Tuesday, 15 February 2022, 7 – 8:15pm

A panel discussion organised by Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute to mark the start of a new multiannual discussion series ‘Literature and Resistance.’ The discussion will be chaired by Professor Darryl Jones.

Literature, says Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses, is “the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man”. For many writers, in many different times, places, and contexts, to affirm has been to resist. In the first event in the Hub’s new signature series, Literature and Resistance, four Trinity experts consider the ways that literature – and the act of writing itself – can function or be understood as resistance. Exploring what this means for writers, readers, and critics, they will consider issues including freedom of expression, the circulation, censorship and survival of literary texts, and the aesthetics of protest, dissent, and opposition.

Panellist

Julie Bates

Dr Julie Bates, Assistant Professor in Irish Writing, School of English, Trinity College Dublin.

Mary Cosgrove

Professor in German, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin.

Jude dal Fernando

Dr Jude Lal Fernando is Assistant Professor inSchool of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin.

Carlo Gébler

Carlo Gébler Adjunct Professor in Creative Writing, Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College Dublin.

About the Trinity's Centre for Resistance Studies

The Centre for Resistance Studies fosters interdisciplinary research in Trinity College Dublin in relation to the various types and forms of resistance and its cognate notions, including opposition, dissent, resilience, protest, and non-conformism. https://www.tcd.ie/resistance/about/

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Recorded February 14, 2022.

This podcast episode marks an important centenary: 100 years ago, in 1922, the trailblazing modern mathematician, Emmy Noether, was finally given a paid lectureship at the University of Göttingen in

Germany. Despite a formidable reputation in her field, Noether had been denied paid academic work due to her gender and her Jewish heritage. She is now rightly recognized as one of the greatest

mathematicians who ever lived, but she never really saw the rewards of her brilliance in her lifetime.

While conditions for women in STEM and academia have certainly improved since Noether’s day,

even now, in Europe, only around 10-15% of permanent academic positions in mathematics are held

by women, and women occupy just 3% of CEO positions in STEM industry.(https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/math-women/506417/) To explore this lingering problem, I interview Professor June Barrow-Green, a historian of mathematics at the Open University, Iseult O’Rourke, a mathematics and French teacher at Loretto Balbriggan, an all-girls secondary school in County Dublin, and Mireia Martínez i Sellarès, a PhD candidate in mathematics at Utrecht University, who has worked with the European Girls Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO).

We attempt to identify the obstacles stand in the way of a more equitable and fair academic environment and discuss how creating more meaningful connections between the sciences and the arts can help us overcome them. We ask: What cultural and societal perceptions hinder a welcoming environment for girls and women in mathematics? What can we do about it? Is mathematics inherently creative? How can connections between mathematics and literature, art and culture help shed light on inequalities in the subject in academia?

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Tuesday, 1 February 2022, 4 – 5pm

‘Healing the Union: Health, Illness, and Disability in the National Tale’ a seminar by Dr Matthew Reznicek (Creighton University) as part of the School of English Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series 2021-22 in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub.

The Staff-Postgraduate Seminar Series is a fortnightly meeting which has been integral to the School of English research community since the 1990s. The aim of the seminar series is to provide a relaxed and convivial atmosphere for staff and students to present their research to their peers. The series also welcomes distinguished guest lecturers from the academic community outside Trinity College to present on their work. It is a fantastic opportunity to share ideas and engage with the diverse research taking place within the School. The series conveners for the academic year 2021-22 are current PhD students Orla Donnelly, Claire Poynton-Smith, Ginevra Bianchini and Eric Swartz.

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Monday, 7 February 2022, 4 – 5pm

A seminar by Professor Edmund Russell (Carnegie Mellon) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub.

The Trinity Centre for Early Modern History promotes understanding of the culture, society, economy, religion, politics and warfare of early modern Europe. The Centre organises seminars, conferences and public lectures on the early modern history of Ireland, Britain and Continental Europe, as well as on relations between European and non-European states and cultures.

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Monday, 7 February 2022, 10 – 11am

''Not in Flesh’: The Construction of the Disenfranchised Woman in Irish Theatre' a talk by Dr Salomé Paul (TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub.

This paper investigates the construction of the figure of the underprivileged woman in the Irish dramatic canon during the Revival movement through the examination of J.M. Synge’s theatre and its legacy on the contemporary stage.

Synge’s plays are considered among the most canonical plays in Irish theatre because they have outlined the constitutive features of archetypal characters still populating the contemporary stage. My analysis will focus on two figures of particular interest to the dramatist, the woman and the disenfranchised, and will examine their intersection through the characterisation of poor women developed in The Shadow of the Glen (1903), Riders to the Sea (1904) and The Tinker’s Wedding (1908). In these plays, the representation of this identity appears disconnected from the reality experienced by indigent women in rural Ireland. Indeed, as a middle-class Protestant man, Synge created the figure of the disfranchised woman to support and endorse his Anglo-Irish political vision of Irishness. Yet, relying on the concept of horizon of expectation coined by Hans Robert Jauss in Toward an Aesthetic of Reception (1978), I will demonstrate that this highly fictional portrayal has grown into a topos of Irish theatre still in use on the contemporary stage. The characterisation of underprivileged women in Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats… (1998) and Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1996) appears as a re-enactment of the figure of the disenfranchised woman and problematically addresses Irishness through the lens of rural poverty and womanhood for middle-class urban audiences. In doing so, contemporary Irish theatre produced in influential venues perpetuates the romanticisation of this identity, dismissing the reality and the implications of being a poor woman in Ireland.

Bio: Dr Salomé Paul is a current Postdoctoral Fellow in Drama funded by the Irish Council. Her research investigates the transformation of Greek tragedy in Marina Carr’s theatre. She is also working in collaboration with Clara Mallon (NUIG) on the edition of a collection of essays examining representation and authorship of working-class women in Irish theatre.

The School of Creative Arts Research Forum meets fortnightly at 10am on Mondays during term and is led by the School's doctoral students. The aim of the Forum is to give a space for School researchers, both staff and postgraduate students, to share their ideas in a supportive environment. It is also an opportunity for the School to hear about the research of colleagues both from within TCD and outside who share our research interests. In line with the research agenda of the School, talks will encompass traditional research and practice-based research and will be followed by Q&A.

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Behind the Headlines: Falling out of Love with Dublin?

Wednesday, 9 February 2022, 7 – 8:30pm

In 1922 -- the year of Ulysses, James Joyce’s love letter to his native city -- Dublin of the future: the new town plan was published by Patrick Abercrombie, Sydney Kelly and Arthur Kelly, having won a competition launched by The Civics Institute of Ireland to gather ideas for the city’s development. One hundred years on, and on the eve of Dublin City Council’s new Development Plan, 2022 – 2028, we ask: where next for the capital’s civic future? Can Dublin citizens look forward with confidence in the management of our city? Or have recent controversies around the redevelopment of Dublin’s civic and cultural spaces compounded the suspicion that corporate interests come before the public good? And what must we secure, or sacrifice, as we build for sustainability?

In this Behind the Headlines discussion on the planning of Dublin, we ask our panellists what the historic development of Ireland’s cities can tell us about the capital’s future; how architecture and urban design should respond to changing social needs; and what it means to take responsibility for the civic identity of one of Europe’s greatest cities.

Speakers:

David Dickson, Professor Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin.

Valerie Mulvin, Co-founder, McCullough Mulvin Architects

Owen P. Keegan, Chief Executive, Dublin City Council

Frank McDonald, Author and Former Irish Times Environment Editor

Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, Socialist, Activist and Musician

The Trinity Long Room Hub Behind the Headlines series is supported by the John Pollard Foundation.

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Wednesday, 2 February 2022, 4 – 5pm

Contemporary Irish History Seminar | 'The ‘crime wave’ and ‘heroin epidemic’: the othering of working class youths in 1980s Ireland'

'The ‘crime wave’ and ‘heroin epidemic’: the othering of working class youths in 1980s Ireland' a seminar by Dr Oisín Wall, Centre for the History of Medicine, University College Dublin as part of the Trinity Centre for Contemporary Irish History Research Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub.

The Centre for Contemporary Irish History promotes research in recent Irish history. This Seminar Series is intended to act as a forum where those engaged in research in Contemporary Irish History can discuss their work with like-minded people. All webinars take place at 4pm. Presenters speak for a maximum of 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A

Monday, 31 January 2022, 4 – 5pm

TLRH | Early Modern History Seminar | ‘Irish material in the Prize Papers collection’

‘Irish material in the Prize Papers collection’ a seminar by Oliver Finnegan (National Archives, UK) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Research Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub.

The Trinity Centre for Early Modern History promotes understanding of the culture, society, economy, religion, politics and warfare of early modern Europe. The Centre organises seminars, conferences and public lectures on the early modern history of Ireland, Britain and Continental Europe, as well as on relations between European and non-European states and cultures.

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Thursday, 3 February 2022, 7 – 8pm

In recent years, there has been a disturbing trend toward authoritarianism in the Global South. For this event, three panellists will describe the factors that led to its rise in Brazil, India, and the Philippines and assess the forces of resistance in each country. They will argue that far from being a coincidence, authoritarianism's rise in different locales has emerged out of a global crisis of neoliberalism. A panel discussion organised by Trinity's Centre for Resistance Studies and supported by the Trinity Long Room Hub.

Speakers:

Cecilia Pe Lero, University of São Paulo

Cecilia Pe Lero was a post-doctoral fellow at the Centro de Estudos da Metrópole at the University of São Paulo and received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Notre Dame.

Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos, Federal University of São Paulo

Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos is Professor of Latin American Studies at Unifesp (Brazil) and author of "Power and impotence. A history of South America under Progressivism” (Haymarket: 2020)

Aparna Sundar, University of Toronto

Aparna Sundar is an Instructor at the Asian Institute, University of Toronto.

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Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 12:30am – 1:30pm

'Anticipating the Ageing Trajectories of the Marvel Superheroes' a seminar by Professor Ruth Hubbard (Queensland) as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub.

The Trinity College Dublin Medical and Health Humanities Initiative brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines including history, philosophy, sociology, drama, health sciences, religion, cultural studies, arts, literature and languages.

Medical and health humanities seeks to provide insights into the cultural and social contexts within which diverse but interrelated concerns such as the human condition, the individual experience of illness and suffering, and the way medicine is (or was) practiced, might be understood.

The Trinity College Dublin Medical and Health Humanities initiative seeks to cultivate a richer understanding of the interactions and synergies between practices and discourses of wellness, health or medicine and the arts, humanities or culture through interdisciplinary research and education.

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