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HI Lunchtime Seminar Series 2023-2024 (Spring)\n 24Apr
HI Lunchtime Seminar Series 2023-2024 (Spring)

Dr George Francis-Kelly (UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy, and HI Resident Scholar): "A Separate But Equal Campus?: Redeveloping a Black College in the Long Civil Rights Movement"

Time: @1.10pm
Venue: HI Seminar Room (H204 / top floor)
Exchanging Tales: Celebrating Irish and Nigerian storytelling through D.O. Fágúnwà and Peig Sayers\n 29Apr
Exchanging Tales: Celebrating Irish and Nigerian storytelling through D.O. Fágúnwà and Peig Sayers

Join us for an evening of entertainment and conversation to celebrate two of the world's greatest storytellers, D.O. Fágúnwà (1903-1963) and Peig Sayers (1873-1958). Dagogo Hart and Samuel Yakura of WeAreGriot will perform a selection of English translations of stories from Fágúnwà and Sayers.

Time: 7pm
Venue: Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI)

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TNH Workshop with Prof. Monica Miscali (NTNU) 01May
TNH Workshop with Prof. Monica Miscali (NTNU)

"Investigating Emotions in Migration: The Experiences of Italian Women from the 1960s to Contemporary Times"

Time: 1pm
Venue: HI Seminar Room (H204 / top floor)

Find your quiet reading space in a loud world! 02May
Find your quiet reading space in a loud world!

Join us every two months, on Thursdays 2.30-4pm, to read together in silence with tea and coffee in the UCD Humanities Institute Seminar Room (H204 / top floor)


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Workshop | Designing kind educational practices 09May
Workshop | Designing kind educational practices

This workshop offered by Dr Wajeehah Aayeshah (Univ. of Melbourne) will explore and develop our understanding of the shape of kindness in educational settings.

Date: Thursday, 9th May 2024
Time: 1pm
Venue: HI Seminar Room (H204 / top floor)

Conference | \'Nonhuman Animals in the Age of Extinction and Mass Production\' Conference | 16 & 17 May 2024 16May
Conference | 'Nonhuman Animals in the Age of Extinction and Mass Production' Conference | 16 & 17 May 2024

The Nonhuman Animals in the Age of Extinction and Mass Production conference will critically examine the paradoxical situation of nonhuman animal life in the age of mass extinction and mass production. The conference theme addresses one of the most urgent challenges facing humanity and other animals in the context of the climate crisis and the global capitalist system: the destruction of habitats and exploitation of animals that drives both extinction and consumption.

Time: TBC
Venue: 16 May: Online | 17 May: Science Hub, Room 1.51
Workshop | EURASIAN ZONES OF CONTACT: The Russian & Qing Empires\n 17May
Workshop | EURASIAN ZONES OF CONTACT: The Russian & Qing Empires

This workshop, organised by Dr Julia C. Schneider (University College Cork) and Dr Jennifer Keating (UCD), develops international collaboration on zones of contact between the Russian Empire (1721-1917) and the Qing Empire (1636/1644-1912). It seeks to generate conversation about local and regional entanglements, networks, and exchanges across these vast Eurasian territories.

Time: TBC
Venue: Science Hub, Room H2.20
"Landings: Art after Extractivism" Exhibition launch 20May
"Landings: Art after Extractivism" Exhibition launch

The artworks in this exhibit have been produced in response to the 2022/23 CHCI Global Humanities Institute 'Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes: Humanities, artistic and activist responses’ which was led by the UCD Humanities Institute.

The launch will be followed by a wine reception.

Time: 5.30pm
Venue: HI Seminar Room (H204 / top floor)

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\'Extractivist Landscapes: Humanities, Artistic and Activist Responses\' Workshop Series 23May
'Extractivist Landscapes: Humanities, Artistic and Activist Responses' Workshop Series

Workshop 2 with Dr Conor Sweeney (School of Mathematics and Statistics, UCD): "Visualising Climate Modelling”, and Dublin artist Sarah Bracken Soper: "Making Impressions”

Time: 1.30pm
Venue: HI Seminar Room (H204 / top floor)
Reading Group + Seminar | Contemporary Tibetan Women’s Writing in English 12Jun
Reading Group + Seminar | Contemporary Tibetan Women’s Writing in English

This event comprises a reading group followed by a seminar where three of the most celebrated and emerging Tibetan female writers- Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Tenzin Dickie and Tsering Yangzom Lama, in their capacities as writers, editors, translators, come together to introduce, inform and critically discuss their work as well as the future of Tibetan literature in English from the perspective of many combinatory concepts like exile and diaspora studies, neo-colonialism, resistance writing, among others.

Time: 10.30am-4pm
Venue: HI Seminar Room (H204 / top floor)
\'Extractivist Landscapes: Humanities, Artistic and Activist Responses\' Workshop Series 20Jun
'Extractivist Landscapes: Humanities, Artistic and Activist Responses' Workshop Series

Workshop 3 with Prof. Maeve Cooke (School of Philosophy, UCD): "Engaged Theorising” and Dublin artist Conor Nolan: "Wish You Were Here"

Time: 1.30pm
Venue: HI Seminar Room (H204 / top floor)

UCD Humanities Institute

University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
T: +353 1 716 4690 | E: humanities@ucd.ie |