

UCD Humanities Institute Podcast
UCD Humanities Institute
This podcast series features recordings of academic papers from workshops, conferences and seminars in the University College Dublin Humanities Institute. The UCD Humanities Institute provides a creative architectural and conceptual space for interdisciplinary research in the humanities and allied disciplines. The Institute forms an integral element within UCD's strategic mission to develop as a research intensive university and has set itself the objective of enhancing the critical mass and international visibility of interdisciplinary research in the humanities at UCD by acting as a laboratory for the study of culture and the human experience. The series is produced and managed by Real Smart Media.
Episodes
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May 8, 2024 • 44min
Adam Bridgen. 'Underworlds and undercurrents: Approaching extractive history from below'.
Talk by Adam Bridgen (Durham) at UCD Humanities Institute on 17 April 2024. Funded by the Irish Research Council MINERALS Laureate project.

Apr 11, 2024 • 46min
Jennifer Keating. Lines on the land - Slow violence and the geometry of dispossession in late imperial Central Asia.
Talk by Jennifer Keating (UCD) at UCD Humanities Institute on 22 February 2024. Funded by the Irish Research Council MINERALS Laureate project.

Mar 20, 2024 • 56min
Xavier Aldana Reyes. Keynote from UCD Humanities Institute PhD Conference 2024 (Cannibal Consumption).
Keynote by Xavier Aldana Reyes from 'Cannibal Consumption - Culture, Capitalism, Critique', the 2024 UCD Humanities Institute's Annual PhD Conference.

Feb 28, 2024 • 48min
Kieran Keohane. Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization - Diagnoses and Therapies.
Podcast of Prof. Kieran Keohane's Humanities Institute Annual Distinguished Guest Lecture for 2024.

Feb 20, 2024 • 1h 28min
Women and the Irish Constitution - a roundtable discussion.
Featuring Dr Mary McAuliffe (UCD) Prof. Caitriona Beaumont (LSBU), Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth), Orla O'Connor (National Women's Council), Prof. Lindsey Earner Byrne (TCD) and poet Julie Morrissy.

Dec 6, 2023 • 41min
Patrick Anthony. Underlands, Empires, Atmospheres - Extractive Histories of Environmental Science.
Talk by Patrick Anthony (UCD) at UCD Humanities Institute on 7 November 2023. Funded by the Irish Research Council MINERALS Laureate project.

Nov 30, 2023 • 33min
John Barry. The Imagination, Hope and the Planetary Crisis (Rethinking Crises Forum).
Talk by Professor John Barry (QUB) at UCD Humanities Institute. The event was part of the 'Rethinking Crises' Forum and took place on 10 November 2023.

Nov 1, 2023 • 48min
Elizabeth Povinelli - Unskinning the Rights of Nature. Sacred Sites and Mining Manias in the wake of Geontopower.
Talk by Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University) at UCD Humanities Institute on 4 October 2023. Funded by the Irish Research Council MINERALS Laureate project.

Oct 18, 2023 • 48min
Christina Lupton - The Reader as Part-time Worker.
Podcast of keynote at Un/Disciplining Reading, a symposium which took place in the RIA and Kilmainham Gaol on 15-16 September 2023.

Aug 14, 2023 • 1h 12min
Understanding and representing extractivism - methodologies and approaches (Roundtable at Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes).
Podcast of roundtable from Tallinn meeting of 'Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes' - Humanities, artistic and activist responses.