Conference Announcement
http://1916conference.wordpress.com/
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are now taking bookings for the conference 'Object Matters: Making
1916 - the material and visual culture of the Easter Rising.' This
will be held April 26 & 27th at the Wood Quay Venue, Dublin 8, Ireland. The
conference is convened by Lisa Godson (National College of Art and
Design/GradCAM and Joanna Brück (University College Dublin).
Topics include: archaeological perspectives on the final hours of the
Rising; uniforming the rebels;Ephemera and the construction of
personal responses to the Easter Rising’;
typographic ghosts of 1916; the architecture of reconstruction; 1916
exhibitions at the National Museum of Ireland (1932-1991);
Celtic Revival dress; prison art and the construction of social
identity; political sensitivities and the interpretation of the
material culture of the Easter Rising.
Speakers include Nicholas Allen (University of Georgia) on ‘Lost city
of the archipelago: Dublin at the end of empire’, Pat Cooke
(University College Dublin) on ‘Aetheriality and materiality: material
culture and the myth of 1916′ and Mary E. Daly (University College
Dublin) – ’1916 as the national commemoration? The paradox’, Bill
McCormack on ‘Materiality and forgery: the castle document’ and Kevin
Rockett (Trinity College Dublin) on ‘Changing representations of
Ireland’s past in films made during the 1910s’
Details on rationale, booking, location, and the full list of speakers
and titles can be found at our wordpress site
http://1916conference.wordpress.com/
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Dr. Lisa Godson
Lecturer in Visual Culture
Fellow at Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media
National College of Art and Design
100 Thomas Street
Dublin 8
Ireland
+353 (0)87 321 0888
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