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TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB – CAPITAL PHASE

Trinity’s Arts & Humanities Research Institute

The Trinity Long Room Hub, encompassing the Library and seven academic schools, promotes advanced research with a focus to become a world reference point in the Arts and Humanities. The new Long Room Hub building, with

a prime location on Fellows Square, will have approximately two million people passing by annually. The building was completed in April 2010. Total funds required is €7.2m with €6.4m raised to date. Naming opportunities exist for the building itself, lecture theatres, seminar and visiting fellows rooms. Twelve stipendiary Visiting Research

Fellowships and a one-year Post-doctoral Research Fellow position have been awarded to world-class researchers for the academic year 2010–2011 (160 applications received). Trinity is grateful to the alumni of the University of Dublin Fund (US) for funding the Post-doctoral Research Fellowship. Trinity Long Room Hub operates a

busy programme of public events and seminars throughout the year. Trinity Week 2010 – ‘Ideas for the Future’ – was a celebration of the Arts and Humanities with the Hub hosting a week of engaging lectures and family events.

www.tcd.ie/longroomhub

PATRONS OF THE LONG ROOM

The Long Room – a national and international research resource

The Patrons of the Library are an outstanding group of individuals who are passionate about culture and the Arts. They have generously given the use of their talents and status to help focus national and international attention on the work of Trinity College, the Long Room and Ireland in culture and the Arts. The focus is on conservation, acquisitions and access.

A number of donations have been

made by founding patrons totalling €75,000. Patrons can join at various

levels from €5,000 to €100,000. The inaugural Patron’s event, a Long Room Recital, will take place in autumn 2010.

www.tcd.ie/longroomhub

CLASSICS AT TRINITY

The Classics, a world that has shaped our civilisation

Classics at Trinity has a long and distinguished history. The Department of Classics has strengthened this tradition in gaining a leading position both on the island of Ireland and in the wider international context. The aims of the Department are simple: to acquire knowledge and wisdom through research and to develop and disseminate that knowledge and wisdom through teaching and publication. The Department of Classics is

undertaking a programme of expansion to create new posts. Funding is being sought for four new posts of strategic importance in the following areas: Greek and Latin Language; Culture and History of the Byzantine Period; Egyptology; Greek Archaelogy and History. Funding is also being sought for fi ve postgraduate scholarships in all fi elds of Classical study (funding has been secured for one scholarship). The lectureship in Greek Archaelogy and History has been generously funded by A.G.Leventis Foundation and Andrew A. David Foundation. The University is delighted with their continued support for Classics at Trinity. The post will be named the Andrew A. David Lectureship in Greek Archaelogy and History in perpetuity.

The Centre for Platonic Studies is very

grateful for the funding received from Newman Foundation.

www.tcd.ie/Classics

The presence of the Leventis/David lecturer in the Department has been the catalyst for developing a strong, international research profi le in Greek archaeology with a vibrant group of postgraduate researchers drawn from Ireland, Europe and North America.”

Dr Christine Morris, Andrew A. David Lecturer

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