Friday 3rd November 2017
Dublin Institute of Technology, School of Media
Grangegorman Campus, Rathdown House, Room RD005
8:45 – 9 Registration
9 – 9:15 Opening remarks
9:15 – 11
Panel 1 – Vernacular and Material Histories
Gail Baylis (Ulster University) ‘Delving beneath the purely Visual Surface: The Keogh Brothers postcards of Easter 1916’
Margaret O’Brien-Moran (Independent Researcher) ‘Eyes Fixed on the Past: The Poole Photographic Print Archive’
Aileen O’Carroll (Maynooth University) ‘Visualising the Irish Working Class: Photographs and the Dublin Docker’
Mhairi Sutherland (Dublin Institute of Technology) ‘Re-Imagining Treason: The Riddle of the Photograph’
Chair: Colin Graham (Maynooth University)
11–11:20 Coffee/Tea
11:20 – 12:45
Panel 2 – Producing Collective Identities
Eimear Walsh (Van Abbemuseum) ‘Future Archive: The Young Queer Irish Photographers of Püssys Collective’
Erika Hanna (University of Bristol) ‘Studio Portraiture and Social Norms in mid-Twentieth Century Ireland’
Vukaŝin Nedeljković (Dublin Institute of Technology) ‘Asylum Archive: An Archive of Asylum and Direct Provision in Ireland’
Chair: Valerie Connor (Dublin Institute of Technology)
12:45-2 Lunch
2–3:30
Panel 3 – Roundtable Discussion: The Place of Photography in Irish Public Archives
Panel Members:
Joy Carey and Gareth Montgomery (Digitisation manager and Senior archive photographer, Public Records Office of Northern Ireland)
Elizabeth Kirwan (Manager/ curator, National Photographic Archive, National Library of Ireland)
Zoë Reid (Senior conservator, National Archives of Ireland)
Crónán Ó Doibhlin (Head of research collections, University College Cork Library)
Chair: Orla Fitzpatrick (National Museum of Ireland)
3:45 – 5:15
Panel 4 – Landscape and Land Wars: Legacies of the Colonial
Feargal Fitzpatrick (National College of Art and Design and Maynooth University) ‘Ground Lens: Henry Craigie Brewster’s Cork Calotypes’
Emily Mark-FitzGerald (University College Dublin) ‘Poverty, Photography and Performance: Eviction and Intermediality in the Late Nineteenth Century’
Declan Sheehan (Curator) ‘The Glass Album: An Experiment in Curatorial Insurgence’
Chair: José Luís Nêves (Ulster University)
5.15 – 5:30 Closing remarks
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