Lloyd Meadhbh Houston will be performing in a work-in-progress sharing of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Playwriting finalist Danielle James’ new play Sun Day as part of the Front & Centre: International Women’s Day Playwriting Festival in Derry from the 6th till the 8th of March. Link to further information about the Festival: https://www.derryplayhouse.co.uk/event/front-centre-international-womens-day-playwriting-festival Link to further information […]
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Prof Sarah Dillon on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week
On Monday 2nd March, Professor Sarah Dillon will join presenter Tom Sutcliffe on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week to discuss “why we should read”. She joins alongside fellow guests, the publisher Margaret Busby and the writer Lottie Moggach. BBC programme billing: “The UK government has declared 2026, the National Year of Reading. The numbers […]
Continue ReadingDr Amy Gaeta and Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston speak at the Neurodivergent Humanities Network’s symposium, March 2026
Dr Amy Gaeta and Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston give a talk on “More Than Gender, More Than Neurodivergence: Autism and Egg Theory” as invited speakers at the Neurodivergent Humanities Network’s symposium Neurodiversity is More Than… on the 4th of March. Link to further information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiversity-is-more-than-tickets-1975828909456
Continue ReadingDr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston and Dr Amy Gaeta co-author a piece in the latest ‘Lip Service’
Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston and Dr Amy Gaeta have co-authored a piece on “Fucking Autistically (with PJ Harvey)” in the latest Lip Service (the Vagina Museum’s zine) as part of a special issue on “Sex and Disability”. Link to further information: https://vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/collections/books/products/lip-service-issue-4-disability-sex
Continue ReadingJade Cuttle explores Vaughan Williams’ fenland legacy on BBC Radio 3
Jade Cuttle, a PhD student at the Faculty, recently appeared on BBC Radio 3’s Sunday Feature. In the programme, she retraced the fenland journeys of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and reflected on his enduring ties to Cambridge. Jade was selected as a BBC New Generation Thinker through the Arts and Humanities Research Council scheme that brings […]
Continue ReadingDr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston publishes a chapter in ‘The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature’ (LUP, 2026)
The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature (Liverpool University Press, 2026) is edited by Christopher Cusack, Bridget English, and Matthew L. Reznicek. Dr Houston’s chapter is on ‘James Joyce’s “The Sisters”: Irish Modernism and the Sexually Pathological Corpse’. Link to further information: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836244837
Continue ReadingListen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on what Aldous Huxley can teach us about Mind Control — broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day
Listen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on what Aldous Huxley can teach us about Mind Control — broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day Available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0n1dpwy And Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4OO3QCCR8T8oaEilCfvMBY
Continue ReadingProf Sarah Dillon speaker at LSE Narratives in Policy-making event
On Tuesday 17th February, Sarah Dillon will join other panelists for a discussion of narratives in policy-making, at the London School of Economics. The event marks the publication of the LSE Public Policy Review journal’s special issue on Narratives in Policy-making, in which Sarah, along with collaborators, has published her most recent storylistening work.
Continue ReadingRoss Wilson gives a public lecture at Concordia University, Montreal, 17th February
Ross Wilson will be giving a lecture entitled ‘Walter Benjamin’s Power of Judging’ for the Center of Expanded Poetics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday, 17th February. Further details here: https://www.centreforexpandedpoetics.com/events-1/2026/2/17/ross-wilson-benjamins-power-of-judging
Continue ReadingDominic O’Key publishes new research on Tsitsi Dangarembga’s filmmaking
Dominic O’Key, Teaching Associate in the Faculty, has published a new article on Tsitsi Dangarembga in Interventions, the international journal of postcolonial studies. The essay explores how Dangarembga’s documentary film, Elephant People, depicts community-based wildlife conservation initiatives in southern Africa. Read the essay here.
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