Date: 10 March 2026
Time: 2-8.30PM
Venue: Museum of Literature Ireland
The 'Festival of Ideas in an Age of Permacrisis' event features nationally and internationally renowned writers and artists as well as emerging voices using artistic practices to respond to contemporary crises. Contributors include: Kurdish author Burhan Sönmez (latest novel The Lovers of Franz K), Syrian-Irish writer Suad Aldarra (author of I Don’t Want to Talk About Home), Sarah Moss (latest book My Good Bright Wolf), Emilie Pine (latest novel: Ruth & Pen), Patrick Deeley (latest collection: Keepsake) and Eva Bourke (latest collection: Tattoos) as well as artists Peeter Laurits (Estonia), artists Bassam Issa Al-Sabah (Iraq/Ireland) and Helen Doherty (Ireland), and writer Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe. Join numerous crisis experts and artists for a vibrant day of talks, interactive workshops, performances, and exhibits to showcase how innovative artistic practice and research in the humanities can help us address the range of connected crises we face and the potential of recovering political agency and hope.
The festival is the culmination of our collaboration with art practitioners as part of the Humanities Institute’s wider transnational research project, ‘From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis’, in collaboration with Tallinn University (Estonia); The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim; Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland), NGO Fighting Words (Dublin), and the Arsenal Gallery in Poznań. The broader project debates the shift from the modern understanding of crisis as a series of manageable events to perma- and polycrisis as entangled phenomena, and adopts a transdisciplinary frame to explore alternative epistemologies, and especially, artistic responses to a world at risk.
For further information, see: https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/research/frommoderncrisistopermacrisisandpolycrisis/.