Each semester, the School hosts a Research Seminar Series, giving colleagues a platform to share and discuss their current research.

The schedule of seminars for the Michaelmas semester is as follows:

  • 23 September 2025: Tylor Brand (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, TCD), Famine Then, Famine Now: A Conversation about Famine in the Middle East, Past and Present

  • 7 October 2025: Radek Przedpełski (School of Engineering, TCD) and Respondent, Prof Harun Šiljak (School of Engineering, TCD), Esoteric Conceptualism in the People’s Republic of Poland: Transductive Cybernetics, Queer Hauntings, Quantum Cosmologies

  • 4 November 2025: Gáldrick de la Torre Ávalos (Hispanic Studies, TCD), Court and Poetry: A Sociological Approach to Vernacular Literature in Naples at the Time of Garcilaso

  • 18 November 2025: Clemens Ruthner (German, TCD), Realism Rules? On the Connection of Empire & Nation with Era & Genre

  • 2 December 2025: Julie Rodgers (French, Maynooth University), To Breed or not to Breed: The Question of Motherhood in Contemporary Women's Writing in French

Seminars will take place on Tuesdays, from 4.00 to 5.00pm in the Neill Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub.