This lecture is part of the 'Understanding Resistance in Europe’s East' Public lecture series.
Date: Thursday 13 February 2025
Time: 18.00 to 19.30
Location: Robert Emmet lecture theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
Dr Molly Pucci (TCD) will discuss the evolution of the Soviet dissident movement from 1956 into the 1970s. This talk will focus on international human rights and the influence of the Cold War on dissident activism and cross-border exchange. Molly Pucci is an Assistant Professor of Twentieth Century European History at TCD. She holds a PhD in history from Stanford University and an MA in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies from Harvard University. Her first book, Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe was published by Yale University Press in 2020. She is currently working on an international history of radical leftist activism and revolutionary ideas in law, legal theory, and political trials in the 1920s and 1930s.
To book a free ticket for the lecture please visit the Eventbrite page or click on the image below.
'Understanding Resistance in Europe’s East' Public lecture series at TCD.
This year’s lecture series explores forms and patterns of resistance, opposition, non-compliance or protest in Europe’s East - both past and present.
The lecturers 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 series is organised jointly by the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies and the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, together with the DU Eastern European Society and DU History Society. It draws on in-house, local and international expertise.
The series is part-funded by the TCD Faculty Events Fund (FAHSS).
Please visit the Eventbrite website for a programme of lectures in this series.
For further information about this lecture series please email Dr Balazs Apor <aporb@tcd.ie>.