Press and the French Revolution A seminar by Maria Zukovs (University of St Andrews), as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series, recorded November 7, 2022. The Trinity Centre for Early Modern History promotes understanding of the culture, society, economy, religion, ...
12.14.2022 Modernism and Slippage: How Movements Might Move A seminar by Dr Nicholas Johnson (TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum from September 25, 2022. Nicholas Johnson is Associate Professor of Drama at Trinity College Dublin, where he has worked full-time since 2008. He ...
12.13.2022 Blue Nights: The Experience of Frailty in Modern Thought and Life-Writing A seminar by Prof Elizabeth Barry (Warwick) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. This seminar examines the concept and lived experience of frailty understood in relation to factors such as risk and change. Informed by the ...
12.12.2022 A Conversation with Award-Winning Galician Writer Xesús Fraga A conversation with Galician writer Xesús Fraga, organised by the Department of Hispanic Studies. Born in London and raised between the UK and Galicia, award-winning writer Xesús Fraga discussed his celebrated book Virtudes (e misterios) (Virtues and Mysteries) about his ...
12.09.2022 'The Unhappy Victims of This Habit': Drug Addiction as a Problem in Nineteenth-Century America An online seminar by Dr Kelly Gray as part of the Medical & Health Humanities Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Drug dependency became an increasingly serious problem in nineteenth-century America, and most of this use began ...
07.19.2022 Intersecting and contiguous identities in African narratives ‘Intersecting and contiguous identities in African narratives: ontological and anthropological perspectives' a talk by Dr Théophile Munyangeyo (TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Socio-political ...
07.18.2022 Margaret Thatcher and the Northern Ireland conflict 'Margaret Thatcher and the Northern Ireland conflict' a seminar by Professor Stephen Kelly (Liverpool Hope University) as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Centre for ...
07.17.2022 Poems and Prose from the Oscar Wilde Centre with MC Dr Kevin Power Trinity College Dublin’s Oscar Wilde Centre Postgraduate Showcase as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2021-22 in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to ...
07.16.2022 The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England 'The popular politics of local petitioning in early modern England' a seminar by Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck, Univ. of London) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. ...
07.15.2022 Portrait of an Irish mandarin: León Ó Broin (1902-90) 'Portrait of an Irish mandarin: León Ó Broin (1902-90)' a seminar by Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (NUI Galway) as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The ...
07.14.2022 Trinity College, ‘proper Irish’ and printing in the Irish language 1602–1685 A talk by Mícheál Hoyne (TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. In 1563, Queen Elizabeth I made funding available ‘for making of Carecter to ...
07.13.2022 Travel permits and the dynamics of social power in modern Ireland, 1939-45 'The ‘Stop List’: travel permits and the dynamics of social power in modern Ireland, 1939-45' a seminar by Dr Trisha Oakley Kesler (Woolf Institute, Cambridge) as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series in association ...
07.12.2022 Confronting the Ghosts of the California Past in John Carpenter's The Fog (1980) 'What Happened a Hundred Years Ago is Happening Again!': Confronting the Ghosts of the California Past in John Carpenter's The Fog (1980)’ a seminar by Dr Bernice Murphy (TCD) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2021-22 ...
07.11.2022 The Holocaust in Public Memory Culture 'The 'German Catechism' Revisited: The Holocaust in Public Memory Culture' a talk by Professor A. Dirk Moses (Chapel Hill, USA) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room ...

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