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HI Lunchtime Seminar Series | Shan Zhong: ‘Irish Literature in China Since 1990’ and Michaela Králová: ‘Does Rooney’s Success Translate?: Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World Where Are You in French’ | 15 April 2026 | HI Seminar Room H204 @ 1.10pm 15 April 2026 | HI Lunchtime Seminar Series 2025-2026
HI Lunchtime Seminar Series | Shan Zhong: ‘Irish Literature in China Since 1990’ and Michaela Králová: ‘Does Rooney’s Success Translate?: Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World Where Are You in French’ | 15 April 2026 | HI Seminar Room H204 @ 1.10pm
HI Lunchtime Seminar Series | Prof. Izabela Morska: \'After Adamowicz: Assassination, Refuge, and the Fragile Ethics of Solidarity\' | 21 April 2026 | HI Seminar Room H204 @ 1.10pm 21 April 2026 | HI Lunchtime Seminar Series 2025-2026
HI Lunchtime Seminar Series | Prof. Izabela Morska: 'After Adamowicz: Assassination, Refuge, and the Fragile Ethics of Solidarity' | 21 April 2026 | HI Seminar Room H204 @ 1.10pm

HI News

The Humanities Institute is pleased to offer HI seed funding (Small grants | HI-CAH) 2026-2027 | Application deadline: 15 May 2026 | Click the arrow below for further details and application form NEW HI Seed Funding Opportunities | 2026/27
The Humanities Institute is pleased to offer HI seed funding (Small grants | HI-CAH) 2026-2027 | Application deadline: 15 May 2026 | Click the arrow below for further details and application form
Interdisciplinary Conference 3 | Living with Permacrisis: Care, Responsibility, Agency and Art | Venue: Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’homme, Paris 6-7 May 2026 | Interdisciplinary Conference 3 | Living with Permacrisis: Care, Responsibility, Agency and Art
Interdisciplinary Conference 3 | Living with Permacrisis: Care, Responsibility, Agency and Art | Venue: Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’homme, Paris
CfP NOW CLOSED | We invite presenters to join us to think together about ways in which we can create these sites, places where we can find them, and examples of them – about ways “to think and act both creatively and destructively” (Kass 2025) | Click the arrow for further details CfP NOW CLOSED | 'Negations and Interruptions as World-Building' Symposium
CfP NOW CLOSED | We invite presenters to join us to think together about ways in which we can create these sites, places where we can find them, and examples of them – about ways “to think and act both creatively and destructively” (Kass 2025) | Click the arrow for further details
CfP now CLOSED | In dominant Western European discourse, migration continues to be framed through the language of emergency: as a humanitarian crisis, a geopolitical threat, or an exception to the “norm.” We invite researchers across disciplines to submit papers that challenge migration as a permanent state of emergency. CfP now CLOSED | 'Migration Beyond Emergency: Tracing Testimony and Diaspora' Symposium
CfP now CLOSED | In dominant Western European discourse, migration continues to be framed through the language of emergency: as a humanitarian crisis, a geopolitical threat, or an exception to the “norm.” We invite researchers across disciplines to submit papers that challenge migration as a permanent state of emergency.
The HI has moved to BlueSky | Follow us on @ucdhumanities.bsky.social Move to BlueSky
The HI has moved to BlueSky | Follow us on @ucdhumanities.bsky.social

HI New Podcasts, Videos and Publications

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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) 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)
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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
Discover the inspiring stories behind groundbreaking research at the UCD Humanities Institute | Click the link below for further details 'My Research Story' Videos
Discover the inspiring stories behind groundbreaking research at the UCD Humanities Institute | Click the link below for further details
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\'Landings: Art after Extractivism\' exhibition catalogue | May 2024 Exhibition catalogue
'Landings: Art after Extractivism' exhibition catalogue | May 2024
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UCD HI Achievements & Challenges 2016 - 2021 HI Report
UCD HI Achievements & Challenges 2016 - 2021

New Members

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UCD School of English, Drama & Film Dr Juliet Mullins
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UCD School of Music Dr Matthew Thomson
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UCD School of Information and Communication Studies Dr Lai Ma
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