UCD Humanities Institute Podcast
by UCD Humanities Institute
This podcast series features recordings of academic papers from workshops, conferences and seminars in the UCD Humanities Institute. The Institute provides a creative architectural and conceptual space for interdisciplinary research in the humanities and allied disciplines. The series is managed by Real Smart Media.
Episodes
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Haunting Times - Ghosted Memory and Epistemic Revenants in Zhadan's Ukraine (Voroshilovgrad, 2010) and Bulawayo's Zimbabwe (Glory, 2022) by Sarah Colvin (Cambridge).
Recording of a talk at the HI by Sarah Colvin (Cambridge) entitled 'Haunting Times - Ghosted Memory and Epistemic Revenants in Zhadan's Ukraine (Voroshilovgrad, 2010) and Bulawayo's Zimbabwe (Glory, 2022).
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Critical Minerals Symposium Keynote by Tom Nurmi (NTNU) - 'Quarry of Thought. Minerality and AI'.
The Critical Minerals Symposium was organised by Dr Gigi Tang and Katie Donnelly, and took place in UCD Humanities Institute on November 7, 2025. The keynote lecture - Quarry of Thought - Minerality and AI' was given by Associate Professor Tom Nurmi, The Norwegian University of Science and...
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Episode 7 of Extracts with Jeanine Oleson.
In episode 7 of Extracts, hosts Sarah Comyn and Megan Kuster are in conversation with interdisciplinary artist Jeanine Oleson about her work on copper and more recent projects. Jeanine’s art work invites audiences into multi-sensory experiences, often drawing on wry humour and absurdity as a mode...
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Episode 6 of Extracts with Ignacio Acosta.
In episode 6 of extracts, hosts Sarah Comyn and Megan Kuster are in conversation with Ignacio Acosta, who is an artist and researcher working with photography and video in territories under pressure from extractive industries. His collaborative documentary practice, use of drone technology and...
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Research Integrity - ReCLAIM.
This episode of the UCD Humanities Institute's podcast series features a recording of a Research Integrity event jointly organised by the UCD Humanities Institute and the UCD Earth Institute as part of the ReCLAIM project TRAIN - Transnational Research and Interdisciplinary Networks. Sponsored by...
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Episode 5 of Extracts with Adrian Balseca.
In episode 5 of Extracts, hosts Sarah Comyn and Megan Kuster are in conversation with artist Adrian Balseca about his art practice making visible the often not-so-easily seen narratives enfolded in regional extractive economies, bodies, labour, and mobility. For more information on his work check...
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Episode 4 of Extracts with Aghmad Gamieldien.
In episode 4 of Extracts, hosts Sarah Comyn and Megan Kuster are in conversation with forest-maker Aghmad Gamieldien about his work. Aghmad Gamieldien is the founder of Mzanzi Organics, a social enterprise focusing on small-scale farming, and the creation of pocket forests in and around Cape…
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Episode 3 of Extracts with Siyabonga Mthembu.
In episode 3 of Extracts, hosts Sarah Comyn and Megan Kuster are in conversation with Siyabonga Mthembu. Based in Johannesburg, Siya is the lead member of one of South Africa's best known musical ensembles, The Brother Moves On. For more information on his work go to...
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Tania Aguila-Way. 'Root and stomach and seed speak glottal' - Tracing Stories of Plant-Mediated Diasporic-Indigenous Solidarites from the Poetic Page to the Community Garden (Keynote from IHA Annual Conference).
The second keynote from the IHA Annual Conference 2025 was given by Tania Aguila-Way (Toronto). Her keynote was entitled 'Root and stomach and seed speak glottal' - Tracing Stories of Plant-Mediated Diasporic-Indigenous Solidarites from the Poetic Page to the Community Garden'.
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Raul Matta - Foodscapes as affective assemblages, or why (food) stories matter (Keynote from IHA Annual Conference).
The first keynote from the IHA Annual Conference 2025 was given by Raul Matta (Centre de Recherche Institut Lyfe). His keynote, 'Foodscapes as affective assemblages, or why (food) stories matter' was preceded by some conference opening remarks by UCC Professor Brendan Dooley, Chair of the Irish...
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Episode 2 of Extracts with Rhiannon Gwyn.
In episode 2 of Extracts, hosts Sarah Comyn and Megan Kuster talk to artist Rhiannon Gwyn about her work. Rhiannon experiments with slate and clay and her practice seeks to discover new possibilities in the crafting of these materials. For more information on her work go to...
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Episode 1 of Extracts with Luke Casserly.
In episode 1 of Extracts, hosts Sarah Comyn and Megan Kuster talk to artist Luke Casserly about his work. Luke Casserly is a multidisciplinary performance maker from Longford, Ireland. For more information on Luke's work go to https://www.lukecasserly.org/
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Episode 4 of Multilingualism in Ireland - University of Sanctuary project (with Bronagh Catibusic, Stephen Lucek and Marion Schulte).
Multilingualism in Ireland is a podcast series hosted by Stephen Lucek and Marion Schulte. In episode 4 the hosts talk to Dr Bronagh Catibusic about multilingualism and the University of Sanctuary initiative in Trinity College Dublin. The Series is funded by UCD Humanities Institute.
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Episode 3 of Multilingualism in Ireland - language acquisition (with Leire Sarto-Zubiaurre, Stephen Lucek and Marion Schulte).
Multilingualism in Ireland is a podcast series hosted by Stephen Lucek and Marion Schulte. In episode 3 the hosts talk to Leire Sarto-Zubiaurre who researched the acquisition of Spanish as a foreign Language by Irish learners for her PhD topic. The Series is funded by UCD Humanities Institute.
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Episode 2 of Multilingualism in Ireland (with Fiona Bolger, Stephen Lucek and Marion Schulte).
Multilingualism in Ireland is a podcast series hosted by Stephen Lucek and Marion Schulte. In episode 2 the hosts talk to Fiona Bolger who is a poet, creative writing teacher and workshop facilitator, based in Dublin. Find out more about her work and poetry at www.fionabolgerpoetry.com. The…
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Episode 1 of Multilingualism in Ireland - New to the Parish (with Stephen Lucek and Marion Schulte).
Multilingualism in Ireland is a podcast series hosted by Stephen Lucek and Marion Schulte. In episode 1 the hosts discuss New to the Parish, a long running column in The Irish Times. Series is funded by UCD Humanities Institute.
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The Future of Cultural Memory. A Dialogue in Times of Disruption with Susan Neiman and Aleida Assmann.
The Future of Cultural Memory. A Dialogue in Times of Disruption was held as part of the UCD Humanities Institute's Transnationalising the Humanities research theme.
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Living with Permacrisis and Polycrisis. Roundtable with Aleida Assmann, Kieran Keohane, Ailbhe Smyth, John Barry, Anne Fuchs and Marek Tamm.
Living with Permacrisis and Polycrisis was panel one at 'From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis - Epistemological Perspectives and Interventions'. This smyposium took place in UCD in May 2025 and was supported by a UCD Strategic and Major Initiative Scheme.
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Imagining Futures in the Age of Permacrisis with Aleida Assmann, Anne Fuchs, John Barry, and Jeanne Riou.
Imagining Futures in the Age of Permacrisis was panel 8 at 'From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis and Polycrisis - Epistemological Perspectives and Interventions'. This smyposium took place in UCD in May 2025 and was supported by a UCD Strategic and Major Initiative Scheme.
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Minerals Online Roundtable IV - Extractivism and Material Histories.
Minerals Online Roundtable IV - 'Extractivism and Material Histories' took place on 28 April 2025. Featuring - Madhavi Jha, Oliver Tappe, Nicholas Y. H. Wong, Sarah Comyn, and Ge Tang (Chair). Funded by the Irish Research Council MINERALS Laureate project.
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Minerals Online Roundtable III - Extraction and Forms of Representation.
Minerals Online Roundtable III - 'Extraction and Forms of Representation' took place on 7 April 2025. Featured - Adelene Buckland, Julia Ditter, Nathan K. Hensley, Charlotte Rogers, Sarah Comyn, and Ge Tang (Chair). Funded by the Irish Research Council MINERALS Laureate project.
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Minerals Online Roundtable II - Extraction and Racial Capitalism.
Minerals Online Roundtable II - 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism' took place on 21 November 2024. Featuring Danielle Kinsey, Rebecca Macklin, Nick McGee, Sarah Comyn, and Ge Tang (Chair). Funded by the Irish Research Council MINERALS Laureate project.
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Minerals Online Roundtable I - Extraction, Infrastructures, and Networks.
Minerals Online Roundtable I - 'Extraction, Infrastructures, and Networks' took place on 17 October 2024. Featuring Dominic Davies, Nicola Kirkby, Aims McGuinness, Sarah Comyn, and Ge Tang (Chair). Funded by the Irish Research Council MINERALS Laureate project.
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Jarrod Hore - 'Earth Science from the Geological South'.
Talk by Dr Jarrod Hore (University of New South Wales) at UCD Humanities Institute on 19 June 2024. Funded by the Irish Research Council MINERALS Laureate project.
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Sarah Bezan - 'Rekindling Fictions and the Thermocultures of Extinction', keynote from Nonhuman Animals in the Age of Extinction and Mass Production.
Keynote by Dr Sarah Bezan (UCC) at Nonhuman Animals in the Age of Extinction and Mass Production in UCD May 2024
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John Miller - 'Between Animal and Ecological Futures', keynote from Nonhuman Animals in the Age of Extinction and Mass Production.
Keynote by Dr John Miller (Sheffield) at Nonhuman Animals in the Age of Extinction and Mass Production in UCD May 2024
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Siobhan Angus. 'Photography and extraction - Ways of seeing/ways of knowing'.
Talk by Dr Siobhan Angus (Carleton) at UCD Humanities Institute on 25 April 2024. Funded by the Irish Research Council MINERALS Laureate project.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kieran Keohane. Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization - Diagnoses and Therapies.
Podcast of Prof. Kieran Keohane's Humanities Institute Annual Distinguished Guest Lecture for 2024.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Geofractions, creative soundscape research in Ida-Virumaa - John Grzinich (Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes).
Podcast of John Grzinich's paper from Tallinn meeting of 'Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes' - Humanities, artistic and activist responses.
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From Extraction to Regeneration - Houston and the Gulf Coast - Sophie Sapp Moore (Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes).
Podcast of Sophie Sapp Moore's paper from Tallinn meeting of 'Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes' - Humanities, artistic and activist responses.
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Apartheid's Leviathan - Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence - Faeeza Ballim (Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes).
Podcast of Faeeza Ballim's paper from Tallinn meeting of 'Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes' - Humanities, artistic and activist responses.
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Rethinking the global geopolitics of the gold standard in the 20th century - Keith Breckenridge (Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes).
Podcast of Keith Breckenridge's paper from Tallinn meeting of 'Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes' - Humanities, artistic and activist responses.
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Methodologies concerning Extractivism (Roundtable at Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes).
Podcast of roundtable from Dublin meeting of 'Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes' - Humanities, artistic and activist responses.
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Extractivism - Socialist Pasts and Capitalist Present in the Face of Climate Crisis (Roundtable at Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes).
Podcast of roundtable from Dublin meeting of 'Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes' - Humanities, artistic and activist responses.
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Activist Art and Extractivism (Roundtable at Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes).
Podcast of roundtable from Dublin meeting of 'Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes' - Humanities, artistic and activist responses.
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Best Practices for Transnationalising the Classroom.
Podcast of roundtable from 'Transnationalising the Classroom' - a symposium at UCD Humanities Institute.
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Breastfeeding and Society - cultures, challenges and futures (Keeping Abreast - Breastfeeding in Ireland).
Podcast of panel 2 from 'Keeping Abreast - Breastfeeding in Ireland', a Mindreading event.
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Nourishing the breastfeeding dyad - parent and child (Keeping Abreast - Breastfeeding in Ireland).
Podcast of panel 1 from 'Keeping Abreast - Breastfeeding in Ireland', a Mindreading event.
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Catherine Flynn. Circe and the Phantasmagoria of Capitalism.
Podcast of Dr Catherine Flynn's Humanities Institute Annual Distinguished Guest Lecture for 2022.
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Caroline Bassett. The Light Under the Door - Technologies and the End of Worlds.
Podcast of Prof. Caroline Bassett's keynote at 'Thresholds. Contexts of Rupture, Change and Adaptation', the 2022 UCD Humanities Institute PhD Conference.
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Framing Ageing Conference (Panel 7 - Vulnerability).
Podcast of papers by Katie Featherstone (UWL) and Ulla Kriebernegg (Graz) at the Framing Ageing conference in UCD.
About this show
This podcast series features recordings of academic papers from workshops, conferences and seminars in the UCD Humanities Institute. The Institute provides a creative architectural and conceptual space for interdisciplinary research in the humanities and allied disciplines. The series is managed by Real Smart Media.
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UCD Humanities Institute