Episodes
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Recorded May 30th, 2024.
As part of its continuing bi-centenary celebrations, The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, in conjunction with Trinity College Dublin and the Chester Beatty, is delighted to announce that a lecture by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin, will be held on the 30th May at 6.30 pm at the Trinity Long Room Hub. The lecture is open to all and we look forward to seeing you there.
As part of the celebrations, Dr Moya Carey, Curator of Islamic Collections and Dr Ai Fukunaga, Curator of East Asian Collections at the Chester Beatty have also generously offered to lead special viewings (limited to 15 places) in the afternoon of the 30th May from 2.30pm of the Islamic and the East Asian Collections. This visit includes lunch first at the museum’s Silk Road Café. Should you wish to attend, please contact Alison Ohta [email protected]. The Society is eager to celebrate its long connection with Irish scholars working on Asia while publicising its prizes among students at Irish universities. The event has been made possible with the generous support offered by the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity Centre for the Book, the Chester Beatty, Dr Anna McSweeney (TCD), Dr Moya Carey and Dr Ai Fukunaga (Chester Beatty).
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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 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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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Recorded March 26, 2024.
A talk by Dr Bernice Murphy (TCD) - “We Won’t be Hungry Much Longer”: Survival Cannibalism in North American Folk Horror Narratives.
English 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.
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Recorded March 26, 2024.
The Centre for Resistance Studies organised an evening lecture by Dr Olesya Khromeychuk, in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub.
Dr Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer. She has taught the history of East-Central Europe at several British universities and has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Prospect and The New Statesman. Khromeychuk is the author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022) and “Undetermined" Ukrainians. Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS "Galicia" Division (2013). She is currently the Director of the Ukrainian Institute London.
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Recorded February 27, 2024.
Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Professor Bassey Edem Antia (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) in conversation with Professor Lorna Carson (School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, TCD).
Bassey Edem Antia is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. An alumnus of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he holds a PhD from the University of Bielefeld (Germany). His teaching, research and publications in Applied Linguistics span across a number of areas, including translation pedagogy, terminology, public health, and educational language policy and multilingualism. In a current project, he is interested in using Applied Linguistics approaches to understand how school textbooks were pressed into the service of the imperial curriculum and Apartheid ideology in Apartheid South Africa, and how this knowledge might inform our understanding of what it means at a textual level to colonise and to decolonise the curriculum.
He is a B1 rated researcher of the National Research Foundation, South Africa. Recognition for his scholarship and teaching includes: award for excellence in teaching and learning of the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa/Centre on Higher Education (2017); institutional teaching excellence award of the University of the Western Cape (2017); teaching excellence award of the Faculty of Arts, University of the Western Cape (2017); the Eugen Wüster prize for outstanding achievement in research and teaching in terminology and multilingualism (2016); prize for excellent doctoral dissertation of the University Society of Westphalia and Lippe (Germany, 1999), international INFOTERM award for outstanding achievement in applied research and development in the field of terminology (awarded for excellent doctoral dissertation) – co-sponsored by the European Commission (within the framework of its programme on Multilingual Information Society) and the European Association for Terminology. 1999).
He has taught and/or researched in various capacities at a number of universities, including University of Maiduguri (Nigeria), Universität Bielefeld (Germany), University of Education Heidelberg (Germany), Université de Montréal (Canada), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), University of Surrey, Guildford (UK), and Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa). He has attracted funding internationally, from Germany, USA, Belgium, South Africa, and the EU.
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Recorded March 12, 2024.
For the English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series this week Dr Lucy Collins (UCD) will present a talk on 'Landscapes of Mourning in Irish Women's Poetry'.
The English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English research community since the 1990s. The seminar series aim 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.
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Recorded February 29, 2024.
In this latest event in the Literature & Resistance series, we explore role comic books and graphic novels are playing in reflecting and critiquing some of the most pressing contemporary issues, and in fostering community and inspiring activism among their readers. From his perspective as a critic, Dr Dom Davies (City University, London) will discuss comics that suggest ways of looking at war and displacement in the Middle East, including the current conflict in Gaza. The writer and artist Timothy Poisson will discuss why comics are his medium of choice for storytelling and activism, reflecting on his work representing the LGBTQ+ community.
This event was inspired by the visit of the Egyptian comics artist Deena Mohamed to the Hub as a guest of the Centre for Resistance Studies in May 2023.
Dr Dom Davies is a Senior Lecturer in English at City, University of London, where he currently directs the BA and MA English programmes. He holds a DPhil and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Oxford. He has written extensively on the representation of infrastructure in literature, culture, and the visual arts, particularly comics and graphic narratives. He is the author of Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives (2019) and co-editor of Documenting Trauma in Comics (2020). His most recent book is a trade non-fiction title, The Broken Promise of Infrastructure (2023), and he is currently co-authoring a monograph with Professor Candida Rifkind that is called Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (forthcoming 2024). More information about his work is available at www.drdomdavies.com.
Timothy Poisson is an American writer and artist of comic books and graphic novels under the pen name Tim Fish. He’s living in Ireland with a Fulbright grant in affiliation with the Department of History at TCD to research his next graphic novel. His work has been published by Marvel, Vertigo, Dark Horse, Image, and independently. His last graphic novel, Liebestrasse (as co-creator and illustrator) was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award and named by the American Libraries Association on their official list of best graphic novels in 2022. He currently runs a Young Adult webcomic Please Say It! set in the 1980s, with the mission to inspire activism today. You can visit Tim’s site at www.timfishworks.com.
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Recorded March 4th, 2024.
Conservation and scientific specialists from the Core Partner archives within the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland at Trinity College Dublin discuss the fascinating discoveries being revealed by their latest investigations into ancient archival records.
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Long before the terrible fire of 1922 which destroyed the Public Record Office of Ireland, historical records were being slowly lost to damp, decay and vermin. Writing became obscured by soot and grime or bleached by sunlight, the written record hidden within crumpled parchment and paper too brittle and fragile to be unfurled. History became invisible.
Now, research by expert conservators and heritage scientists from the National Archives of Ireland, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, and The National Archives UK, in collaboration with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, is revealing the invisible.
This fascinating conversation will discuss research on some of the earliest paper records in Ireland, medieval parchments obscured by earlier treatment or burnt in the disastrous Four Courts fire of 1922. It will also showcase the vital role of conservation in protecting our shared heritage and preserving these precious records for future generations
Supported by the Trinity Long Room Hub.
Participants
- Ciarán Wallace, Deputy Director, Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin
- Zoë Reid, Keeper of Public Services and Collections, The National Archives of Ireland: Moderator
- Sarah Graham, Head of Conservation, The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: Revealing Archbishop Swayne's 15th-century register
- Marc Vermeulen, Senior Conservation Scientist, The National Archives (UK): Invisible wavelengths, visible history: Shining a new light on Irish medieval records
- Jessica Baldwin, Senior Conservator, The National Archives of Ireland: Virtually unwrapping: Exploring the use of X-ray microtomography
The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland research programme is supported by the Irish Government through funding from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under Project Ireland 2024.
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The Drama of Dissection: Performance Making, the Medical School Anatomy Laboratory and the Critical Medical Humanities
Recorded February 22, 2024.
A hybrid seminar by Dr Alex Mermikides (Kings College London) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series.
Bio
Alex Mermikides is the D’Oyly Carte Senior Lecturer in Arts and Health, based in the medical school at King’s College London, UK. Her research interest is in contemporary performance and its relation to the medical encounter and to the medical humanities. Publications include the forthcoming Routledge Companion for Performance and Medicine (with Gianna Bouchard), Performance, Medicine and the Human (2021) and Performance and the Medical Body (2016, also co-edited with Gianna Bouchard) which explores discourses of the human and the humane within medical performances. Her research also involves devising performances about medical experience with her theatre company, Chimera, as well as developing performance-based pedagogies in medical and nursing education. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Times Higher Educational Supplement, Nature Immunology and on This Week (BBC Radio 4)
Abstract for the talk
For the past two years, I have been researching and developing a performance about human dissection, capitalizing on my unusual position as a performance scholar embedded in the medical school at King's College London. In this paper, this project will provide an example of how performance-making can constitute a methodology for researching medical environments and cultures. In particular, I propose that there is a strong alignment between collaborative and expressionist performance practices such as those employed in this project, and the concerns of the critical medical humanities with materiality, embodiment, affect and entanglement. Through this, I hope to persuade you that performance, as artefact, practice and epistemology, has much to contribute to current debates with the medical humanities.
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Recorded February 26, 2024.
Organised by TriCON - Trinity Centre for Constitutional Governance.
Panellists
Prof David Kenny, Trinity College Dublin
Prof Laura Cahillane, University of Limerick
Prof Conor O'Mahony, University College Cork
Prof Aileen Kavanagh, Trinity College Dublin
Supported by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
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Recorded February 13, 2024.
The upcoming referendums to amend the Irish constitution propose to introduce a wider definition of family and remove the text on the role of women in the home. As interested parties set out their cases for and against the suggested changes, a recent Irish Times column has argued that the editing out of the word ‘home’ is not accidental. But what is the Irish home? Is it a place of caring and belonging? Are women still perceived to be at its centre? And who is excluded by the identification of home with family? In this Behind the Headlines, we discuss the referendum proposals and the meanings of 'home' in contemporary Ireland.
Speakers:
Tom Clonan, Senator, University of Dublin Panel
Rachael Walsh, Associate Professor and Fellow at the School of Law (TCD)
Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Professor of Contemporary Irish History, School of Histories and Humanities (TCD)
Claire O’Connell, Board Member of LGBT Ireland, steering group member of the Assisted Human Reproduction Coalition and the LGBT+ Parenting Alliance on Assisted Human Reproduction.
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