Archive, 2006-2011
22 June 2011. 'Desire, Loathing, and Fear in European Fiction, preceding the Exhaustion of Romanticism', a lecture by Gerald Gillespie
(Professor Emeritus, Stanford University). 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.
Wednesday, 22 June. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre,
Trinity Long Room Hub Building,
Trinity College Dublin. Admission free. All welcome.
16-18 June 2011. 'Empires & Bureacracy', a colloquium exploring the comparative history of European empires from late antiquity to the modern world. Venue: The Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. For further information, please contact the organiser, Dr Peter Crooks, at <empires.bureaucracy@gmail.com> You will find a copy of the programme for the event here.
14 June 2011. 'Inventing the Myth of Hollywood', by Professor Charlie Keil (University of Toronto). 2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. The Seminar Room, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome. For further information, please contact Dr Ruth Barton of the School of Drama, Film and Music: ruth.barton@tcd.ie
9-10 June 2011. 'Reconstructions of the Gothic Past'. A Colloquium Exploring the Perceptions, Reception and Uses of Gothic Architecture from the Thirteenth Century to the Present Day. There is no fee for attending but places must be reserved by returning the registration form available for download on the URl highlighted above. A full programme will be available shortly. Venue: The Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. For furtehr infomration, contact Caroline McGee.
7 June 2011. 'Building Democracy in India after British Rule', by Professor Aditya Mukherjee and Professor Mridula Mukherjee. 4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building. Admission free. All welcome.
Friday 27 - Saturday 28 May 2011. 'Space and Settlement in the Middle Ages'.
Following on from the success of 2010's Space and Settlement in the Middle Ages: the final frontier (supported by the Trinity Long Room Hub and the Arts and Social Science Benefaction Fund), we are pleased to announce that Space and Settlement is back for a second year. This year, the two-day international conference will be held in the Trinity Long Room Hub Building on the 27th and 28th May 2011. The conference will once again host a range of speakers from universities, the commercial sector and government organisations. Four inter-disciplinary, thematic sessions will address key issues, including: Landscape and Environment; Domestic Architecture; and Church, Culture and Society. Dr Tómas Ó Carragáin of University College Cork will deliver the keynote address on Friday evening, followed by an informal reception. Registration for Space and Settlement in the Middle Ages is free, but places are limited, so it is essential to register in advance at http://spaceandsettlement.eventbrite.com/
Thursday 19 May 2011. 'Glucksman Symposium on Medical Humanities', 3.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome. There will be presentations by Professor Maurice Biriotti (SHM Productions Ltd, and University College London) on 'Medicine, contradiction and experience: Insights from an experiment in the practical application of the humanities', and Professor Roger Smith on 'Why history in an age of neuroscience?'. There will be a response by Professor Ian Robertson of Trinity College Dublin.
4 May 2011. 'The Future of the Past: Recent Developments in the National Library of Ireland', a lunchtime lecture by Fiona Ross, Director of the National Library of Ireland. 1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, TCD. This is the last session in this year's Dublin Seminar organised by Dr Sandra O'Connell. Admission Free. All Welcome.
Saturday 30 April. Two panel discussions to discuss the work and influence of Thomas Kilroy (further details to follow). 2.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, TCD. Admission Free. To reserve a place, please email Lillian Foley of the Oscar Wilde Centre
Saturday 30 April. A staged reading of Thomas Kilroy’s play ‘Blake’ in The Samuel Beckett Theatre, TCD. Start time 8.00 p.m. Directed by Patrick Mason; Kindly supported by The Abbey Theatre. Tickets for the Saturday performance of ‘Blake’ may be purchased from The Abbey Theatre.
Friday 29 April. ‘The Modernism of Thomas Kilroy’, a public lecture by Professor Nicholas Grene (TCD). 6.00 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, TCD. All Welcome. Admission free, but it is essential to book tickets in advance. To book a ticket, please email Lillian Foley of the Oscar Wilde Centre.
29-30 April 2011. 'Across The Boundaries: Talking about Thomas Kilroy', a series of events to celebrate the work of the playwright Thomas Kilroy.
20 April 2011. 'Linking the architecture of the City of Dublin and Trinity College', a lunchtime talk by Niall McCullough and Valerie Mulvin, architects. 1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre. Trinity Long Room Hub Building, TCD. Admission Free. All Welcome. This event is part of the Dublin Seminar organised by Dr Sandra O'Connell.
19 April 2011. 'The "end of censorship" and the politics of toleration and republicanism', by Dr Geoff Kemp (University of Auckland, New Zealand). Neill - Hoey Lecture Theatre, 1.00 p.m. - 2.15 p.m. Admission Free. All Welcome.
Description: Dr Kemp is an expert on contemporary censorship and media, as well as the history of these phenomena. In this talk, he will examine the lapse of pre-publication licensing in 1695 - a date which was long seen as marking the emergence of a free press in these islands - in the context of late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century arguments about toleration and republicanism. This lecture will be of interest to historians, literary scholars, political theorists and lawyers, among others.
18 April 2011. 'Normalizing India', a lecture by Professor Dipankar Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India). 1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, TCD. Admission Free. All Welcome.
15 April 2011. 'Visual Translation: Artistic Challenges in Imaging God as Trinity', a lecture by Dr Gesa E. Thiessen (Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow). Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, TCD. 4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Admission Free. All Welcome. Coffee will be served before the talk at 3.30 p.m.
15 April 2011. ‘A digital reconstruction of the old Abbey Theatre’, by Dr Hugh Denard (Visiting Research Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub). Reception at 7pm. This will be followed by S H I FT, a performance in which contemporary Irish video and sound artists, actors, and musicians will create a live, improvisatory response to the Playboy of the Western World riots in the old Abbey Theatre in 1907.Venue: The Samuel Beckett Theatre, TCD. RSVP to fthackab@tcd.ie before 11 April. (As seating for this event is strictly limited, early booking is advised).
15 April 2011. 'The collapse of the Soviet Union: Twenty years on', Professor Viktor Kuvaldin (Moscow State University) in conversation with Professor Ron Hill (Trinity College Dublin). 7.00 p.m. in European House, Dawson St, Dublin 2. Admission Free. All Welcome. This keynote lecture opens a two-day conference entitled The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Twenty Years On. Click here for a copy of the conference poster and programme.
14 April 2011. 'Multilinguality, Multimodality and Multicompetence: Code- and mode-switching by minority ethnic children in complementary schools', a lecture by Professor Li Wei, Birkbeck, University of London. 7.30 p.m. Location: Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome.
This lecture is part of the two-day conference in the Hub Building entitled Relocating Cultures. Click here to see a copy of the conference poster and programme.
14 April 2011. 'Wolves in Ireland: A Natural and Cultural History', a lecture by Dr. Kieran Hickey (Department of Geography, NUIG). This is The Fourteenth Meeting of the Irish Environmental History Network. The meeting will take place from 5pm in Room 3051, Floor 3, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
Abstract: 'This talk will assess the evidence for wolves in Ireland using a variety of sources including archaeological, placenames, folklore and documentary information. It will be shown that wolves were a deep part of Ireland’s cultural history mostly forgotten and that they were a major component of the Irish landscape long before humans arrived and right up to 1786 when the last wild one was most likely killed. An assessment of wolf numbers will be presented based on a variety of evidence and the cause of their demise will also be outlined. The case for re-introduction will also be discussed'.
13 April 2011.'The micropolicing of language: emergent norms in free spaces', a lecture by Professor Jan Blommaert of Tilberg University. 7.30 p.m. Location: Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Trinity College Dublin. Admission to this lecture is free. All Welcome.
This keynote lecture opens a two-day conference in the Hub Building entitled Relocating Cultures, 13-15 April 2011. Click here to see a copy of the conference poster and programme.
12 April 2011. The Plato Centre presents the 2011 Stephen MacKenna Lecture, '"The Fox knoweth many things, the Hedgehog one great thing": The relation of philosophical concepts and historical contexts in Plato's dialogues'. By Professor Michael Erler (University of Würzburg). 7.30 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Fellows' Square, TCD. Admission Free. All Welcome.
12 April 2011. Readings by Nordic Poets. 1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. This event is co-ordinated by Poetry Ireland. It will consist of readings by four eminent Nordic poets in English translation. They will do 10 minutes apiece with a short Q&A. The poets are Tua Forsström, Jan Erik Rekdal , Morten Sondergaard & Eva Runefelt. Venue: The Ideas Space, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome.
Sponsors: Poetry Ireland; the Irish Writers' Centre; The Royal Danish Embassy in Ireland; The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ireland; NORLA; Norwegian Literature Abroad; The Finnish Embassy in Ireland; The Embassy of Sweden in Ireland, and The Swedish Arts Council.
12 April 2011.
Poetry Ireland in association with the Irish Writers' Centre, The Royal Danish Embassy in Ireland, The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ireland, The Finnish Embassy in Ireland & the Embassy of Sweden in Ireland presents a Nordic Night of Poets and Poetry featuring, Tua Forsström, Jan Erik Rekdal , Morten Sondergaard & Eva Runefelt. Venue: 6.30 p.m. Irish Writers' Centre, 19 Parnell Square North, Dublin 1.
Contact, 01 872 1302, info@writerscentre.ie
Admission Free. All Welcome.
7 April 2011. 'Indic Religions, Poverty and Social Justice – Facing Unfinished Projects', the eighth of a series of seminars hosted by Professor Felix Wilfred of Madras. 7.30pm Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre.
6 April 2011. 'Interval Studies'. The New York-based artist Tristan Perich is inspired by the aesthetics of maths and physics. His practice includes an intersection of acoustic and electronic music, and physical and digital art. In this post-graduate seminar, Tristan Perich will discuss his work, which can be seen in an exhibition opening at Monster Truck Gallery on 6th April. Venue: Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, TCD. Time: 4.00 - 5.30 pm. Admission Free. All Welcome.
This event is the result of a collaboration between the History of Art Department, TCD; TRIARC, TCD; Department of Music, TCD; Monster Truck Gallery; and the Trinity Long Room Hub.
6 April 2011. 'A History of the Crime Novel, in Ten-and-a-Bit Novels', by the Irish crime writer John Connolly. Reception at 6.00 p.m., followed by talk at 7.00 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub. TCD. Admission Free. All Welcome.
5 April 2011. 'Globalization of Consumption: Lessons from the Past', by Professor Dominique Bouchet (University of Southern Denmark), Location: GLT in the Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin. 2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. This lecture is co-organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub and the Business School, TCD.
Description: What is happening today as consumption becomes more globalized and individualized is reminiscent of the processes that led to the emergence of political economy 400 years ago. It is not only the flows and uses of goods and services that change. The very definitions and the various interactions between production, consumption, wealth and power evolve further.
5 April 2011. 'Avoiding Cross Cultural Misunderstandings Thanks to Humanities', by Professor Dominique Bouchet (University of Southern Denmark), Location: Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub. 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. The lecture is co-organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub, the Business School, and the Department of German.
Description: This lecture is about the necessity of taking cultural differences seriously in management and the serious possibilities to learn from a plurality of research fields.
1 April 2011. ‘Remembrance and Amnesia’, one of the spring seminars organised by the Centre for War Studies, TCD. With presentations by: Tobias Temming (University of Münster), ‘Remembrance and Amnesia or Identity and Trauma? Visual History of anti-fascist resistance in German and Dutch post-war cinema, 1945 - 1965’; and Benjamin Möckel (University of Göttingen), ‘The Social Construction of Silence in Post- World War Two Germany.’ 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Small Seminar Room, Trinity Long Room Hub Building.
31 March 2011. 'Religious Conversion – Cultural Horizons and Political Frontiers', the seventh of a series of seminars hosted by Professor Felix Wilfred of Madras. 7.30pm Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre.
30 March 2011. 'Capturing and Experiencing Cultural Heritage in Digital Form', by P. Anandan, Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director, Microsoft Research India. 12 noon. Venue: Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome.
30 March 2011. 'Between Plagiarism and Original Thoughts: The Challenge of the Testimonies of Iamblichus', by Professor Wolfgang Polleichtner (Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow). 5.30 pm. Venue: Dept. of Classics Seminar Room,
6th Floor, Arts Building
Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome.
30 March 2011. A reading by the poet Professor Harry Clifton, current holder of the Ireland Chair of Poetry. 7.30 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome. To reserve a place, please email Aoife Moynihan at info@irelandchairofpoetry.org or phone +353 (01) 6197817
28 March 2011. 'Barack Obama and the American Democratic Tradition', a lecture by Professor James Kloppenberg (Charles Warren Professor of History at Harvard University). 7.00 p.m. in the Synge Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. There will be a reception after the event in the Ideas Space on the 3rd floor of the Trinity Long Room Hub Building. This lecture is the first in a new Annual Lecture Series in U.S. History funded by Trinity alumni. Admission free. All Welcome.
25 March 2011. 'Sanitation, Contagion and the Cattle Plague in Dublin, 1865-9', a lecture by Dr. Juliana Adelman. This is the 13th meeting of the Irish Environmental History Network. 4.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Venue: Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building.
24 March 2011. 'The Old Library:
Politics, Architecture, Books - and more books', a lunchtime lecture by Mr Peter Fox (Selwyn College, Cambridge and current Visiting Research fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub). 1.05 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building. Admission Free. All Welcome.
24 March 2011. 'Religions Before the Tragic – Encountering Evil and Suffering', the sixth of a series of seminars hosted by Professor Felix Wilfred of Madras. 7.30pm Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building.
23 March 2011. 'The Engagement/Function/Role of the Intellectual in Contemporary Italian Society', a dialogue between the writer Professor Marcello Fois and the academic Dr Gigliola Sulis of Leeds University. Start time: 5.00 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. All Welcome.
22 March 2011. 'The Bohuns and their Books: Illuminated Manuscripts for Aristocrats in Fourteenth-Century England', a lecture by
Professor Lucy Sandler (Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History, emerita,
New York University), 5.15 p.m., Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome. This event has been sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art, New York.
18 March 2011. 'DublinSwell: Words and Voices from the City of Literature'. Venue: CCD, Spencer Dock, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1. Time: event begins at 7.30 p.m.
15 March 2011. 'COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Literature, Science, and Economy', a reading (in English) by Olga Flor, followed by a discussion and reception hosted by Professor Moray McGowan (TCD) & the Austrian Embassy. This event is organised under the auspices of The Identity Workshop, a lecture and seminar series organised by The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. Venue: Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. Start time: 5.30 p.m. Admission Free. All Welcome.
15 March 2011. 'Indic Religions and Sexuality – Interreligious Frontiers and Gender Constructs', the fifth of a series of seminars hosted by Professor Felix Wilfred of Madras. 7.30pm Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre.
11 March 2011. 'Queer Treasure: Documenting LGBT History in Ireland', by Tonie Walsh (founding editor of Gay Community News and co-founder of the Irish Queer Archive). 12 noon - 1.00 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. Synopsis: 'Societal taboos and criminal sanctions around homosexuality and other "transgressive" sexual behaviour have long militated against any real understanding and acceptance of a significant sexual minority with its own distinctive rituals, traditions and history. After centuries of marginalisation, the demonising and outright exclusion of LGBT culture would reach its apogée in Nazi Germany, when decades of research and documentation were destroyed and thousands of gay cultural and political figures sent to the gas chambers. Only with the emergence of a vibrant civil rights movement in late 60's USA and Europe would a newly liberated community begin in earnest the task of preserving and documenting its record of existence. This lecture explores attempts at collecting, preserving and documenting materials in late 20th c. Ireland; a determination by LGBT individuals and groups to collect, document and celebrate its joyous (if at times tortuous) history, often in the face of a shabby unwillingness by the state to even recognise this community's existence. An overview of the Irish Queer Archive (Ireland's most significant repository of LGBT documents), its foundation and historic transfer in 2008 to the National Library of Ireland also offers many suggestions for its exploitation and benefit to all of Irish society.
11 March 2011. The Centre for War Studies presents its sixth seminar, on the topic of ‘Everyday life: Continuity and Disjuncture’. The presentations will be by Justin Dolan Stover (TCD), ‘Negotiating allegiance: Exploring loyalty and treason during the Irish Revolution, 1913-21’, and Franziska Heimburger (EHESS, Paris), ‘“Intercrossings intrinsic to the subject”: military language policy and usage as a way of approaching the Allied coalition during the First World War.’ Trinity Long Room Hub Seminar Room. 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
4 March 2011. 'Honest to Blog. A Symposium on Web Legitimacy', 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin.
3 March 2011. 'Readings of Russian Literature with Vladimir Babkoff'. 11:30 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
3 March 2011. 'The Multicultural Culture of Russia'. By Brigit Katharine McCone. 1.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Trinity College Dublin.
3 March 2011. 'Toward Social Transformation through Arts Education: Spiritual Awakenings', Professor Marie McCarthy (University of Michigan), 5.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub.
2 March 2011. 'The life and Times of the Irish-Russian poet, publisher and literary translator, George Reavey (1907-76)', by Dr Sandra O'Connell. 1.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m.. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin.
1 March 2011. 'Twenty Years On. What do Russians Think About Democracy?' By Dr Derek Hutcheson (UCD). 1.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Trinity College Dublin.
26 February 2011. 'Children’s Literature, Classics and the City', a public forum for debate. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity Coleeg Dublin. 9.30am - 6.30pm. See the programme of events here. All Welcome.
24 February 2011. 'The Curse of Isms', by Dr Cesare Cuttica (Marie Curie Fellow in Intellectual History, University of Sussex). 2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m., Seminar Room, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All welcome.
23-25 February 2011. The Founding Conference of the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes & Centres (ECHIC). Venue: Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin.
23 February 2011. 'Edizione Tradizionale ed Edizione Digitalizzata: Accenni a Problematiche Metodologiche' by Professor Marco Santoro
(University La Sapienza, Rome). Venue: The Henry Jones Room, The Old Library, Trinity College Dublin.
2.30 pm- 4.30 pm. All Welcome.
23 February 2011. 'Historicizing American Conservatism: A Century of Economic Evolutions, Porous Borders, and Political Revolts in the South and West', by Dr Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (current Mellon Fellow of American History at the University of Cambridge and an Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago). 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin.
22 February 2011. 'Specificity and Place', a lunchtime talk by Alan Mee. 1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. Neill / Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Fellows' Square, TCD. All welcome.
Details: Alan Mee (Urban Agenda), an architect working in urbanism, architecture and education, will give a lecture in 'The Dublin Seminar Series' in TCD's new Trinity Long Room Hub on "Specificity and Place" on Tuesday 22 February, 1-2pm. The lecture explores specificity in the Dublin context as well as the impact of rapid unchecked change, which has led to a form of spatial chaos. In reviewing the analysis of these new and fast changing spatial conditions at various scales, it is possible to assess impacts on Irish specificity in design, across jurisdictions, their places, and their urban form. Alan Mee runs a design practice, which responds to the increasing demand for organising systems and design quality in development. Alan edits and writes Urban Agenda, an on-line forum for urbanism and a regular column in Architecture Ireland, the journal of the RIAI. He has published and spoken nationally and internationally on the particularities of the recent dramatic changes in the Irish designed environment. He is also Director of the Urban Design Masters programme at University College Dublin.
22 February 2011. Professor Erich Gruen (Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley) on ‘Jewish Appropriation of Greek Mythology.’ 5.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub. This is a seminar of the Centre for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies.
17 February 2011. 'Indianness of Christianity & South Asian Christian Diaspora', the fourth of a series of seminars hosted by Professor Felix Wilfred of Madras. 7:30pm. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building.
17 February 2011. 'Priest, Poet and Criminal: Violence, Infanticide and Literature in early-modern Genoa', by Dr Elena Taddia (Visiting Research Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub). This lecture is given as one of the 'DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN RESEARCH SEMINARS'
Venue: Seminar Room, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, TCD. 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. All Welcome.
16 February 2011. 'Structures and Intuitions in Art and Science from Leonardo to Now', by Professor Martin Kemp (Emeritus Professor of Art History, Oxford University), 6pm, PACCAR Theatre, Science Gallery, Pearse Street. All Welcome. Please note: The Science Gallery charges 5 Euro entrance to this event.
15 February 2011. ‘Smallpox in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, by Dr Deborah Brunton (Open University). Venue: The Edward Worth Library, Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin 8. Time: 3.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.
11 February 2011. 'Queer Oscar Versus Wilde the Irish Rebel', a lecture by Dr Eibhear Walshe, UCC, and scholar in residence at Trinity Long Room Hub, TCD. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, 12.00 noon - 1.30 p.m. This is one of the talks organised by Dr Fintan Walsh under the auspices of the Queer Theory Seminar. Synopsis: 'One way or another, Oscar Wilde always represents a challenge within Irish cultural discourse. Wildeʼs homosexuality was contested within twentieth-century Ireland, a discourse often interconnected with Irish cultural nationalism and this interconnection often downplayed the other, potentially subversive elements within his writings and his public personal. This lecture consider two key elements within Irish cultural perceptions of Oscar Wilde - the ways in which the figure of Wilde was re-appropriated within a particular tradition of rebellious Irish nationalism after his trials in 1895 and how the nationalist re-appropriation submerged or denied the radical or ʽqueerʼ potential for Wildeʽs transgressive decadent persona, the queer prophet of sin.'
11 February 2011. The Herzog Centre at TCD presents Professor Irene Zweip (Professor of Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam) on ‘Whose knowledge is it anyway? Author and authority in Jewish interpretation from antiquity to the Enlightenment’. 1.30 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub.
10 February 2011. 'Ecology, Climate Change and Film', a talk by Dr. Pat Brereton of the School of Communications, Dublin City University. This is the 12th meeting of the Irish Environmental History Network. 5.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub. Synopsis: 'The talk will draw upon textual analysis of film undertaken for Dr. Brereton’s PhD, together with ongoing research and publications on ecology and cinema that can be used to measure and evaluate the power of mass media in framing debates on ecology and climate change. Using examples from Climate Change narratives, Green Irish cinema, and an upcoming symposium on Eco-cinema, the talk will tease out some issues that influence a range of ecological debates. The Hollywood dream factory frequently produces ecological fantasies, which feed into the public consciousness of world audiences. While "feel good" narratives focusing on fears of environmental catastrophes and humanity’s need to reassess their role as part of nature can be criticised as vacuous, endorsing grand symbolic gestures, nevertheless such narratives also remain significant in keeping the environment at the centre of human consciousness.'
10 February 2011. ‘Marina Carr’s By The Bog of Cats’. Readings in the original English, and from the new Chinese translation of, the classic By The Bog of Cats. 7.00 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, TCD. Admission free. All welcome. This event is organised in conjunction with Dublin City Council to mark the Chinese New Year.
10 February 2011. 'Indic Religions, Migrations, and South Asian Diasporas', the third of a series of seminars hosted by Professor Felix Wilfred of Madras, India. 7.30 p.m. Note the change of venue to IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, TCD.
4 February 2011. A public lecture by Professor Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford. 11.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Organised by the Institute for International Integration Studies. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub. For further details, please contact mcguirke@tcd.ie
3 February 2011. 'The One and the Many – Religious Pluralism: An Asian Perspective', the second of a series of seminars hosted by Professor Felix Wilfred of Madras, India. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre. 7:30 p.m.
27 January 2011. 'The archaeological evidence for tillage agriculture and environment in Early Medieval Ireland', by Dr Mick Monk, School of the Human Environment, University College Cork. 5.00 p.m - 6.30 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building. This is the 11th Meeting of the Irish Environmental History Network.
27 January 2011. 'Europe and India in Dialogue: Crisis of Secularism and Hope for Peace', the first of a series of seminars hosted by Professor Felix Wilfred of Madras, India. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre. 7:30pm.
25 January 2011. Mr Haruhiko Kuroda, President of the Asian Development Bank will speak on the topic of 'Developing Asia: Economic Outlook and Post-Crisis Challenges'. 7.00p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Fellows' Square, Trinity Long Room Hub.
21 January 2011. 'Andrew Marvell's sense of humour: Wit, evil, and why we should read him', by Professor Nigel Smith (Princeton University). Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre. 1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.
21 January 2011. 'Words vs. Music from Plato to Bono', by Professor Nigel Smith (Princeton University). 4.00-5:30pm. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre. This event is the annual H.O. White Lecture organised this year by the School of English and Trinity Long Room Hub.
19 January 2011. 'Planning FOR Dublin', by Dr Conor Skehan, School of Spatial Planning, DIT.
‘The Dublin Seminar’ is a new lecture series at the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College, which explores the city from multiple perspectives including architecture and design, history, literature, social and economic issues as well as strategic planning. The talks take place from 1 to 2pm in the new Trinity Long Room Hub building, designed by McCullough Mulvin Architects, with time allocated for discussion. The series will run to April 2011 inclusive. Spatial Planner, Dr Conor Skehan, Head of the Environment and Planning Department in the School of Spatial Planning at DIT, will speak on 19 January on “Planning FOR Dublin” – debating whether in planning terms Dublin’s important role as the economic driver of Ireland is being recognized. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre. 1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.
17 January 2011. 'Erasmus, Antitrinitarianism and the anatomy of a forgery', by Dr Grantley McDonald (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven and Visiting Research Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub for the month of January 2011). Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, 4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Admission free. All welcome.
13 December 2010. "Israel and the Nations: Three Contesting Jewish Worldviews", a lecture by Professor Aharon Klieman, Stanley Gold Visiting Professor, Herzog Centre, TCD. 2.00 p.m. - 3.45 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin. All Welcome.
10 December 2010. 'God, Atlantis and Women’s Fashion: Plato On (Just) About Everything', by Dr Carl O'Brien, Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow. 1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome.
10 December 2010. 'Queer Futures: Rehearsing the (Im)Possible'. The 3rd meeting of the Queer Theory Seminar will provide a rare opportunity to encounter groundbreaking artists, working with different media, who will discuss their queer cultural interventions. Panelists from Ireland, the UK and the USA will consider the queer currents of their work by reflecting upon themes, concepts, aesthetics and audiences. Discussion will focus on the past achievements, current urgencies and future possibilities of queer arts practices. Speakers will include Liz Burns (Curator, Ireland), Mark O’Halloran (Actor/Writer, Ireland), Stacy Makishi (Live Artist, UK), and Peggy Shaw (Artist/Performer, USA). The event will be chaired by Dr. Fintan Walsh (TCD). Queer Futures is programmed as part of Queer Theory, Culture and Society, a year-long interdisciplinary seminar series hosted by The Trinity Long Room Hub which is open to the public. The event is sponsored by The Trinity Long Room Hub and a Visual and Performing Arts Fund (TCD).
Time and venue: 3.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin. All Welcome.
9 December 2010. 'Education for Development', a lecture by Sister Cyril Mooney, PhD, Educational Reformer and Headteacher of Sealdah Loreto Day School, Kolkata, India. Introduced by Professor Michael Grenfell. The talk begins at 6.15pm in the Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome. Tea will be served from 5.30 p.m. Please RSVP to tidi@tcd.ie by Monday 6th December.
8 December 2010. 'Joseph Mary Plunkett, The Irish Review and the 1916 Proclamation', 1.00 p.m - 2.00 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome. This event is organised as part of The Dublin Seminar organised by Dr Sandra O'Connell of Architecture Ireland.
8 December 2010. 'How Medieval Nuns Invented the Postcard', by Dr Kathryn Rudy, Visiting Research Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub. Ui Chadhain Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, TCD. This talk starts at 7.00 p.m. and has been organised by the Hub in conjunction with TRIARC.
3 December 2010. 'Mr Kemble's Curious Acquaintance: N. F. S. Grundtvig and his remarkable reception of Anglo-Saxondom', a lecture by Professor Sid Bradley, Professor Emeritus of the University of York. Friday 3rd December, 5.00 p.m. Synge Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
3 December 2010. Professor Jørgen Søndergaard, 'Creating Consensus and Managing Change in Difficult Times: Lessons for Ireland from the Danish experience'. There will be a talk for an invited audience of politicians, social partners and policy makers between 12 noon and 2pm, and a public lecture from 5pm to 7pm. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin.
2 December 2010. '"Redeeming Landscapes": restoring landscape in Australia (& Ireland)', by Prof. Katie Holmes (UCD). 5.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin. All Welcome. This is the Tenth Meeting of the Irish Environmental History Network.
2 December 2010. 'The Battle of Grunwald: Changing the Face of Europe', a lecture by Professor Henryk Samsonowicz. 7.00 pm - 8.30 pm. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome. There will be simultaneous translation from Polish into English.
1 December 2010. 'Folkloric Patterns in Satyajit Ray's Films for Children', by Professor Bansari Mitra, Visiting Scholar, English Department, Trinity College Dublin. 5.00 p.m. in 191/192 Pearse Street (Film Studies teaching room). Orgainsed by Dr Ruth Barton in the School of Drama, Film and Music at TCD. CANCELLED DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS.
29 November 2010. 'Identity in the making: European Literature Past, Present & Future'. By Professor Roberto Antonelli (La Sapienza University, Rome). 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. This event is part of the year-long Identity Workshop organised by Dr Clemens Ruthner of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. All Welcome. Please email Dr Ruthner to book a place.
27 November 2010. 'The 6th Symposium of the Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network in Ireland'. This event will be held in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. To register, contact Moyra Haslett. To join the Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Netowork, please contact Professor Ian Campbell Ross.
25 November 2010. 'Digital Humanities – Technology Transforming the Arts'. Professor Jane Ohlmeyer will speak to how Digital Humanities is emerging as one of the most groundbreaking innovations in the Arts and Humanities at an exclusive alumni event in the newly opened Trinity Long Room Hub Building from 6-8pm. Find out more or purchase your ticket online for €15 including a wine and canapé reception.
24 November 2010. 'Air from another time and place: Seamus Heaney's Human Chain', by Professor Michael Parker, University of Central Lancashire'. 2.30 - 4.00 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin. All Welcome.
24 November 2010. ‘Dublin and the World Design Capital Bid for 2014’, by Ali Grehan, Dublin City Architect. 1.00 p.m. to 2.00 p.m. All Welcome. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin. All Welcome. This is part of The Dublin Seminar organised for the Trinity Long Room Hub by Dr Sandra O'Connell of Architecture Ireland.
19 November 2010. 'Beyond Normandy in World War 2: Occupation, Resistance & Remembrance', a colloquium organised by the Department of French, TCD. 9.15 am - 5.30 pm. For further details, or to register contact Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey
18, 19 & 20 November 2010. Oceans Past III, an international conference on environmental history organised by Professor Poul Holm, Academic Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub. 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. Venue: Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin. All Welcome.
17 November 2010. 'Forging Ireland’s Identity: Yeats and Croatia'. By Professor Ljiljana Gjurgjan, University of Zagreb. 12 noon – 1 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Trinity College Dublin. Organised by the School of English at TCD. All Welcome.
17 November 2010. 'Confessions of a Convert: From Fishery Biology to Environmental History', by Dr Tim D. Smith. 5.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, Trinity College Dublin.
15 November 2010. 'Hibernia Cantans': Medieval Music Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College Dublin', a talk by Dr Ann Buckley of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, TCD as part of Innovation Week. 12.30 pm to 2 pm. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre. Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, TCD. All Welcome.
13 November 2010. ‘1916 and After’. A symposium at the Trinity Long Room Hub. This symposium will focus on the ways in which the events of 1916 pinpoint collapse and changes in the world system of empire. For further details of this event, please visit www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute or email mooreinstitute@nuigalway.ie
10 November 2010. ‘Blasphemy. Modern Crime or Historical Anachronism?’, by Professor David Nash (Oxford Brookes University). 2.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building. All Welcome.
9 November 2010. 'Civil Partnership or Civil Marriage?'
Speaker: Senator Ivana Bacik. 11.00 am – 12.30 pm.
Neil/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Fellows’ Square, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome.
5 November 2010. 'Bram Stoker: The Twilight of Dracula', by David Skal. 12.00 noon. – 1.30 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Fellows’ Square, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome.
22 October 2010. The 9th Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium entitled 'The 1641 Depositions, War and Atrocity'. Speakers: Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) ‘The 1641 Depositions Project’; Professor John Morrill (University of Cambridge) ‘Did the English over-react to the massacres of 1641?’; and Professor Ben Kiernan (Yale University) ‘A world away? Ethno-religious violence in early-modern Southeast Asia’. 3.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. The Synge Theatre, The Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. Admission Free. All Welcome.
Video of the Glucksman Symposium on the 1641 Depositions from Jason McElligott on Vimeo.
15 October 2010. ‘Horace Walpole’s Cat’, by Professor Christopher Frayling (Royal College of Art). 2.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building. All Welcome.
11 October 2010. Professor Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam) will present a paper at the first of a series of all-day workshops on the theme of 'Identity'. Exact title and timings to be confirmed. This seminar is organised by Dr Clemens Ruthner of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies.
8 October 2010. 'On Mental Conflict. Ovid's Medea Revisited.', by Dr Robert Zaborowski of the Institute for History of Science, Warsaw. 3.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building. All Welcome.
7 October 2010. Public Forum: Why Does the Past Matter? This forum on Greco-Roman antiquity in the 21st century will explore some of the ways in which we use the Classical past and to what extent and why it remains relevant today and important for our future. The event will be chaired by former Provost Thomas Mitchell in the Trinity Long Room Hub building.
1 October 2010. Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Workshop - "Convivencia" in Byzantium? Cultural Exchanges in a Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Lingual Society. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, TCD. By invitation only.
27 Sept. 2010. Lecture by Professor Louise Richardson (University of St Andrews, UK). Title and time tbc. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, TCD. By invitation only.
22 Sept. 2010. 'The Writer as Geographer. Considering Literature, Landscape and Technology', by Dr. Charles Travis (Lecturer in Geography, NUI Maynooth). This lecture will be followed by the combined launch of Dr. Travis's new book, Literary Landscapes of Ireland: Geographies of Irish Stories, 1929-1946 (Mellen Press, New York) and the launch of A Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland, 1922-1949, which will be made available on the Trinity Long Room Hub website. 5.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. All Welcome.
16 Sept. 2010. 'The Rationality of Folk Healing in the Enchanted Present', Professor David Hufford, Penn State University, USA. This lecture is presented by the Trinity Long Room Hub in conjunction with the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland at UCD. 4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Building, Fellows' Square, TCD. All Welcome.
10-12 Sept. 2010. 'The Perils of Print Culture', an interdisciplinary conference at TCD organised by Dr Jason McElligott and Dr Eve Patten.
3 September 2010. Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Conference - Forum for the Study of Early-Modern Women in Continental Europe.Switft Theatre, Arts Building 9:00am - 6:00pm.
23 June 2010. Perspectives on India and the West: Politics, Religion and Art . The 8th Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium. With contributions by Professor Francis Clooney (Harvard Divinity School), Professor Gauri Viswanathan (Columbia University) and Mr Charles Horton (Chester Beatty Library, Dublin). Synge Theatre, Arts Building 5.00p.m. to 7.30 p.m. All welcome. In conjunction with the Library Exhibition Nabobs, Soldiers and Imperial Service: The Irish in India
2 June 2010. The 1st Annual Mary Pollard Memorial Lecture. ‘"This Will Make Learning Pleasant": Early Modern Children & Pictures', a lecture by Ms Jill Shefrin in the Emmet Theatre, Arts Building. 6.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. All welcome.
27 May - 3 October 2010. Library Exhibition: Nabobs, Soldiers and Imperial Services: The Irish in India. The Long Room.
27-28 May 2010. Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Conference - Les Conflits en Savoie 1500-1800 / Conflict and Society in Savoy in the early-modern period. Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
28th - 29th May 2010. Space and settlement in the Middle Ages: The Final Frontier. Jonathan Swift Theatre, Arts Building TCD
29 April 2010. 'Scientific Taboos'. Short presentations by Dr Máirín Ní Cheallaigh (IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow) on ‘Taboos and Scientific Objectivity: Irish Archaeological Approaches to the Display of Ancient Human Remains’, and Evangelos Kapros (PhD Candidate in Computer Science) on ‘The Institutional Nature of Moral Taboos in Science’. Room C6002, Arts Building, 12 noon - 1.00 p.m.
27 April 2010. Professor David Anderson (History and African Politics, University of Oxford) ‘Development and Environment in Ethiopia: The Gibe Dams and the Omo River Flood’. Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, 5.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. Organised in conjunction with TIDI. All welcome.
26 April 2010. Professor Jonathan L. Hart (Edmonton, Canada) will speak on the topic 'Does Empire Ever Die? Decolonization versus Neo-Imperialism'. 6.00 p.m. - 8.00. IIIS Seminar Room, Room C.6002, 6th Floor, Arts Building. TCD.
22 April 2010. Dr Giovanna Fossati (EYE Film Institute, The Netherlands), ‘From Grain to Pixel. The Archival Life of Film in Transition from Analogue to Digital Technology’. This is the keynote address for the Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar. Time. 6.00 p.m. Venue: Theatre Mhairtin Ui Chadhain (Room 2041B), Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. A reception in the IIIS Seminar room will follow Dr Fossati’s address.
22-23 April 2010. Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar. Location: IIIS Seminar Room, C.6002, 6th floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
20 April 2010. 'Blasphemy: historical anachronism or modern crime?' Professor David Nash (Oxford Brookes University, UK). Swift Theatre, Arts Building, TCD. 4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. CANCELLED DUE TO VOLCANIC ACTIVITY.
17 April 2010. Philip Pullman will talk about his new book ‘The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ’ in conversation with Fintan O'Toole. Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building. 3.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. All welcome. CANCELLED DUE TO VOLCANIC ACTIVITY.
16 April 2010. Professor Terry Eagleton, ‘What is Evil?’ 12 noon to 2.00 p.m. J.M. Synge Theatre, Arts Building. All welcome.
15 April 2010. 'Global Visualities and The New Everyday'. A post-graduate seminar for the School of Drama, Film and Music at TCD by Professor Nicholas Mirzoeff of New York University. Start time: 10.15 am. Location:
ATRL, Trinity Tech. and Enterprise Campus, Pearse St, Dublin 2 (i.e. not on the main city-centre campus). All welcome..
15 April 2010. 'Leadership Forum: Arts and Culture – the Future for Ireland?' This forum will contribute to the discussion of what lessons Irish leaders in the business and government sectors might have to learn from the arts and cultural spheres. The speakers include Professor Maurice Biriotti, CEO of SHM Ltd and Adjunct Professor of Humanities Innovation at Trinity College Dublin; Ed Guiney, producer of the Palme d’Or winning “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” and co-founder of the film production company, Element Films; Gráinne Millar, the Head of Cultural Development at the Temple Bar Cultural Trust; and John O’Hagan, Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. Venue: JM Synge Theatre, Arts Building. 2.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m.
14 April 2010. ‘20/20 Vision: What will the world be like in ten years time?' A symposium with presentations on ‘Globalisation’ by Stephen D King, (Global Chief Economist at HSBC Bank); ‘Climate Change Denial’ by Howard Friel, author of The Lomborg Deception; and Nicholas Mirzoeff of NYU on ‘The Change to a Visual World’. Moderator: Aine Lawlor, RTE. Venue: Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building. 2.00 – 4.30 pm. All welcome.
13 April 2010. 'Fantastic Futures' with the science-fiction writers Philip Reeve, Oisin McGann and Conor Kostick. 11.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. All welcome. Organised in association with Children's Books Ireland as part of Trinity Week 2010. In the evening there will be a session entitled 'Philip Reeve in conversation with Robert Dunbar'. This will take place in the JM Synge theatre in the Arts Building from 6.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. All welcome.
12 April 2010. 'New Ways to Remember Fontenoy: The Professionalization of Soldiering in Eighteenth-Century France'. A lecture by Professor Hervé Drévillon (Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne). 4.00 p.m. Room C6002. Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. Organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub in conjunction with the Centre for War Studies. TCD. All welcome.
10 April 2010. 'Archives in Crisis: A Symposium to Debate the Future of Archives in Irish Society'. 3.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. Venue: Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin. Moderator: Professor Diarmaid Ferriter. Speakers: Fintan O’Toole, Catriona Crowe, Eunan O’Halpin.
8 April 2010. ‘The Meaning of Medieval Culture’. Professor Brian McGuire (Roskilde University, Denmark). Room 5030, 5th floor, Arts Building. 6.00pm to 7.30pm. All welcome.
31 March 2010. ‘The Opportunities of Multiculturalism’. TLRH Post-Graduate Seminar in Ethics, South Training Room of the Berkeley Library. 4.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Convened by Amy Daughton ( daughtoa@tcd.ie). Advance booking essential.
30 March 2010. ‘Samuel Ferguson and the Fraternity of Irish Poetry’. By Dr. Matthew Campbell (School of English, University of Sheffield). 10.00 a.m. – 12 noon. IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, TCD. All welcome
23 March 2010. “Scales of Prostitution: International Governmentalities and Interwar India”. By Dr Stephen Legg (Cultural and Historical Geography, University of Nottingham). 10.00 a.m. – 12 noon. IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, TCD. All welcome.
22 March 2010. ‘From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition’ by Professor Giovanna Fossati (Curator, Nederlands Filmmuseum). 6.00 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. Venue to be confirmed. This lecture is a keynote address at the Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar 2010.
19 March 2010. ‘Touring the Dead Lands: Emily Eden and a Victorian Apocalypse'. By Dr Pablo Mukherjee (School of English, University of Warwick). IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, TCD. 10.00 a.m. – 12.00 noon. All welcome.
15 March 2010. ‘The Ethics of Climate Change’. By Professor John Broome (Philosophy, Oxford University). Seminar Room 1.10, School of Nursing and Midwifery, D’Olier Street. 10.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. All welcome.
11 March 2010. ‘From War Talk to Rights Talk: the Wartime Origins of the Human Rights Movement, 1940-1945.’ by Professor Jay Winter (Yale University). The first annual ‘War in History’ lecture sponsored by the Centre for War Studies and the Trinity Long Room Hub. 7.30 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College. All welcome.
10 March 2010. – ‘Remembered History’, TLRH Post-Graduate Seminar in Ethics, South Training Room of the Berkeley Library 4.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Convened by Amy Daughton ( daughtoa@tcd.ie). Advance booking essential.
5 March 2010. Professor Ralph Wedgwood (Philosophy, University of Oxford).‘The Doctrine of Double Effect: A Defence’. 10.00 a.m. – 12 noon, IIIS Seminar Room, C.6002, 6th Floor, Arts Building. TCD. All welcome.
3 March 2010. ‘Debates over Climate Change in Tsarist Russia’. Professor David Moon (History, University of Durham). 4.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Swift Theatre. Arts Building. All welcome.
2 March. ‘Force Reading: Captive Audiences in Victorian Britain’. A lecture by Professor Leah Price of Harvard University. From 6.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Room 3051, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. All Welcome.
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26 Feb. 2010. 'Popular Cult and Power:
The Function of the Juktas Peak Sanctuary
in Protopalatial and Neopalatial Crete', a lecture by Dr Alexandra Karetsou. 7.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. Synge Lecture Theatre (2039), Arts Building, TCD.
25 Feb. 2010. ‘Scholarship and Sacrifice: Can we Bank on a Humanistic Future?’, Dr W. J. McCormack, Edward Worth Library. 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. in the Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, TCD. This is the seventh, and final, Mackey Lecture.
25 Feb. 2010. 'Taboos Relating to Sexuality and Childcare '. Short presentations by Mr Paul Shield (Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry) on ‘Industrial Schools and the Taboo of Cruelty and Sexual Abuse in Childcare’ and Jemimah Bailey (PhD student in Social Work) on ‘Taboos Relating to Sexuality and Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland’. Room C6002, Arts Building. 12 noon - 1.00 p.m.
24 Feb. 2010. ‘The Story of the Other’. TLRH Post-Graduate Seminar in Ethics, South Training Room of the Berkeley Library 4-6pm. Convened by Amy Daughton (daughtoa@tcd.ie). Advance booking essential.
24 Feb. 2010. ‘Libraries, Readers and Bibliographers’, by Professor David McKitterick, Trinity College, Cambridge. From 5.30 p.m. in Dr Steevens’s Hospital, opposite Heuston Railway Station. This is the sixth of the Mackey Lectures.
23 Feb. 2010. ‘Explaining the Trinity Long Room Hub Building’. A talk by the architects Valerie Mulvin and Niall McCulloch. Room 5033, Arts Building. 5.00pm to 6.30 pm. All welcome.
11 Feb. 2010. ‘Dublin's First Antigones: From J-J Barthelemy (1795) to Helen Faucit (1845)’, by Dr Fiona Macintosh, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. From 5.30 p.m. in Dr Steevens’s Hospital, opposite Heuston Railway Station. This is the fifth of the Mackey Lectures.
10 Feb. 2010. ‘Medicine and the State: The Poor Law Medical Service in Ireland, 1851-1921’, by Dr Laurence Geary, Senior Lecturer in History, University College Cork. From 5.30 p.m. in the National Library of Ireland. This is the fourth of the Mackey Lectures.
28 Jan. 2010. 'Religious Taboos'. Short presentations by Dr Norbert Hintersteiner (School of Religions and Theology) on ‘The Taboo of Double Religious Belonging’ and Katie Sturm (PhD student in theology) on ‘The Taboo of Liberal Thought in US Evangelicalism’. Room C6002, Arts Building, 12 noon - 1.30 p.m.
11-12 January 2010. From Mazzini to Garibaldi: The Italian Risorgimento and Irish Nationalism. An international conference to be held at Trinity College Dublin and the Italian Cultural Institute, Dublin. All welcome. Contact Professor Michele Finelli at michefinelli@alice.it
10 Dec. 2009. 'Language, Culture and Press Freedom in Eastern Europe since 1989'. The 7th Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium. 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. J.M. Synge Theatre, Arts Building, TCD.
10 Dec. 2009. 'Memory, Culture and Hope: Reinventing Western-Islamic Relations', a public lecture by Dr Ismail Serageldin, the Librarian of Alexandria. 5.15 pm - 7.00 pm. Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
4 Dec. 2009. 'Psychiatry and Photography in Colonial East Africa'. Dr Sloan Mahone, Deputy Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. 11.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Room C6002, IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, TCD.
Dec. 2009. ‘The New Environmental History: Silver Darlings, King Cod and Professor Huxley in 1883’, by Professor Poul Holm, Academic Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, TCD. 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. in the Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, TCD. This is the third of the Mackey Lectures.
Dec. 2009. 'Academic Research: is it of any value to the taxpayer?' A debate and discussion with Professor Poul Holm (TCD), Dr Declan Jordan (UCC) and Professor Luke O'Neill (TCD). Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. 6.00 p.m - 7.30 p.m.
6 Nov. 2009. 'Vergil's Library', by Prof Damien Nelis (Geneva). 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, TCD.
6 Nov. 2009. 'Business Taboos'. Short presentations by Dr Martine Cuypers (Classics) on ‘Taboo trade-offs in ancient Greece’, and Nicholas McIlroy and Ahmad Shadid (PhD Students in the School of Business) on ‘Business Taboos in China and the Middle East'. Room C6002, Arts Building, 12 noon - 1.30 p.m.
5 Nov. 2009. ‘Margaret Huxley (1856-1940), Dublin's Pioneer of Scientific Nursing’, by Ms Susan McGann, Director of Archives, Royal College of Nursing. From 5.30 p.m. in Newman House, Saint Stephens Green, Dublin 2. This is the second of the Mackey Lectures.
1 Nov. 2009. 'Early-Modern Gardens in Context'. An international conference organised by Dr Anatole Tchikine (TCD) with the support of The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at TCD. Venue: Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, from 9.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
8 Nov. 2009. 'Freedom of Information, Freedom of Inquiry', by Mr James Hamilton, Director of Public Prosecutions. 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, TCD. This is the first of the Mackey Lectures organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub in conjunction with the Worth Library, the National Library of Ireland, UCD and the Health Service Executive.
3 Nov. 2009. Prof Ermengol Gassiot (Barcelona) ‘The Politics of Memory: Unearthing Mass Graves from the Spanish Civil War’. 1.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m., Room C6002, IIIS Seminar Room, 6th floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
Nov. 2009. Dr Tomasz Kamusella (TCD), 'Language in Modern Central Europe: A Steel Hand in a Kid Glove'. 5.00 pm - 6.30 p.m. Room 3074, Arts Building, TCD.
Nov. 2009. Workshop organised by the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) entitled 'Creating Really Useful Databases for Humanities Research'. 9.30 a.m. - 4.30 p.m. IIIS Seminar Room, C.6002, 6th Floor, Arts Building, TCD.
Nov. 2009. Prof Arne Jarrick (Swedish Research Council), ‘The Role and Mission of the Humanities’. 11:00am – 12:30pm. IIIS Conference Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, TCD.
9 Oct. 2009. 'Taboos' seminar organised by Dr Deana Heath. 12.00 p.m. - 1.30 p.m. IIIS Seminar Room, C.6002, 6th Floor, Arts Building, TCD. This month's topic is 'Irish Sexual Taboos (or the Lack Thereof)'.
5 Oct. 2009. Prof. Poul Holm will speak on 'Innovation and the Arts and Humanities'. IIIS Seminar Room. Room C6002. Arts Building. 12.30 p.m. - 1.30 p.m. This talk is part of the week-long festival Innovation Dublin 2009.
Oct. 2009. Mme Annette Lauras 'Henri Pourrat, écrivain auvergnat : du particulier au général'. 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. Room 2041B, Arts Building, TCD. This lecture will be given in French, with translation into English.
Oct. 2009. A research seminar for PhD students and staff on the French writer Henri Pourrat. 5.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Room 4096 in the Arts Building, TCD.
Oct. 2009. Dr Aaron Quigley (UCD), 'Using Information Visualisation as an Analytical Tool'. 1.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. IIIS Seminar Room, C.6002, 6th Floor, Arts Building, TCD.
9 Sept. 2009. Professor John Kerrigan (University of Cambridge), 'Louis MacNeice among the Islands'. Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, TCD. 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m.
6 Sept. 2009. Dr Ruth Barton orgainsed an international symposium at TCD entitled 'Screening the Irish in Britain'. This event was funded by the Trinity Long Room Hub.
-5 Sept. 2009. 'Popular Revenants. German Gothic in its International Contexts'. This international symposium is funded by the Trinity Long Room Hub. IIIS Seminar Room, Level 6, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
-9 July 2009. Dr Claire Taylor organized a conference entitled 'Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World'at TCD.
5-26 June 2009. 'Continuities: from Medieval to Early Modern in English Literature,1400-1650'. A postgraduate conference co-sponsored by the Trinity Long Room Hub and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
9-30 June 2009. Dr Joseph Clarke hosted the 23rd annual conference of the Society for the Study of French History in TCD.
3 June 2009. Dr Crawford Gribben and Dr Rory Loughnane organised a conference entitled 'Shakespeare, Ireland, Scotland, Wales' at TCD.
8 June 2009. The 6th Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium: 'Napoleon,Empire and Europe'. The speakers were Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh (Balliol College, Oxford),Professor Tom Bartlett (University of Aberdeen) and Professor Hugh Gough (UCD).
4-15 May 2009. Dr Crawford Gribben (TCD) and Dr Richard Kirwan (NUI Maynooth) organised a workshop entitled 'Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early-Modern University'.
0 April 2009. 'Taboos' an interdisciplinary seminar organised by Dr Deana Heath. The papers at this term’s seminars were Professor John Horne on ' Taboo or blind spot? Rape in Wartime' and Alison Mary Nesbitt (Psychology) on 'The Taboo of Childhood Sexuality'.
3-24 April 2009. An interdisciplinary workshop entitled 'The Arts, the State, Identity and the Wealth of Nations: Case Studies of Ireland and Scotland'.This event was organised by Professor John O’Hagan (TCD) and Professor Professor Cairns Craig (University of Aberdeen).
2 April 2009. Professor Robert E Goodin (Australian National University) gave a lecture entitled 'Global Democracy: In the Beginning' in the J.M. Synge Theatre. This 2009 Edmund Burke Lecture in Practical Philosophy was organised by the Department of Philosophy, TCD.
5 April 2009. 'The Dynamics of Incompletion: Samuel Beckett’s Manuscripts', a lecture by Dr. Dirk Van Hulle, Centre for Manuscript Genetics, University of Antwerp. This event was one of the Trinity Long Room Hub Methods Seminars.
8 March 2009. 'The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell'. The first of three workshops, attended by a range of specialists in early-modern history from across Britain and Ireland, which will sketch the parameters for the forthcoming multi-volume edition of the Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell. This scholarly edition will be published by Oxford University Press. This event was organised by Dr Michéal Ó Siochrú of TCD and Professor John Morrill of Cambridge University.
7 March 2009. Dr. Bernard Gainot (Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne) delivered a keynote speech at a symposium entitled 'Linking Best Practice in France and Ireland in Academic Military History'. The event was organised by Dr Sylvie Kleinman and funded by the Trinity Long Room Hub and the French Embassy.
6-27 March 2009. 'Synge and Edwardian Ireland: A Centenary Symposium'. A celebration and re-evaluation of the work of one of Ireland’s greatest writers on the centenary of his birth organised by Professor Nicholas Grene and Dr Brian Cliff. (Programme at http://syngecentenary.blogspot.com/)
5 March 2009. Professor Poul Holm, Academic Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub delivered his inaugural lecture 'Arts and Humanities: A compass for a Rapidly Changing World'.
March 2009. 'Trinity and the Cultural Institutions of Dublin'. A workshop at TCD led by Professor John O’Hagan and Dr Johanna Archbold. In attendance were senior staff from TCD, the National Museum of Ireland, the National Library of Ireland, the National Gallery of Ireland, the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin City Public Libraries, and the Digital Humanities Observatory. This workshop presented research on Trinity’s historical interaction with cultural institutions in Dublin; evidence of current interactions and cooperation; useful contexts from international models for such investigations; and discussed future areas of interaction and co-operation between Trinity and each cultural institution.
6 Feb 2009. 'Taboos'. An interdisciplinary seminar organised by Dr Deana Heath. The speakers at this first meeting of the seminar were Michael O’Laughlin (Writer in Residence, School of English), who presented on 'Literary Taboos: The Politics of Literary Reputation' and Sarah Crider Arndt (Ph.D. student in TCC) who spoke about 'Historical Taboos: On Liking the British in Ireland'.
6 Feb 2009. Prof. Peter Burke (University of Cambridge) gave a lecture entitled 'The Renaissance in Global Context' in the Máirtín Uí Chadhain Theatre. This event was organised by Dr Sarah Alyn-Stacey under the auspices of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
5 Feb 2009. Prof. Peter Burke (University of Cambridge) gave a lecture entitled 'Cultures of Translation in Renaissance Europe' in the Máirtín Uí Chadhain Theatre. This event was organised by Dr Sarah Alyn-Stacey under the auspices of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
4 Feb 2009. The best-selling author Alison Weir talked about her latest book Katherine Swynford: the Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess in the Swift Theatre. This event was organised by Dr Sarah Alyn-Stacey under the auspices of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
0 Feb 2009. Prof. Susan Niditch (Amherst College, USA)gave a keynote lecture entitled 'The Hebrew Bible and Oral Literature: Misconceptions and New Directions' to a postgraduate conference funded by the Trinity Long Room Hub.
3 Feb 2009. 'Censuses, Newspapers and Literature: Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the Humanities'. A lecture delivered by Dr Ian Gregory (University of Lancaster) as part of the series of Trinity Long Room Hub Methods Seminars.
5 Feb 2009. Professor Joseph Raz of Balliol College, Oxford delivered a lecture entitled 'Innovative Interpretation'. This inaugural lecture of the Irish Jurisprudence Society was held in the Lloyd Building of Trinity College Dublin.
1 Jan 2009. 'Migrations, Multiculturalism and Multilingualism'. A workshop organised by Professor David Singleton to organise a trans-European migration research consortium which will submit an application for funding under the EU’s HERA scheme. Among those attending were Prof. Guus Extra (Tilburg University), Dr Ekaterina Protassova (University of Helsinki), Prof Li Wei (Birkbeck), and Dr Lidija Cvikić (Zagreb, Crotia).
9 Jan 2009. A screening of the film 'Bose: The Forgotten Hero' under the auspices of the Trinity South Asia Initiative. This was attended by Trinity staff and students, members of the Indian community in Ireland, and representatives from the Indian Embassy in Dublin.
3 Jan 2009. Professor Christopher Rowe (University of Durham) delivered the 2009 Stephen MacKenna Lecture entitled 'Reading Socrates in Plato's Dialogues'. This was organised by the Department of Philosophy and the Plato Centre.
2 Jan 2009. Professor Nigel Smith (Princeton) gave a lecture entitled 'Radicalism, Royalism and the Literary Canon'. Professor Smith gave this lecture as part of the IRCHSS-AHRC 'Royalist and Radical Religion, 1642-1660' conference and seminar series.
3-14 Dec 2008. 'Ulster Scots: Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Perspectives'. A conference organised by Dr Lorna Carson and Dr Crawford Gribben of TCD. Professor Michael Montgomery (University of South Carolina), an internationally-renowned expert in the field, delivered a keynote address via videolink.
3 Dec 2008. Dr Barbara Crostini gave a masterclass on 'Cataloguing Greek Manuscripts' as part of the Department of Classics’s workshop ‘Greek Paleography: Reading Greek Manuscripts’. The talks were followed by an exhibition of Greek manuscripts held in Trinity College.
2 Dec 2008. Dr Niels Gaul (Central European University, Budapest)gave a masterclass on 'Greek Palaeography, Byzantine Scholarship and Textual Criticism' as part of the Department of Classics’s workshop ‘Greek Paleography: Reading Greek Manuscripts’.
2 Dec 2008. A workshop in TCD on the 1641 Depositions Project. This event brought together 30 academics from Ireland and the UK and software developers from IBM. The meeting discussed how the experience of transcribing and digitizing the 1641 Depositions might help to create new software which would have profitable academic and business applications.
-6 Dec 2008. 'Paramilitary Violence after the First World War: Towards a Global Perspective, 1918-1923'. A conference co-organised by Prof John Horne of TCD and Dr Robert Gerwarth of UCD. This conference included a public lecture at the Royal Irish Academy by Professor Emilio Gentile (University of La Sapienza, Rome) on 'Paramilitary Violence: the Rationale of Fascism and the Origins of Totalitarianism'.
27 Nov-2 Dec 2008. The Trinity Long Room Hub maintained a stall with interactive displays at the Higher Education Authority's exhibition 'Transformations: How Research is Changing Ireland'.
15 Nov 2008. The 5th Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium: 'The Poetry of Plants'. An audience of almost 400 people packed the Edmund Burke theatre to hear Dr Matthew Jebb (National Botanic Gardens), Ms Anna Pavord (author), Dr Shelley Saguaro (academic), and Mr Andrew Wilson (garden designer) discuss the history, politics, literature and aesthetics of gardens, gardening, and garden design.
14-15 Nov 2008. 'The Irish at War'. A conference organised by Professor Ian Campbell Ross and Dr Anne Markey at TCD.
8 Nov 2008. Professor Ian Campbell Ross organised the 4th Eighteenth-Century Literature in Ireland Research Network Symposium at the Public Library in Armagh.
7-9 Nov 2008. Professor John Horne co-organised an international conference at Péronne in France entitled 'Inside the Great War: Acceptance, Endurance, Refusal, 1914-1918'.
28 Oct 2008. Mr Shawn Day of Digital Humanities Observatory gave a presentation entitled 'Visualisation and What You Can do with Historical Data.' This was one of the regular Trinity Long Room Hub Methods Seminars.
23 Oct 2008. Dr Conor Kostick (TCD) organised a symposium entitled 'Warfare in the Mediterranean Region in the Age of the Crusades (1095 – 1291)'. The lecture by Professor John France (University of Cardiff) filled the Swift Theatre in Trinity College.
11 Oct 2008. ‘Ireland, India and Education’. This international symposium launched the ‘Ireland, Education and Empire’ research project led by Professor David Dickson (TCD) and Dr Deana Heath(TCD). It was held at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, and featured talks by prominent Indian and Irish academics. Funding was provided by the Trinity Long Room Hub, the Department of History in TCD, the Indian Embassy of Ireland, the Indian Council for Social Relations, and the Chester Beatty Library.
10 Oct 2008. Prof Alan Kramer organised a workshop entitled 'The International History of Concentration Camps to 1941'. Thirteen papers were presented by researchers from Ireland, Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and Australia, with five further colleagues in attendance from TCD. This was a fruitful attempt to compare and contrast disparate branches of research on the origins of concentration camps.
18-20 Sept 2008. A conference was held on 'Metrics, Research Evaluation and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities'. This event was organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub, the Coimbra Group Task Force, and the Humanities Serving Irish Society consortium.
16 Sept 2008. Dr Sean Duffy organised an international conference on 'Ideas of Empire, c.1100-c.1500'.
11-13 Sept 2008. Dr Derval Conroy of UCD and Prof Jane Conroy of NUI Galway organised a conference entitled 'Power and Perspective'under the auspices of the Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies.The conference took place in Royal Irish Academy, Trinity College Dublin, and University College, Dublin.
4-6 Sept 2008. Dr Charles Benson (TCD) and Dr Helga Robinson-Hammerstein organised an international symposium on the collection of books amassed by Hendrik Fagel (1765-1838), and which were bought by College in the early-nineteenth century.
4 Sept 2008. Dr Peter Fox of Cambridge University Library delivered a keynote address entitled 'The Fagel Collection: Den Haag to Dublin.'
4 Sept–23 Dec 2008. The Library staged an exhibition entitled 'Nature's Bounty: Botanical Beauties in Trinity College Dublin'.
July-26 Sept 2008. The Library staged an exhibition entitled 'Early Printings of Humanist Literature'.
8 June 2008. Dr Christine Morris organised a one-day symposium at TCD on 'Archaeology and the Goddess: between past and present'.
19 June 2008. Dr Simon Hodson (University of Hull) gave a presentation entitled 'Virtual Environments for Teaching and Research in Early Modern Studies'. This talk was part of the Trinity Long Room Hub Methods Seminars.
12 June 2008. The 4th Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium took place. The topic was 'From the Horse’s Mouth, the Significance of the Artist’s Statement'. The speakers included Professor Stephen Bann (University of Bristol)and the leading contemporary Irish artists Dorothy Cross and HughieO’Donoghue.
27 May 2008. Professor Khurshid Ahmad (TCD) organised a workshop entitled 'Sentiment Analysis: Emotion, Metaphor, Ontology and Terminology
23 May-31 Aug 2008. The Library held an exhibition entitled 'A Window on the Middle Ages: Medieval Manuscripts at Trinity College Library'.
22 May 2008. Dr Rachel Moss (TCD) organised a workshop on 'Annotating Aesthetic Images using Metaphors and Terminology'.
21 May 2008. Professor Sam Glucksberg (Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Princeton University) gave a lecture entitled 'Do all Ducks Lay Eggs? Understanding and Misunderstanding Generics'. This lecture was part of the Trinity Long Room Hub Methods Seminars.
25-26 April 2008. The Trinity Long Room Hub sponsored an international symposium entitled 'William Trevor at 80: his Life and Work'.
16 April 2008. Professor Willard McCarty (King's College, London) gave a lecture entitled 'Digitizing is Questioning, or else'. This was one of the series of regular Trinity Long Room Hub Methods Seminars.
9-11 April 2008. The Department of Classics and the Centre for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies organised a lecture series entitled 'Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in Literature'. The lectures were given by Dr Johannes Haubold (University of Durham). Lecture 1, April 9: ‘Homer, Hesiod and the epics of Babylon’; Lecture 2, April 10: ‘Herodotus and Mesopotamian ideologies of empire’; Lecture 3, April 11: ‘Berossos between Babylon and Greece’.
13 Feb 2008. The Rt Hon Alex Salmond, MSP, First Minister of Scotland, gave a lecture entitled 'Scotland's National Conversation: The Next Steps'.
11 Feb 2008. Dr Hugh Denard (King’s College, London) gave a presentation entitled 'Parallel Universes, Shared Worlds: Visualisation in the Arts and Humanities'. This was one of the series of regular Trinity Long Room Hub Methods Seminars.
10 Dec 2007. The 3rd Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium: 'Reflections on the Four Masters and their World'. The speakers were Professor Donnchadh Ó Corráin (UCC), Professor Anna Chahoud (TCD), and Dr John McCafferty (UCD).
23 Oct 2007. Dr Rachel Moss (TCD) and Mr John McDonough (UCD) gave presentations of the topic of 'Past, Present and Future: Virtual Archives in Ireland'. This was one of the series of regular Trinity Long Room Hub Methods Seminars.
13 June 2007. The 2nd Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium: 'Commemorating the Unthinkable: Europe, Ireland and the Great War'. The Symposium heard readings by the writer Sebastian Barry and the poet Michael Longley, and lectures by Professor John Horne (TCD), Mr Gerald Dawe (TCD), and Ms Jane Leonard (Ulster Museum, Belfast).
1 March 2007. Alastair Dunning (Arts and Humanities Data Service, UK) gave a lecture entitled 'Can the Centre Hold? The Arts and Humanities Data Service' as part of the series of regular Trinity Long Room Hub Methods Seminars.
1 Dec 2006. The 1st Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium. Professor Mordechai Feingold (Caltech, USA) delivered a lecture entitled 'Humanities in the Age of Science'.
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