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Haunting Times: Ghosted Memory and Epistemic Revenants in Zhadan’s Ukraine (Voroshilovgrad, 2010) and Bulawayo’s Zimbabwe (Glory, 2022) | The talk and discussion will consider how the novels expose the repressive practice of epistemic ghosting and stage the resistant practice of epistemic haunting. | Click the arrow below for further details & EVENTBRITE registration link 21 November 2025 | Prof. Sarah Colvin (Univ. of Cambridge) | Talk & Discussion
Haunting Times: Ghosted Memory and Epistemic Revenants in Zhadan’s Ukraine (Voroshilovgrad, 2010) and Bulawayo’s Zimbabwe (Glory, 2022) | The talk and discussion will consider how the novels expose the repressive practice of epistemic ghosting and stage the resistant practice of epistemic haunting. | Click the arrow below for further details & EVENTBRITE registration link
\'Wikifavelas Marielle Franco: translating the Brazilian Favelas as educational praxis\' | This paper draws on the experience of translating from Portuguese into English the Dictionary of the Brazilian Favelas | HI Seminar Room H204 | Click the arrow below for further details\n\n\n 25 November 2025 | Talk by Dr Junia Zaidan (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)
'Wikifavelas Marielle Franco: translating the Brazilian Favelas as educational praxis' | This paper draws on the experience of translating from Portuguese into English the Dictionary of the Brazilian Favelas | HI Seminar Room H204 | Click the arrow below for further details
Monica Brandis: \'The “Children of ‘Operation Shamrock’” | Click the arrow below for further details\n\n\n 26 November 2025 | Lunchtime Seminar Series 2025-2026
Monica Brandis: 'The “Children of ‘Operation Shamrock’” | Click the arrow below for further details

Humanities Institute Events

The HI Silent Book Club | Next date: 4th December 2025 | HI Seminar Room H204, 2.30-4pm | Please email humanities@ucd.ie to register Next date: 4 December 2025 | HI Silent Book Club
The HI Silent Book Club | Next date: 4th December 2025 | HI Seminar Room H204, 2.30-4pm | Please email humanities@ucd.ie to register
The UCD Humanities Institute and the UCD Earth Institute are hosting a coffee morning and a roundtable with early career speakers engaged in transnational, interdisciplinary and/or community-based and practice-based research. | Time: 11am-12.30pm | Click the arrow below for further details & EVENTBRITE registration link 5 December 2025 | ReCLAIM project TRAIN Networking event
The UCD Humanities Institute and the UCD Earth Institute are hosting a coffee morning and a roundtable with early career speakers engaged in transnational, interdisciplinary and/or community-based and practice-based research. | Time: 11am-12.30pm | Click the arrow below for further details & EVENTBRITE registration link

Humanities Institute News

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Call for Papers now open | The CfP invites contributions from across the humanities and social sciences to address the epistemological, ethical, narrative and imaginative implications of living with, and within, permacrisis and cascading polycrises. | CfP submission deadline: 15 January 2026 | Click the arrow for further details Call for Papers | Crisis Conference 3: Living with Permacrisis: Care, Responsibility, Agency and Art
Call for Papers now open | The CfP invites contributions from across the humanities and social sciences to address the epistemological, ethical, narrative and imaginative implications of living with, and within, permacrisis and cascading polycrises. | CfP submission deadline: 15 January 2026 | Click the arrow for further details
Join us in exploring how the aesthetics of polycrisis can become a practice of resistance, resilience, and speculative worlding. We will consider how aesthetic, literary, and social imaginaries generate situated forms of response-ability—foregrounding entanglement, uncertainty, and more-than-human alliances. | CfP submission deadline: 10 January 2026 | Click the arrow for further details Call for Papers | Crisis Project Workshop | Aesthetics of Polycrisis: Practices of Resistance and Resilience
Join us in exploring how the aesthetics of polycrisis can become a practice of resistance, resilience, and speculative worlding. We will consider how aesthetic, literary, and social imaginaries generate situated forms of response-ability—foregrounding entanglement, uncertainty, and more-than-human alliances. | CfP submission deadline: 10 January 2026 | Click the arrow for further details
Call for papers now open | This conference takes contemporary representations of female sadness as its critical object, asking how we might read the ‘sad girl’ as an artefact of the historic – late capitalist and neoconservative – present. | CfP submission deadline: 1 January 2026 | Click the arrow for further details Call for Papers | 'Bad Feelings: sadness + gender in contemporary culture' conference
Call for papers now open | This conference takes contemporary representations of female sadness as its critical object, asking how we might read the ‘sad girl’ as an artefact of the historic – late capitalist and neoconservative – present. | CfP submission deadline: 1 January 2026 | Click the arrow for further details
The workshop seeks to bring together researchers at University College Dublin working on issues of violence and health (both broadly conceived) within the humanities and in adjacent areas. | CfP submission deadline: 26 November 2025 | Click the arrow for further details Call for Papers | 'Violence, Health, and the (Health) Humanities' Workshop
The workshop seeks to bring together researchers at University College Dublin working on issues of violence and health (both broadly conceived) within the humanities and in adjacent areas. | CfP submission deadline: 26 November 2025 | Click the arrow for further details
The Humanities Institute is pleased to offer seed funding opportunities in 2025-2026 | Click the arrow below for further details and application forms HI Seed Funding Opportunities | 2025/26
The Humanities Institute is pleased to offer seed funding opportunities in 2025-2026 | Click the arrow below for further details and application forms
The UCD Humanities Institute (HI) runs an annual residency programme aimed at international scholars who collaborate with an institute member. The HI residency programme facilitates the internationalisation of humanities research at UCD and supports close, on-site collaborations between institute members, art practitioners, practice-based researchers and international partners. | Click the arrow for further details and link to application form HI Visiting Residency programme | Now open for applications for 2025-2026
The UCD Humanities Institute (HI) runs an annual residency programme aimed at international scholars who collaborate with an institute member. The HI residency programme facilitates the internationalisation of humanities research at UCD and supports close, on-site collaborations between institute members, art practitioners, practice-based researchers and international partners. | Click the arrow for further details and link to application form
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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UCD Humanities Institute

University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
T: +353 1 716 4690 | E: humanities@ucd.ie |