TCD School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences

20/05/2026

19/05/2026

Our TCAS Book Talk Series continues with:
"Denial, Deterrence, and Disenchantment: Why Many Do Not Immigrate"

📍 LTEE2 Lecture Theatre (Science 1st Call), B/04 (A), Hamilton East End, Trinity College Dublin

📅 Friday, 12 June | 3.30 pm – 4.30 pm

We invite colleagues and students to a timely book talk by Jacob Thomas, Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest and Research Fellow at Princeton University’s Centre for Migration and Development.

Drawing on survey and interview data from more than 2,500 potential immigrants from mainland China, this talk examines an important but underexplored question:

Why do many people who consider migration ultimately decide not to move?

The book explores three key mechanisms shaping immobility:

• governments denying visas
• policies and social forces deterring applications
• growing disenchantment with migration itself

Thomas develops a new push-retain-pull-repel model to explain how migration decisions are shaped not only by opportunity, but also by structural and social constraints.

The talk also examines how migratory possibilities are stratified across socioeconomic groups and how factors that facilitate migration can simultaneously inhibit it.

🎟 Book tickets:

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/denial-deterrence-and-disenchantment-why-many-do-not-immigrate-tickets-1987325425846?aff=oddtdtcreator

This event will be of interest to those working in migration studies, sociology, political science, China studies, and global mobility research.

18/05/2026

Colleagues from the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences were delighted to welcome students from Loreto Secondary School Balbriggan for a short campus visit focused on languages, linguistics, and language-learning opportunities at Trinity College Dublin!

The visit was organised by teacher Sarah Kearney, whose fifth-year Higher Level French students were visiting Dublin as part of their language-learning activities, including a visit to the Alliance Française de Dublin.

The students were keen to learn more about university programmes involving languages and linguistics.

During the visit, Dr Hongfei Wang, Programme Coordinator of the Language and Culture modules in Trinity Electives, introduced students to the wide range of language-learning opportunities available at Trinity, including possibilities for continuing both existing and new languages at university level.

She also introduced the undergraduate programmes offered within the School.

The students also heard from Prof. Teresa Lynch from Deaf Studies, who delivered an engaging talk on Irish Sign Language (ISL) and linguistics.

Interpretation support was kindly provided by Cormac Leonard, helping to make the session interactive and accessible for all attendees.

The visit offered students a valuable opportunity to explore the diverse linguistic and cultural learning environment at Trinity and to gain insight into future study opportunities in languages, linguistics, and communication studies.

16/05/2026

11/05/2026

09/05/2026

The School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin seeks to appoint a talented individual to a specific-purpose Assistant Professorship in modern Japanese history (broadly defined as the 19th and 20th centuries).

This post will be based in the Department of History, and its primary purpose will be to engage in research and teaching relating to any aspect of the history of modern Japan, to contribute to the teaching of modern history on the Department’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and to supervise postgraduate research in their area of expertise.

Applications are now open.

Full role specifications and application details are available here:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRK264/assistant-professor-in-the-history-of-modern-japan

The starting date for this position will be 1 September 2026.

Please share with colleagues, researchers, postdoctoral scholars, and academic networks who may be interested.