Behind the Headlines | Waste Lands: Imagining Climate Catastrophe

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Jan 13, 2023 · 50m

Recorded November 10, 2022 Responding to the devastation of the First World War, in 1922 T.S. Eliot wrote of showing us ‘fear in a handful of dust’, in his monumental poem, The Waste Land. On the centenary of the poem’s first full publication, this Behind the Headlines discussion confronts the ecological devastation of contemporary global landscapes, and ask: does the creative imagining of landscape ruination, destruction, and even apocalypse amount to effective protest? In this panel, we hear from award-winning Irish filmmaker Neasa Hardiman; Cathriona Russell, Assistant Professor, Trinity…