Exams and essay deadlines may be beginning to feel a little bit too close for comfort, but societies events are showing no sign of slowing down. Start your week with a splash of colourful vibrancy at Holi 2017. Trinity Indian Society will be celebrating the quintessential festival of colours with some great music and a whole lot of coloured powder. Come down at 12pm to see Front Square transformed, but be sure to wash off the paint before 5pm for an interesting Burke panel discussion on political activism, hosted by the College Historical Society (the Hist). The panel has been organised in association with Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union’s (TCDSU) Lobby Group, and will see a number of speakers, including co-founder of the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment Ailbhe Smyth and member of An Taisce’s climate change committee, Phil Kearney.
Tuesday is Disability Awareness Day. This college-wide event aims to raise awareness of the different disabilities that affect college students. TCDSU have a number of exciting events planned, including a 5-a-side match, an ambassador chat and the 24-hour wheelchair challenge, in which 20 students will experience a day being in a wheelchair and documenting their experiences.
The Editorial Board of the Social and Political Review, a student-edited journal of sociology and political science, will be hosting a wine reception to celebrate the launch of Volume XXVII at 7pm in the Bank of Ireland’s House of Lords. Alumnus of Trinity, ex-president of TCDSU, key member of the campaign for marriage equality and former senator Averil Power will be launching the journal.
On Wednesday, Trinity College Law Review will be launching Volume XX of their journal at 6pm in the Old Library. The Hon Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne and Dr John Temple Lang will launch the event, which will also include wine and canapés. At 6.30pm in the Stanley Quek Lecture Theatre in Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI), Trinity Genetics Society will be discussing “Ethics, Genetics and Pre-implantation Genetic Testing”. This event will include a distinguished lineup of panel speakers, including Dr Kevin Mitchell of Smurfit Institute of Genetics in Trinity, Dr Andrea Mulligan of the School of Law in Trinity, Dr David Walsh of Sims clinic, Ireland’s largest private fertility treatment unit, and Dr Maureen Junker-Kenny of Trinity’s School of Religions, Peace Studies and Theology. The event will be followed by a drinks reception.
At 7pm, DU History will host a panel discussion on the “Contraceptive Train”, an event in 1971 which saw members from the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement travel to Belfast to buy contraceptives in protest against the law prohibiting the sale and importation of contraceptives in Ireland. This event will be held in 2041B in the Arts Block. Founding member of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement Nell McCafferty and Lynne Parker, who directed The Train for the Rough Magic Theatre Company, will both be present on the night. And at 8pm, you can dance the night away with DU Music who will be hosting their Music Ball in the opulent surroundings of Café en Seine. They’ll be featuring a string quartet, two jazz bands and a DJ.
You can soothe any sore heads the morning after with Q Soc’s Tea Crawl. They’ll be meeting at Front Arch at 12pm. That evening, TCDSU are presenting their third instalment of “Women in STEM” with a talk on women in biology in the Genetics Atrium at 6pm. Speakers from the departments of biochemistry and immunology, genetics, and physiology will each give an individual talk, followed by a panel discussion and a reception with wine and food. Then at 7.30pm, the University Philosophical Society (the Phil) and TCDSU Welfare will be holding a discussion on mental health and how it affects Irish society, replacing the usual Thursday night debate.
