Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture 2023

Trinity Long Room Hub

The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture 2023 will be delivered by Professor Joanna Bourke.

Edmund Burke Theatre,

The Trinity Long Room Hub is delighted to announce that Professor Joanna Bourke will deliver the 2023 Annual Edmund Burke Lecture on ‘Contemplating Evil: “Monstrous” Women in History, Politics, and Law, 1890s to the Present’. Joanna Bourke is Professor Emerita of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is also the Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. She is the prize-winning author of fifteen books, including What it means to be Human (2011) and Fear: A Cultural History (2015), as well as over 120 articles in academic journals. In 2022, Reaktion Books published Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence and OUP published Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Education for Working People. Her Edmund Burke Lecture will draw on the subject of her current research towards a book entitled Evil Women. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, and Greek. The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture is supported by a generous endowment in honour of Padraic Fallon by his family. Please indicate if you have any access requirements, such as ISL/English interpreting, so that we can facilitate you in attending this event. Contact: tlrh@tcd.ie

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