The themes of this term's seminars complement the 'Languages 250 at Trinity' commemorative programme.

Schedule of seminars for Hilary Term:

  • 3 February 2026 - 'Unmissable benefits: a qualitative study of the personal value of humanities doctoral education', El Crabtree (Former Postdoc, Department of Italian)

  • 17 February 2026 - ‘Teaching the Irish language in Trinity in the seventeenth century’, Micheál Hoyne (Department of Irish and Celtic Languages)

  • 10 March 2026 - ‘Naked and Layered. Satire, Power, and Truth in Carlo Emilio Gadda and Zerocalcare’, Serena Vandi (Department of Italian)

  • 24 March 2026 - ‘Russian giants at his shoulder? Language, nation and identity in the essays of Hubert Butler’, Conor Daly (Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies)

  • 7 April 2026 - ‘Owen Sheehy Skeffington (1909-1970): Dissent, modern languages, and Irish political life’, Michael Cronin (Department of French)


College colleagues and students are invited to attend these seminars, which take place on Tuesdays, from 4.00pm to 5.00pm in the Neill Lecture Theatre in Trinity's Long Room Hub.

For further information on the seminar programme, contact James Hanrahan, Director of Research (SLLCS).