Reminder: the Masterclass on Migration, Gender and Empire by Dr @mariejruiz.bsky.social is on this Thursday 12-4pm at the @ucdhumanities.bsky.social H204! Join @hammurab1.bsky.social + @melacholictrees.bsky.social if you work on migration, gender, empire, and everything in-between!

The next talk in our Lunchtime Seminar Series is on Thurs 21 April by Prof Izabela Morska (Institute of English & American Studies at U of Gdańsk and HI Visiting Resident), ‘After Adamowicz: Assassination, Refuge, and the Fragile Ethics of Solidarity’ | HI Seminar Room/H204 at 13.10 | ALL WELCOME!

Join us for a PhD Research Showcase on ‘Irish Writing in Translation,’ convened & chaired by Dr Tim Groenland (UCD School of English, Drama & Film; Research Ireland Pathway Fellow; & HI Member) | W 15 April, 1-2pm | HI Seminar Room/H204 | tea & coffee provided | ALL WELCOME! @groenbot.bsky.social

Join us next week for a roundtable on the public humanities which we are convening as part of UCD’s Research Culture & Integrity Week. ‘Humanities in Action: Research, Practice, Publics’ | Wednesday 25 March, 13:00-14:00 | HI Seminar Room/H204/top floor | ALL WELCOME!

Our next talk in the HI Lunchtime Seminar Series is on Tuesday 3 March by Dr Irial Glynn (UCD School of History and HI Member), ‘Boat refugees in a global age of (im)mobility: An historical analysis of a growing phenomenon’ | HI Seminar Room/H204/top floor at 1.10pm | ALL WELCOME!

Our ‘Festival of Ideas: Living in an Age of Permacrisis’ is SOLD OUT 🎉 Thanks for supporting all the fantastic artists and writers contributing to this arts event, which will take place at MOLI @molimuseum.bsky.social. A waitlist is available: bit.ly/49yVym1

Supernaturecultures. Folklorists from Ireland, Norway, Iceland & Scotland explore traditional ecological knowledge, encounter, & nature recovery in a more-than-human North Atlantic. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

⏱️ONE WEEK+ to submit your abstract to Ambra Bergamasco & Tasneem Filaih for their 28-29 May ‘Migration Beyond Emergency’ conference, a research project funded by UCD’s HI, College of Arts and Humanities & the School of Geography, College of Social Science and Law. See the CfP below for full details.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

📖📚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 [email protected] to register.

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

📣🌍👥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!

🎭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...

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

⏳🎨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.

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.

📣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.

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.

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)

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

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

Call for papers - submissions open until Thursday 15th May for the upcoming annual IHA conference hosted by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social

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: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1300476152...

The @ucdhumanities.bsky.social have opened registration for a roundtable discussion with two world-renowned public intellectuals - Aleida Assmann & Susan Neiman 28th May 2025, 4.30pm. Further details and booking at link below. www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-future...

A great start today to our TRAIN Project (Transnational Research and Interdisciplinary Networks) with a networking event in collaboration with @ucdhumanities.bsky.social and UCD Earth Institute. Thanks to UCD Research Culture and Wellcome Trust for sponsoring it through the ReCLAIM initiative 🎨📚🔬

We have a double-header next week in our HI Lunchtime Seminar Series.

The beginning of a new project: TRAIN - Transnational Research and Interdisciplinary Networks. We are very grateful to the ReCLAIM Initiative, funded by UCD Research Culture and Wellcome Trust, for sponsoring this project. Register here to our 1st event: lnkd.in/esviaweq @ucdhumanities.bsky.social

The first event in our TRAIN project is coming up! Register here by 18 April: lnkd.in/eXXnTuHT The event, sponsored by the ReClaim funding scheme and funded by UCD Research Culture and Wellcome Trust, will give the opportunity to exchange ideas and explore potential interdisciplinary collaborations.

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

This may be of interest to #MedicalHumanities folks (& we'd appreciate a repost) @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social @desfitzgerald.bsky.social @sarialtschuler.bsky.social @riacheyne.bsky.social @aryaray.bsky.social @the-polyphony.bsky.social

Our next talk in the HI Lunchtime Seminar Series (Spring 2025) is on Tuesday, 8 April: Dr Tapasya Narang, ‘Transnational Modernism: Comparing Small Press Productions from Dublin and Bombay (1960s-70s)’ | HI Seminar Room H204 @ 1pm sharp | ALL WELCOME!

We are delighted to welcome Profs Kader Konuk & Vanessa Agnew (Technical University Dortmund) to the HI for a TNH roundtable on 'The Crisis of the Humanities: Responses and Interventions' | 30th April 2025 @ 4pm | Please register for this free event on EVENTBRITE: www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-crisis...