Forthcoming Public 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.
Friday, 20 September 2013, 19:00
Dublin Culture Night at the hub!
WE REGRET THAT THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED
A Multilingual Literary Soirée: Staff, students and friends of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies will read their favourite poems and prose extracts in French, German, Italian, Irish, Polish, Russian, Spanish and in translation. Some may even sing!
Monday, 23 September 2013, 19:00
The Beatles in 12 Movements
Trinity College School of English, in association with Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute, is proud to announce that The Beatles in 12 Movements series kicks off on Monday 23 September with a talk on Please Please Me by Professor Michael Grenfell from TCD School of Education.
On November 7th 1963 The Beatles played two shows at the Adelphi Cinema in Dublin, their one and only live appearance in the Republic of Ireland. To mark the 50th anniversary of this event, each Monday evening of Michaelmas Term will see a different guest speaker share their thoughts on a different Beatles studio album. All twelve albums will be covered over the course of the twelve weeks, from Please Please Me right the way through to Let It Be. Speakers will range from TCD academics from a range of disciplines to notable cultural figures such as iconic singer and Beatles friend Donovan, RTE presenter Ryan Tubridy, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly author Paul Howard, and Assistant Director of The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour film Gerry Harrison.
Admission is free and open to the general public. Avoid disappointment and arrive in good time! Queries to Dr. Daragh Downes, TCD School of English, downesda@tcd.ie
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 18:00
'Remembering 1989 in Eastern Europe'
A lecture by Professor James Mark from the University of Exeter. Organised by the Centre for European Studies, TCD.
The eastern European revolutions of 1989 were a watershed in global history. Despite this, in the two decades since, their meaning has become a source of debate. While they have been promoted as a founding myth for a newly unified Europe, eastern Europeans have repeatedly represented them as a moment of betrayal, martyrdom, liberation, victory, disappointment, loss, colonisation, or nostalgia. In his lecture, James Mark suggests that understanding the way in which the region views 1989 is crucial to understanding its post-Communist politics. Mark will explore the relationship between the memory of the moment of Communism’s collapse and national identities, the emergence of political movements, and regional identity. He will compare countries where the memory of the collapse of Communism has become a source of political division (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia), to those in which a positive national identity around ‘1989’ is beginning to be built (Germany, Czech Republic). He will also explore the way they have been rethought in the light of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’, and in the wake of recent protests in southern-eastern Europe.
For further information contact: Balázs Apor aporb@tcd.ie
Friday, 27 September 2013
Discover Research Dublin 2013
Trinity College Dublin & the Royal Irish Academy have successfully coordinated a bid to host Ireland’s 2013 contribution to European Researchers’ Night, an annual event to raise public awareness of researchers and research careers across Europe.
On 27 September 2013, events and activities will be staged across the campus of Trinity College and the RIA on Dawson Street, as well as inside and outside the Trinity Long Room Hub, along with outdoor projections on buildings around the centre of Dublin. The evening will be interactive and visitors can move from one engaging event to the next throughout the day and night, learning about astronomy, history, digital journalism, and much more!
For more information, see the event website: http://discoverresearchdublin.com/ or follow updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ResearchDublin
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