Conflicting Views conference - IADT campus 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^th – 11^th 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 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 organized as part of the collaborative Photography and International Conflict project between IADT, Dun Laoghaire and the Clinton Institute for American Studies, UCD funded by an IRCHSS Major Projects Grant.

 

The conference will open with a keynote lecture by Dr. Graham Dawson, Reader in Cultural History and Director, 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 organizer Justin Carville at: justin.carville@iadt.ie .

 

Other Keynote speakers include;

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 Photographer) publications include, The Maze, Granta; British Watchtowers, Steidl.

Registration for the full conference and be made through the conference organizer Dr. Justin Carville: justin.carville@iadt.ie

 

Full details of the Conference Programme are below;

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

 

18.00 – 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

 

 

Chair: Justin Carville, School of Creative Arts, IADT

 

19.30 – Reception\Meet and Greet

 

09.30 – 11.00

 

 

Carmel Coyle (TCD)

 

Daniel O’Leary (Concordia University)

 

 

Alison Fletcher (Juniata College)

 

Melanie K. Finney (DePauw University)

 

Ronnie Close (University of Wales, Glamorgan)

 

Dara McGrath (Photographer)

 

Garrett Carr (Photographer)

 

 

11.00 – 11.30

 

11.30 – 13.00

 

Fionna Barber

 

 

13.00 – 14.00

 

14.00 – 15.30

 

 

Maeve Connolly (IADT, Dun Laoghaire)

 

Bree Hocking (Institute of Irish Studies, Queens University Belfast)

 

Rachel Brown & Brighdin Farren (Brown&Bri, Curators)

 

Brian Conway (NUI Maynooth)

 

Marc Di Sotto (University of Edinburgh)

 

Cormac Deane (IADT, Dun Laoghaire)

 

 

Krissi Oden

 

Bryonie Reid (Queens University Belfast)

 

Paula Blair (Queens University Belfast)

 

 

15.30 – 16.00

 

16.00 – 18.00

 

John Lynch

Lecturer in Visual Culture, Department of Sociology, University of Birmingham,

 

 

Tom Herron

Senior Lecturer in English, Leeds Metropolitan University

 

 

Alexis Bar & Grill

17/18 Patrick Street

Dun Laoghaire

20.00 - late

 

 

 

09.30 – 11.00

 

 

Fionna McClaren (Nottingham Trent University)

 

John Poulter (Leeds Trinity University)

 

Mhairi Sutherland (GradCam)

 

 

David Farrell (IADT, Dun Laoghaire)

 

Stephen Wilson (Photographer)

 

 

Heather Macdougall (Concordia University)

 

Diog O’Connell (IADT Dun Laoghaire)

 

Stephen Boyd (IADT, Dun Laoghaire)

Neither Here Nor There: Irish American Nationalism in modern American Cinema

 

 

 

 

11.00 – 11.30

 

11.30 – 13.00

 

Anthony Haughey

TBC

 

13.00 – 14.00

 

14.00 – 15.30

 

 

Colin Graham (NUI, Maynooth)

 

Justin Carville (IADT, Dun Laoghaire)

 

 

Liam Wylie (RTE Archives)

 

Amanda Dunsmore (Limerick School of Art and Design)

 

Mirjami Schuppert (Belfast Exposed)

 

15.30 – 16.00

 

16.00 – 17.30

 

Paul Seawright

 

Donovan Wylie

 

 

18.00