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.’
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 (School of English)
Mary Cosgrove (SLLCS)
Jude dal Fernando (School of Religion)
Carlo Gébler (Oscar Wilde Centre)
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/
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