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21 November | Haunting Times: Ghosted Memory and Epistemic Revenants in Zhadan’s Ukraine (Voroshilovgrad, 2010) and Bulawayo’s Zimbabwe (Glory, 2022) 21Nov
21 November | 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. Those who have been ghosted return, bringing (back) memories and history that complicate linear and singular memory management.

Time: 11am-1pm
Venue: Hi Seminar Room (H204 / top floor)

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25 November 2025 | Talk by Dr Junia Zaidan\n\n 25Nov
25 November 2025 | Talk by Dr Junia Zaidan

'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.

Time: 1.10pm
Venue: HI Seminar Room (H204 / top floor)

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Lunchtime Seminar Series 2025-2026 (Autumn) 26Nov
Lunchtime Seminar Series 2025-2026 (Autumn)

Monica Brandis (University of Limerick): 'The “Children of ‘Operation Shamrock’”


Time: 1.10pm
Venue: HI Seminar Room (H204 / top floor)

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Next date 4 December 2025 | The HI Silent Book Club returns\n 04Dec
Next date 4 December 2025 | The HI Silent Book Club returns

Join us every two months, on Thursdays 2.30-4pm, to read together in silence with tea and coffee in the UCD Humanities Institute Seminar Room (H204 / top floor)



5 December 2025 | ReClaim project TRAIN Networking event 05Dec
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
Venue: HI Seminar Room (H204 / top floor)

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UCD Humanities Institute

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