{"id":49927,"date":"2025-12-02T07:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/?p=49927"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:27:36","slug":"jane-ohlmeyer-delivers-the-societys-2025-anniversary-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/jane-ohlmeyer-delivers-the-societys-2025-anniversary-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Recordings available of the Society&#8217;s 2025 Anniversary Lecture, with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 21 November, the Society was delighted to welcome <strong>Professor Jane Ohlmeyer<\/strong> to give the <strong>2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture<\/strong>: <strong>\u2018Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recordings of Jane&#8217;s lecture are now available.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Listen to an audio version of this lecture<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-49927-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02112037\/RHS_211125_V1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02112037\/RHS_211125_V1.mp3\">https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/02112037\/RHS_211125_V1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Watch this lecture<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland\u2018, with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer\" width=\"623\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_5rmHXu-zcw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jane&#8217;s lecture introduced her current five-year research project, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/voicesproject.ie\/\">VOICES<\/a>,<\/strong> which brings together historians and computer scientists to recover the lives of early modern women in Ireland. VOICES uses transcription software and Generative AI to capture data from deposition, burial and other records to generate a &#8216;knowledge graph&#8217; of Irish women, their networks and experiences, between c.1550 and 1700.<\/p>\n<p>Jane&#8217;s lecture provided insights into the methodologies of the VOICES project, the rewards and challenges of using Artificial Intelligence at scale, and some early findings from the project for recovering and redefining the place of women in early modern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcd.ie\/history\/staff\/ohlmeyej.php\">Jane Ohlmeyer<\/a> is Erasmus Smith&#8217;s Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin and an expert on the history of early modern Ireland and empire. Jane is the author or editor of numerous articles and 14 books, of which the latest is <em>Making Empire<\/em>:\u00a0<em>Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford, 2023), based on the 2021 Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford. In 2023 Jane was awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities. In 2023, she received an Advanced ERC for VOICES, a project on the lived experiences of women in early modern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Our great thanks to Jane for her lecture and to all those who joined us in person and online.<\/p>\n<p>The Society&#8217;s Anniversary Lecture marks the anniversary of the Society&#8217;s foundation on 21 November 1868. The lecture was preceded by the Society&#8217;s Anniversary Meeting (AGM) presented by the President, Professor Lucy Noakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 21 November, the Society was delighted to welcome Professor Jane Ohlmeyer to give the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture: \u2018Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland\u2019. Recordings of Jane&#8217;s lecture are now available. Listen to an audio version of this lecture &nbsp; Watch this lecture &nbsp; Jane&#8217;s lecture introduced her current five-year <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/jane-ohlmeyer-delivers-the-societys-2025-anniversary-lecture\/\">&#8230;Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20210,"featured_media":50176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-home"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49927"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50177,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49927\/revisions\/50177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}