2012-13 Visiting Research Fellows

The Trinity Long Room Hub was delighted to welcome the following Visiting Research Fellows to Trinity in 2012-13.

Remi Brague

Robert Savage

"Screening ‘the Troubles’: the role of television in presenting conflict in Northern Ireland"

Robert Savage serves on the faculty of the Boston College Department of History. He has written widely on contemporary Irish history including the origins and evolution of television in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. His most recent book: A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960-1972 was awarded the 2010 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Best Book in History and Social Sciences by the American Conference for Irish Studies. He served as a director of the Irish Studies program at Boston College from 1995-2010.

Padhraig Higgins

“The Rights of the Poor”: Poverty and Everyday Life in Eighteenth-Century Dublin

Padhraig Higgins is an Associate Professor of History at Mercer County College.  He has published articles on the Volunteers, national identity, and the politics of gender in eighteenth century Ireland.  His first book, A Nation of Politicians:  Gender, Patriotism and Political Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), was awarded the Donald Murphy Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies.  He currently an American Council of Learned Societies fellow and is working on the politics of poverty in eighteenth century Dublin.

Rafal Urbaniak

"Mathematical existence, abstraction principles and real number theory"

Rafal Urbaniak obtained his PhD specializing in logic and philosophy of mathematics at the University of Calgary in Canada. He spent some time at Bristol University as a British Academy Visiting Fellow and as a Visiting Researcher at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi in India. Now, he is both an assistant professor at Gdansk University in Poland and a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, Belgium. Apart from non-classical logics and philosophy of mathematics, he is interested in logical aspects of philosophical arguments, especially in the philosophy of religion.

Wolfgang Mueller-Funk

"Reading Joyce:  Broch's Concept of Classical Modernism"

Wolfgang Mueller-Funk is Professor of Cultural Studies and Theory at the Dept of European and Comarative Literature at the University of Vienna and Director of Research at its Centre for Cultural Studies and Philologies. He has authored numerous books on cultural studies and Austrian literature(s), e.g. "Die Kultur und ihre Narrative", "Einfuehrung in die Kulturtheorie" und "Komplex Oesterreich". Prof Mueller-Funk is probably the most prominent cultural theorist of Austria and a very renowned commentator in the national press.

Click here for Prof Mueller-Funk's Visiting Fellows Lecture which he gave on 20 September 2012.

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