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12th November 2024 | HI Lunchtime Seminar Series 2024-2025

Dr Carline Klijnman (IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, UCD School of Philosophy and HI Resident Scholar): “Who Knows? The Procedural Character of the Epistemic Crisis” | HI Seminar Room (H204 top floor) @ 1.10pm | Click the arrow below for further details

$Prof. Andy Carolin (Department of English, University of Johannesburg, South Africa): "It\'s Wall-to-Wall Lesbians Out There": Locating Peripheral Sexualities in Historical Fiction from Northern Ireland | HI Seminar Room (H204 top floor) @ 1.10pm | Click the arrow below for further details\n$ 14th November 2024 | HI Lunchtime Seminar Series ***extra seminar***

Prof. Andy Carolin (Department of English, University of Johannesburg, South Africa): "It's Wall-to-Wall Lesbians Out There": Locating Peripheral Sexualities in Historical Fiction from Northern Ireland | HI Seminar Room (H204 top floor) @ 1.10pm | Click the arrow below for further details

14th November 2024 | HI Silent Book Club

The HI Silent Book Club returns on Thursday, 14th November 2024 | HI Seminar Room H204, 2.30-4pm | Please email humanities@ucd.ie to register

20th November 2024 | "Becoming an Author: From Proposal to Publication" Workshop

This event offers a unique opportunity to learn directly from publishing insiders and authors. It is Ideal for early-career researchers and seasoned academics alike as this session will guide you in refining your proposal and aligning it with the expectations of an academic press. | HI Seminar Room (H204 / top floor) @ 1pm | Click the arrow below for further information and registration details

New Academic Year 2024-2025 | DGLS

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

Institute News

New Publication | Industrial Literature and Authors: Labor, Factory Utopias, and Testimonial Intent

Congratulations to Dr Bianca Cataldi, HI TNH project research lead, on the publication of her book! Click the arrow 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

TOK Fictional Spaces Symposium | Alternative Domesticities: Reading Living Space in Geography, Text, and Media

The event seeks to embrace a wide range of perspectives around marginal experiences of domestic architectures, and the renovation, occupation and domestication of textual and material spaces. Contributions include those of established and early-career scholars working across media, culture studies, languages and literatures, and geography | NUI, 49 Merrion Sq, D2 | 15 November 2024 | Click the arrow below for further information and registration 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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