UCD Humanities Institute

We have decided to leave X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday March 20, 2025. You can now follow us on Bluekky (@ucdhumanities.bsky.social) where we’ll be posting about all our goings on!

We are delighted to welcome Dr Wajeehah Aayeshah to the HI to give a workshop on "Designing kind educational practices" | 9th May 2024 @ 1pm | HI Seminar Room H204 | Register on EVENTBRITE | @UCD_Hum_Inst

Registration is open for TNH Workshop with Prof. Monica Miscali (NTNU): "Investigating Emotions in Migration: The Experiences of Italian Women from the 1960s to Contemporary Times" | 1st May 2024 @ 1pm | | HI Seminar Room H204 | @UCD_Hum_Inst

Join us for our final HI Lunchtime Seminar in the Spring Series 2023-2024 on Wed, 24th April: Dr George Francis-Kelly: "A Separate But Equal Campus?: Redeveloping a Black College in the Long Civil Rights Movement" | HI Seminar Room H204 @ 1.10pm | @UCD_Hum_Inst

Our next HI Lunchtime Seminar in the Spring Series 2023-2024 is on Wed, 10th April: Dr Tomás McAuley: "What is Music and Philosophy" | HI Seminar Room H204 @ 1.10pm | ALL WELCOME! @UCD_Hum_Inst @UCDSchoolMusic

Join us for the next HI Lunchtime Seminar in the Spring Series 2023-2024: Dr Rubén Flores: "Out of sight, out of mind? Proverbs and the metaphysics of implication"| 27 March, HI Seminar Rm H204 @ 1.10pm | @UCD_Hum_Inst @rubenfs

Reminder that there are a few bursaries available for unpaid/low income PhDs & ERCs to attend our conference! For both presenters and audience participants. Fill in this form by Thursday 13 March: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… More info on our NEW website: animalstudiesucd.com

🎉 Big news! @d_schrijvers and I, from @UCD_English, are so excited to share the website for our upcoming @ucd_envhum conference. 🌐 animalstudiesucd.com (1/6)

We are delighted Dr Aleksandra Gajowy will give the next HI Lunchtime talk in the Spring Series on Wed, 6 March: "The White Lady: Self-mythologisation, epistolary affect, and transhistorical lesbian affinities in Poland" | HI Seminar Rm H204 @ 1.10pm | @UCD_Hum_Inst @DrAGajowy

Our next HI Lunchtime talk in the Spring Series is on 21 Feb @ 1.10pm, HI Seminar Rm H204 | Dr Valeria Taddei: "Self-doubling in modernist diaries: the language of irony and the power of the work of art” | @UCD_Hum_Inst

Join us for the next HI Lunchtime Seminar/Spring Series 2023-2024 | Dr Catherine Ann Cullen: “‘And Faix, My Name is Jamesey Kearney’: Nailing down the life of a 19th Century Dublin singer-songwriter and tinsmith” | 8 Feb @ 1.10pm | HI Seminar Rm H204 | @UCD_Hum_Inst @tarryathome

Book your place at our upcoming Distinguished Guest Lecture by Prof. Kieran Keohane (UCC): “Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization: Diagnoses and Therapies” | 16 Feb @ 1pm | HI Seminar Rm H204 | Email humanities@ucd.ie to reserve your spot | @UCD_Hum_Inst

Join us for the first HI Lunchtime Seminar in the Spring Series 2023-2024 | Dr Claudia Dellacasa “Reading (and Writing) Matters: Vibrant Materialism in Ruth Ozeki” | 31st Jan @ 1.10pm | HI Seminar Rm H204 @UCD_Hum_Inst @Cla_Dellacasa

Delighted to invite you to our roundtable, “Women and Labour: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, on 7 Dec @ 1pm HI Seminar Room H204 | Speakers: Dr. Carlie Collier, Dr. Katherine Calvert, Dr. Dervla MacManus | Email humanities@ucd.ie to register ALL WELCOME! | @UCD_Hum_Inst

Join us for the final HI Lunchtime Seminar (Autumn 2023-2024 Series) | Prof. Kath Brown: “‘It’s only when it landed at my door’: Contesting Changes in the New Socio-Legal Realities in Sexualities, Genders and Abortion” | 29 Nov @ 1.10pm | HI Seminar Rm H204 @UCD_Hum_Inst

We are delighted to offer a joint HI/Earth Institute workshop on “Funding applications: troubleshooting and (un)successful stories” | 23 Nov @ 1pm HI Seminar Rm H204 | UCD graduate and postdoc community welcome | Email humanities@ucd.ie to register @UCD_Hum_Inst @UCDEarth

Join us on 15 Nov @ 1.10pm for the next HI Lunchtime talk in the Autumn Series, HI Seminar Rm H204 | Dr Jivitesh Vashisht: “Adaptation, Inspiration, and Intention: The Case of Oliver Sacks’s Awakenings (1973) and Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska (1982)” @UCD_Hum_Inst @jivi_teshv

Looking forward to Prof. Katrin Sieg’s talk as part of the HI Lunchtime Seminar Series/Autumn 2023: "Remembering German Colonialism at the Museum and Beyond" | 8 Nov @ 1.10pm | HI Seminar Rm H204 | Please join us! @UCD_Hum_Inst @EuropaSaxa @Georgetown

So excited about this conference theme! And an absolut delight to be co-organising this with resident PhD scholars of the @UCD_Hum_Inst! Deadline for abstracts: Jan 12. We can't wait to read them! 🥩🩸

Prof. John Barry (QUB) will be at the HI (Seminar Rm H204/top floor) on 10 Nov @ 1pm | Join us to hear him talk about ‘The Imagination, Hope and the Planetary Crisis’ | ALL WELCOME @UCD_Hum_Inst @John_Barry__