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"Conflicting Views: Visual Culture, Conflict and Northern Ireland", IADT Dun Laoghaire, Dublin- 9-11 June 2010- Programme Now Available
Conflicting Views: Visual Culture, Conflict and Northern Ireland
Venue: Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
Dates: 9-11 June 2010
IADT, Dun Laoghaire are pleased to announce that they will be hosting a conference on Visual Culture, Conflict and Northern Ireland on 9-11 June 2010. This conference will bring together scholars and practitioners from across a diverse range of fields covering the arts, cinema, media studies, sociology, literature and visual culture studies to examine the role of the visual in the representation of conflict in Northern Ireland. The conference will address themes relating to the role of image producers in communicating conflict and the place of the visual in the ameliorative practices of the post-conflict peace process. Papers will cover topics relating to the representation of conflict in the print and broadcast media, the aesthetics of conflict imagery, the semiotics of political symbols, curatorial practices and the visual arts, the politics of memory, citizenship and human rights. The conference is the third in a series of symposia and conferences organised as part of the collaborative Photography and International Conflict project between IADT, Dun Laoghaire and the UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies, funded by an IRCHSS Thematic Project Research Grant.
The conference will open with a keynote lecture by Dr. Graham Dawson, Reader in Cultural History and Director of the Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories at the Centre for Research & Development, University of Brighton. Dr. Dawson is the author of Making Peace with the Past? Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles (Manchester University Press, 2007).
His keynote lecture on Wednesday evening, Imaginative Geographies and Contested Memories: Problems of Representation Across the Psychic and Political 'Peace-Lines' of 'Post-conflict' Northern Ireland, will be open to the public and places can be booked by contacting the conference organiser, Justin Carville at: justin.carville@iadt.ie
Fionna Barber (Manchester Metropolitan University), guest editor of Visual Culture in Britain special issue, 'After the War: Visual Culture in Northern Ireland Since the Ceasefires' and curator of Archiving Place and Time: Contemporary Art Practice in Northern Ireland Since the Ceasefire.
Anthony Haughey (DIT), publications include Disputed Territory; The Edge of Europe.
Tom Herron (Leeds Metropolitan University) & John Lynch (University of Birmingham), authors of After Bloody Sunday: Representation, Ethics, Justice, Cork University Press.
Professor Paul Seawright (University of Ulster), publications include, Inside Information, Photographers Gallery; Hidden, Imperial War Museum; Field Notes, Foto Museum Antwerp; Invisible Cities, FfotoGallery.
Donovan Wylie (Magnum Photos), publications include, The Maze, Granta; British Watchtowers, Steidl.
To register for the full conference, please contact the conference organiser, Dr. Justin Carville: justin.carville@iadt.ie
Full details of the Conference Programme are as follows:
Conflicting Views: Visual Culture, Conflict and Northern Ireland
Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire- Wednesday 9th- Friday 11th June 2010
Wednesday 9th June
16:00-18:00- Registration Opens in Atrium Building
18:00- Conference opens
17:30-17:45- Welcome: Sean Larkin, Head of School of Creative Arts, IADT
17:45-18:00- Introduction: Justin Carville, School of Creative Arts, IADT
18-19:30- Keynote: Graham Dawson, Reader in Cultural History and Director, Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories, Centre for Research & Development, University of Brighton
Imaginative Geographies and Contested Memories: Problems of Representation Across the Psychic and Political 'Peace-Lines' of 'Post-conflict' Northern Ireland
Chair: Justin Carville
19:30- Reception/Meet & Greet
Thursday 10th June
Academic Sessions- 9:30-11:00
Panel 1
Carmel Coyle (TCD)
'Art is Above Politics but Not Humanity': Michael Farrell
Daniel O'Leary (Concordia University)
Honour All Men: A Comparative Analysis of Sectarian Thought in the Orange Visual Cultures of Northern Ireland and Atlantic Canada, 1790-1922
Panel 2
Alison Fletcher (Juniata College)
Murals in Belfast: Painting the Future
Melanie K. Finney (DePauw University)
Cultures of Peace and Conflict: Sectarian Murals as Visual Rhetoric in Northern Ireland
Panel 3
Ronnie Close (University of Wales, Glamorgan)
The Great Hunger: (Re)Visions of the 1981 Hunger Strikes
Dara McGrath (Photographer)
Deconstructing the Maze
Garrett Carr (Photographer)
The Map of Connections: Text & Image
Coffee/Tea Break- 11-11:30
Keynote- 11:30-13:00
Fionna Barber, Principal Lecturer in Contextual Studies, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
Curating 'Archiving Space and Time'
Lunch- 13:00-14:00
Academic Sessions- 14-15:30
Panel 4
Maeve Connolly (IADT, Dun Laoghaire)
Curating Before and After Conflict: The Pre-history of the Crisis at Project Arts Centre and Belfast Exposed
Bree Hocking (Institute of Irish Studies, Queens University Belfast)
From Blooms to Balls: In Search of an Icon for Post-Conflict Belfast
Rachel Brown & Brighdin Farren (Brown & Bri, curators)
Rejecting the State: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Curating in a Post-Conflict City
Panel 5
Brian Conway (NUI Maynooth)
The Politics of Visual Commemoration: Bloody Sunday (1972) as a Case Study
Marc Di Sotto (University of Edinburgh)
Blood Sunday and the Aesthetics of Trauma
Cormac Deane (IADT, Dun Laoghaire)
Screening, the Law and the Saville Inquiry
Panel 6
Bryonie Reid (Queens University Belfast)Redrawing Belfast: Approaches to Oblique and Radical by Three Artists
Paula Blair (Queens University Belfast)
Performative Territories: Private Trauma in the Public Eye
Coffee/Tea Break- 15:30-16:00
Keynote- 16:00-18:00
John Lynch, Lecturer in Visual Culture- Department of Sociology, University of Birmingham
Hunger: Passion of the Militant
Tom Herron, Senior Lecturer in English, Leeds Metropolitan University
From Troscadh to Long Kesh: The Poetics of Hunger
Conference dinner- Alexis Bar & Grill, 17/18 Patrick St., Dun Laoghaire- 20:00- late
Friday 11th June
Academic Sessions- 9:30-11:00
Panel 7
Fionna McClaren (Nottingham Trent University)
Visual Mediation: Memory, Medium and Representation
John Poulter (Leeds Trinity University)
Seeing Things: Tracing Power, Chasing Memory- Researching the Signifying Practice of Remembrance in Northern Ireland
Mhairi Sutherland (GradCam)
The Role of the Visual in Practices of Cultural Memory and Commemoration
Panel 8
David Farrell (IADT, Dun Laoghaire)
Innocent Landscapes
Stephen Wilson (Photographer)
Cultural Tropism
Panel 9
Heather Macdougall (Concordia University)
Heroes or Villians? Irish Paramilitary Characters in American Action Movies
Diog O'Connell (IADT, Dun Laoghaire)
Comedy and Post-Ceasefire Films
Stephen Boyd (IADT, Dun Laoghaire)
Neither Here Nor There: Irish American Nationalism in Modern American Cinema
Coffee/Tea Break- 11-11:30
Keynote- 11:30-13:00
Anthony Haughey, Lecturer in Photography- Dublin Institute of Technology
TBC
Lunch- 13:00-14:00
Academic Sessions- 14:00-15:30
Panel 10
Colin Graham (NUI, Maynooth)
Archive Fever: Photography, Peace and Northern Ireland
Justin Carville (IADT, Dun Laoghaire)
Materials Memory: Photography and the Mnemonic Economy of Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
Panel 11
Liam Wylie (RTE Archives)
Streaming the Troubles
Amanda Dunsmore (Limerick School of Art and Design)
The Keeper Series
Mirjami Schuppert (Belfast Exposed)
From Private to Public: The Use of Community Archive Images in Conflict Studies
Coffee/Tea Break- 15:30-16:00
Keynote- 16:00-17:30
Paul Seawright, Professor of Photography- University of Ulster
Donovan Wylie, University of Ulster/Magnum Photos
Conference closes- 18:00