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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: 2023 | Totalitarianism and the Humanities
Description: Recorded April 19, 2023.
The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Humanities Horizons Lecture for 2023 was delivered by Prof Lyndsey Stonebridge (Interdisciplinary Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham).
In February 2023, photos appeared on social media of piles of books dumped in the streets outside the Pryazovskyi State University in Mariupol, allegedly by occupying Russian soldiers. In the US and elsewhere novels and history books are being weaponized in the culture wars. The humanities are back on the frontline of ideology and politics. In this lecture, Lyndsey Stonebridge turns to political-philosopher, Hannah Arendt’s writing on twentieth-century totalitarianism to ar...