WRITING IRISH ART HISTORY
20 November 2010
Swift Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
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REGISTRATION: 9.30 – 10.00
(Registration desk: outside Swift Theatre – Room 2041a)
Introduction: 10. 00 – 11.00
10.00 – Introduction, Dr. Yvonne Scott, Director, TRIARC
10. 30 - Keynote Address - Professor Tom Dunne
‘Can there be an Irish art history?’
11.00 Morning Coffee
11.30 Session 1: 11.30 – 12.30
The Artist and the Text
11.30 - Colleen Thomas: Missing Models (Trinity College Dublin)
11.45 - Bláithín Hurley: The Wild Irish Girl in La Serenissima (University of Cambridge)
12.00 - Tara Kelly: ‘Treasures of Ireland’ (Trinity College Dublin)
Q & A (Chair: Professor Tom Dunne)
Lunch: 12.30 – 14.00
Session 2: 14.00 – 15.30
Creating Canons
14.00 Keynote Address - Dr. Róisín Kennedy
‘Lost in Translation: Irish Art and Irish Art History’
14.40 - Jenny Fitzgibbon: ‘Forging the Nation: Émigré artists and Irish cultural identity’ (TCD)
15.05 - Jane Humphries: ‘Crossing the Threshold: the domestic house/home as sites for contemporary Irish art installations’ (Trinity College Dublin)
Q & A (Chair: Dr. Róisín Kennedy)
Coffee break : 15.20 - 15.50
Session 3: 15.50 – 17.00
Writing Irish Art Histories
15.50 - Keith Smith: ‘Fr Donatus Mooney and Franciscan material culture’ (University College Dublin)
16.05 - Mary Jane Boland: ‘The Trouble with Genre’ (University of Nottingham)
16.20 - Emma Dwan O’Reilly: ‘Contemporary Art Writing in Ireland’ (University of Ulster)
Q & A (Chair: Dr. Éimear O’Connor)
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‘Performative Criticism: Beckett and Duthuit’
“Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit,” by Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit • Adaptation/Q & A: Dr. Nicholas Johnson • Cast: Nicholas Johnson (B.), Nathan Gordon (D.), Marc Atkinson (Assistant)
Conclusion & Reception: TRIARC
