Forthcoming Trinity Long Room Hub supported events
We are always open to suggestions as to how we might enhance the depth and breadth of our activities. Please do contact us at tlrh@tcd.ie if you have an idea for a topic, lecture, seminar or meeting that you think we should be organising.
(January to June 2013) EURO-VISIONS Public Lecture Series on Europe
The Euro-Visions Public Lecture Series on Europe has been jointly organized by the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) and the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute (TLRH) at Trinity College Dublin. The series is an associated event of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU. Visit the following links for ABSTRACTS and the PRINTED PROGRAMME.
Wednesday, 24 April 2013, 18.15
'EU enlargement in Central and Eastern Europe: Happy ever After?'
A lecture by Dr Vera Sheridan and Dr Sabina Stan (DCU) as part of the Euro-Visions Public Lecture Series on Europe, jointly organised by the IIIS and Trinity Long Room Hub.
This talk will discuss the different journeys that brought ten new member states into the European Union from Central and Eastern Europe. These states undertook to meet the Copenhagen criteria for EU membership which set out the preconditions for their membership. Since 2004 there have been a range of outcomes for both new member states and ‘old Europe’ of the EU-15 as a direct result of the conditions of membership. There are also outcomes which reveal interesting perspectives by ‘old Europe’ on the new and which raise questions around integration and future enlargement.
In the Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Friday, 26 April 2013, 18:00
'Cold Sea Stories'
A reading by polish writer, Pawel Huelle, organised by the Polish Embassy in association with the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies and the Trinity Long Room Hub.
Invited by the Polish Embassy, Pawel Huelle will be presenting his work, in particular a collection of short stories ‘Cold Sea Stories’. Huelle is the author of 9 books, including novels, short stories and essays. He is the winner of the 2009 Found In Translation Award. 'Cold Sea Stories' has recently been selected for the long list for the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Pawel will be accompanied by the translator of the ‘Cold Sea Stories’, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, who will serve as an interpreter but also gladly answer any questions about literary translation. Lloyd-Jones is a full-time translator of Polish literature.
In the Neill/Hoey Lecture, Trinity Long Room Hub. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Tuesday, 30 April 2013, 18.15
'1 July 2013: Croatian EU membership and the perspectives for the Western Balkans''
A lecture by Prof Tvrtko Jakovina (Zagreb) as part of the Euro-Visions Public Lecture Series on Europe, jointly organised by the IIIS and Trinity Long Room Hub.
The Republic of Croatia is going to join the EU on July 1, 2013. At a time of deep crisis in many European countries and cynicism among many citizens in the South Eastern part of Europe, the EU still represents something desirable. Socialist Yugoslavia, after Tito split with Stalin in 1948, remained in-between two ideological blocks: West for the East, East for the West. The country was sometimes called "The American Communist Ally". Socialist, but non-aligned, not a member of any eastern associations, Yugoslavia was the most similar to the West of any socialist country, with open borders and a socialist market economy. However, Tito's Yugoslavia disappeared in a series of wars remaining a black hole of the Continent. In his lecture Prof Jakovina will try to give an overview of the Cold War history of SEE, try to describe why countries that were on the fast-track to join the West became the place of wars and still represent serious challenges for the world
In the Neill/Hoey Lecture, Trinity Long Room Hub. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Thursday, 2 May and Friday, 3 May 2013
‘Narratives in Conflict’
This international and interdisciplinary two day workshop explores the role of narrative constructions and processes in cultural conflicts. It is organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub, the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, and the Faculty for Philology and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna.
It brings together prominent experts from a range of backgrounds, disciplines and countries. Its leading hypothesis is that narratives do not just mirror conflicts, but, in their performative dimension, equally mould and sequence events through their respective narrative formats. Full programme attached.
In the Neill/Hoey Lecture, Trinity Long Room Hub.
Friday, 3 May 2013, 19:00
‘Higher Education, Globalization and the Critical Emergence of Diversity – A response from a Chan Buddhist perspective’
A lecture by Peter Hershock (Hawai’i) organised in conjunction with the School of Religions, Theology and Ecumenics.
Peter D. Hershock is Coordinator of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai’i. He has earned degrees from Yale University (B.A., Philosophy) and the University of Hawai’i (Ph.D., Asian and Comparative Philosophy) and has focused his research on the philosophical dimensions of Buddhism and on using Buddhist conceptual resources to address contemporary issues, including: technology and development, education, human rights, and the role of values in cultural and social change.
In the Neill/Hoey Lecture, Trinity Long Room Hub.
Wednesday, 8 May 2013, 16:00
'Disability and Diversity: Identity and Neoliberalism'
A lecture by Prof Lennard Davis (Chicago) organised by the M.Sc. in Disability Studies in collaboration with the Centre for Deaf Studies and the School of English.
“Normal” seems to be ending its tyrannical reign over bodies, particularly identities. Instead, it has been replaced by “diversity.” Yet the one area that “normal” reigns supreme is in the realm of disability. This lecture explores these issues and tries to account for this discrepancy by considering aspects of life under neoliberalism.
In the Neill/Hoey Lecture, Trinity Long Room Hub.
Thursday, 13 and Friday, 14 June 2013
'Writing Home: Irish Culture and Wartime Europe, 1938-48'
A two day symposium organised by the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.
The decade between 1938 and 1948 was a time of immense revolutionary upheaval across Europe, but tends to have been characterised as a time of stagnation and isolation for Ireland. During these years, however, many Irish writers and artists travelled extensively across the continent, whilst several of their European counterparts arrived in Ireland. Taking these migrations as a starting point, this symposium will examine afresh the history of this decade and its impact on Irish cultural memory. Writers under consideration may include, but are by no means limited to: Samuel Beckett, John Betjeman, Christabel Bielenberg, Hubert Butler, John Hewitt, Denis Johnston, Thomas McGreevy, Brian Moore, Francis Stuart, and Rebecca West. As cultural memory is mediated through a wide variety of discourses and artefacts, from literature to visual art, architecture, film, music and journalism, the School welcomes interdisciplinary participation from the fields of modern languages and literature, media studies, history and history of art.
Visit http://writinghome2013.blogspot.ie/ for information on the programme.
Saturday, 15 and Sunday, 16 June 2013
'Translating Holocaust Literature'
A two day conference organised by Dr Peter Ardns of the Centre for Literary Translation, TCD.
If any language lacks the words to express the experience of the concentration camps, how can the unspeakable ever be represented? How can it be translated into another language? If translation as representation cannot do justice to the original experience how can the translation of a Holocaust text into another language ever do justice to its original? As challenging the translation of Holocaust literature into other languages may be, it can be facilitated by an acute awareness of debates and cultural theories surrounding genocide. This conference is designed to discuss the impact of such debates and theories on translating the Holocaust, in addition to a variety of questions and topics relating to the challenges of translating literature about the Holocaust from one language into another.
Visit http://www.reliterarytranslation.com/ for more information.
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