Talk: “When Does Identity Change Matter?" by Professor Jennifer Todd

Tickets: £10

Identity change happens all the time, particularly in post-conflict places. Poetry anticipates and encapsulates it. But it very seldom impacts the group divisions which it sees as constraints. Professor Todd will explore this paradox by looking at the identity changes in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland - and more broadly within these islands - over the last decades, and the continuing divisions within and between the jurisdictions on the island and islands.

Professor Jennifer Todd is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow at the Geary Institute UCD, Professor (emeritus) in the School of Politics and International Relations UCD. She has written individually and jointly on identity, ethnicity and on conflict and settlement in Northern Ireland, including (with Joseph Ruane) the now-classic Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland, and Changing Identities After Conflict: Ethnicity Boundaries and Belonging in the two Irelands. (2018).

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