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Episode: TLRH | Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies Launch
Description: Recorded March 9, 2021.
The launch of Trinity’s new Centre for Resistance Studies will be marked by a keynote lecture from Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Professor of History and Italian Studies, NYU), ‘How to Resist a Strongman: Lessons from a Century of Authoritarian Rule’
The Centre aims to provide an intellectual response to the growth of populism and authoritarianism across the globe by fostering interdisciplinary research in the field of resistance studies. It will provide a forum for academics, postgraduate researchers, intellectuals and activists to discuss the meanings and manifestations of ‘resistance’ and its cognate terms, such as opposition, dissent, protest, non-conformism and resili...