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Our next talk in the HI Lunchtime Seminar Series (Spring 2026) is on Wednesday 18 February, 1.10-2pm, by Prof Lai Ma (UCD School of Information & Communication Studies), ‘Knowledge Flows and Open Research Infrastructure’ | HI Seminar Room H204 at 1.10pm | ALL WELCOME!
February 17, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Our next talk in the HI Lunchtime Seminar Series (Spring 2026) is on Wednesday 18 February, 1.10-2pm, by Prof Lai Ma (UCD School of Information & Communication Studies), ‘Knowledge Flows and Open Research Infrastructure’ | HI Seminar Room H204 at 1.10pm | ALL WELCOME!
Co-chairs of the Humanities Migration Network, Dr Matthew Evans and Tasneem Filaih, warmly invite you to the ‘Lighting Talks’ session Wednesday 25 February 2026, in the HI Seminar Room/H204/top floor, at 11AM. Details on the poster below.
February 16, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Co-chairs of the Humanities Migration Network, Dr Matthew Evans and Tasneem Filaih, warmly invite you to the ‘Lighting Talks’ session Wednesday 25 February 2026, in the HI Seminar Room/H204/top floor, at 11AM. Details on the poster below.
Our next talk in the HI Lunchtime Seminar Series (Spring 2026) is on Thursday 12 February, 1.10-2pm, by Michael Boog (PhD Candidate at U of Bern), ‘Irrealizing Labor: Examples from Contemporary Anglophone Short Stories’ | HI Seminar Room H204 at 1.10pm | ALL WELCOME!
February 9, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Our next talk in the HI Lunchtime Seminar Series (Spring 2026) is on Thursday 12 February, 1.10-2pm, by Michael Boog (PhD Candidate at U of Bern), ‘Irrealizing Labor: Examples from Contemporary Anglophone Short Stories’ | HI Seminar Room H204 at 1.10pm | ALL WELCOME!
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/49yVym1
January 29, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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/49yVym1
We 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...
January 19, 2026 at 1:33 PM
We 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
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January 14, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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
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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
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December 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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...
📌📅✨'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.
December 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📌📅✨'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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A great experience that we tried to capture in this blog 🪴 @ucdhumanities.bsky.social
Read more about our wonderful annual conference this year, hosted by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social in Sep 2025, in this blog by @biancacataldi.bsky.social 'Feeding the Soul: Transnational Narratives of Food and Belonging.'
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Irish Humanities Alliance | Feeding the Soul: Transnational Narratives of Food and Belonging
Reflections from the 2025 Irish Humanities Alliance – UCD Humanities Institute Conference<br />
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In early September 2025, scholars, writers, and artists from across the globe gathered…
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December 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A great experience that we tried to capture in this blog 🪴 @ucdhumanities.bsky.social
⏱️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.
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
⏱️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.
December 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📖📚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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Read about our wonderful annual conference 2025 hosted by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social Details of our 2026 annual conference and call for papers will be shared in the new year!https://www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/blog/feeding-the-soul-transnational-narratives-of-food-and-belonging
Irish Humanities Alliance | Feeding the Soul: Transnational Narratives of Food and Belonging
Reflections from the 2025 Irish Humanities Alliance – UCD Humanities Institute Conference<br />
<br />
In early September 2025, scholars, writers, and artists from across the globe gathered…
www.irishhumanities.ie
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Read about our wonderful annual conference 2025 hosted by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social Details of our 2026 annual conference and call for papers will be shared in the new year!https://www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/blog/feeding-the-soul-transnational-narratives-of-food-and-belonging
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
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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!
October 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
📣🌍👥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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🎭New book published by UCD Press goes behind the scenes of the groundbreaking #WakingTheFeminists grassroots movement for gender equality in Irish theatre.
📕WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre (UCD Press, 2025)👇
www.ucd.ie/research/new...
📕WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre (UCD Press, 2025)👇
www.ucd.ie/research/new...
October 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🎭New book published by UCD Press goes behind the scenes of the groundbreaking #WakingTheFeminists grassroots movement for gender equality in Irish theatre.
📕WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre (UCD Press, 2025)👇
www.ucd.ie/research/new...
📕WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre (UCD Press, 2025)👇
www.ucd.ie/research/new...
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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).
#NTTW9
💠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).
#NTTW9
Next 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
October 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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).
#NTTW9
💠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).
#NTTW9
⏳🎨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.
October 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
⏳🎨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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Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
🔜⏳👀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.
September 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🔜⏳👀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.
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)
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)
August 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
📣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.
Still time to send yours to the organisers @gigitang.bsky.social
and Katie Donnelly.
CFP below.
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.
August 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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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We are delighted to announce that registration is now live for the IHA annual conference 2025 on 4-5 Sep - hosted by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social An exciting mix of panels, keynote addresses and creative inputs.
Registration OPEN! Programme draft available on the registration page. @irishhumanities.bsky.social 2025 Conference “Feeding the Soul: Transnational Narratives of Food and Belonging” (UCD Humanities Institute, 4-5 September 2025)
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Irish Humanities Alliance 2025 Conference
FEEDING THE SOUL: TRANSNATIONAL NARRATIVES OF FOOD AND BELONGING| UCD Humanities Institute, Seminar Room H204 | 4–5 September 2025
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June 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We are delighted to announce that registration is now live for the IHA annual conference 2025 on 4-5 Sep - hosted by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social An exciting mix of panels, keynote addresses and creative inputs.
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)
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)
June 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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)
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
May 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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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The latest UCD #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post, written by UCD Library Assistant Maolsheachlann O’Ceallaigh: @ucdarchives.bsky.social @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdpress.bsky.social @clairedunne.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The latest UCD #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post, written by UCD Library Assistant Maolsheachlann O’Ceallaigh: @ucdarchives.bsky.social @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdpress.bsky.social @clairedunne.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social