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28 January 2026 | TNH Migration Humanities Network | Coffee morning

The Transnationalising the Humanities research strand is pleased to announce the establishment of the Migration Humanities Network. To kick things off, we will be holding a coffee morning @ 11am-12pm | HI Seminar Room H204 | Click the arrow below for further details & Google form registration link

$The HI Lunchtime Seminar Series: Michael Boog (PhD Candidate SNF Doc.CH, Department of English, University of Bern, Switzerland) \'Irrealizing Labor: Examples from Contemporary Anglophone Short Stories\' | 5 February 2026\n\n\n$ 5 February 2026| Lunchtime Seminar Series 2025-2026

The HI Lunchtime Seminar Series: Michael Boog (PhD Candidate SNF Doc.CH, Department of English, University of Bern, Switzerland) 'Irrealizing Labor: Examples from Contemporary Anglophone Short Stories' | 5 February 2026

Next date: 12 February 2026 | HI Silent Book Club

The HI Silent Book Club | Next date: 12th February 2026 | HI Seminar Room H204, 2.30-4pm | Please email humanities@ucd.ie to register

Call for Papers | Crisis Project Workshop | Aesthetics of Polycrisis: Practices of Resistance and Resilience

Join us in exploring how the aesthetics of polycrisis can become a practice of resistance, resilience, and speculative worlding. We will consider how aesthetic, literary, and social imaginaries generate situated forms of response-ability—foregrounding entanglement, uncertainty, and more-than-human alliances. | CfP submission deadline: 10 January 2026 | Click the arrow for further details

Call for Papers | Crisis Conference 3: Living with Permacrisis: Care, Responsibility, Agency and Art

Call for Papers now open | The CfP invites contributions from across the humanities and social sciences to address the epistemological, ethical, narrative and imaginative implications of living with, and within, permacrisis and cascading polycrises. | CfP submission deadline: 15 January 2026 | Click the arrow for further details

Call for Papers | 'Bad Feelings: sadness + gender in contemporary culture' conference

Call for papers now open | This conference takes contemporary representations of female sadness as its critical object, asking how we might read the ‘sad girl’ as an artefact of the historic – late capitalist and neoconservative – present. | CfP CLOSED| Click the arrow for further details

23-24 January 2026 | 'The Violence of Silence: Overlooked Holocaust Histories' Conference

The Violence of Silence conference explores the conscious and unconscious mechanisms through which silence functions as a transnational tool of exclusion, distortion, and, ultimately, continued violence. | Click the arrow for further details

$You are warmly invited to this workshop on violence, health, and the (health) humanities in January. The workshop\nbrings together researchers at UCD working on issues of violence and health (both broadly\nconceived) within the humanities and in adjacent areas. @ 12.30-5pm | HI Seminar Room H204 | Click arrow below for further details and registration link\n\n\n$ 28 January 2026 | 'Violence, Health, and the (Health) Humanities' workshop

You are warmly invited to this workshop on violence, health, and the (health) humanities in January. The workshop brings together researchers at UCD working on issues of violence and health (both broadly conceived) within the humanities and in adjacent areas. @ 12.30-5pm | HI Seminar Room H204 | Click arrow below for further details and registration link

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 and Publications

Podcast Series

Humanities Institute Podcast Series | Our latest podcast is now available | “Feeding the Soul: Transnational Narratives of Food and Belonging” | IHA Annual Conference September 2025 | First Keynote: Raúl Matta (Centre de Recherche Institut Lyfe)

$Humanities Institute Podcast Series | Check out two tracks from the \'From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis. Epistemological Perspectives and Interventions’ Symposium @ the HI 22-24 May 2025$ Podcast Series

Humanities Institute Podcast Series | Check out two tracks from the 'From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis. Epistemological Perspectives and Interventions’ Symposium @ the HI 22-24 May 2025

'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

New Members

Dr Juliet Mullins

UCD School of English, Drama & Film

Dr Matthew Thomson

UCD School of Music

Dr Lai Ma

UCD School of Information and Communication Studies

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