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4-5 September 2025 | IHA Annual Conference 2025

IHA Annual Conference 2025: “Feeding the Soul: Transnational Narratives of Food and Belonging” | This conference, supported by the Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA) and the UCD Humanities Institute (University College Dublin) seeks to explore the role that food plays in transnational fictional and non-fictional literary works, film, and visual arts. | Click the arrow below for further details & EVENTBRITE registration link

$The HI Lunchtime Seminar Series will return on Tuesday, 30th September 2025 with a talk by Prof. Gary Boyd (UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy) | Details to follow\n$ Lunchtime Seminar Series 2025-2026

The HI Lunchtime Seminar Series will return on Tuesday, 30th September 2025 with a talk by Prof. Gary Boyd (UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy) | Details to follow

New date 2 October 2025 | HI Silent Book Club

The HI Silent Book Club | new date 2 October 2025 | HI Seminar Room H204, 2.30-4pm | Please email humanities@ucd.ie to register

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HI Seed Funding Opportunities | 2025/26

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

CfP CLOSED | Interdisciplinary Symposium 2: Temporalities of permacrisis: pasts, presents, futures

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 symposium will seek to address a series of questions outlined in the call for papers. | CfP CLOSED

CfP | Extended Deadline 31 August 2025 | Critical Minerals Symposium

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 extended deadline: 31 August 2025 | Click the arrow below for further details

CfP CLOSED | The Violence of Silence' Conference

The conference explores the conscious and unconscious mechanisms through which silence functions as a transnational tool of exclusion, distortion, and, ultimately, continued violence. | CfP CLOSED

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

The UCD Humanities Institute (HI) runs an annual residency programme aimed at international scholars who collaborate with an institute member. The HI residency programme facilitates the internationalisation of humanities research at UCD and supports close, on-site collaborations between institute members, art practitioners, practice-based researchers and international partners. | Click the arrow for further details and link to application form

Move to BlueSky

The HI has moved to BlueSky | Follow us on @ucdhumanities.bsky.social

HI New Podcasts, Videos, Publications and Blogs

$Humanities Institute Podcast Series | Our latest podcasts are now available | Two tracks from the \'From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis. Epistemological Perspectives and Interventions’ Symposium @ the HI 22-24 May 2025$ Podcast Series

Humanities Institute Podcast Series | Our latest podcasts are now available | Two tracks from the 'From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis. Epistemological Perspectives and Interventions’ Symposium @ the HI 22-24 May 2025

Podcast Series

Humanities Institute Podcast Series | A new podcast of the ‘The Future of Cultural Memory: A Dialogue in Times of Disruption’ Roundtable discussion with two world-renowned public intellectuals, Aleida Assmann and Susan Neiman

'My Research Story' Videos

Discover the inspiring stories behind groundbreaking research at the UCD Humanities Institute | Click the link below for further details

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

New Members

Dr Courtney Selvage

UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore

Dr Laura Anderson

UCD School of Music

Dr Irial Glynn

UCD School of History

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