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HI Seed Funding Opportunities | 2025/2026

The Humanities Institute is pleased to offer seed funding opportunities in 2025-2026 | Click the arrow below for further details and application forms

$CfP | \'From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis\' | Interdisciplinary Symposium 2: Temporalities of permacrisis: pasts, presents, futures | Deadline 31 July 2025\n$

CfP | 'From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis' | Interdisciplinary Symposium 2: Temporalities of permacrisis: pasts, presents, futures | Deadline 31 July 2025

In a moment marked by ecological collapse, warfare, massive technological disruptions by AI and robotics, the rise of autocracy, a culture of disinformation, and a general erosion of democracy globally, we invite scholars, artists and practitioners to engage with and interrogate the new condition of permacrisis. The second meeting will seek to address the questions outlined in the call for papers | Call for Papers deadline: 31st July 2025 | Click the arrow for further details

$Call for Papers | \'Critical Minerals\' Symposium | Deadline 15 August 2025$

Call for Papers | 'Critical Minerals' Symposium | Deadline 15 August 2025

By fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, this symposium aims to deepen the understanding of the geopolitical and environmental consequences of minerals, and to encourage more sustainable and ethical perspectives on the mineral foundations of our modern life. | Call for Papers deadline: 15th August 2025 | Click the arrow below for further details

$Call for Papers | \'The Violence of Silence\' Conference | Deadline 22 August 2025$

Call for Papers | 'The Violence of Silence' Conference | Deadline 22 August 2025

The conference explores the conscious and unconscious mechanisms through which silence functions as a transnational tool of exclusion, distortion, and, ultimately, continued violence. | Call for Papers deadline: 22nd August 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 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.

The award ceremony took place at the Royal Irish Academy on 13th February 2025. Click the arrow below for further details.

$Gaëlle Bélem\'s novel \'There’s a Monster Behind the Door\' longlisted for International Booker Prize 2025$

Gaëlle Bélem's novel 'There’s a Monster Behind the Door' longlisted for International Booker Prize 2025

Congratulations to Gaëlle Bélem for her novel There’s a Monster Behind the Door being longlisted for the International Booker Prize!

Gaëlle joined her translators Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert as well as publisher Bridget Farrell (Bullaun Press) to discuss the novel at the Humanities Institute on 18th October 2024.

Click the arrow below to listen to an interview with Gaëlle on RadioMoLI

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)

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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