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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 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
The HI Silent Book Club | new date 2 October 2025 | HI Seminar Room H204, 2.30-4pm | Please email humanities@ucd.ie to register 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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The Humanities Institute is pleased to offer seed funding opportunities in 2025-2026 | Click the arrow below for further details and application forms 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
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 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
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 CfP | Deadline 15 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 deadline: 15th August 2025 | Click the arrow below for further details
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 CfP | Deadline 22 August 2025 | 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. | Call for Papers deadline: 22nd August 2025 | Click the arrow below for further details
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 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
The HI has moved to BlueSky | Follow us on @ucdhumanities.bsky.social Move to BlueSky
The HI has moved to BlueSky | Follow us on @ucdhumanities.bsky.social

HI New Podcasts, Videos, Publications and Blogs

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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
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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 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
Discover the inspiring stories behind groundbreaking research at the UCD Humanities Institute | Click the link below for further details 'My Research Story' Videos
Discover the inspiring stories behind groundbreaking research at the UCD Humanities Institute | Click the link below for further details
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\'Landings: Art after Extractivism\' exhibition catalogue | May 2024 Exhibition catalogue
'Landings: Art after Extractivism' exhibition catalogue | May 2024
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UCD HI Achievements & Challenges 2016 - 2021 HI Report
UCD HI Achievements & Challenges 2016 - 2021
TNH PhD Network: Next meeting TBC | In person (HI Seminar Rm H204) & hybrid | Email tnhphdnetwork@gmail.com for Zoom link 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

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UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore Dr Courtney Selvage
UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore
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UCD School of Music Dr Laura Anderson
UCD School of Music
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UCD School of History Dr Irial Glynn
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T: +353 1 716 4690 | E: humanities@ucd.ie |