About Us

Dublintellectual is an exciting and innovative Arts and Humanities project that seeks to connect the university and the city. The project offers a unique platform from which to develop world class research on the role of the Humanities in society and to participate in the formulation of public policy to address the challenges facing Higher Education today.

Dublintellectual sees the promotion of culture and scholarship as an important endeavour as it highlights not only our vibrant cultural heritage but our rich academic talent also.

Many great events take place behind the closed doors of university theatres; our goal is to bring such creative discourse into the public, something we feel the city benefits from greatly. By articulating knowledge from the Third Level sector we add to cultural life in the city and capitalise on the cultural renaissance underway. We are not a university programme or indeed simply an arts-cultural agency, but something in between the two.

Our programme offers an interdisciplinary approach that brings the breath of Humanities scholarship into public domain. We bring something unique to Dublin cultural life drawing on the underutilised pool of human capital that exists in Ireland. Dublintellectual in effect counters the lack of connectivity between third level institutions and arts and culture programmes across Ireland.

As researchers we are committed to participating in the academic and political debates currently on-going around the future of the Humanities in this country. We have an active and long-standing interest in the role of the intellectual within broader society and the nation state, having worked with these concerns in our respective research. Our postdoctoral experience has given us front-row seats to the implosion of the university sector in Ireland and its devastating effects on the development and protection of the Humanities in this country.

Dublintellectual was born of this predicament, and it is our intention to use the insights it has given us – and the platform it offers – to add fresh contributions to some of the most pressing questions facing our country today.

Goals and Objectives
• To become advocates for the Humanities in the public sphere.

• To move beyond the island campus in order to foster public service and civic engagement.

• To develop, through on-going research and publication, a forum for critical discourse and commentary about the practice of the Humanities in Ireland.

• To become a platform for participation in the formulation of public policy and to address the challenges facing Higher Education today.

• To engage creatively with communities in order to explore and articulate issues of local significance.

• To welcome and promote new and innovative ways of uniting scholarly research with cultural practice, including teaching and workshop provision.