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!

⏳🎨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.

🔜⏳👀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.

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

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...

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

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

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...