Trinity College Dublin – Free Eurovision Lecture Tonight June 12th. Photograph Courtesy of TCD.ie

Trinity College Dublin – one of the world’s most prestigious universities will be hosting a Free lecture tonight on Eurovision 2013 and Eurovision in general. Though heavily criticised for its camp staging and the simplistic lyrics of many of its songs, the Eurovision Song Contest has survived for 58 years to become the second most popular television show in the world.

Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and staged by national public service broadcasters from Iceland to Azerbaijan, the Contest offers annual competing national representations of Europeanness and performs transnationally contested politics of gender, race and sexuality that have resulted in street protests, Presidential interventions, and allegations of bribery and corruption. This lecture will analyse the political fall-out of the 2013 Contest and its representations and bring into focus competing conceptions of the national in relation to the notion of Europe as constructed by the EBU.

Professor Brian Singleton. Photograph courtesy of textures-platforms.com

This is a jointly organised lecture by the Institute for International Integration Studies and the Trinity College Long Room Hub. This lecture series is an associated event of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU. The series will run from January to June. Admission is free and all are welcome. The speaker will be Professor Brian Singleton (TCD) – who lectured me in Trinity College too many years ago – but he is an amazing and entertaining speaker so you are in for a treat!

Venue: Trinity Long Room Hub

Time : 18:15 (GMT)

For further details you can contact Ms Colette Keleher at Trinity College Dublin.

Colette Keleher

The Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS)
The Sutherland Centre
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2

Tel: 00 353 1 896 3888
Fax: 00 353 1 896 3939
Web: http://www.tcd.ie/iiis

Map Of Trinity College Dublin

If you are in town tonight then here a map to help you get to the lecture then here are the Trinity College Maps that will show you how to get to the College Campus either on foot or by public transport and will then give you a detailed map to the lecture venue “Trinity Long Room Hub”

http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/

Here is the actual map to bring you to the “Trinity Long Room Hub”

http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/map.php?q=Long+Room+Hub

The evening is free and will be a good look at Eurovision through the glitz and glam!

Update : If you miss the lecture tonight it will be recorded and on video in the coming weeks. Trinity College have been in contact and will send Eurovision Ireland the direct link that we will share with all our readers – because we like to take care of you all (and thank you for following us)

Author/Website co-founder and Editor in Chief Garrett Mulhall

Source – Eurovision Ireland and Trinity College Dublin