On the occasion of the International Women's Day, the Goethe-Institut Irland has partnered up with the
French Embassy, the
German Embassy and
Trinity College Dublin to present an event about women in science with a film screening about Polish scientist Marie Curie (née Skłodowska) followed by a panel discussion.
Admission is free, however, booking via
Eventbrite is essential.
Film Screening
Marie Curie – The Courage of Knowledge
Dir.: Marie Noëlle, colour, 100 min., Germany/France/Poland 2016
Biopic about the ground-breaking Polish scientist Marie Curie. Maria Skłodowska, born in 1867, proves to already have enormous talents in the subjects of physics and chemistry while she is in school. Since women were not allowed to study in Poland at the time, she leaves her home country in 1891 to study in Paris. For years she has to hold her ground against hostilities in the male dominated world of science. Upon meeting Pierre Curie, she finds a man who treats her at eye level in all respects. Their occupational collaboration turns into a romantic relationship and they marry. Despite tragic setbacks she pursues her goals – which leads to her sharing the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and being awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Meanwhile, after her husband’s death she finds new love in her married colleague Paul Langevin. But once the affair is made public, people are outraged.
Festivals: Toronto 2016, Cameraimage 2016, Sofia 2017, San Francisco 2017, Seoul Int. Women's FF 2017, Shanghai 2017, Arras 2017, Foyle 2017, Créteil 2018
Awards: Bavaria Film Prize 2016 (Best Director, Best Set Design)
Panel Discussion
The film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring women from the research world and initiatives promoting opportunities for girls in STEM: Cliona O’Farrelly (Trinity BioScience Institute), Louise Bradley (Professor in Physics, Trinity), Joanne Dolan (
Teen Turn) and Amélie Rouger (laureate of a Marie Sklodowska Curie funding). The panel will be moderated by
Niamh Shaw (Science & Space communicator, Artist in Residence at CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory Cork). The discussion will continue around German and French refreshments in the Fitzgerald Library.
Presented by the French Embassy, the German Embassy, Trinity College Dublin and the Goethe-Institut Irland
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