Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies

News and Events

The Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies organises regular events including seminars, public lectures, and outreach activities. On this page you will find information about past and future events organised by the Centre or in association with its members.

Latest News

The Resistance podcast series: Conversation with Deena Mohamed

The first podcast in the Literature and Resistance podcast series is the recording of an in-conversation event featuring Prof Rosie Lavan and comics artist Deena Mohamed.

26 May 2023

Event
Literature and Resistance: As You Wish: Deena Mohamed

Egyptian comics artist Deena Mohamed discussed her graphic novel, Your Wish is My Command (Shubeik Lubeik) at the International Literature Festival Dublin.

27 May 2023

News
Religion as a Means of Resistance: Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Poland - hybrid seminar by Dr Julia Buyskykh

The Centre hosted a research seminar by Dr. Julia Buyskykh, a socio-cultural anthropologist affiliated with the Institute of History of Ukraine, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and an NGO.

13 Feb 2023

News
Vulnerability, Justice, and the Human Condition - lecture series by Prof Martha A. Fineman

In the autumn of 2022, Prof. Martha A. Fineman (Emory University) gave a four-part lecture series online on vulnerability theory to members of the Centre and to a broader scholarly audience.

12 Jan 2023

Event
Literature and Resistance: Poetry Reading with Nidhi Zak and Anthony Anaxagorou

The Centre, in partnership with Poetry Ireland and the Trinity Long Room Hub, hosted a poetry reading event as part of the Literature and Resistance series.

08 Nov 2022

Event
"Limits to Growth” in Soviet Perspective - research seminar

In the first resistance research seminar of the academic year, Professor Malte Rolf presented his new research on critical discourses on Soviet modernity in the 1960s-1970s.

17 Oct 2022

Event
Literature and Resistance | Unseen City: Ankhi Mukherjee in Conversation with Ian Robertson

Ankhi Mukherjee, Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford discussed her book Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor with Ian Robertson

27 Sep 2022

Event
We Persist, Therefore We Have Hope - exhibition catalogue

The catalogue of the exhibition "We Persist, Therefore We Have Hope" is now available in digital format.

03 Jun 2022

News
We Persist, Therefore We Have Hope - exhibition concluding panel

The discussion panel marked the conclusion of the exhibition on Hong Kong protest art in the Long Room Hub. The panel included art historian Catherine Marshall and Jessica Ní Mhainín from Index on Censorship.

03 Jun 2022

Event
Literature and Resistance: National Memories, Personal Stories: Scholastique Mukasonga

The award-winning French Rwandan writer Scholastique Mukasonga joined us for the first public event in the Long Room Hub

22 May 2022

Event