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$Tuesday, 30th September 2025 | Prof. Gary Boyd (School of Architecture and HI member): Unearthing the Coalscape | Click the arrow below for further details\n\n\n$ 30 September 2025 | Lunchtime Seminar Series 2025-2026

Tuesday, 30th September 2025 | Prof. Gary Boyd (School of Architecture and HI member): Unearthing the Coalscape | Click the arrow below for further details

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

3 October 2025 | ReCLAIM project TRAIN event

The “eTEAcally: Research Integrity Afternoon Tea” event will be an informal afternoon tea with members of the research community, chaired by the HI and the EI together with four invited experts in the field from University College Dublin, University College Cork and Leiden University in the Netherlands. | Click the arrow below for further details & EVENTBRITE registration link

$This one-day, interdisciplinary symposium addresses urgent concerns regarding \'critical minerals\' by bringing together scholars and professionals from the humanities, social sciences, arts, and museums to examine minerals as political and cultural agents. | HI Seminar Room H204 | Click the arrow below for further details\n\n\n$ 7 November 2025 | Critical Minerals Symposium

This one-day, interdisciplinary symposium addresses urgent concerns regarding 'critical minerals' by bringing together scholars and professionals from the humanities, social sciences, arts, and museums to examine minerals as political and cultural agents. | HI Seminar Room H204 | Click the arrow below for further details

Institute News

$The second symposium as part of the \'From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis\' project will seek to engage with and interrogate the new condition of permacrisis at a two-day symposium at Tallinn University, Estonia. | Click the arrow for further details$ 25-27 September 2025 | From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis Symposium 2

The second symposium as part of the 'From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis' project will seek to engage with and interrogate the new condition of permacrisis at a two-day symposium at Tallinn University, Estonia. | Click the arrow for further details

6-10 October 2025 | 'Metamorphosis' Art Installation by Olga Diego

This site-specific giant plastic sculpture has been commissioned as part of the project ‘Imagined Sustainabilities’ and specially designed to give visibility to the pressing issue of plastic pollution and provide students, faculty staff, UCD workers and visitors with a performative-educational space for reflection and free expression. | UCD Newman Building, Ground floor | Click the arrow for further details

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

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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