2018 | The Global Migration Crisis and its Causes from the Humanities Perspective

Recorded September 24, 2018. The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual
Humanities Horizons Lecture for 2018 will be delivered by Professor
Homi K. Bhabha (Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities,
Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, and Senior Advisor to
the President and Provost at Harvard University.) Professor Bhabha
will address the global migration crisis and its causes from the
humanities perspective. He will speak of how discrimination and
dishonour, the two faces of “barbaric nationalism”, have been
mobilized to denigrate minority populations whether they are in
flight or “at home”, and of how divisive ethno nationalism has been
fuelled by leaders with utter contempt for democratic
party-politics, who project themselves as pioneers of a mercurial
“movement” politics. Drawing on real-life events and literary
references, Professor Bhabha will examine how, for today’s migrants
and refugees, the very act of hope and survival, the decision to
flee, can become a close encounter with mortality. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/