We are delighted to share that registration is now open for our arts and literary ‘Festival of Ideas: Living in an Age of Permacrisis,’ on Tuesday 10 March, 1-8pm, in MOLI. Tickets are free, but booking is essential. Register here:
bit.ly/49yVym1We are delighted to host the new Migration Humanities Network, co-chaired by Tasneem Filaih & Dr Matthew Evans, for a coffee morning on W. 28 Jan. at 11am in the HI Seminar Room/H204. Part of the TNH Research Strand. All welcome. Register your interest in the Network here:
forms.gle/yBsmKDigRSvR...Join us for the next session of the TNH Reading Group on ‘affective citizenship,’ Friday 16 January, 10-11.30am, in the HI Seminar Room / H204 / top floor. We’ll be discussing a selection from Dimitry Kochenov’s Citizenship (2019). For details see
bit.ly/3YE2g3W'Affective Citizenship’ reading group, led by Dr Joseph Twist | January 2026 - UCD College of Arts and Humanities
Read
@gigitang.bsky.social reflection on the brilliant Critical Minerals symposium she & Katie Donnelly organised for the Minerals project. The symposium was generously supported by UCD College of Arts & Humanities seed funding &
@ucdhumanities.bsky.social imperialminerals.ie/2025/12/19/c...Imperial Minerals — Critical Minerals Symposium Reflections
📌📅✨'Save the Date' for our upcoming public arts ‘Festival of Ideas in an Age of Permacrisis,’ 10 March 2026 at the
@molimuseum.bsky.social. Full details, including how to get your tickets, coming early in the new year.
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⏱️FOUR MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract to
@darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson for their upcoming 8-9 June 'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' conference, a research project funded by the UCD Humanities Institute's Seed Funding Scheme.
📖📚The HI Silent Book Club 📴🔕will return on Thursday 4 December, 2.30-4 pm, in the HI Seminar Room (H204/top floor). This quiet space is ideal for anyone looking to read anything in preparation for an essay, assignment, and/or exam etc. Free event, all welcome; email humanities@ucd.ie to register.
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We are delighted to welcome
@sarahcolvin.bsky.social (Cambridge) to the HI for a talk, ‘Haunting Times: Ghosted Memory & Epistemic Revenants in Zhadan’s Ukraine (Voroshilovgrad, 2010) & Bulawayo’s Zimbabwe (Glory, 2022)’ | Fri 21 Nov 2025 @ 11am | Free event; register on Eventbrite:
bit.ly/4nOqwul📣🌍👥Next meeting of the ‘Transnationalising the Humanities’ PhD Network on Thursday 16 October at 4pm, first floor of the UCD Humanities Institute. Open to all PhD candidates in UCD's CAH with a research interest in TNH!
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We're excited as UCD
#DigitalPreservation Librarian Niamh Murphy will be delivering 2 sessions:
💠Auditing digital collections for long-term preservation
💠'Revisiting the Recordings': an appraisal of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive’s audiovisual recordings of poets (with intern Megan Asple).
#NTTW9Next week, the
@nlireland.bsky.social is honoured to host No Time to Wait 9. An essential gathering of experts and changemakers in the digital preservation and audio-visual archiving community, this international conference booked out almost immediately.
@mediaarea.net
⏳🎨This exhibition is not one to be missed! Artist Olga Diego’s temporary, interactive, giant plastic sculpture is now on until 12 October in the Newman Building. Part of ‘Imagined Sustainabilities’ (PIs Eva Bru-Dominguez & Ana Vera), co-funded by the HI & UCD Sustainability Seed Funding Schemes.
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🔜⏳👀Coming soon, 6-10 Oct '25! This interactive art installation by artist Olga Diego explores the issue of plastic pollution. Part of the ‘Imagined Sustainabilities’ project led by Eva Bru-Dominguez & Ana Vera, co-funded by the Humanities Institute & UCD Sustainability Seed Funding Schemes.
📣The deadline for abstract submissions for the Critical Minerals symposium has been extended to 31 August 2025.
Still time to send yours to the organisers
@gigitang.bsky.social
and Katie Donnelly.
CFP below.
Here's the CfP for the Critical Minerals Symposium (7 Nov '25, Dublin).
Organised by
@gigitang.bsky.social & Katie Donnelly (both in the UCD School of English, Drama & Film; Resident Scholars
@ucdhumanities.bsky.social; and researchers on the Research Ireland
@imperialminerals.bsky.social project)
We're pleased to announce funding awarded to 6 projects catalysing research across the CAH Research Strands. The projects are funded by the HI Seed Funding Scheme: CAH Research Strands 2025-2026. We're delighted these projects can be realised and look forward to collaborating with the project leads.
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Here's the CfP for the Critical Minerals Symposium (7 Nov '25, Dublin).
Organised by
@gigitang.bsky.social & Katie Donnelly (both in the UCD School of English, Drama & Film; Resident Scholars
@ucdhumanities.bsky.social; and researchers on the Research Ireland
@imperialminerals.bsky.social project)
SOLD OUT! We are delighted to welcome world-renowned public intellectuals Aleida Assmann and Susan Neiman to the HI for a TNH roundtable on ‘The Future of Cultural Memory in Times of Disruption’ | 28th May 2025 @ 4.30pm
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We are delighted to welcome world-renowned public intellectuals Aleida Assmann and Susan Neiman to the HI for a TNH roundtable on ‘The Future of Cultural Memory in Times of Disruption’ | 28th May 2025 @ 4.30pm | Please register for this free event on eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-future...We're excited to share the programme for our upcoming 3-day, international, transdisciplinary symposium ‘From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis & Polycrisis: Epistemological Perspectives & Interventions’ (22-24 May). Attendance is free; booking essential.
22 May (Day 1):
www.eventbrite.ie/e/from-moder...We were delighted to host Profs Kader Konuk & Vanessa Agnew, who spoke generously & movingly about their inspiring ‘Academy in Exile’ project, a case study on the theme of the crisis of the humanities.
This afternoon, 4pm! We're greatly looking forward to this almost sold-out roundtable with Profs Kader Konuk & Vanessa Agnew (Dortmund) in conversation with Prof Anne Fuchs (UCD) on the topic of crisis of the humanities and scholars-at-risk. Register on Eventbrite:
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We have a double-header next week in our HI Lunchtime Seminar Series.
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Our second of two talks next week in the HI Lunchtime Seminar Series is on Thursday, 24 April: Bryony Smith (UL; Visiting HI Scholar; & Turing Scheme Scholar), ‘UK Museums and Colonialism: How not to curate an exhibition’ | HI Seminar Room H204 @ 1.10pm | ALL WELCOME!
There are only a few seats remaining for this TNH roundtable event with Profs Kader Konuk & Vanessa Agnew (Dortmund) on 'The Crisis of the Humanities: Responses & Interventions.' | 30th April 2025 @ 4pm | Register for this free event on EVENTBRITE:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-crisis...
Our next talk in the HI Lunchtime Seminar Series is on Wednesday, 23 April: Dr Francesco Milella (UCD), ‘Navigating turbulent waters: Italian opera and the trauma of modernity at the end of the Spanish empire (1800-1830)’ | HI Seminar Room H204 @ 1.10pm | ALL WELCOME!
Our next talk in the HI Lunchtime Seminar Series (Spring 2025) is on Monday, 14 April: Prof Raymond Blake (U of Regina), ‘Donald Trump, Canada, and the Shaping of a National Identity’ | HI Seminar Room H204 @ 1.10pm | ALL WELCOME! Co-sponsored with the UCD Centre for Canadian Studies
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