TLRH | The End of Travel?

Recorded October 27, 2020. A talk by Professor Michael Cronin (TCD)
as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural
Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long
Room Hub. The future of travel is central to contemporary debates
about pandemics and ‘flight shaming’. The nature and status of
travel as an absolute right or unquestionable good are being called
into question in the context of globalized infectious diseases and
well-publicised evidence pointing to the prohibitive ecological
costs of mass air travel. The lecture will explore a number of
interpretive frameworks from critical ecology to travel writing and
translation studies that might help us to understand and navigate a
post-nomadic future. Michael Cronin, BA (TCD), MA (UCD), PhD (TCD),
FTCD, holds the 1776 Chair of French at Trinity College. He taught
in the Université of Tours, the École Normale Supérieure (Cachan)
and was Director of the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies
at Dublin City University. He is an elected Member of the Royal
Irish Academy, the Academia Europaea, and he is an Officer in the
Ordre des Palmes Académiques. He has published extensively on
language, culture, translation and travel writing. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/