Recorded March 25, 2021.

A panel discussion as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub.

For centuries, religions travelled with people who moved across the globe – in search of work, food, safety or freedom. But religion also moves people: literally, when going on pilgrimages and mission; and emotionally, when religion provides an anchor for building a new life, or when it triggers emotions of hate and hostility.

Astonishingly, research on migration to Europe has long underestimated religion as a factor. The expectation was that people and their religions would soon “go home” again; notions of Europe as a Christian occident or a homogenous culture where religion is a private matter had to be challenged in many ways.

This evening focuses on how we as a society respond to the increased mobility and the pluralisation of worldviews we witness. We want to face the challenge, on one hand, not to “religionise” migration and the people and conflicts that may be involved but yet, on the other hand, include religion as an important element of cultures and identities that come together in a fast-changing world.

About the Speakers

Dr Peter J. Bräunlein has done extensive fieldwork on cultures of pain and Christian rituals that connect Europe and the Philippines; he was the curator of the University Museum of Religions in Marburg, Germany and specialises in questions of religion and media, expositions and the uncertainties of modernity. He will speak about the project ‘The Materiality of (Forced) Migration’ in Göttingen where he explores migration through the lens of “things” that people carry, lose or find. Through this lens – the emotional and practical connection people have with their objects – Peter will shed light on the role that religion plays for some who made the long journey to Europe. materialitaet-migration.de…

As a political scientist, Dr Gizem Arikan was trained in Turkey and the USA. She focuses on political psychology in a comparative perspective and is interested in how people’s religiosity and political behaviour interact. For our evening, Gizem will shift the perspective: from the migrating people to the societies where they arrive. Not only does the experience of Muslim migrants shape their democratic norms; also, their identity affects the political attitudes of the majority population. blogs.lse.ac.uk…

Rory O’Neill will share his experiences in his work as Integration Projects Manager for the Irish Refugee Council and how he encounters religion both as a resource and a marker of distinction. As a photographer and an anthropologist he documented the Direct Provision system and the issues people face when they try and enter the housing market and seek employment and an independent life. Rather unexpectedly, Rory works a lot with inter-faith groups and religious institutions and will talk about their role in the integration process. www.irishrefugeecouncil.ie…

Satwinder Singh is a researcher and community activist who not only shares the experience of many who moved to Ireland and enrich the religious landscape of Dublin, but also holds a degree in anthropology from the Dublin Institute of Technology and studied the Dublin-based Sikh community he is part of. His work at the Centre for Socially Engaged Practice-Based Research developed insights into the history of the Sikh community and the diverse strategies developed by its members when finding their place in Irish society and coping with the challenges this includes. arrow.tudublin.ie…

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Monday, 22 March 2021, 7 – 8:15pm

An online lecture as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series, with Professor Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University, Washington.

This lecture examines the history of the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was destroyed by fire in September 2018. Araujo explores the connections between the museum's building and the formation of its collections associated with the history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in Brazil, the country that imported the largest number of enslaved Africans (nearly five million) during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. The museum housed the oldest collection of African artifacts in the country. Several of these artifacts were given as gifts to the Portuguese Prince Regent (who later became king) by the king of Dahomey, in the context of transactions to facilitate the trade in enslaved Africans between Brazil and the West African Kingdom of Dahomey. In the past two decades, the museum, like a few other Brazilian institutions, was investing in reorganizing its exhibitions to bring to light the links between Africa and Brazil, a dimension that until recently remained absent from Brazilian museum institutions. Araujo shows that the destruction of the museum as a result of federal government's neglect reveals a reality that affects many other big and small museums whose collections derive from the country's long history of slavery.

The event will also feature a short response to the lecture from Lar Joye, Port Heritage Director at Dublin Port, former Chair of the Irish Blue Shield, and a member of the board of the Irish Museum Association.

About the speaker

Ana Lucia Araujo is a full Professor of History at the historically black Howard University in Washington DC, United States. She holds a dual PhD in History/Social and Historical Anthropology from Université Laval, Canada, and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France (2007) and a PhD in Art History from Université Laval, Canada. (2004). Her recent single-authored books include Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Brazil Through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics (University of New Mexico Press, 2015). She is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. She also serves on the Board of Editors of the American Historical Review (the journal of the American Historical Association) and the editorial board of Slavery and Abolition. She is a member of the executive board of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide Diaspora (ASWAD), the editorial review board of the African Studies Review, and the board of the blog Black Perspectives maintained by the African American Intellectual History Society. Currently, she is working on two book projects: Human in Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery in the Americas (under contract with the University of Chicago Press) and The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (under contract with Cambridge University Press). She just finished Museums and Atlantic Slavery, a short-format book to be published in the Spring 2021 by Routledge in the series Routledge Museums in Focus.

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Thursday, 18 March 2021, 12 – 1:15pm

A panel discussion as part of the Shape-ID webinar series Shaping Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub.

Partnerships with actors in civil society, industry, the cultural sector and citizens, are increasingly important to develop societally relevant research. In recent years our understanding of these relationships has evolved from a more limited idea of ‘end users’ to that of ‘co-creators’ of research, necessitating the development of transdisciplinary dialogues. The webinar will invite experts engaged in transdisciplinary work bridging research and society to discuss the importance, benefits and challenges of building transdisciplinary partnerships and co-creation, with examples from their own sectors

Panel

Prof. dr. Caroline Nevejan | Chief Science Officer of the City of Amsterdam

Dr Giulia Sonetti | Politecnico di Torino

Fionn Kidney | Human Insights Lab, The Dock, Accenture.

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Monday, 8 March 2021, 4 – 5pm

A seminar by Dr Leanne Calvert (University of Hertfordshire) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub.

The Trinity Centre for Early Modern History promotes understanding of the culture, society, economy, religion, politics and warfare of early modern Europe. The Centre organises seminars, conferences and public lectures on the early modern history of Ireland, Britain and Continental Europe, as well as on relations between European and non-European states and cultures.

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Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 4 – 5pm

A seminar by Professor Cara Delay (College of Charleston) as part of the Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub.

The Centre for Contemporary Irish History promotes research in recent Irish history. This Seminar Series is intended to act as a forum where those engaged in research in Contemporary Irish History can discuss their work with like-minded people. All webinars take place at 4pm. Presenters speak for a maximum of 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A.

Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 4 – 5pm

A talk by Dr Anne M. Mulhall (SLLCS TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. All webinars take place at 4pm. Presenters speak for a maximum of 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A.

Recent workplace fiction and film has tended to focus on two important themes- time and death. Novels like Delphine de Vigan’s (France, 2009) Les Heures souterainnes, Katrin Röggla’s wir schlafen nicht (Austria, 2004), and films like Corporate (dir. Nicholas Silhol, 2017), all display conjunctions between the two that amount to what she suggests is a new “necrotemporality” of the workplace. Suturing theoretical interventions from Achille Mbembe, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Timothy Morton and Sarah Waters, all of whom have noted a distinctly sado-thanatological impulse within contemporary politics, life and work, to prevailing philosophical and sociological theories of temporality, such as those of Quentin Meillassoux and Catherine Malabou and Robert Hassan. Her talk will define and explore a new concept of workplace necrotemporality.

Dr Anne M. Mulhall studied and worked at universities in Ireland, UK, the US and Russia before she joined Trinity in 2020 as Government of Ireland Postdoc Research Fellow. She has authored several articles and a monograph on a French journal of philosophy, entitled Tiqqun and the Event: Literature, Philosophy, Politics.

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Thursday, 25 February 2021, 6:30 – 7:30pm

This month the Art+Science Reading group returns in its new form, the Art+Science Salon. This season on the Art+Science Salon, in addition to our monthly online discussion series, we’re adding a curated collection of online resources that are open access and available to everyone online. Here we will share articles, essays, videos, and more.

To kick off this season we will be speaking with the artist collective Multiplay, Science Gallery Dublin’s first artist in residence/remoteness, in partnership with the Human Insights Lab at Accenture The Dock. Comprised of three transdisciplinary artists: Victoria De La Torre, Pedro Arnanz Coll, and Elisa Cuesta, their piece A.I.R will debut at Science Gallery Dublin only. Inspired by systems thinking, the installation invites the public to question the balance between agency and living as part of an ecosystem in virtual spaces.

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The return and reform of the Art+Science Reading Group, now the Art+Science Salon

The Art+Science Salon, renamed for the informal gatherings of radical thinkers and reformers of the 19th century, is excited to come together once more to discuss projects and ideas beyond discipline. This reform is due in part to reflection on the purpose and nature of academic research. What good is a PhD or any advanced degree for that matter if it only serves the interests and the needs of the few? It is the aim of this group to hold space for open learning, debate, and discussion. Our world is changing more rapidly than ever, evolving new rules of social behaviour and new ethical dilemmas that reach far beyond the borders of any discipline. We want to offer an opportunity for everyone to come together, find connections and inspiration at the crossroads of art and science. all representing work which defies categorisation and seeks to address the most pressing societal issues and questions of our time.

The Art + Science Salon is a virtual group where researchers, artists, thinkers, and revolutionaries come to share ideas. Organised by PhD candidates Autumn Brown (School of Education and Science Gallery Dublin) and Amelia McConville (School of English and Institute of Neuroscience) and supported by Science Gallery Dublin and the Trinity Long Room Hub, the series explores the ways art and science shape one another and society.

About the organisers

Autumn Brown is the PhD researcher in residence at Science Gallery Dublin. Her research explores art-science practices across Europe and whether this transdisciplinary approach may allow for a more equitable prototyping of ideas. She is interested in the sociotechnical imagination and how opportunities for public engagement impact who and where knowledge is made. She has previously worked as an immunologist and science communicator. Read more about her project here, and check out her latest paper here.

Amelia McConville is a PhD student conducting interdisciplinary research on visual poetry and poetics with Neurohumanities at the School of English and in association with the Institute of Neuroscience. Always fascinated by the overlap of art and science, she graduated with a B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin in 2017, working in fundraising for the College before commencing doctoral research in 2018.

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Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 7 – 8pm

A panel discussion as part of the ‘Sonic Spaces’ series.

Discourse around gender and sound often reflects biases about who should be allowed to take up sonic space: from historical assumptions that women’s voices were unsuitable for the radio, to contemporary biases in institutional policies that work to exclude the work of women in the music industry, as well as continued critiques of female speaking voices for expressing unappealing vocal traits like “uptalk” and “vocal fry”.

This event will bring together a diverse panel to discuss these and other ways in which sonic spaces can reflect broader social and cultural issues around gender and representation: Dr. Megan McGurk, host of the popular podcast and film club, “Sass Mouth Dames”, devoted to women who ruled the Hollywood box office from the 1930s-1950s; Dr. Ann Cleare, a multi-award-winning composer and Assistant Professor in Trinity’s Music and Media Technologies programme who will introduce “Sounding the Feminists,” an Irish-based collective committed to promoting and publicising the creative work of female musicians; and Dr. Jilly Boyce Kay, Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester and author of Gender, Media and Voice (2020), who will discuss the ways that feminist voices on television were construed as “domestic nags” in the 1970s. The panel will be chaired by Dr. Ciara Barrett, a scholar of gender and screen media and lecturer in film studies with the Dingle Hub and Sacred Heart University.

‘Sonic Spaces’ is organised by Jennifer O’Meara, Department of Film, as part of the Creative Arts Practice Research theme. The series considers the creative possibilities of audio and sound culture as they relate to issues of society, technology, the environment and the body. It aims to encourage the academic and broader community to reflect on our relationship to listening and its significance. ‘Sonic Spaces’ is supported by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

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Thursday, 11 March 2021, 1 – 2pm

A lecture by Christina Cleary, O’Donovan Scholar, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies where she will discuss the small number of ascriptions of poems to women, as well as speeches and dialogues from the mouths of female characters, in the twelfth-century Book of Leinster (TCD MS 1339). Although mere interpretations of the female experience through a male lens, and often far detached from their social reality as clearly outlined in the law tracts, these expressions attributed to women provide insights into how medieval Irish society perceived women and how they expressed themselves. Organised by the Manuscript, Book and Print Culture Theme supported by the Trinity Long Room Hub.

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Friday, 12 March 2021, 1 – 2pm

With many Irish people mourning the closure of their local pub, we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by asking what place the Irish pub holds in our history and culture. How did people use pubs in the past, and what was the popular attitude towards them? Famous the world over, is the Irish pub indeed an imagined space embedded in the concept of “Irish hospitality”? In this panel discussion chaired by Dr Ciaran O’Neill, Deputy Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, speakers will look at Irish pubs through the ages and the perception of public houses a century ago; the place of the pub in the history of folk music and revolution; what the pub means in Irish theatre, and what it tells us about ‘Irishness’ and performance of culture.

Prior to the panel discussion, four musicians from the Traditional Music Society of Trinity College Dublin (Claire Stafford, Sarah McKenna, Simon O'Connor, and Oisín Cullen) will be playing live music - make sure to tune in from 12:50 pm to catch some live tunes!

Speakers:

Dr Ciarán Wallace

The pub has never been just a place where you bought alcohol. How did people use pubs in the past? Who went to pubs, who didn't? What was the popular attitude towards them? Ciarán will look at pubs in some cartoons published a century ago to see what they can tell us.

Trish Murphy, Director of the College Health Service

What is the personal impact of the pub environment on people’s lives and communities? This talk will examine the personal story of growing up in a pub in a small town in the West of Ireland--both the good and the bad. The story will also highlight the skills that were developed from pub culture, and how this speaker used these when working in detention centres, prisons, and travelling alone in far flung places.

Jack Sheehan

If the pub is to Irish folk music what the coffee house is to American folk music, what does that say about Ireland? From the White Horse Inn of Greenwich Village, where musicians mixed with politicians, writers and radicals, to the Bogside Inn of Derry, where music accompanied planning for revolution, how can we describe the musical culture of the Irish pub?, Jack Sheehan’s talk will be emotional rather than intellectual, a slightly shaggy wander in and out of various times, places and of course, pubs.

Moonyoung Hong

What are the links between two performative spaces – theatre and the pub – and their significance in Irish history and culture? The talk will examine the political, literary and cultural implications of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907), Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars (1926) – both of which caused riots at the Abbey Theatre – as well as the works of other contemporary Irish playwrights who use the pub as their plays’ setting, to interrogate the (problematic) ideas of “Irishness” and “platiality” (Chaudhuri, 1997).

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