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11th February 2025 | HI Lunchtime Seminar Series 2024-2025

Lucas Dijker (PhD candidate, UCD School of Philosophy and HI Resident Scholar) | HI Seminar Room (H204 top floor) @ 1.10pm | Click the arrow below for further details

$Teddy Power (PhD candidate, UCD School of English, Drama & Film and HI Resident Scholar) | HI Seminar Room (H204 top floor) @ 1.10pm | Click the arrow below for further details\n$ 25th February 2025 | HI Lunchtime Seminar Series

Teddy Power (PhD candidate, UCD School of English, Drama & Film and HI Resident Scholar) | HI Seminar Room (H204 top floor) @ 1.10pm | Click the arrow below for further details

New date TBC | HI Silent Book Club

The HI Silent Book Club | new date TBC | HI Seminar Room H204, 2.30-4pm | Please email humanities@ucd.ie to register

New Academic Year 2024-2025 | DGLS

HI Distinguished Guest Lecture Series | Academic Year 2024-2025 | Watch this space for updates

Institute News

$This call for papers is for the first symposium in a series of three which will be rolled out in 2025/26. The three symposia will result in peer-reviewed publications.\nThis interdisciplinary symposium will analyze the profound shift from the modern idea of crises as an exceptional state requiring urgent crisis management towards permacrises and polycrises as the ontological condition of a world at risk in the 21st century. | Deadline: 21st March 2025 | Click the arrow below for further details\n$ CfP | Deadline 21 March 2025 | From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis Call for Papers

This call for papers is for the first symposium in a series of three which will be rolled out in 2025/26. The three symposia will result in peer-reviewed publications. This interdisciplinary symposium will analyze the profound shift from the modern idea of crises as an exceptional state requiring urgent crisis management towards permacrises and polycrises as the ontological condition of a world at risk in the 21st century. | Deadline: 21st March 2025 | Click the arrow below for further details

RIA Gold Medal 2025 Awarded to HI Director

The HI community is delighted to announce that our Director, Professor Anne Fuchs, has been awarded the 2025 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities. The second medal was awarded to Seamus Martin, Smurfit Professor of Medical Genetics at TCD. The medals will be presented at a special ceremony in spring 2025. | Click the arrow below for further details.

HI Visiting Residency programme | Now open for applications for 2025-2026

The UCD Humanities Institute runs an annual residency programme aimed at international humanities academic scholars based outside Ireland and Northern Ireland. The programme makes a vital contribution to the internationalisation of humanities research at UCD and facilitates close, on-site collaborations between institute members, art practitioners, practice-based researchers and international partners. | Click the arrow for further details

HI Publications, Blogs & New Podcasts

$\'Landings: Art after Extractivism\' exhibition catalogue | May 2024$ Exhibition catalogue

'Landings: Art after Extractivism' exhibition catalogue | May 2024

HI Report

UCD HI Achievements & Challenges 2016 - 2021

TNH PhD Network Blog

TNH PhD Network: Next meeting TBC | In person (HI Seminar Rm H204) & hybrid | Email tnhphdnetwork@gmail.com for Zoom link

$Humanities Institute Podcast Series | Our latest podcast is now available | Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University) | Keynote from HI PhD Conference 2024: \'Cannibal Consumption: Culture, Capitalism, Critique\'\n\n$ Podcast Series

Humanities Institute Podcast Series | Our latest podcast is now available | Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University) | Keynote from HI PhD Conference 2024: 'Cannibal Consumption: Culture, Capitalism, Critique'

New Members

Dr Áine Mahon

UCD School of Education

Dr Serena Laiena

UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Dr Conor Trainor

UCD School of Classics

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