From: Sorcha O'Brien [[log in to unmask]]

Organised by Design Research Group and the Faculty of Visual Culture at
the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, the LOVE OBJECTS 
conference invites discussion and reconsideration of the relationships 
between people and their objects, concerning the role of objects in 
negotiations surrounding sex, desire, romance, identity and memory.

Keynote speakers include:
Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Chicago.
Dr Louise Purbrick, Lecturer in History of Design at the University of
Brighton.

Margolin is the curator of the Museum of Corn-temporary Art and the
author of many publications including: Culture is Everywhere: Selections
from the Museum of Corntemporary Art (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2002), The
Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002) and The Struggle for
Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946 (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1997).

Purbrick has published extensively on the meanings of everyday life and
the domestic world, new museum practices and cultural policies at sites
of conflict and the material culture of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Her recent publications include The Wedding Present: Domestic Life
Beyond Consumption (London: Ashgate, 2007) and ‘Sites, Histories,
Representations’ in Louise Purbrick, Jim Aulich and Graham Dawson,
(eds.), Contested Spaces: Sites, Histories and Representations
(Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007).

The conference will include papers by the following speakers:
Angela Alexander (Ind.) Setting up home in the period 1800-1840
Emily Angus (Yale University Press) With this ring.. The Mystical Union,
English Betrothal and Wedding Rings

Catherine Bates (Ind.) Comparing consumption at Irish weddings

Macushla Baudis (NCAD) Passion and possession: The Collector J. H.
Fitzhenry and his relationship with the V&A

Jamie Brassett & Nicholas Rhodes (Central St. Martins) Luxury, Sex,
Design, God

Joanna Brück (UCD) Material Metaphors: objects and identity in Early
Bronze Age burials

Linda Carreiro (University of Calgary) Playing with bodily knowledge:
interacting with anatomical manikins

Jill Connaughton (TCD) The Material of Devotion: a look at personal
devotional objects in late medieval and early modern Ireland

Adam Drazin (NUIM) The Uncertainties of Home-Making: Irish-Romanian
homes and relationships in Dublin

Christina Edwards (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) Material Memories:
Making a Wet-Plate Collodion Memory-text

Alison Fitzgerald (UCD) Vested Objects: Silver and its meanings in
eighteenth-century Ireland

Pauline Garvey (NUIM) Devotional Objects

Stacey Greenbaum (Ind.) Product Voodoo: the extra rational life of objects

Kirsten Hardie (Arts Institute, Bournemouth) For the Love of Flock:
Flocking Lovely

Catherine Harper (University of Brighton) Double Dresses for Double
Brides: identity design in lesbian Civil Partnerships

Jane Hattrick (University of Brighton) Seduced by the Archive: A
personal relationship with the archive and collection of objects
pertaining to the London couturier, Norman Hartnell

Emma Hoskins (University of Hull) Objects of Modernity: Symbolic Power
and Discourse in a Globalising World

Elizabeth Howie (Wake Forest University) Bringing Out the Past: Courtly
Love and 19th Century American Men’s Passionate Friendship Portraits

Kay Inckle (TCD) Love Hurts? Scars, Tattoos and the Emotional Body

Linda King (IADT) ‘Fly The Friendly Airline’: The Aer Lingus Air Hostess
and the Commodification of Irish Femininity, 1951-1961.

Dagmar Korbacher (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) Museum Objects Today:
Between Treasury and Merchandising

Claire Lerpiniere (De Montfort University) The Textile Snapshot

Sylvia Löeffler (NCAD) “Straight from the Heart” - The Use of Love
Imagery on the Body and in Public Space

Helen McAllister (NCAD) Shoes: objects of love and desire

Ciara Murray (Ind.) Casting identity: a context for Belleek pottery

Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh (UCC) Loving Christ as your own: Christ-dolls,
thwarted maternity and private devotion

Noreen Giffney (UCD) Objects of Desire: Queer Theory and the Non/Human

Paul O’Brien (NCAD) Cyber-Sex

Hyun-Jung Oh (University College London) Putting Together Memories and
Fantasies: the Phenomenon of Dolls’ Houses and Women in their Second
Childhood

Özlem Savas (University of Applied Arts, Vienna) A Diasporic Taste
Community: Islamic Fashion among Turkish Girls in Vienna

Jessica Sewell (Boston University) A Playboy’s Pipe

Jo Turney (Bath Spa University) Making Love with Needles: Tales of love,
hate, possession and rejection from three knitted objects

Arno Verhoeven (Sandberg Institute) Touch: Ambient Intelligence,
traditional craft and commensality

Nadine Wagener-Böck (Georg-August University of Göttingen) A Cape, A
Cusp and the ‘Communist Skirt’: Some Thoughts on How Clothes Shape
Mother/Daughter Relationships

Audrey Whitty (NMI) The Albert M. Bender Collection of Asian Art in the
National Museum of Ireland

Wendy Williams (Wendy Williams Design) Mad about biscuits

Ann Wilson (NCAD) Love and devotion: Nineteenth-century Irish Catholic
material culture as represented in novels

Convened by the Design Research Group, Conference Steering Committee, NCAD:
Sorcha O’Brien
Anna Moran
Dr Ciáran Swan

Further information and registration forms can be found at
http://designresearchgroup.wordpress.com/love-objects-engaging-material-
culture-conference-2008/
or by emailing [log in to unmask]

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