Supported by Intel Ireland, Ireland’s Edge has announced a special online edition of the event series titled Through The Looking Glass. Living in unprecedented times of coronavirus, the familiar landscape has shifted under our feet. So what do we now know about this new world where almost everything looks and seems the same and yet is profoundly changed?
Ireland’s Edge – Through The Looking Glass examines new questions raised by our recent and current experiences while reaching back into past times of pandemic. We examine the challenge of encroaching surveillance, issues of data protection, privacy, personal freedom, creativity, ethics and technology in a time of global pandemic, and consider the power and value of storytelling .
What do we now know about this new world where almost everything looks and seems the same and yet is profoundly changed?
The online event will feature contributions from Dr David Kenny of Trinity’s School of Law; Rita Duffy, artist in residence at the Trinity Long Room Hub; and music from the Goodman Collection, which was deposited in TCD Library following the collector James Goodman's death, and which has now been digitised in collaboration with the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA).
This unique digital event will present four new original and personal perspectives on law, technology, art and music, perspectives that hold key political, cultural and social significance.
Professor Eve Patten, director of the Trinity Long Room Hub commented, "we're delighted to be partnering with Ireland's Edge to show how the arts and humanities can elicit profound perspectives when it comes to thinking about a world post-Covid and some of the ongoing challenges we face around data, technology and ethics."
This special live stream will be available to watch on YouTube, Facebook Live and Twitter.
For more information and the full programme schedule visit Ireland’s Edge here
This online edition of Ireland’s Edge is supported by Intel Ireland and presented in partnership with Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA)
CONTRIBUTORS + PERFORMERS
Ms. Justice Marie Baker - Supreme Court of Ireland
Dr. David Kenny - Assistant Professor of Law, Trinity College Dublin
Mick O’Brien - Uileann Piper
Aoife Ní Bhriain - Fiddle and Violin
Rita Duffy - Artist in Residence, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
Dr. Conor McGinn - CEO & Co-Founder of Akara Robotics, Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, TCD, Co-Director, Robotics and Innovation Lab, TCD
Niamh Donnelly - Director of AI & Co-Founder of Akara Robotics
Related links:
- Read the Trinity Long Room Hub's Covid-19 Crisis Blog now.
- Explore our recent discussion series, 'Rethinking Democracy in an Age of Pandemic.'
- To watch or listen back to the Trinity Long Room Hub's popular Behind the Headlines series, click here.