Things I Dread

Theodor Meron — Reading from Things I Dread

Trinity College is honoured to host Theodor Meron, one of the world’s leading jurists and scholars of international humanitarian law, for a reading from his new poetry collection, Things I Dread. A Holocaust survivor and former President of the UN war crimes tribunals, Meron has played a pivotal role in shaping the global legal response to genocide and crimes against humanity. His distinguished academic career has included appointments at Harvard, NYU, Geneva, and Oxford, and he is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College.

In Things I Dread, Meron turns from the courtroom to the inner life, offering a series of poems that meditate on grief, memory, aging, love, and the moral weight of history. Written with clarity and emotional precision, the collection offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the private reflections of a figure whose public life has been defined by the pursuit of justice.

In conversation with Dr. Rebecca Bullard, Judge Meron will read from his forthcoming second collection, followed by a book signing.