Recorded May 22, 2024.

A conversation with Novelist and Trinity Long Room Hub Rooney Writer Fellow, Paul Murray and Dr Kevin Power, Assistant Professor of Literary Practice, School of English.

Paul Murray is an Irish novelist, the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Skippy Dies, The Mark and the Void, and The Bee Sting.

His most recent novel, The Bee Sting, was shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, won the Irish Book Award’s Novel of the Year, and also won the inaugural 2023 Nero Gold prize for Book of the Year.

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Recorded 28 May 2024.

Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Dr Tania Cañas (University of Melbourne) in conversation with Dr Erika Piazzoli (School of Education).

Bio

Dr. Tania Cañas is an artist-based researcher based in Narrm (Melbourne) Australia on unceded Kulin Territory. Her work looks at the intersection of forced displacement, performance, borders and socially engaged practice. 

She is the former Artistic Director at RISE Refugee, the first organisation to be run, governed and controlled by the Refugee, Asylum Seeker and Ex-Detainee community. She was also the Artistic Lead at cohealth Arts Gen, a community arts and health organisation. Most recently, she founded Archiving the Present (AtP), a multi-site digital community archive project that develops alternative practices of remembering which challenge colonial aesthetics.

In 2023, She was named Global Connector by the International Network of Contemporary Performing Arts - in recognition of her leadership and commitment to increasing global awareness, inclusion, accessibility, and connectivity for the benefit of communities.

Tania co-edited an anthology of plays about Australia’s border regime ‘Staging Asylum, Again’ (2024) through Currency Press Australia.

She will begin a Banting postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. working with the Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador initiative in 2024.

Please let us know if you have any access requirements, such as ISL/English interpreting, so that we can facilitate you in attending this event. Contact: [email protected]

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Recorded, May 21 2024.

Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Professor Michael Aronson (University of Oregon) in conversation with Professor Ruth Barton (Department of Film Studies, TCD). During his fellowship at Trinity in collaboration with Professor Ruth Barton, he is mapping Dublin’s history of silent era cinemas.

Bio

I am a film historian with a background in filmmaking, specifically in the camera department on TV commercials and music videos (back when you were more likely to find them on MTV than YouTube). I'm a historian because I like old stuff, and digging around both online and in archives, to find out things about the past. Probably because of my own history as a cameraman, a lot of my work focuses on the intersection of what academics call "Industry Studies" and "Reception Studies," which is just a fancy way of saying that I am interested in the people that made or showed films and the various types of communities that ended up watching them. In the case of the Ed's Coed article, for instance, Elizabeth Peterson, the University's Cinema Studies Librarian and myself worked together to write a history of the making of Ed's Coed, a feature-length romantic comedy made by some sixty University Oregon students here on campus in the late 1920s.

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Recorded April 25th, 2024.

The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture for 2024 was delivered by Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

The Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture was established in 2013 to provide a significant contribution to reflection on and advocacy for the Arts and Humanities.

About Lonnie G. Bunch

Lonnie G. Bunch III is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian. He assumed his position June 16, 2019. As Secretary, he oversees 21 museums, 21 libraries, the National Zoo, numerous research centers and several education units and centers. Two new museums—the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum—are in development.

Previously, Bunch was the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. When he started as director in July 2005, he had one staff member, no collections, no funding and no site for a museum. Driven by optimism, determination and a commitment to build “a place that would make America better,” Bunch transformed a vision into a bold reality. The museum has welcomed more than 8 million visitors since it opened in September 2016 and has compiled a collection of 40,000 objects that are housed in the first “green building” on the National Mall. In 2019, the creation of the museum became the first Smithsonian effort to be the topic of a Harvard Business Review case study.

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Recorded April 22, 2024.

An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion on Hate: Reflection from the Network Of Excellence Training on Hate (NETHATE) project. NETHATE is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Network (ITN).

Details: In a time where hate is constantly evolving, this discussion will explore the topic of ‘hate’ based on the three working packages of the NETHATE project: 1. Psychology and Neuroscience, 2. Technology and Social Media, 3. Culture, Ideologies, and Religion. Our distinguished panel will share their insights on how research in each of these areas has contributed to the overarching goal of combating hate in Europe. In addition, panellists will also discuss the gaps and limits of research on hate moving forward.

Join us for an insightful discussion and the chance to connect with like-minded individuals who share your passion for working towards combating hatred, intolerance and discrimination across Europe. Together, let's explore the potential for social change enhancing response to hate speech and hate crime, interdisciplinary research and analysis from the grassroots level to top-down approaches.

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Recorded April 23, 2024

The Network of Excellence Training on Hate (NETHATE) project, in collaboration with partner organisations and universities, is delighted to have Jo Berry speak at Trinity College Dublin.

Jo Berry has founded the charity ‘Building Bridges for Peace and is an international speaker and workshops facilitator committed to bringing peace to the world. Jo is also an executive committee member of Uniting For Peace which promotes a culture of peace, non-violence and sustainable development. She is on the Board of the Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace and is working to create a Department for Peace in Europe. Jo is also a founder member of Survivors Against Terror. Its mission is to help our country tackle terrorism more effectively and ensure victims and their families get the proper support. 

Jo Berry is the daughter of Sir Anthony Berry who died in the Brighton Bombing. Her peace work with the man who planted the bomb, Pat Magee, remains one of the most rewarding reconciliation works. The importance of peace-making and building communities around peace remains one of the central elements of Jo’s work and the most precedent to today’s world.

Recorded 5th April, 2024

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!

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Recorded 6th April, 2024

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!

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

Recorded 6th April, 2024.

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!

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

Recorded 6th April, 2024.

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!

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