List of Podcasts

The UCD Humanities Institute has hosted many distinguished speakers from all over the world. The podcasts from many of these events are free to download and available via our (opens in a new window)Soundcloud channel, (opens in a new window)Spotify and on (opens in a new window)iTunes. Since 2010 there have been more than 145,000 downloads of our podcasts. The complete list of episodes is below. The podcasts are recorded and managed by (opens in a new window)Real Smart Media.

2021

Framing Ageing - Webinar 5

Ireland in the World

(opens in a new window)Launch of 'Art and the Nation State. The Reception of Modern Art in Ireland' by Roisin Kennedy.

Mind Reading: Experts in Conversation (Episode 3)

(opens in a new window)Written on the Body: eating disorders and narrative

Mind Reading: Experts in Conversation (Episode 2)

(opens in a new window)Words to Live By: Hearing the Stories of Dementia

Antiquity and the Anthropocene

Framing Ageing - Webinar 4

Mind Reading: Experts in Conversation (Episode 1)

(opens in a new window)Vaccinating Ireland: Facts, Fears, and Fictions

In My Experience

(opens in a new window)Episode 2: Don't Ask Permission, interview with Ailbhe Smyth.

Transnational Humanities: Concept and Praxis, the 2021 UCD Humanities Institute PhD Conference

Framing Ageing - Webinar 3

2020

Framing Ageing - Webinar 2

Painting Dublin, 1886 – 1949

(opens in a new window)Launch of 'Painting Dublin, 1886 – 1949' by Katy Milligan.

Annual Distinguished Guest Lecture by Gillian Rose.

(opens in a new window)Feeling the future city: digital devices, big data and being human

In My Experience

(opens in a new window)Episode 1: German Unification

Framing Ageing

Transnationalising the Humanities: Research Perspectives, Approaches and Methodologies

Keynote: Rebecca Braun - (opens in a new window)When is the Nation and Where is the Human? Four Provocations
(opens in a new window)Panel 1: Gillian Pye (UCD SLCL), Enrica Ferrara (UCD SLCL), Anne Fuchs (HI).
(opens in a new window)Panel 2: Regina Uí Chollatáin (UCD SICF), Alexandra Lourenco Dias (UCD SLCL), Joe Twist (UCD SLCL), Britta Jung (HI)
(opens in a new window)Panel 3: Kathleen James-Chakraborty (SAHCP), Douglas Smith (SLCL), Tori Durrer (SAHCP), Stephan Ehrig (HI/SAHCP), Samantha Martin-McAuliffe (SAPEP)
(opens in a new window)PhD Panel: Aideen Herron (UCD Architecture), Zhengfeng Wang (Art Hist and Cult Pol), Bianca Cataldi (Modern Languages), Yanli Xie (History).

Our Authors talk about their work during lockdown

Robert Gerwarth - (opens in a new window)November 1918: The German Revolution
Enrica Maria Ferrara - (opens in a new window)Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity
Martin Thomas and Béatrice Bijon on their documentary (opens in a new window)'Etched In Bone'
Kathleen James-Chakraborty: (opens in a new window)Modernism as Memory: Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany
Conor Lucey: (opens in a new window)Building Reputations: Architecture and the Artisan, 1750-1830
Anne Fuchs: (opens in a new window)Precarious Times. Temporality And History In Modern German Culture

Resident Postdocs talk about their work

Sophie Corser - (opens in a new window)The Reader’s Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship, and the Authority of the Reader
Zosia Kuczyńska - (opens in a new window)The Brian Friel Papers: models of influence
Mary Hatfield: (opens in a new window)Growing up in Nineteenth Century Ireland: A Cultural History of Middle Class Childhood and Gender
Stephan Ehrig: (opens in a new window)Female City Walking, DEFA, and East Berlin's Urban Space
Conor Linnie: (opens in a new window)The Poetics of Print: The Private Press Tradition and Irish Poetry

What is Creativity?

Tom McLeish: (opens in a new window)The Poetry of Music and Science and the Role of Creativity in Science and Arts

Plotting the Future: Towards Sustainability

Ian Gough - (opens in a new window)Climate change, Inequality and Sustainable Wellbeing

Carving out a Space for the History of Emotions

Rob Boddice: (opens in a new window)The Cultural Brain as Historical Artifact: Emotions History and Interdisciplinary Criticism
Tiffany Watt-Smith: (opens in a new window)Schadenfreude and Drag Queens: Improvising Emotional Styles

2019

Architecture and Narrative: The Built Environment in Modern Culture

Monique Scheer: (opens in a new window)Emotions as Cultural Practices: A Challenging Perspective

Plotting the Future: Towards Sustainability

Rick Crownshaw - (opens in a new window)Climate Change, Literature, and the Future of Memory

(opens in a new window)Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood - Integration, Community, and Co-Habitation

Sandra Ponzanesi - (opens in a new window)Digital Cosmopolitanism. Local Networks and Transnational Communities
Gillian Jein - (opens in a new window)Re-Visioning Violence in Transnational Paris. The Art of the Street
Yaron Matras - (opens in a new window)Language and the neighbourhood. How multilingualism re-defines community

Theorizing Zombiism

(opens in a new window)Discussion with Scott Kenemore and Sarah Davis-Goff

Sara Jones: (opens in a new window)Testimony through Culture: Towards a Theoretical Framework

Truth to be Told: Understanding Truth in the Age of Post-Truth Politics

Jan Assmann - (opens in a new window)Truth and Time

Distinguished Guest Lecture Series

Ute Frevert - (opens in a new window)History of Emotions: Promises, Projects and Achievements

Debating Ageing: A Transdiciplinary Engagement Forum

Desmond O'Neill - Expanding the Imaginarium of Ageing through Cultural Gerontology

2018

(opens in a new window)Bodies of data: intersecting medical and digital humanities

Gerardine Meaney - (opens in a new window)Introduction
El Putnam - (opens in a new window)Leaking Milk and Beating Hearts: Technological Immanence and the Maternal
Hilary Moss - (opens in a new window)Narratives of health and illness: Arts based research capturing the lived experience of dementia
Pádraig Ó Liatháin - (opens in a new window)Bás Beo: TB in Seán Ó Ríordáin's early diaries
Justin Tonra - (opens in a new window)Poetry in Motion: quantified self data and automated poetry
Marion McGarry - (opens in a new window)Dracula = Cholera
Ailise Bulfin - (opens in a new window)The myth of the paedophile as a monstrous stranger in Victorian discourse on child sexual abuse
Susanne Michl, in collaboration with Anita Wohlmann - (opens in a new window)Data, stories and the clinical encounter
Conor McGarrigle - (opens in a new window)How do you feel? Detecting Urban Ambiances with artistic data devices
Andrew P. Allen - (opens in a new window)Reminiscence in older adults: digital archiving and the functions of autobiographical narrative
Ellen Finn - (opens in a new window)Body Building: Constructing Virtual Human Physiques in Archaeological Visualisations
Daniel Webster - (opens in a new window)The [Data] Double

Conflicting Chronologies in the Pre-modern World: Measuring Time from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Debating Ageing: A Transdiciplinary Engagement Forum

David Troyansky - Debating the History of Ageing

(opens in a new window)Art and Reality: The Role of Visual Culture in the post-independent state

UCD Humanities Institute Postgraduate Scholars Conference 2018

Michael Cronin - (opens in a new window)Transversal Subjectivity and the Transitional University

Plotting the Future: Scenes and Scenarios of Speculation

Mark O'Connell - To Be a Machine
Brett Scott - The War on Cash

Settler Social Identities: Rational Recreation In the Long Nineteenth Century

Clara Tuite - (opens in a new window)Lag Fever: Flash Culture, the Moon’s Late Minions and Gentlemen of the Shade in Colonial Australia

Truth to be Told: Understanding Truth in the Age of Post-Truth Politics

Philip Kitcher - Truth and Science
Peter Fritzsche - Truth and History
Aleida Assmann - Truth and Memory
Senator Ivana Bacik - Truth and Politics

Understanding New Rape Cultures

Debbie Ging - (opens in a new window)Rape culture(s) in a Neoliberal World Order – Something Old, Something New (Keynote)
(opens in a new window)Conference Roundtable

Maja Pantic - Artificial Intelligence: What if machines could sense how I feel (Plotting the Future).

The Alan Graham Memorial Lecture, as part of the Irish Association for American Studies Annual Conference 2018 at UCD.

Sue Currell (University of Sussex) - (opens in a new window)Good Genes, Great Genes and Smart Genes: Popular Eugenics and the American Body Politic.

Distinguished Guest Lecture Series

Arjun Appadurai (NYU) - 'The Future of Sovereignty'.

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Symposium

(opens in a new window)Interview with Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, conducted by Professor Anne Fogarty.
(opens in a new window)Reading the Short Stories of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, with Mary Morrissy, Philomena Byrne, Frank McGuinness, Henrietta McKervey & Lorcan Byrne.
(opens in a new window)"Invent, Discover, Revive": The Writings of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, with Derek Hand, Máire Ní Annracháin, Giovanna Tallone and Luz Mar Gonzales-Arias.

2017

Anglo-Irish Lit 50 - (opens in a new window)Marina Carr in Conversation: celebrating 50 years of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD.

Architecture and Narrative: The Built Environment in Modern Culture

Ellen McWilliams - Style and Self-Invention in the Writing of Maeve Brennan
Sinead Gleeson, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, and Patricia Coughlan - Maeve Brennan: Texts and Contexts

Truth to be Told

Dame Marina Warner - The Truth in Stories
Justice Peter Charleton - Truth and the Law

Media, Encounter, Witness: Troubling Pasts

Kieran Connell - Race, prostitution, and cultural studies: the photographic eye of Janet Mendelsohn
Declan Long - Constructive ambiguity and contemporary art from post-conflict Northern Ireland

Single Lives 2017

Rebecca Traister - (opens in a new window)Thornbacks to Spinsters to Welfare Queens: The Political Centrality of Unmarried Women in America

The Humanities under Neoliberalism / The University under Neoliberalism

SouthHem Project

Heather Love - (opens in a new window)The Last Extremists

Plotting the Future

Dockland Encounters Symposium

Introduction by Joanna Robinson and Richard McCormick
John Brannigan - Down by the Docks: Late Modernist Fictions of Irish Sea Ports
Niamh Moore-Cherry - A space of flow and flux: 21st century Dublin Docklands
Silvia Loeffler - Deep Mapping the Docks as Transitional Space: An Artistic Cartography
Anthony Geraghty - Irish Naval Service Operations in Mediterranean
Connal Parr - Queen’s Island’s (Often Unemployed) Trojans: The ambivalent Belfast docklands
David Featherstone - Decolonisation, Spaces of Dockside Encounter and Subaltern Agency
Roundtable

Southhem Project: Methodologies Across Borders

James Belich - (opens in a new window)Globalisation Connectivity, Globalisation, and Divergence over Five Millennia: An Approach to Global History

2016

1916: Home: 2016

Marianne Hirsch - (opens in a new window)Epi-Memory, Art and Action
Mike Cronin - (opens in a new window)Commemorating 1916 and the absence of State Formation

Law and the Idea of Liberty in Ireland: From Magna Carta to the Present

Paul Brand - Magna Carta in Ireland, 1215–1320
Seán Duffy - The political background to Magna Carta: King John and Ireland
Peter Crooks - 1216, 1366 and all that: Magna Carta and exclusionary liberties in late medieval Ireland
Adrian Empey - Conquest and common law
Ian Campbell - Magna Carta in Irish political theory, 1541–1660
Coleman Dennehy - Nisi per legale judicium parium suorum: parliament, politics, and the right to trial by peer
Colum Kenny - Myth, Mervyn and the “Irish Magna Carta” of 1662
Jimmy Kelly - Era of Liberty? The politics of political rights in eighteenth-century
Patrick Geoghegan - Daniel O'Connell versus the Chartists
Tom Mohr - Liberty in an Irish Free State, 1922–37

In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe (ISTME). Locating and Dislocating Memory

Astrid Erll - (opens in a new window)Odyssean Travels: Searching for Europe’s ‘First Memories’
Michael Rothberg - (opens in a new window)Inheritance Trouble: Transcultural Holocaust Memory in the Mirror of Migration
Françoise Vergès - (opens in a new window)Decolonizing Europe. On the Boomerang-Effect of Colonialism, Memory and Dis-Location

After the War: Commemorating the Great War in Ireland

Tea Sindbæk Andersen - (opens in a new window)Shatter zone memory: Croatia, Yugoslavia and the First World War
Fran Brearton - (opens in a new window)Poetry and Sacrifice: 1912, 1914, 1916

Nation, Genre and Gender: A Comparative Social Network Analysis of Irish and English Fiction, 1800-1922

(opens in a new window)Gerardine Meaney on Phineas Finn and how social network analysis can illuminate the relationship between literature and history.
(opens in a new window)Karen Wade discusses social network analysis and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
(opens in a new window)Maria Mulvany on annotating James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
(opens in a new window)Derek Greene on the social network analysis aspects of the project.
(opens in a new window)Siobhán Grayson discusses her work on the project

UCD/Abbey Theatre Shakespeare Lectures

Margaret Kelleher (UCD) and Danielle Clarke (UCD) - An ‘Irish Mode’? The Literary Writings and Legacy of Thomas MacDonagh
Farah Karim-Cooper (Shakespeare's Globe) - Gesture on the Shakespearean Stage.
Gordon McMullan (King's College, London) - Remembering and forgetting Shakespeare in 1916.

Wartime Attachments Series

Barry Sheils (UCD) - Introduction to the series.
Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier) - Attachments and coping towards the end of the First World War: D. H. Lawrence's 'Bay'.
Rachel Duffett (Essex) - "As good as Mother makes?": Food, Family and the Western Front.

From One April to Another: 2016-1916

Lia Mills, UCD Arts Council Writer in Residence

Eugene O'Neill: a life in Four Acts

Professor Robert M. Dowling (Central Connecticut State University)

Intimate Entrepreneurship: on Seduction and Sexual Capital

Dr Rachel O’Neill (King's College London)

Reviving Philosophy of History

Professor Paul A. Roth (University of California Santa Cruz)

Irish Memory Studies Network

Dr Joseph Lennon (Villanova) - "Dreams that hunger makes": Memory and the origins of the hunger strike

2015

(opens in a new window)Researching Revolutionaries During the Decade of Centenaries

Dr Eve Morrison (IRC postdoctoral fellow in the UCD School of History) & Dr Maureen O’Connor (UCC).

Women and the Sea Symposium

Sibéal Turraoin, Irish Adventures in the North-West Passage (Public Lecture).
Panel 1: Gender and the Sea.
Welcome address.
Panel 2: Stories of Seas and Coasts.
Panel 3: Working the Seas and Islands.
Panel 4: Women at Sea.
Panel 5: Arts of the Sea.

Queering Ireland 2015 - Politically Queer?

Eithne Luibhéid - Homonationalism, Migration Controls, and Queer Futures.

Memory, Space, and New Technologies Symposium

Ronit Lentin - (opens in a new window)"We managed not to know": Asylum seekers, Ireland, and the return of the repressed.
Michael O'Rourke - (opens in a new window)Thalassopolitics.
Brian Singleton - (opens in a new window)ANU Productions' Monto Cycle: Performative Encounters and Acts of Memory.

Wartime Attachments Series

Julie Walsh (Warwick) - 1914: Psychoanalysis and the Narcissistic Wound.
Brendan Kelly (UCD) - 'He Lost Himself Completely’: Shell Shock and its Treatment at Dublin’s Richmond War Hospital, 1916-1919.
Sara Haslam (The Open University) - Contested Ground: alcohol, attachment, and the hut habit at war.

Professor Carole Levin. Raise up the Dead: Queen Elizabeth’s Ghost and the Stuart Monarchs.

Irish Memory Studies Network Distinguished Memory Lecture Series: Methodologies of Memory

Professor Martijn Meeter (University of Amsterdam) - Methodologies of Memory.
Dr Keith Murphy (UCD) - The Neurobiology of Memory Encoding.
Dr Fred Cummins (UCD) - The Folly of the Engram: Considering Individual and Collective Memory.
Professor Danielle Clarke (UCD) - Memory as Method: The Practice of Memorialisation/Memorisation in Early Modern Women’s Poetry.
Dr Naomi McArevaey (UCD) - Memory and Reconciliation: The 1641 Rebellion in (Northern) Irish History and Memory.
Dr Kate Kenny (QUB) - Whistleblowing in Banks and the Role of Time.

UCD/Abbey Theatre Lectures 2015.

Naomi McAreavey (UCD). Shakespeare and Seventeenth-Century Irish Theatre.
Andrew Murphy (St Andrews). Acts of Rebellion: Shakespeare and the 1916 Rising.

Conducting Psychoanalytic Research for Publication; a workshop organised by Dr Noreen Giffney.

Professor Michael O'Rourke. The Nows and Thens of Queer Theory.

2014

Law and Revolution in Ireland: law and lawyers before, during, and after the Cromwellian Interregnum

Dr Coleman Dennehy (University College Dublin / University College London) - Appointments to the Irish bench in the early Restoration period.
Dr Stephen Carroll (Trinity College Dublin) - Competing authorities: the clash of martial and common law in early seventeenth-century Ireland.
Dr Aran McArdle (Trinity College Dublin) - ‘Necessarye to keepe Irelande in Order’: Martial law and the 1641 rebellion.
Dr Bríd McGrath (Trinity College Dublin) - Electoral law in Ireland in the early seventeenth century.
Dr John Cunningham (Trinity College Dublin / University of Exeter) - Lawyers and the law in the writings of Sir William Parsons.
Dr Neil Johnston (Department of Culture, Media & Sport) - Charles II’s legal officers and their influence on the Restoration land settlement in Ireland, 1660-65.
Professor James McGuire ( Irish Manuscripts Commission) - Governing Restoration Ireland: the evidence of the proclamations, 1660–70.
Dr Andrew Robinson (Northern Ireland Policing Board) - ‘Twixt Treason and Convenience’: Protestant Ireland and the trial of the earl of Strafford.
Jennifer Wells (Brown University / Institute of Historical Research) - Scottish and Irish Resistance to Cromwellian Legal Measures.
Dr Danielle McCormack (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna?) - The rhetoric of law and the Restoration settlement, c. 1660-2
Prof. Andrew Carpenter (University College Dublin) - Lawyers and the circulation of scurrilous verse in Restoration Dublin.
Dr John J. Cronin (University College Dublin) - Countering a revolution with law: the role of the Irish royalist elite in the law courts of the exiled Charles II: 1649-1660.
Prof. Colum Kenny (Dublin City University) - Shooting stars and survivors: King's Inns revisited 1648-1661.

Teresa Mangum (University of Iowa). The Future of the Academic and Public Humanities: The Changing Academic Environment in the U.S.

Ways of Representing the Past: Documentary Theatre in Ireland and Brazil, an Irish Memory Studies Network Seminar.

Podcasts from Melancholia.

Opening Remarks by Noreen Giffney.
Session 1 - What is Melancholia?
Session 3 - Response to Lars von Trier's 'Melancholia' by Caroline Bainbridge.
Session 3 - Response to Lars von Trier's 'Melancholia' by Bice Benvenuto.
Session 3 - Response to Lars von Trier's 'Melancholia' by Judy Gammelgaard.
Session 4 - Discussion of Cecily Brennan's 'Melancholia'.

Podcasts from the Irish Sea Symposium - The Irish Sea: History, Culture, Environment.

Richard Nairn (Natura Consultants) - Nature of the Irish Sea Coast.
Introduction by Tasman Crowe (UCD) and Professor John Brannigan (UCD).
Panel 1 - The Material Uses and Histories of the Irish Sea.
Panel 2 - The Natures and Histories of the Irish Sea.
Panel 3 - The Cultural Meanings and Values of the Irish Sea.
Outcomes and closing remarks.

Recording of roundtable discussion from the G(u)ilt and Glitter: Economic Crisis and Burlesque in Ireland sympoisum.

Podcasts from the 2014 ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference - Locating Ecocriticism: Systems, Methodologies, Contexts

Pablo Mukherjee (University of Warwick). 'Yet Was it Human?’ Bankim, Hunter and Victorian Famine Ideology of Anandamath?.
Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin). 'Fox Spirits’ and ‘Stone Maidens': (Post)Soviet Energy Regimes and World-Ecological Literature.
Anne Milne (University of Toronto -Scarborough). The Poet as Genius of the Place?: Reading Habitat and Bioregion in Eighteenth-Century Poetry.

UCD/Abbey Theatre Lectures 2014.

Anthony Roche (UCD). Shakespeare: the chap that writes like Synge.
Michael Dobson (Shakespeare Institute). Shakespeare, Amateur Performance and Civic Identity in Britain and Ireland.

Fionnuala Dillane (UCD). Affective Historiography, Effective Anne Enright: narrative, aesthetics and memory making.

Guy Beiner (Ben-Gurion University). Intra-Community Remembering and Forgetting: Commemorative Possessiveness and Envy in Ulster.

Richard Kearney (Boston College). The Politics of Memory: Between History and Imagination.

2013

Maureen Reddy (Rhode Island College). Race and Gender in Contemporary Irish Crime Fiction.

Kali Tal (Bern University). Issues in Comtemporary Trauma Studies.

Podcasts from the World-Ecology, World-Economy, World-Literature Symposium.

Jason W. Moore (Binghamton University). Abstract Social Nature: Socially Necessary Unpaid Labour and the Law of Value in the Capitalist World-Ecology.
Michael Niblett (Warwick University). A Waste of Time: Refuse and Revenants in the Capitalist World-Ecology.
Stephen Shapiro (Warwick University). Capitalism's Cultural Fix: World-Systemics, World-Ecology, World-literature.

Ireland, Slavery, Anti-Slavery, Empire Conference.

Richard Blackett (Vanderbilt University). The Underground Railroad And The Struggle Against Slavery.
Nini Rodgers (Queen's University Belfast). Anti-Slavery And Empire. Charles MacCarthy And Sierra Leone, 1814 - 1824.

Samuel Beckett and the 'State' of Ireland III Conference.

P.J. Murphy (Thompson Rivers University). Popular Culture Contexts at the Heart of Dream of Fair to Middling Women.
Benjamin Keatinge (South East European University). ”but to hell with all this fucking scenery”: Beckett, Ireland and the Topographical Imaginary.

Steven Shaviro (Wayne University). Discognition.

Laura Agustín. Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry.

Rob Weatherill. Psychoanalysis and the Inhuman.

UCD/Abbey Theatre Lectures 2013.

Ewan Fernie (Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon). St Edgar and his Demons.
Jane Grogan (UCD). Shakespeare and the East.

Irish Memory Studies Research Network's Gender and Commemoration Lecture Series.

Oona Frawley (NUIM). Irish Memory Studies.
Louise Lowe. Laundry and the memory of the Magdalen Laundries.

Digital Humanities Exploratorium: Pathways to Interdisciplinarity, Creative Praxis and Digital Humanities Research Conference.

Gerardine Meaney. Introduction.
Fiona Whelan and Gillian O Connor. Policing Dialogues.
Katie Gillum. Just Food, Migration, Collaboration, & Participation: 2 food justice projects.
Ailbhe Murphy & Ciaran Smyth. City (Re)searches: Experiences of Being Public.
Eilis Murphy. Where public is private: An urban intervention into privatised ‘public’ spaces.
Taey Iohe (City, Resistance and Artistic Research)
Owen Boss (ANU Productions)
Asylum Archive
Alan Grossman (Non-Fiction Screen Media Practice and the Digital Humanities: The Age of the 'Hedgefox')
Clíodhna Ní Lionáin
Eimear Meegan
Dr Steve Davis - Prospection plus: digital archaeology in the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site
Karen Wade & Dr Derek Greene - Finding the Irish blogosphere: An interdisciplinary approach
Lisa Cassidy
Andy Flaherty & Tom Rowley (StoryMap)
Mark Duncan (Century Ireland)
Lynne Heller (Mind the Gap)
Lizbeth Goodman
Kate Delaney (Digital Media with at Risk Youth)
Donal Fallon & Sam McGrath (Come Here to Me!)
David Cotter (Future Creators)