This lecture is part of the 'Understanding Resistance in Europe’s East' Public lecture series.
Date: Thursday 20 March 2025
Time: 18.00 to 19.30
Location: Robert Emmet lecture theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
Conor Daly recalls four ‘dissidents’ whom he happened to meet in Moscow, Kyiv and Paris during the early 1980s: mathematician and human rights advocate Valery Senderov, artist and caricaturist Vyacheslav Sysoev, poet Irina Ratushinskaya and literary critic Andrei Sinyavsky. What can their diverse life paths tell us about the nature of the Soviet dissident movement during the Brezhnev period and its legacy in Russian and world culture? Conor Daly lectures and tutors at TCD on Central and East European Area Studies, translation studies, literature and film. He was awarded the 2024 Hubert Butler Essay prize for an essay on history and memory. His research interests include: language death and language contact (the Russian language in Alaska); Jewish studies (Jewish culture in the Russian Empire), and the contemporary politics and cultural history of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
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“Understanding Resistance in Europe’s East” public lecture series
The lecture series aims to explore forms and patterns of resistance, opposition, non-compliance or protest in Eastern Europe’s past and present. The lectures will discuss manifestations of resistance in the region’s history, the long-term legacies of dissent, innovative forms of protest, and the role of culture in shaping critical views of politics and society. The series will highlight the multifaceted nature of resistance by showcasing the diversity of acts of opposition across time and space in Europe’s most complex and symbolically loaded region. The events are organised jointly by the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies and the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, together with the Eastern European Society and DU History. All lectures in the series are free and accessible to the general public.
The series is part-funded by the TCD Faculty Events Fund (FAHSS).
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For further information about this lecture series please email Dr Balázs Apor <aporb@tcd.ie>