TLRH | Fellow in Focus with Prof Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape)

Recorded April 20, 2023. A lunchtime discussion featuring Professor
Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape) in conversation with
Professor Eve Patten (Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub).
Professor Lalu will discuss his new book ‘Undoing Apartheid’, which
he worked on while a visiting fellow at the Hub in 2019. Premesh
Lalu is the former Director of the DSI-NRF Flagship on Critical
Thought in African Humanities of the Centre for Humanities
Research. Following an MA from the University of the Western Cape,
he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Doctoral Fellowship to read
towards a doctorate in History at the University of Minnesota. In
2003 he successfully defended a doctoral dissertation titled “In
the Event of History”. After sixteen years in the Department of
History as an Associate Professor, Lalu was awarded an Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation grant to convene a fellowship programme on the
Study of the Humanities in Africa. He was promoted to full
professor upon being appointed as Director of the Centre for
Humanities Research in 2008. Eve Patten is Director of the Trinity
Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Professor
of English at Trinity College, Dublin. A scholar in nineteenth and
twentieth-century Irish and British literature and cultural
history, she is editor of the volume of essays, Irish Literature in
Transition, 1940-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and
author of a monograph on representations of Ireland’s revolutionary
decade in English writing, Ireland, Revolution, and the English
Modernist Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2022). She is also
co-PI on the Ireland’s Border Culture project, funded by the HEA
Shared Island programme. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/