Research Seminar Series Autumn 2024
Dr Priscilla Sonnier(Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland)
Pomp, poplins and portraiture: visualising gendered patriotism in Ascendancy Ireland
Monday, 11 November, 3:00pm | Rosemarie Mulcahy Seminar Room (J004), Newman Building
Professor Aphra Kerr(UCD School of Information and Communication Studies)
Digital Games as a Creative and Cultural Industry
Monday, 21 Oct, 3:00pm | Rosemarie Mulcahy Seminar Room (J004), Newman Building
Professor Jane Hawkes(Department of History of Art, University of York)
Globalising the Insular. The place of the early medieval in the history of art
Tuesday, 17 September, 5:00pm | Theatre O, Newman Building
Past Research Lectures/Seminars
- Apr 8, 2024: Labour Powers, Artists with Disabilities, and a New Welfare Imaginary, Philip Finn, Maynooth University
- Mar 4, 2024: “Occupy me, take place in me:” Desiring Encounters with Polish Lesbian Archives, Aleksandra Gajowy, UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy
- Feb 27, 2024: Improvising Across Boundaries: Developing a co-produced and collaborative methodology for capturing the gendered experiences of improvising musicians in Ireland, Sarah Raine, UCD School of Music
- Feb 19, 2024: Interdisciplinary Insights: Professional, Cultural, and Social Impacts of Youth Dance, Louise McKeever, Queen’s University Belfast / UCD
- Nov 6, 2023: Leagues Apart: Acoustics and an Architecture of Diplomacy, Fiona Smyth, UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy
- Oct 16, 2023: P. Morton Shand: The Architectural Critic Between British and European Modernism, Alborz Dinat, Postdoctoral Researcher, UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy
- Oct 2, 2023: Transcultural Perspectives: Rethinking Yeats and Irish Modernism in a Global Context, Elisabeth Ansel, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Department of History of Art and Film Studies
- Apr 24, 2023: Art Automata: Music in the Age of Machine Learning, Dónal Fullam, Assistant Professor in Creative and Cultural Industries, UCD
- Mar 6, 2023: Diversity and K-pop, Kim-Marie Spence, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast
- Feb 13, 2023: The Stores That Trade in Human Misery: African American Organising Against Liquor Stores in South Central Los Angeles, 1980-1994, George Francis Kelly, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Art History & Cultural Policy, UCD
- Nov 21, 2022: Built to brew: The nineteenth-century brewery in Ireland, Livia Hurley, Design Fellow, School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, UCD
- Oct 20, 2022: Diversity of Cultural Tastes and Public Funding for the Arts, Michael Rushton, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
- Oct 3, 2022: The Australian Art Field: Governance, Institutions, and the Social, Deborah Stevenson, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
- Feb 7, 2022: Following the data: A methodology for cultural policy research and well-being data, Susan Oman, Sheffield
- Feb 21, 2022: Queer decolonial Polishness? Polish countryside, folklore, and queer desire in Katarzyna Perlak’s work, Aleksandra Gajowy, UCD
- Mar 28, 2022: Becoming a change-maker in museums: Reflections on the UK Museums Association’s ‘Transformers’ workforce development initiative, Nuala Morse, Leicester
- Nov 15, 2021: Richard King's stylistic development as a stained glass artist from 1930-73, Ruth Sheehy, Trinity College Dublin
- Nov 1, 2021: Antiquity in Gotham: The ancient architecture of New York City, Elizabeth Macaulay, CUNY Graduate Centre
- Oct 18, 2021: Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America: Current challenges and collaborations, Federico Escribal (National University of the Arts & National University of La Plata) & Raphaela Henze (Heilbronn University)
- Apr 14, 2021: Giving ‘a fart in its corduroys’: Irish attitudes towards Modern Art, Dr Róisín Kennedy, UCD
- Mar 31, 2021: Dancing with Borders: A Mixed Methods Experiment in Understanding Artists’ Cross-Border Movement, Dr Victoria Durrer, UCD
- Feb 24, 2021: Boredom as creative space: Insights from a psychoanalytic study of boredom in organisation, Dr Annette Clancy, UCD
- Nov 25, 2020: Trending in the Margins: Contemporary Art of Nigeria in the Global Markets, Jonathan Adeyemi, QUB
- Nov 4, 2020: Wall Mosaics: Cross-Cultural Encounters, and Collective Memory between Byzantium, Persia, and Islam, Dr Sean Leatherbury, UCD Ad Astra Fellow in Art History
- Oct 21, 2020: A Genteel Life in Trade: The Eighteenth-century Builder in Text and Image, Dr Conor Lucey, UCD
- Feb 17, 2020: Living on Campus: The Architecture of American College Dormitories in the Twentieth Century, Professor Carla Yanni, Rutgers University
- Feb 4, 2020: Durability and Disease: Guido Reni’s Paintings on Silk, Dr Aoife Brady, Curator of Italian & Spanish Art, National Gallery of Ireland
- Nov 28, 2019: Mothers, Lovers and Others: Cults, Icons and Goddesses in Hindu Tantra, Monalisa Behera, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Dehli
- Oct 22, 2019: Curating in Dublin City, Ruairí Ó Cuív, Public Art Officer, Dublin City Arts Office
- Oct 1, 2029: The Politics of Interior Design: From Viceroy’s House to Rashtrapati Bhavan, Professor Naman P. Ahuja, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Nov 20, 2018: The "Other" Farnsworth House, Jan Frohburg / Social Smoking and French Fancies: the Dublin Art Club, 1886 - 1898, Dr Kathryn Milligan
- Oct 23, 2018: Drawing Titian's Caesars: A Rediscovered Album by Bernardino Campi, Frances Coulter / Architecture, Its Histories and Their Audiences, Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
- Oct 9, 2018: Playful Pantheon: Self-Fashioned Sexual Narratives in Joshua Reynolds’ Mrs. Musters as Hebe and Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces, Priscilla Sonnier / Ireland Through the Stereoscope: Ireland in 3D Photography at the Turn of the Century, Assoc. Professor Emily Mark-FitzGerald
- Nov 21, 2017: Encounter, Collaboration and Negotiation: An Interrogation of Co-creation in Contemporary Irish Collaborative Art Practices, David Teevan
- Nov 14, 2017: Unpublished Drawings by James Cavanah Murphy (1760-1814) at the Gennadius Library, Athens, Assoc. Professor Lynda Mulvin
- Oct 24, 2017: Materials and Craftsmanship in Architectural Production, Assoc. Professor Christine Casey, Trinity College Dublin
- Oct 5, 2017: Dublin’s Bourgeois Homes: Building the Victorian Suburbs, 1850-1901, Dr Susan Galavan, University of Leuven
- Apr 27, 2017: The Poetry of Vision: The Rosc Art Exhibitions 1967-1988, Dr Peter Shortt
- Apr 6, 2017: A Body is a Body: The Embodied Politics of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Contemporary Irish Art, Dr Kate Antosik-Parsons
- Mar 9, 2017: IMMA Collection: Freud Project The National Collection Reflects, Christina Kennedy, Irish Museum of Modern Art
- Feb 23, 2017: The Story of the Art and Design Division of the National Museum of Ireland through its Collections of Decorative Arts, Design and History, Dr Audrey Whitty, National Museum of Ireland
- Nov 10, 2016: Silver in Georgian Dublin: making, selling, consuming, Dr Alison FitzGerald, NUI Maynooth
- Oct 20, 2016: The person behind the picture: the Dublin Civic Portrait Collection, Dr Mary Clark, Dublin City Archivist & curator of the Dublin Civic Portrait Collection
- Sep 29, 2016: Not another book on the Country House!, Dr Patricia McCarthy
- Apr 20, 2016: ‘The Taking of Christ’ - Advanced research into Caravaggio’s Technique, Simone Mancini, Head of Conservation, National Gallery of Ireland
- Apr 14, 2016: Art History in India and Its Discontents in Global Times, Professor Parul Dave-Mukherji, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Feb 25, 2016: Modern Revival of Ancient Heritage: Ireland and China, Professor Chen Li, Beijing Foreign Studies University
- Feb 18, 2016: Globalism Before Europe? Arabia and India in the Churches of Medieval Ethiopia, Professor Finbarr Barry Flood, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities, NYU
- Feb 10, 2016: The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. New approaches of re-reading the medieval pilgrimage church at Finis Terrae, Professor Bernd Nicolai, Universität Bern
- Nov 19, 2015: Beyond Ulysses: searching for the city in Irish art history, Dr Kathryn Milligan
- Oct 15, 2015: “The excellent painter...” Research into the life and paintings of the Baroque artist, John Michael Wright (1617-1694), Eivlin Roden
- Sep 24, 2015: “An ornament to the city” Holy Trinity Church and the Capuchin Order, Patricia Curtin-Kelly
- Apr 14, 2015: The Greatest Show on Earth: George Scharf & the Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857, Dr Philip Cottrell, UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy
- Mar 3, 2015: Emily Carr - Conflicting Perspectives, Charles Hill, former curator of Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada
- Feb 10, 2015: Mendelsohn and Libeskind: a Hidden History. Jewish Identity, the Void, Architectural Metaphors and Traces through 20th-century Berlin, Professor Bernd Nicolai, University of Bern
- Feb 3, 2015: And Then There Were None: Waterwheel Mills and Nostalgia in the Art of Canadian Painter Homer Watson (1855-1936), Professor Brian Foss, UCD Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies
- Nov 11, 2014: Blazing Saddles: Aelbert Cuyp and the Equestrian Portrait, Dr John Loughman, UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy
- Oct 28, 2014: Encounters with Socrates: Conversational Settings in the ancient Athenian Agora, Dr Samantha Martin-McAuliffe, UCD School of Architecture
- Oct 21, 2014: Reversing the Route: Counter-Revolutionary Tours and Landscapes of post-1798 Ireland, Dr Finola O’Kane, UCD School of Architecture
- Oct 14, 2014: A is for Amulet: an A to Z through the Chester Beatty Collections, Fionnuala Croke, Director, Chester Beatty Library
- May 27, 2014: Sacred and profane in Titian's late mythologies, Dr Tom Nichols, University of Glasgow
- Apr 22, 2014: Architecture since 1400: Writing a Survey, Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty, UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy
- Apr 8, 2014: COMMEMORATING THE FAMINE: memory & the monument, Dr Emily Mark-FitzGerald, UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy
- Feb 11, 2014: Mies van der Rohe's Concert Hall: "...radical and conservative at once", Jan Frohburg, SAUL School of Architecture University of Limerick
- Nov 12, 2013: Eileen Gray: the Elusive Irish designer and architect, Jennifer Goff, National Museum of Ireland
- Nov 5, 2013: Painting and Sculpture for Art and Architecture of Ireland, Dr Nicola Figgis & Dr Paula Murphy, UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy
- Oct 9, 2013: Lord Charlemont’s Landscape: alternative views to Classical Marino, Dr. Ruth Musielak
- Apr 9, 2013: The ceroplastic oeuvres of Daniel Neuberger the Younger and Anna Felicitas Neuberger, Maeve McGrath, University of Regensburg
- Nov 27, 2012: Death of the Artist: Researching Artists' Monuments & Memorials in Baroque Rome, Corinna Ricasoli, IRCHSS postgraduate scholar
- Oct 11, 2012: Vermeer and Music: Love and Leisure in the Dutch Golden Age, Dr. Betsy Wieseman, Curator of Dutch Paintings, National Gallery, London
- Mar 29, 2012: Outside the Canon of High Renaissance Art: Masterpieces by Leone and Pompeo Leoni in Spain, Dr Rosemarie Mulcahy, Adjunct Professor at UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy
- Feb 16, 2012: Susanna and the Elders: Images of Venice, Dr Audrey Nicholls.
- Oct 27, 2011: Quantity over Quality: Decorative plasterwork as a commercial enterprise in Georgian Britain & Ireland, Dr Conor Lucey, National University of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in History (2010/11)