TLRH | Literature and Resistance: Inaugural Panel Discussion

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/ Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/