SEMINARS WILL COMMENCE AT 1.10PM ON FRIDAYS AND 5PM ON THURSDAYS AND WILL BE HELD IN THE SEMINAR ROOM (H204) OF THE NEW HUMANITIES BUILDING WHICH IS LOCATED BEHIND THE ARTS ANNEX, UCD.
| Friday 27 January | ‘The Dynamics of Cultural Remembrance’ Professor Ann Rigney (Comparative Literature, Utrecht) Chair: Dr Angela Bourke |
| Thursday 9 February | ‘St Kilda: An Island World’ Professor Andrew Fleming (Archaeology Department, University of Wales, Lampeter) Chair: Dr Aidan O’Sullivan |
| Friday 17 February | ‘The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive’ John McDonough (Irish Virtual Research Library & Archive, UCD) Chair: Mr Sean Phillips |
| Friday 24 February | ‘Cesca Chenevix Trench: The Making of an Irish Nationalist 1906 – 1914’ Professor Anthony Fletcher (History Department, University of London) Chair: Dr Michael Laffan |
| Thursday 2 March | 'New Technologies and the Reconstruction of Community' Dr Lee Komito (Information and Library Studies, UCD) Chair: Dr Marc Caball |
| Thursday 9 March Distinguished Guest Lecture Series |
'Erasing Narration: Samuel Beckett’s ‘Malone Dies’ and ‘Texts for Nothing’' Professor Wolfgang Iser (Emeritus Professor of English, Konstanz) Chair: Professor Anne Fuchs |
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| Friday 10 March | ‘Pan-nationalism: Explaining the Irish government’s role in the Northern Ireland peace process’ Dr Catherine O’Donnell (IRCHSS Postgraduate Fellow) Chair: Dr Jennifer Todd |
| Thursday 6 April Distinguished Guest Lecture Series |
Title of paper to follow Professor Dominick La Capra (Bryce & Edith M. Bowmar, Professor in Humanistic Studies, Cornell) Chair: Dr Alan Kramer |
| Friday 7 April | ‘A Memory Theatre of Words: A.S. Byatt’ Dr Mara Cambiaghi (English, Konstanz) Chair: Dr Nerys Williams |
| Thursday 13 April | ‘Research Journalism as a Tool for the Restoration of Historical Memory’ Montse Armengou (Documentary Film Maker, Spain) Chair: Dr Alison Ribeiro di Menezes |
| Friday 21 April | ‘On Dante in Venice: Memory and Signification in Freud and Sebald’ Dr Jonathan Long (German, Durham) Chair: Professor Michael Cronin |
For further information please contact the HII at: hii@ucd.ie or telephone: +353 1 716 4690.
Funded under the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI), administered by the HEA.
