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Elephant in the Room: Film and Visual Culture in Contemporary Northern Ireland
Friday 23rd January 2015
Symposium and Book Launch
Newcastle University
Culture Lab, Haymarket
A half-day symposium organized by the Research Centre for Film and Digital Media and the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University.
This interdisciplinary event brings together practitioners and scholars of film and visual art whose work has confronted issues stemming from the Northern Ireland conflict which are marginalized by ‘official’ post-Agreement narratives. The event will culminate in the launch of Old Borders, New Technologies: Reframing Film and Visual Culture in Contemporary Northern Ireland by Paula Blair (Peter Lang, 2014).
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13.30 |
Registration / tea & coffee
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14.00 |
Welcome and introduction – Dr Paula Blair Teaching Fellow in Film Studies, School of English, Newcastle University
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14.15 |
Screening and presentation of the Prisons Memory Archive – Prof. Cahal McLaughlin Chair of Film Studies, School of Creative Arts, Queen’s University Belfast Chair: Prof. Guy Austin Director of Research Centre in Film and Digital Media, Newcastle University
Pause
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15.30 |
The Listening Station and other works – Dr Allan Hughes Head of Sculpture, Lecturer in Fine Art, Department of Arts, Northumbria University Chair: Professor
Rachel Woodward
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16.15 |
Interview with artist Dr Sandra Johnston Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Department of Arts, Northumbria University Chair: Fionna Barber Reader in Art History and Principal Lecturer for Contextual Studies, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
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17.00 |
Networking reception and book launch
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18.00 |
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