These talks have been confirmed as of 15 February 2010. This term’s talks include a number of sessions on climate change and South Asian studies. The highlights of the programme include talks by Professor Terry Eagleton (16th April), the author Philip Pullman (17th April), and the Trinity Week Academic Symposium (14th April).
Over the coming weeks, a number of extra events will be confirmed. You will be sent details of any and all updates to this list.
Please send suggestions to Jason McElligott for speakers that you would like us to invite to talk at Trinity College over the course of the next academic year (October 2010 to June 2011).
23 Feb. 2010. ‘Explaining the Trinity Long Room Hub Building’. A talk by the architects Valerie Mulvin and Niall McCulloch. Room 5033, Arts Building. 5.00pm to 6.30 pm. All welcome.
24 Feb. 2010. ‘The Story of the Other’. TLRH Post-Graduate Seminar in Ethics, South Training Room of the Berkeley Library 4-6pm. Convened by Amy Daughton (daughtoa@tcd.ie). Advance booking essential.
24 Feb. 2010. ‘Libraries, Readers and Bibliographers’, by Professor David McKitterick, Trinity College, Cambridge. From 5.30 p.m. in Dr Steevens’s Hospital, opposite Heuston Railway Station. This is the sixth of the Mackey Lectures. All welcome.
25 Feb. 2010. 'Taboos Relating to Sexuality and Childcare '. Short presentations by Mr Paul Shield (Dept. of Psychology) on ‘Industrial Schools and the Taboo of Cruelty and Sexual Abuse in Childcare’ and Jemimah Baily (PhD student in Social Work) on ‘Taboos Relating to Sexuality and Fatherhood in Contemporary Ireland’. Room C6002, Arts Building. 12 noon - 1.00 p.m. All welcome.
25 Feb. 2010. ‘Scholarship and Sacrifice: Can we Bank on a Humanistic Future?’, Dr W. J. McCormack, Edward Worth Library. 7.00 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. in the Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, TCD. This is the seventh, and final, Mackey Lecture. All welcome.
3 March 2010. ‘Debates over Climate Change in Tsarist Russia’. Professor David Moon (History, University of Durham). 4.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Swift Theatre. Arts Building. All welcome.
5 March 2010. Professor Ralph Wedgwood (Philosophy, University of Oxford)
‘The Doctrine of Double Effect: A Defence’. 10.00 a.m. – 12 noon, IIIS Seminar Room, C.6002, 6th Floor, Arts Building. TCD. All welcome.
10 March 2010. – ‘Remembered History’, TLRH Post-Graduate Seminar in Ethics, South Training Room of the Berkeley Library 4.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Convened by Amy Daughton ( daughtoa@tcd.ie). Advance booking essential.
11 March 2010. ‘From War Talk to Rights Talk: the Wartime Origins of the Human Rights Movement, 1940-1945.’ by Professor Jay Winter (Yale University). The first annual ‘War in History’ lecture sponsored by the Centre for War Studies and the Trinity Long Room Hub. 7.30 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College. All welcome.
15 March 2010. ‘The Ethics of Climate Change’. By Professor John Brome (Philosophy, Oxford University). Seminar Room 1.10, School of Nursing and Midwifery, D’Olier Street. 10.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. All welcome.
19 March 2010. ‘Touring the Dead Lands: Emily Eden and a Victorian Apocalypse'. By Dr Pablo Mukherjee (School of English, University of Warwick). IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, TCD. 10.00 a.m. – 12.00 noon. All welcome.
22 March 2010. ‘From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition’ by Professor Giovanna Fossati (Curator, Nederlands Filmmuseum). 6.00 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. Venue to be confirmed. This lecture is a keynote address at the Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar 2010.
23 March 2010. “Scales of Prostitution: International Governmentalities and Interwar India”. By Dr Stephen Legg (Cultural and Historical Geography, University of Nottingham). 10.00 a.m. – 12 noon. IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, TCD. All welcome.
30 March 2010. ‘Samuel Ferguson and the Fraternity of Irish Poetry’. By Dr. Matthew Campbell (School of English, University of Sheffield). 10.00 a.m. – 12 noon. IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, TCD. All welcome
31 March 2010. ‘The Opportunities of Multiculturalism’. TLRH Post-Graduate Seminar in Ethics, South Training Room of the Berkeley Library. 4.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Convened by Amy Daughton ( daughtoa@tcd.ie). Advance booking essential.
8 April 2010. ‘The Meaning of Medieval Culture’. Professor Brian McGuire (Roskilde University). Room 5030, Arts Building. 6.00pm to 7.30pm. All welcome.
14 April 2010. ‘20/20 Vision’. An symposium on the likely state of the world in ten years time, with presentations on ‘Globalisation’ by Stephen D King, (Global Chief Economist at HSBC Bank); ‘Climate Change Denial’ by Howard Friel, author of The Lomborg Deception; and Nicholas Mirzoeff of NYU on ‘The Change to a Visual World’. Burke Theatre, 2.00 – 4.30 pm. All welcome. (Please note that the exact time of this session may change slightly over the coming weeks).
16 April 2010. Professor Terry Eagleton, ‘What is Evil?’ 12 noon to 2.00 p.m. Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building. All welcome.
17 April 2010. Mr Philip Pullman, ‘The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ’. In conversation with Mr Fintan O’Toole. Burke Theatre, Arts Building. Booking made for 1.00 p.m. – 3.00 p.m., but exact time to be confirmed soon. Mr Pullman will be appearing on The Late Late Show on Friday 16 April. This talk has been organised in conjunction with the Dublin Writers’ Festival. There will be a charge for tickets, which will be available online and over the phone from the Dublin Writers’ Festival. The Trinity Long Room Hub has up to 40 free tickets. Please email jmcellig@tcd.ie if you wish to order one of these tickets. All welcome.
27 April 2010. Professor David Anderson (History and African Politics, University of Oxford) ‘Development and Environment in Ethiopia: The Gibe Dams and the Omo River Flood’. Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, 5.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. Organised in conjunction with TIDI. All welcome.
30 April 2010. Mr Gerald Dawe (Senior Lecturer, School of English, TCD), ‘The Literary Legacy of Christabel Bielenberg’. Swift Theatre, Arts Building. 7.00 p.m. – 8.30 p.m. All welcome.
2 June 2010. Ms Jill Shefrin (University of Toronto). The 1st Annual Mary Pollard Memorial Lecture. ‘Pretty Playthings for Children in the Eighteenth Century’. Trinity Long Room Hub Lecture Theatre. 6.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. All welcome.
22 June 2010. Professor Francis Clooney (Harvard Divinity School), ‘When God is Absent: Hindu and Christian Insights into the Search for God’. Trinity Long Room Hub Lecture Theatre 7.00 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. All welcome.
23 June 2010. ‘Ireland, India and Empire’. The 8th Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium. With contributions by Professor Shahid Amin (University of Delhi), Professor Gauri Viswanathan (NYU) and Mr Charles Horton (Chester Beatty Library, Dublin). Time tbc. All welcome.
11 October 2010. Professor Nasser Hussain (Amherst University), ‘The Return of Counterinsurgency in American Military Thinking.’ Trinity Long Room Hub Lecture Theatre. time tbc. All welcome.
15 October 2010. Professor Christopher Frayling (Royal College of Art), ‘Popular Culture and Popular Prints in the Eighteenth Century’. Trinity Long Room Hub Lecture Theatre. time tbc. All welcome.
