AUTUMN TRIMESTER
Tuesday, 19th September 2023
(opens in a new window)Dr Lisa Foran | Chair: Evie Filea
UCD School of Philosophy and HI member
"A Million Welcomes: Derrida, Levinas, and the Dangers of National Identity”
Wednesday, 27th September 2023
(opens in a new window)Dr Alan Maddock | Chair: Dr Chloe Green
UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, and HI member
“How do mindfulness-based practices and psychoeducation improve stress, burnout, mental health, well-being and reflective practice of health and social care professionals”
Wednesday, 11th October 2023 | ***Extra event @ 12.30pm***
Chair: Dr Tim Groenland
Reflections on Chicano Expressive Culture: Examining U.S.-Mexico Border Narratives:
(opens in a new window)Dr Paul Espinosa (award-winning Filmmaker and Producer, is President of Espinosa Productions, a San Diego based film company): "Reflections of a Chicano Filmmaker: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Border"
(opens in a new window)Dr Marta E. Sánchez (Professor Emerita of Arizona State University (2004-2014) and the University of California-San Diego (1977-2004): "How a Mojado, Posing as a Mojado, Writes a Border Crossing Narrative"
Thursday, 26th October 2023
Dr Chloe Green | Chair: Harriet Idle
IRC Postdoctoral Scholar, UCD School of English, Drama & Film and HI Resident Scholar
"Economies of Feeling: Emotional Labour and the Work of Wellness in Catherine Lacey’s The Answers"
Wednesday, 8th November 2023
(opens in a new window)Professor Katrin Sieg | Chair: Dr George Francis-Kelly
Graf Goltz Professor and Director, BMW Center for German and European Studies, University of Georgetown
“Remembering German Colonialism at the Museum and Beyond"
Wednesday, 15th November 2023
Dr Jivitesh Vashisht | Chair: Mathieu Bokestael
IRC Postdoctoral Scholar, UCD School of English, Drama & Film and HI Resident Scholar
“Adaptation, Inspiration, and Intention: The Case of Oliver Sacks’s Awakenings(1973) and Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska(1982)”
Wednesday, 29th November 2023
(opens in a new window)Professor Kath Browne | Chair: Caleb O'Connor
UCD School of Geography and HI member
‘It’s only when it landed at my door’: Contesting Changes in the New Socio-Legal Realities in Sexualities, Genders and Abortion”