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12 June 2024 | Contemporary Tibetan Women’s Writing in English (Reading group + seminar)
Date: Wednesday, 12th June 2024
Time: 10.30am-4pm
Venue: Humanities Institute, H204
- Places are free but please register (opens in a new window)HERE
This event comprises a reading group followed by a seminar where three of the most celebrated and emerging Tibetan female writers- Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Tenzin Dickie and Tsering Yangzom Lama, in their capacities as writers, editors, translators, come together to introduce, inform and critically discuss their work as well as the future of Tibetan literature in English from the perspective of many combinatory concepts like exile and diaspora studies, neo-colonialism, resistance writing, among others. This gathering aims to put Contemporary Tibetan Women’s Writing on the World Literary map by providing a platform to such writers who are working on a burgeoning field of literature.
20 June 2024 | 'Extractivist Landscapes: Humanities, Artistic and Activist Responses' Workshop Series
Date: Thursday, 20th June 2024
Time: 1.30-4.45pm
Venue: Humanities Institute, H204
Workshop 3:
Professor Maeve Cooke (School of Philosophy, UCD): "Engaged Theorising”
Dublin artist Conor Nolan: “Wish You Were Here”
- For queries about the workshop series, contact:
Dr Megan Kuster ((opens in a new window)megan.kuster@ucd.ie) and Dr Sarah Comyn ((opens in a new window)sarah.comyn@ucd.ie)
Image credit: ‘Goldmine: Germiston’, Natalie Fuller c.1928, with watercolour additions by S. Comyn. Used with kind permission by the owner D. R. Comyn
26-27 June 2024 | 'Measuring Eurasia: A Conference on Survey Sciences at the Edges of Empire' Conference
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Time: Day 1: 9.15am-5.30pm | Day 2: 9.30am-3pm
Venue: Humanities Institute (H204 / top floor)
This conference analyzes attempts to survey the edges of the Russian Empire, from the Baltic and Black seas to the Bering Strait. Historians and geographers have used “survey science” to study global enterprises of astronomy and physics in the early nineteenth century, focusing on their coordination across the British Empire. Measuring Eurasia reorients this field of research to develop new histories of science and surveillance in the Russian imperial world. It emphasizes diverse surveys carried out across disparate borderlands—ethnographic as well as geodetic surveys, expeditions of land and sea, and sciences of ice, plants, and peat.
Recent research points to an emerging study of Eurasian survey sciences not as self-evident acts of expansion and modernization, but as social and cultural endeavors that need to be explained. The production of space is complex terrain: surveillance projects often enrolled diverse artists, brokers, and servitors. Maps might therefore be used to negotiate or subvert indigenous claims to land, nation, or dynasty. Contest over survey technique and nomenclature could similarly magnify questions of social and political (dis)order.
KEYNOTE LECTURE | 26 June @ 4.30pm | Humanities Institute H204
Professor Adeeb Khalid(Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota): "Getting to Know Central Asia: The Production of Imperial Knowledge and its Discontents”
Conference organiser: (opens in a new window)Dr Patrick Anthony (IRC Postdoc Fellow, UCD School of History & Hi Resident Scholar) | Contact email: (opens in a new window)patrick.anthony@ucd.ie
This conference is supported by the IRC, UCD Humanities Institute, UCD College of Arts & Humanities (CAH), UCD Earth Institute, and CAH Environmental Humanities Thematic Research Strand.
26 & 27 June 2024 | Awakenings at 50: A Clinical and Cultural Retrospective
Date: Wednesday, 26th June & Thursday, 27th June 2024-350x467.jpg)
Time: 10am-4.45pm
Venue: Royal Society of Antiquaries, Merrion Square, Dublin
- Please register on (opens in a new window)Eventbrite. NUMBERS CAPPED AT 70.
June 2023 marked the 50th publication anniversary of Awakenings (1973), a medical bestseller where Oliver Sacks documented the predicaments of forgotten survivors of the encephalitis lethargica epidemic as they emerged, with L-Dopa's chemical assistance, from decades of sleep. It is also with Awakenings that Sacks discovered himself as a "Romantic" scientist and found the writerly voice that has since earned him the title of the “Poet Laureate of Medicine”.
One of the first academic conferences devoted Oliver Sacks's clinical and authorial practice, Awakenings at 50 charts the debts and legacies -- both clinical and cultural -- of this epoch-making book. Programme below.
This two-day symposium will appeal to clinicians; persons with lived experience of Parkinson’s or other neurological conditions; researchers in medical humanities; new and longstanding readers of Oliver Sacks's work; and anyone fascinated by the entanglements of medicine literature, and science and art.
Organised by Dr Jivitesh Vashisht (UCD School of English, Drama & Film, and HI Resident Scholar).