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$The UCD Humanities Institute (HI) cordially invites you to the ‘HeART of Gaza’ children’s art exhibition | Dates: Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 May | Monday 19 - Wednesday 21 May | Monday 26, Tuesday 27, Thursday 29, and Friday 30 May | Time: 9AM-5PM | Humanities Institute Seminar Room (H204/top floor)\n\n$ 14-30 May 2025 | HeART of Gaza exhibit @ HI

The UCD Humanities Institute (HI) cordially invites you to the ‘HeART of Gaza’ children’s art exhibition | Dates: Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 May | Monday 19 - Wednesday 21 May | Monday 26, Tuesday 27, Thursday 29, and Friday 30 May | Time: 9AM-5PM | Humanities Institute Seminar Room (H204/top floor)

$This 3-day symposium will analyse the shift towards permacrises and polycrises as the ontological condition of a world at risk in the 21st century. | Click the arrow below for further information and registration details\n$ 22-24 May 2025 | ‘From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis & Polycrisis' | Symposium 1

This 3-day symposium will analyse the shift towards permacrises and polycrises as the ontological condition of a world at risk in the 21st century. | Click the arrow below for further information and registration details

28 May 2025 | Roundtable with Aleida Assmann & Susan Neiman

The UCD Humanities Institute is delighted to open registration for ‘The Future of Cultural Memory: A Dialogue in Times of Disruption’: a roundtable discussion with two world-renowned public intellectuals: Aleida Assmann (University of Konstanz) and Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum, Berlin) | HI Seminar Room (H204 / top floor) @ 4.30pm | Click the arrow below for further information and registration details

30 May 2025 | ReCLAIM project TRAIN Networking

The UCD Humanities Institute and the UCD Earth Institute are pleased to invite you to participate in the first follow-up virtual meeting of the ReClaim project TRAIN: Transnational Research and Interdisciplinary Networks | Click the arrow below for further information and Zoom link details

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. | More 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

Institute News

CfP | Deadline 31 July 2025 | 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. | Deadline: 31st July 2025 | Click the arrow below for further details

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 medals were presented at a special ceremony at the Royal Irish Academy on 13th February 2025. | Click the arrow below for further details.

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

Application Form for HI Seed Funding: College of Arts and Humanities | Open call 2025/26

The Humanities Institute is pleased to offer seed funding for conferences, symposia and workshops. The award of up to €3,500 per application will support projects realised between 1 September 2025 to 31 July 2026 | Click the arrow below to download the application form

$Congratulations to Gaëlle Bélem for her novel There’s a Monster Behind the Door being longlisted for the International Booker Prize!\n\nGaëlle joined her translators Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert as well as publisher Bridget Farrell (Bullaun Press) to discuss the novel at the Humanities Institute on 18th October 2024. | Click the arrow below to listen to an interview with Gaëlle on RadioMoLI\n$ 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

Move to BlueSky

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

HI Publications, Blogs & New Podcasts and Videos

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

$Humanities Institute Podcast Series | Our latest podcast is now available | Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University) | Keynote from HI PhD Conference 2024: \'Cannibal Consumption: Culture, Capitalism, Critique\'\n\n$ Podcast Series

Humanities Institute Podcast Series | Our latest podcast is now available | Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University) | Keynote from HI PhD Conference 2024: 'Cannibal Consumption: Culture, Capitalism, Critique'

'My Research Story' Videos

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

New Members

Prof. Gary Boyd

UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy

Dr Mara Josi

UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Dr Fun Man Fung

UCD School of Chemistry

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