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RIA Gold Medal 2025 Awarded to HI Director
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.

The Royal Irish Academy awards two RIA Gold Medals every year. The medals are awarded to individuals who have made a demonstrable and internationally recognised outstanding scholarly contribution in their fields. The medals aim to identify and recognise inspirational figures – the stars of the knowledge economy – in order to celebrate the achievements of higher education in Ireland and to inspire future generations. In doing so, the Gold Medals have become recognised as a truly national expression of celebration for scholarly achievement in Ireland.

From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis Call for Papers\n
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. To be sure: the evidence of a world entangled in poly- and permacrises is overwhelming: soaring energy and food prices; the erosion of democracy and the rise of political extremism; the uncontrolled advancement of AI and cyber insecurity; the climate crisis and species extinction; large-scale involuntary migration in response to warfare and the climate change; biodiversity loss, the increase in natural disasters and extreme weather events are just some examples of cascading, connected and overwhelming crises.

Click the arrow for the full call. Deadline: 21/03/25
Dr Bianca Cataldi | Industrial Literature and Authors | Routledge, 2024
Dr Bianca Cataldi | Industrial Literature and Authors | Routledge, 2024

Congratulations to Dr Bianca Cataldi, HI TNH Project Research Lead, on the publication of her book: Industrial Literature and Authors: Labor, Factory Utopias, and Testimonial Intent (Routledge, 2024)
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\'Adaptation, Translation, Identity in Québec and Irish Theatre\' Conference 14May
'Adaptation, Translation, Identity in Québec and Irish Theatre' Conference

A one-day international conference taking place at the UCD Humanities Institute (Seminar Room H204). For further information, contact Jane Koustas (jkoustas@brocku.ca) or Nicholas Hauck (nhauck@brocku.ca).

This event has been generously supported by the Humanities Research Institute, Brock University; the Office of the Dean of Humanities, Brock University; the Office of Research Services, Brock University; the Humanities Institute, University College Dublin; UCD College of Arts and Humanities; and UCD School of English, Drama and Film.
The Unnatural History Museum: Mediating Nature in the Sixth Mass Extinction | 2nd Season, 2023-2024
The Unnatural History Museum: Mediating Nature in the Sixth Mass Extinction | 2nd Season, 2023-2024

The Unnatural History Museum talk series brought together museum professionals, creatives and academics across disciplines to platform vital conversations about the museum mediation of the natural world during the sixth mass extinction. The series unfolded over a series of themed Zoom sessions featuring short presentations, followed by a roundtable discussion.

Dr Catherine Ann Cullen (UCD HI Resident Scholar) | Moth Poetry Prize 2023 Shortlist
Dr Catherine Ann Cullen (UCD HI Resident Scholar) | Moth Poetry Prize 2023 Shortlist

Excited for our HI Resident Scholar Dr Catherine Ann Cullen's poem 'Penciiling the Dates' being shortlisted for the Moth Poetry Prize 2023! Congratulations to Catherine Anne! | Click the link below for further details and a link to her poem
Zosia Kuczyńska: \'Brian Friel\'s Models of Influence\' | Palgrave Macmillan (2023)\n\n
Zosia Kuczyńska: 'Brian Friel's Models of Influence' | Palgrave Macmillan (2023)

Congratulations to Zosia Kuczyńska, our former HI Resident Scholar, on the publication of her monograph: Brian Friel's Models of Influence | Palgrave Macmillan (2023) | Click the arrow below for further information

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