Recorded January 25, 2017.

A public lecture by Dr Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento during her Visiting Research Fellowship at the Trinity Long Room Hub in collaboration with the School of Creative Arts as part of the Constellations Series 2016-17, a new programme of public events exploring the entanglement of creativity, artistic practice, and research.

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Recorded January 17, 2017.

A public lecture by Dr Joanna McHugh (Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience) as part of the Medical Humanities & Health Initiative Seminar Series 2016-17 hosted by the Trinity Long Room Hub.

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Recorded January 17, 2017.

The inaugural lecture by Jürgen Barkhoff, Professor of German (1776) at the Department of Germanic Studies

Biography:

Jürgen Barkhoff is Professor of German (1776) at the Department of Germanic Studies and Head of School of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. A native of Essen in Northrhine-Wetfalia/Germany he studied German, History and Pedagogics at the Universities of Tübingen, Hamburg and Dublin. He holds a Staatsexamen and doctorate from Hamburg University. He was DAAD-Lektor in Trinity College from 1988-1991, was appointed in 1995 to a lectureship in German and European Studies and was elected to Fellowship in 2000. From 2002-2005 he was Director of the Centre for European Studies, from 2007-2011 Registrar of the University and from 2012-2015 Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. Between 2006 and 2011 he was Chair of the Culture, Arts and Humanities Task Force of the Coimbra Group network of European Universities. Since 2012 he serves as a member of the Coimbra Group Executive Board and is currently its Vice-Chair. He is a member of the Board of the Irish Humanities Alliance, of the Science Gallery Dublin and of the Strategic Advisory Board of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London.

His main research areas are literature and medicine, science and psychology around 1800, eco-literature, the networking of literature and culture in Europe, questions of identity in the German speaking world and Europe as reflected in literature and culture and Swiss literature. He has published widely on these topics, especially on the relationship between anthropology and literature in the late Enlightenment, Classicism and Romanticism, on identity discourses and on contemporary Swiss literature. In his research he explores interdisciplinary perspectives and how the past and its interpretations influence the present day. He is convenor of the College wide research-theme ‘Identities in Transformation’.

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A public lecture by Dr. Johnny Hartz Søraker (Department of Philosophy, University of Twente) organised by the Adapt Centre and hosted by the Trinity Long Room Hub on the 29 October 2015.

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A public lecture by Professor Tom Bartlett (University of Aberdeen) as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series 2016-17.

‘They apparently are quite as ready to shake hands with Indian native races’: Pre-Great War Irish and Indian Advanced Nationalist Connections

A public lecture by Stephen McQuillan, TCD as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series 2016-17.

A public lecture by Dr John Treacy (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series 2016-17.

A public lecture by Colonel Colm Doyle as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series 2016-17.

A public lecture by Professor Frank Barry (TCD) as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series 2016-17.

Recorded October 16, 2015.

A talk by Barry Lyons (TCD) as part of the Shame, Stigma and Medicine Workshop that was hosted at the Trinity Long Room Hub in October 2015.

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