Project Director: Dr. Miriam Haughton (Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway) Project Chairs: Dr. Miriam Haughton (Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway) Dr. Charlotte McIvor (Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, NUI Galway) Dr. Emilie Pine (School of English, Film, and Drama, UCD) Conference Organisers: Dr. Miriam Haughton (Centre for Drama, Theatre […]
Read more "Conference Team"Thursday 27 October Venue: UCD Humanities Institute 9.30am Registration 10-11.30 Panel one: Theatre Chair: Miriam Haughton (NUIG) Dayna Killian (WIT), ‘Questioning the filters and factors of decision making in Irish theatre programming in relation to the work of Teresa Deevy’ Patricia O’Beirne (NUIG), ‘Sisters in Arms: Feminist Theatre in 1980s Ireland’ Alinne Fernandes (UFSC), ‘Patricia […]
Read more "CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: 27th & 28th October, UCD."1916: Home: 2016 Conference Schedule, NUI Galway 7-8 October 2016 Venue: G010, The Moore Institute, Hardiman Research Building Registration There is no charge for registration, but please confirm your attendance via email to ‘1916home2016@gmail.com’ for catering purposes. All teas/coffees/lunches and the wine reception are included. Friday 7 October 9.15 – 9.45: Registration 9.45 – 10.15: […]
Read more "CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: 7th & 8th October, NUI Galway."Filmbase Presents: The Feminists Are Awake … and they’re up late, having the craic. #TFAA is an evening of performances featuring everything from storytelling to poetry to burlesque. Hosted by the brilliant Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh, all proceeds collected go to the Rape Crisis Network Ireland. There’s raffles, music, cakes and all attendees are welcome to […]
Read more "EVENT: The Feminists Are Awake – Filmbase, Dublin"Abstract We explore the relationship between the ongoing policing of female reproductive autonomy and restrictions placed on women’s civic rights in Ireland. The 1916 Proclamation, influenced by first wave feminists and socialists, asserted that the Irish Republic would grant ‘equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the […]
Read more "KEYNOTE: Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A. – Performance Lecture ‘Homing In on the States We Are In’."This talk places new research into epigenetics into conversation with several feminist memory projects from different parts of the globe that each use fabric, skin and touch as media of transmission. It attempts to think about how art can mobilize the memory of violent pasts to foster solidarity and action in the present, and the […]
Read more "KEYNOTE: Marianne Hirsch – Epi-Memory, Art and Action"The proposed project, When Silence Falls, is a one-day, multidisciplinary event recognising the history and memory of the Laundries and Industrial Schools in the South-East of Ireland. The event proposes an exploration of the memory of the Magdalene institutions through a site-specific, practice-based approach incorporating a live art durational performance; audio/visual installations; and academic talks […]
Read more "PROJECT: When Silence Falls: Exploring Bodily and Literary Memory in the Waterford Laundry"Marian and Joseph: A Revolutionary Love Story is a work in progress piece and will present extracts in an ‘installation’ style combining performance and archival film. The piece captures Irish Political Melodramas performed at the Queens Theatre in Dublin and beyond. Looking through the characters eyes; that of the noted diarist Joseph Holloway and the […]
Read more "PROJECT: Marian and Joseph: A Revolutionary Love Story"This keynote will take the form of a performance score that begins with the singular event of 1916 and the 200+ year durational “non-event” that goes by the short hand Magdalene Laundries singing an asynchronous duet. In this “score” I will both demonstrate and narrate the processes by which we might start to answer how […]
Read more "KEYNOTE: Seeing with Our Ears, Hearing with Our Eyes: A Home-Makers Guide to the Twenty-First Century – Katie Gough"The Prisons Memory archive is a collection of 175 filmed walk-and-talk interviews back inside the prisons of the Anglo-Irish ‘Troubles’ (a period of 30 years of armed political conflict stretching approximately from 1968 to 1998). Applying principles of co-ownership and protocols of inclusivity and life-story telling, 175 people were filmed inside the empty Armagh Gaol […]
Read more "KEYNOTE: Prisons Memory Archive – Cahal McLaughlin"
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