Dear friends and colleagues,
I'm writing this after our last coffee morning of the term, a time when we meet each week to hear from early career researchers, faculty and fellows about the ground-breaking research they are undertaking to push forward new areas of inquiry in the arts and humanities. Today we heard about the Islamic manuscripts at both Trinity's Library and Dublin's Chester Beatty Library, exploring the scribal annotations that tell the story of how these documents have been read and handed down through the centuries. We followed this with a seasonal Irish Sign Language (ISL) translation of the pop hit 'All I want for Christmas is you", guided by Senan Dunne, Teaching Fellow in Trinity's Centre for Deaf Studies. By way of wishing you all a very restful and festive season, there's a little clip of that video here for you to enjoy!
This semester started with a head bang (literally speaking!): one of the highlights of our second iteration of the Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival was a celebration of heavy metal music as part of our music research day showcasing research from Music, Law, English, and the Creative Arts...and a special performance from Trinity’s Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Choir. The festival once again showed the immense passion and sense of community among Trinity's researchers and staff and the range of topics across the week was inspiring. We were delighted to also launch the open access website from our Shared Island Border Culture Project which puts a spotlight on the creativity around Ireland's border region.
From Fellow in Focus discussions and research seminars to the Annual Edmund Burke Lecture with Fintan O'Toole, this term we delivered another engaging programme of research initiatives and discussions. We also welcomed many new early career researchers to the Hub, and were delighted to showcase the originality of their research in a research exchange with Boston College. Our partnership with Boston College culminated in the Annual Boston College Irish Studies Lecture at the Hub with Dr Colleen Taylor and in a 'Behind the Headlines' panel discussion on the state of humanitarianism in the world today.
For now, I leave you with a few of these highlights to watch and listen to in the newsletter below and want to thank you all for joining us in the Hub this past term.
Professor Eve Patten, Director
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