From September 27, 2022 | In the first event of the new academic year in the Literature & Resistance series, the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies and the Trinity Long Room Hub welcomed Ankhi Mukherjee, Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford, to discuss her book Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor (Cambridge University Press, 2021). 

 

Professor Mukherjee’s ground-breaking research combines literary and cultural criticism with clinical case studies to examine the relationship between global cities, poverty, and psychoanalysis. Drawing on extensive, collaborative research in six global cities, and reading works of contemporary world literature which explore issues of identity, illness, and death at the intersections of class, race, globalisation, and migrancy, Unseen City speaks profoundly and urgently to the multifaceted theme of resistance. 

 

For this special event, Professor Mukherjee was in conversation with Professor Ian Robertson, Co-Director of TCD’s Global Brain Health Institute, to discuss her work on the ground with Free Clinics in London and the unique insights this clinical engagement has enabled.

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/