Reading week is over, and Brexit – much like all the work you said you were going to do – still hasn’t happened. And between post-reading week catch-ups and the arrival of spooky season, it looks like this week might not be your week to tick all that stuff off the to-do list either. So if your lecturers aren’t quite as lenient with extensions as the EU is, you might as well accept defeat, put it all off until next week, and start the second half of term right by sampling the best events College has to offer this week.
Tuesday
To start off your week with something different, Dublin University Gender Equality Society (DUGES) and Trinity People Before Profit will told their first book club at 12pm in the Attic in House Six. The book club will discuss Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights, described as a must read for anyone interested in women’s rights, labour rights and the state of sex workers’ rights internationally. Don’t worry if you don’t have time to read the book – there is also a podcast and an article recommended on the Facebook event page for those of us who haven’t read a non-prescribed book since secondary school.
Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) is hosting a plethora of events this week as part of TCDSU Disability Week 2019. Join Trinity Free Legal Advice Centre (FLAC) for a panel discussion entitled the Deaf Community in the Criminal Justice System. Speakers include Professor Lorraine Leeson, Michael Farrell and Gearóidín McEvoy, and the event will focus on the experiences and challenges faced by the deaf community in the criminal justice system. The event takes place at 6pm in the MacNeill Theatre.
Wednesday
In a collaborative event as part of both Disability Week and the Cairde Wellness Festival, Sign Soc and DU Players are coming together for a Facial Expressions Workshop in Players Theatre at 1pm. You’ll be able to learn about non-verbal communication, such as signing and how to use your face to tell a story.
Pub crawls are so last week – so why not join DU Pirate Party, DU Computer Science Society and NetSoc on their Halloween Breadstick Crawl? All teams will receive a breadstick that they must protect for the extent of the crawl, with various rules regarding how the breadsticks can be protected. The event will begin in the Pav at 6pm – and the breadsticks are promised to be vegan-friendly.
Thursday
It’s the scariest night of the year, but how about celebrating Halloween a little differently this year by joining DU PaganSoc in taking the celebration back to its roots? This week is PaganSoc’s Week of the Witch Burnings, and on the night of Samhain, the society will celebrate the festival of the ancestors and the end of the harvest season with a short ceremony in the Eliz Rooms. The celebration will move on to the Rose Garden as the night darkens to prepare for the oncoming winter in this traditional Pagan ritual.
Friday
In one of the big-name visits to campus this year, Margaret Atwood will visit the Hist on Friday, fresh from being one of the winners of this year’s Booker Prize for The Testaments, the long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. Atwood will be in conversation with Ailbhe Smyth – a feminist and activist, and one of the leading voices with Together for Yes and the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment. The event takes place at 5pm in the Exam Hall, and membership is required but can be purchased at the door. This is sure to be a popular event so arrive early to avoid disappointment!
