Recorded October 28, 2020.

What does equity in brain health look like? How do artists and scientists approach this question together? This month we’ll be hosting another evening chat with a panel of experts from the Global Brain Health Institute. Join us for a discussion on health equity, social memory and the role of music in brain health and research.

As Atlantic Fellows with GBHI, neuroscientist Francesca Farina, musician Grainne Hope, and Public Engagement Specialist Sarah Fox will come together to share insights into making and mapping memory through art and science. We’ll also have a practical discussion about mediating priorities and practices when artists, scientists, and the public come together.

About the speakers

Francesca Farina is a neuroscientist whose research focuses on identifying risk factors and early biomarkers of dementia. She also has a strong interest in developing creative engagement initiatives to promote brain health and life-long well-being.

Grainne Hope is a professional cellist, Kids' Classics Founder & Artistic Director & Wellcome Trust Clore Fellow. ‘Kids’ Classics' is Ireland’s leading Music in Healthcare organisation that provides training and mentoring to professional musicians, and creates and designs music programmes for healthcare, community and school settings in partnerships with the National Arts Organisations and Healthcare Settings.

Sarah Fox gained a PhD from The University of Manchester studying how rhythmic activity in the brain could be used to better understand changes in the early stages of Alzheimer’s dementia. But her PhD taught her much more than the ups and downs of brain waves, as she spent an increasing amount of her time working with other scientists and artists to find ways of discussing scientific findings with a wider audience. She now helps patients understand and take part in dementia research and can often be found waxing lyrically about brains over a cup of something warm.

The Art + Science Reading Group 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.

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded October 29, 2020.

In this episode, Dr Clare Moriarty talks with three leading scholars of carceral institutions in recent Irish history. Claire McGettrick, Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholar, UCD Sociology and Co-Founder of Justice for Magdalenes Research/Adoption Rights Alliance, Katherine O’Donnell, Associate Professor, History of Ideas, UCD School of Philosophy, and Maeve O’Rourke, Lecturer & Director of Human Rights Law Clinic, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway.

They discuss the season’s theme, ‘Power,’ in the context of issues relating to gender and Irish institutions, private contracts for so-called “care” schemes and the power of education and personal narrative. They also address the relationships between academia, advocacy and activism.

Content Warning: This podcast refers to sexual violence, institutional abuse and wrongful imprisonment that may be distressing to some listeners.

To find out more, visit: bit.ly/hublicsphere

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Recorded October 22, 2020.

Voices of the past, stories for the future: a Research Showcase from the 1641 Depositions Project

On the 10th anniversary of its launch and almost 380 years since the outbreak of the 1641 Rebellion, the 1641 Depositions Project celebrates its legacy and impact in a virtual research showcase this October 22nd, 2020. A flagship transdisciplinary digital humanities endeavour, the project has transformed our understanding of how the controversial events of the mid-seventeenth century are recorded and remembered.

Join us in recognizing and understanding how the 1641 Depositions project benefited multiple partners and stakeholders within and beyond academia. We will hear from colleagues in computer science, education, policy, industry and the project funders, as well as special guests who launched the project 10 years ago. This showcase will also mark the forthcoming launch of the final 7 volumes of the 1641 depositions in November 2020 by the Irish Manuscripts Commission, and will be hosted by Prof Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub and chaired by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer.

Speakers

Dr Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland and Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin, launched the results of the project in 2010 during her presidency, and will reflect on history and identity, and on the importance of bowing to the past without being bound by it.

Professor Andrew Thompson, UKRI and University of Oxford, former Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, 2018-2020), will reflect on the Project's impact from the funding perspective.

Marie Wallace, Data Strategist at IBM, will provide her perspective of the relevance of the 1641 Depositions Project for IBM and her own experience with working with academia.

Dr Eamon Darcy, an early modern scholar who worked on the 1641 Depositions Project, will reflect on the development of the educational resources in partnership with Bridge 21.

Professor Vinny Wade, CEO and Director of the ADAPT Research Centre, will bring his perspective as a Project partner in computer science.

Professor John Walter, from the

University of Essex, will reflect on the Project's contributions to scholarly and archival research.

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

A seminar by Professor Maria Luddy (University of Warwick) as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series in partnership 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.

Recorded October 22, 2020.

Voices of the past, stories for the future: a Research Showcase from the 1641 Depositions Project

How can we best tell our research stories and demonstrate the value of investing in Arts and Humanities projects? How can we be better prepared to capture a project’s impact along the way? On the 10th anniversary of its launch, we example the legacy and impact of 1641 Depositions Project, a transdiciplinary digital humanities endeavour which transformed our understanding of how the controversial events of the mid-seventeenth century are recorded and remembered.

Join Director Eve Patten in a lunchtime conversation with the Trinity lead PIs of the 1641 Depositions Project, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer and Professor Micheál Ó’Siochrú, Professor John Morrill from the University of Cambridge, and Dr Giovanna Lima, Trinity’s Research Impact Officer for the Arts and Humanities, to understand the impact journey of a digital humanities project 10 years on.

‘Voices of the past, stories for the future: a Research Showcase from the 1641 Depositions Project’ is supported by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. The 1641 Depositions Project received funding from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Arts & Humanities Research Council in the UK and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

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Recorded October 19, 2020.

A panel discussion featuring TCD PhD candidates James Greaney, Joel Herman, Grace Hoffman and Kasper Kop 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.

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded October 20, 2020.

A seminar by Dr Clare Clarke (TCD) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2020-21 in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub.

The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English research community since the 1990s. The aim of the seminar series is to provide a relaxed and convivial atmosphere for staff and students to present their research to their peers. The series also welcomes distinguished guest lecturers from the academic community outside Trinity College to present on their work. It is a fantastic opportunity to share ideas and engage with the diverse research taking place within the School. The series conveners for the academic year 2020-21 are current PhD students Orlaith Darling, Janice Deitner and Maggie Masterson.

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded October 20, 2020.

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

What can the experiences of researchers working in the emerging area of the Neurohumanities teach us about the challenges and potential of interdisciplinary research between the Arts and Humanities and STEM disciplines? Why engage in such research and how are researchers navigating the significant distances between their respective disciplines? This webinar will invite researchers working in the Neurohumanities to discuss best practices in interdisciplinary research from the perspective of their own experiences working at the interface of the Arts and Humanities and Neurosciences. The case studies will showcase the potential for interdisciplinary research with meaningful roles for Arts and Humanities researchers and inspire researchers to learn about and engage with interdisciplinarity. Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Principal Investigator of the SHAPE-ID project, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub and Chair of the Irish Research Council, will chair the discussion.

Panellists

Professor Sonja Smets | University of Amsterdam

Professor Thomas J Carew | New York University

Amelia McConville | Trinity College Dublin

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded October 15, 2020.

A panel discussion as part of the 'Trinity and the Changing City' Series.

Unlike Cork, Waterford and Galway, Dublin is not a ‘healthy city’. Why is this? And what makes a city ‘healthy’? What policies and actions are in place? And how can evidence-based research inform such policies and actions? A panel of distinguished experts discusses these and related issues. Contributors include Anna Davies, Professor of Geography, Environment and Society at Trinity who will speak about findings from her ERC project SHARECITY in relation to physical/mental wellbeing from food sharing; Denise Cahill, Healthy Cities Coordinator Cork City, who will discuss her work in Healthy Cities including work with the Cork Food Policy Council; and Professor Richard Layte, Professor of Sociology at Trinity, who will examine the links between food environment and health.

Trinity and the Changing City is organised by the Identities in Transformation research theme, led by Daniel Faas, Department of Sociology, and is supported by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/

Recorded October 09, 2020.

In this episode, Dawn Seymour Klos talks with Dr Caoimhe Whelan and Dr Sparky Booker about the Friends of Medieval Dublin and the representation of the Middle Ages in popular media and western politics.

The Hublic Sphere is a new podcast series created and produced by early career researchers at the Trinity Long Room Hub in Trinity College Dublin. The title reflects our desire to further the mission of the Trinity Long Room Hub ("the Hub") in bringing aspects of our Arts and Humanities research in Trinity to the public in this new ‘Hublic’ space. The world around us has never been more complicated, and we believe the humanities should play a role in understanding it. We bring you interviews with academics, practitioners and activists, and discussions that help uncover new answers to urgent questions.

To find out more, visit: bit.ly/hublicsphere

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/