Research: Lectures & conference papers

Public Lectures and Conference Papers

• Benjamin Anderson, '(Im)Material Interventions: Creative and Cultural Workers' Responses to Precarity and the Housing Crisis', Historical Materialism, London, 9 November 2024.
• Conor Lucey, ‘Did women really build?’, Women in building construction in the early modern period, Institute of Historical Research/Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, London, 7 November 2024.
• Benjamin Anderson, 'Illusions of Skill: Work and Fetishism in the Craft Economy', Centre de Recherche Interuniversitaire sur la Mondialisation et le Travail annual conference (Work on the Brink), Montreal, 24 October 2024.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Jesuit Influence on Modern Irish Art', Culture Night, Clongowes Wood College, 20 October 2024. 
• Sean Leatherbury, 'The Byzantine Modernisms of Mainie Jellett and Norah McGuinness', Looking for Byzantium: Modernism and Byzantine Cultures Conference, Istanbul, 11 October 2024.
• Philip Cottrell, '"Pictures of him in several habits, and at several ages, and in several postures" - Reframing Portraits of John Donne', Hibernia to Iberia: A Symposium celebrating the career of Dr. Peter Cherry, Scholar and Teacher, Trinity College Dublin, 12 October 2024.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Visualizing the Celtic Revival, The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland', Irish Association of Art Historians, United Arts Club, Dublin, 28 September 2024.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Harry Clarke's Stained Glass window in Church of Ss Michael and John', Thomas MacDonagh Hedge School, Cloughjordan, 22 September 2024. 
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Irish art and politics 1913-23 - Visual Art in the Irish Review', Thomas MacDonagh Hedge School, Cloughjordan, 21 September 2024.
• Conor Lucey [respondent], Hiding in plain sight: early modern women designers in Europe, SAH Virtual, 19-21 September 2024.
• Durrer, V., & Davey, M., 'Slow and steady? Capacity building for participatory governance in local arts development through practitioner-researcher collaboration', Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland, 17 September 2024.
• Durrer, V. & McGrath, A., 'Moving Maps: combining dance and cultural policy research to generate alternative cartographies of rural border regions on the island of Ireland', New Perspectives on Irish Cultures Conference Irish Humanities Alliance, University of Limerick, 5 September 2024.
• Conor Lucey, ‘The Georgian terrace house’, Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture, University of Cambridge, 17 July 2024.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland', The Yeats Sisters Symposium, Dundrum, 13 July 2024.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Remember that you do not live in the times of Brian Boru, but of Mr. Edison’, Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century in Ireland Conference, New York University, 28 June 2024.
• Fiona Smyth, 'the Tacit Turn: Designing the Silent Laboratory', 8th International Congress on Construction History, Zurich, 25 June 2024.
• Sean Leatherbury, 'Living and Thinking with Things in Late Antiquity: Ennodius on Firmina's Jewelry', 18th Trends in Classics International Conference, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 30 May 2024.
• Durrer, V., McAllister, E., & McGrath, A., (online) 'Shared Spaces? Researching arts policy on the island of Ireland', O'Neill School Centre for Cultural Affairs, Indiana University, 20 March 2024.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Chloethiel Woodard Smith and Denise Scott Brown', All Ireland Architectural Research Group, Dublin, 15 March 2024.
• Conor Lucey, 'Ornament manufactories, house building and property speculation in eighteenth-century Dublin', Les Mondes Professionnels de l’Ornement d’Architecture, 13 March 2024.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Writing Global Histories: The Belgian Friendship Building', Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 5 March 2024.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Women of the Arts and Crafts Movement', Lecture to mark St. Brigid's Day, organised by the Diaspora Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Iveagh House, Dublin, 1 Feb 2024.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'House Beautiful: Introducing American women to the world', Communicating Architecture: From the origins of modernity to the digital age conference, Granada, 25 January 2024.
• Lynda Mulvin, 'Dublin Exhibition 1853: marketing souvenirs and ephemera', Our great National Temple of Art and Industry The 1853 Great Industrial Exhibition, Royal Irish Academy and Royal Dublin Society, 23 November 2023. 
• Fiona Smyth, 'That little old echo: acoustics and designing for musical tone', The Institution of Structural Engineers, London, 24 October 2023.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, “Bauhaus Style”, Observations: Moments in Design History, National Gallery of Victoria (online), 21 October 2023. 
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Art and the Nation State', Highlanes Gallery, 19 October 2023.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'An international gift that was never presented – The Geneva Window,' Panel Discussion. Dublin Festival of History, Dublin Castle, 30 September 2023.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Expanding Agency: House Beautiful and the Dissemination of Modern Architecture and Design', UCD Retired Staff Association Autumn Lecture, University College Dublin, 15 September 2023.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Writing Global Histories: Henry van de Velde and the Belgian Friendship Building', Bauhaus & Beyond Symposium, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 30 August 2023.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Jack B. Yeats and the West of Ireland', 64th Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, 4 August 2023.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'The Bauhaus in a Global World', Bauhaus University, Weimar Germany, 31 July 2023.
• Annette Clancy, 'Defending against reflection: A psychoanalytic study of positive engagement in the workplace', 39th EGOS Colloquium, Cagliari, 7 July 2023.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'How to Succeed as a Woman: Chloethiel Woodard Smith and the Journalists who Promoted Her', Zaha Hadid Foundation, London, 29 June 2023.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Bringing Gris to Dublin: Evie Hone's collection of modern art', Juan Gris Study Day, National Gallery of Ireland, 29 June 2023.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'An Overlooked Example of European Modernism on an American Campus', Designing Urban Universities Conference, Trinity College Dublin, 24 June 2023.
• Annette Clancy, 'Defending against learning: Positive engagement activities as a social defence against the organisation of reflection', 24th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management: Transforming Business for Good, 16 June 2023.
• Conor Lucey, ‘Visiting tickets and social networking in Georgian Dublin’, annual conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, Dublin City University, 16 June 2023.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Expanding Agency: Women, Race, and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture and Design', Manchester School of Architecture (online), 21 April 2023.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'How to Succeed as a Woman: Chloethiel Woodard Smith and the Journalists who Promoted Her', Latrobe Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Washington, D.C., 4 April 2023.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'The West Coast of Ireland and the East Coast of America', The Children of Achill and Robert Henri, Museum of Childhood Ireland Achill History Festival, Achill, 25 March 2023.
• Carla Briggs, 'Margaret Clarke RHA at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art: her studies, friendships & early career', Old New Society, Newry and Mourne Museum, 25 March 2023.
• Conor Lucey, 'The Englishness of Irish rococo: the Dublin School of stucco workers', Rococo Across Borders: Designers and Makers, French Porcelain Society and Furniture History Society, V&A Museum, London, 24-25 March 2023.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Architectural History in a Global World', Transnationalising the Classroom conference, Humanities Institute, University College Dublin, 3 March 2023.
• Fiona Smyth, 'Urban Policy and Creative Cities: Listening to the Built Environment', Royal Irish Academy of Music, March 2023.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Expanding Agency: Three Women and Modern Architectural Culture in the United States', HI Lunchtime Seminar Series, UCD, 14 February 2023.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Weimar Urbanism', guest lecture, Washington University (online), 14 February 2023.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, (Roundtable) 'Conserving Histories: Women and Transnational Collaborations', SAH Connects Webinar, 26 January 2023.
• Aleksandra Gajowy, (Roundtable) 'Queering Jewish Studies', Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Boston, 18 December 2022.
• Conor Lucey, 'House and Home in Georgian Ireland', Irish Georgian Society, 6 December 2022.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'The Belgian Friendship Building', Trinity College Dublin, 24 November 2022.
• Róisín Kennedy, ‘Anything May Happen and Everything is Possible’ [Keynote] 100 Years of Self Determination Conference, IMMA, 11 November 2022.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Expanding Agency: Women and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture, 1920–1970', W. Bernard Herman Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Art History Lecture, University of Toronto, 1 November 2022.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Ethel Power', online lecture for University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 20 October 2022.
• Philip Cottrell, 'Turner and Romantic Nature', National Gallery of Ireland, 16 October 2022.
• Conor Lucey, 'The grand tour of Joseph Rose, plasterer and stucco-man', Robert Wood (1717-1771), Classicist and Traveller: Eighteenth-Century Books and European Networks, Marsh’s Library, Dublin, 14 October 2022.
• Róisín Kennedy, ‘Roderic O’Conor: Transnational Connections in Irish Art’, Roderic O’Conor Conference, Roscommon Arts Centre, 24 September 2022.
• Aleksandra Gajowy, 'Queer Decolonial Polishness? Polish Countryside, Folklore, and Queer Desire in Katarzyna Perlak’s work', Moving Away from ‘Post-socialism’: Reconceptualizing Scholarly Approaches to Contemporary Eastern Europe and Eurasia through Feminist and Queer Theory Lenses, Central European University, Budapest, 23-25 September 2022.
• John Loughman, 'Samuel van Hoogstraten's English Patrons', Close Encounters: Cross-Cultural Exchange between the Low Countries and England, 1600-1800, Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague, 22-23 September 2022.
• Conor Lucey, 'Houses as museums: researching and curating historic properties', Constructive Collaboration between Palace- and Castle Museums and Academia, Royal Lazienki Museum, Warsaw, 22 September 2022.
• Conor Lucey, 'Decorative plasterwork in Georgian Britain and Ireland: styles and practices of design and making', Institute for Classical Architecture and Art, Washington DC, 12 July 2022.
• Conor Lucey, 'The builder’s price book as a source of architectural innovation', biennial conference of the European Architectural History Network, Madrid, 15-18 June 2022.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Chloethiel Woodard Smith: Engaging through Exhibitions', interest group presentation, biennial conference of the European Architectural History Network, Madrid, 15 June 2022.
• Fiona Smyth, 'Cathedrals in the Air: Architecture in Sound and Memory', 52nd Series of the Martin Centre Lectures, University of Cambridge, 15 June 2022.
• Conor Lucey, 'Real estate and print culture in Georgian Britain and Ireland', Architecture and Real Estate: Historical Perspectives, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich, 10-11 June 2022.
• Aleksandra Gajowy, 'It Must Be Great Being You Watching Us: Queer Counterpublics in Karol Radziszewski’s Pedały (2005) and Karolina Sobel’s LEZBY (2020), Building Counterpublics Public Lecture Series, TU Munich, 23 May 2022.
• Conor Lucey, 'The end of a craft tradition?', Artisans and Architects, 1660-1760, Trinity College Dublin, 7-8 April 2022.
• Victoria Durrer, Rebecca Finkel, Anthony Schrag, 'Place-Specific Approaches to Sustainable Prosperity in the arts and cultural sector', Places Matter, Arts Council Ireland, 24-25 March 2022.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Conservation in a Shifting Landscape: The Future of Modern Architecture in South Asia', Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 23 March 2022.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Designing for Justice: Modernism and the Transformation of the Capital Region', Global Irish Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA, 21 March 2022.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Spiritual Heritage: Mendelsohn’s Late Synagogue Architecture in the U.S.', (online) Positioning: Erich Mendelsohn and the Built Heritage of the 20th Century, Berlin, 21 March 2022.
• Sean Leatherbury, 'Materialising Motion in the Early Byzantine Church', 54^th Annual Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Spring Symposium, Oxford, 19 March 2022.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Chloethiel Woodard Smith', (online) ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 10 March 2022.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Expanding Agency: women and modern architecture and design', (online), McGill University, Montreal, 21 February 2022.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'The Mariendom: A Place of Modern Pilgrimage', Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, 10 February 2022.
• Conor Lucey, 'Builders as designers: row housing in British architectural culture, 1750-1830’, Construction History in Belgium, Faculty of Architecture, University of Liège, 14 January 2022.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Expanding Agency: women and modern architecture and design', CASVA, Washington D.C., 2 December 2021.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Modern Ireland and Visual Art. A Dysfunctional Relationship', Contemporary Irish History Seminar, TCD Hub, 15 November 2021.
• Conor Lucey, 'Moderating an Irish urban imaginary’, Reflections on Malton, Irish Architectural Archive, 30 September 2021.
• Sean Leatherbury, 'Between the House and the Tomb: Local Responses to “Roman” Ways of Living and Dying in Osrhoene', The Roman Empire Without Rome, Queen’s University Belfast Wiles Colloquium, 9-10 September 2021.
• Victoria Durrer, Aoife McGrath, Peter Campbell, 'Dance and Borders in Northern Ireland', International Federation for Theatre Research International Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, 12-16 July 2021.
• Sean V. Leatherbury, 'Signing in Syriac: Artists’ "Signatures" and Identities in Late Antique Syria’, Leeds International Medieval Congress, 8 July 2021.
• Annette Clancy, 'Boredom as Potential Space: A Psychoanalytic Study of Boredom in Organisations', 23rd EGOS Colloquium, Vienna, Austria, 5-7 July 2021. (Online).
• Conor Lucey, ‘Single lives, single houses’, Species of Domestic Spaces: House and Home in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, UCD Humanities Institute, 18 June 2021.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Irish art at the Armory Show', ACIS (American Conference of Irish Studies), University of Ulster, Derry, 3 June 2021.
• Lynda Mulvin, 'Continuity and Change and the nature of Late Gothic in Ireland as manifest in certain architectural processes in Franciscan Friaries in Connacht, West of Ireland 1400-1600', biennial conference of the European Architectural History Network, Edinburgh, 2-5 June 2021.
• Conor Lucey, 'The lady vanishes? Women and the construction industry in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland’, biennial conference of the European Architectural History Network, Edinburgh, 2-5 June 2021.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Irish Art at the Armory Show', AICA conference, Derry, 3 June 2021.
• Conor Lucey, ‘Where are we now?’, Urban Representations Interest Group, biennial conference of the European Architectural History Network, Edinburgh, 2-5 June 2021.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Black Lives Matter: A view from Europe', Plenary Lecture, biennial conference of the European Architectural History Network, Edinburgh, 2 June 2021.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Modern Religious Architecture in Germany, Ireland, and Beyond', Religious Spaces in Transition, Donatus Mooney Seminar, 14 May 2021.
• Lynda Mulvin, 'Digital Technologies in Education: Keeping up with the pace of change, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 13 May 2021.
• Sean V. Leatherbury, 'Pilgrim Inscriptions in Late Antique Syria and Palestine: Materiality and Production’, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 11 May 2021.
• Victoria Durrer, Aoife McGrath, Peter Campbell, 'Dancing with Epistemic Borders: knowledge and unknowns in mixed-methods collaborations between dance and social science', Sociological Association of Ireland, 7 May 2021.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Exhibiting Values in Public Space', Public Monuments and Conflicted Pasts, Monuments Matter, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5 May 2021.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Some thoughts on post-independence concrete in the Global South', Engineering Independence: Concrete Architecture in the Global South, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 30, 2021.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Bruno Schmitz and the German Contribution to the Commemoration of the American Civil War', University of Illinois’s School of Architecture, 26 April 2021.
• Victoria Durrer, Aoife McGrath, Peter Campbell, 'Understanding the movement of artists across borders', BSA 70th Anniversary Virtual Conference: Remaking the Future, British Sociological Association, 14 Apr 2021.
• Róisín Kennedy, ''Giving a Fart in its Corduroys' Irish Attitudes towards Modern Art', UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy Research Seminar Series, 14 April 2021.
• Victoria Durrer, 'Dancing with Borders: A Mixed Methods Experiment in Understanding Artists’ Cross-Border Movement', UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy Research Seminar Series, 31 March 2021.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'A Place for All', Architectural History as a Global Discipline panel discussion, Washington University, St. Louis, 10 March 2021.
• Philip Cottrell, '"What in the world do you want with art in Manchester?": George Scharf and the Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857', TCD Research Seminar Series, 9 March 2021.
• Annette Clancy, 'Boredom as creative space: Insights from a psychoanalytic study of boredom in organisations', UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy Research Seminar Series, 24 February 2021.
• Lynda Mulvin, Organiser: Brendan Kane, 'Teaching, learning and researching Early Modern Irish in a digital age: Léamh.org', 28 January 2021.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Sonia Delaunay: Medium or Message?', Courtauld, 28 January 2021.
• Sean V. Leatherbury, 'From Domestic to Divine: The Mosaics of Late Antique Syria', Yale University Late Antique and Byzantine Art Seminar Series, 12 February 2021.
• Sean V. Leatherbury, 'Local Styles, Local Identities? The Mosaics of Edessa', Trinity College Dublin Classics Seminar, 3 February 2021.
• Victoria Durrer, 'Reflecting on the teaching of Arts Management in the Age of Covid, Brokering Intercultural Exchange Virtual Gathering', Heilbronn University, Germany, 13 January 2021.
• Conor Lucey, 'Water closets and wig rooms: selling home comforts in late Georgian Dublin', Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 10 December 2020.
• Lynda Mulvin, Organiser: Niall O' H'Oisin 'Industry and Digital Culture in Ireland', Digital Cultures Research Strand, 10 December 2020.
• Victoria Durrer, 'Gender Data in Arts and Cultural Management. Gender Data in the Cultural Sector: How to Bridge the Gap', European-wide workshop, Institute for Media Research, Rockstock, Germany, 11 December 2020.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Paul Henry and Modern Ireland: "Strange new beauty"', Kilmacanogue Historical Society, 1 December 2020.
• Conor Lucey, 'The neo-classical country house', Irish Country House Architecture lecture series, Irish Georgian Society/Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates, Maynooth University, 3 November 2020.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'A Towering Memorial: The Robert L. Vann Tower and the Belgian Friendship Building', Research Methods Seminar, Queen's University, Belfast, 21 October 2020.
• Conor Lucey, 'A genteel life in trade: the eighteenth-century builder in text and image', UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy Research Seminar Series, 21 October 2020.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Hosted SAH Connects conversation with Grafton Architects, 22 September 2020.
• Victoria Durrer, 'Blindspots of Participation & Perspectives of Change. Provocateur at Engaged Audiences: Strategies for Cultural Change', ADESTE+ European Conference, Rijeka, Croatia, 14 September 2020.
• Conor Lucey, '"So many brick-heaps piled one after the other": making architecture from building", Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain/Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 10 September 2020.
• Victoria Durrer, McGrath, A. & Campbell, P., 'Moving Methods: Understanding dance across borders', Crossing Borders, Connecting Cultures conference, International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe Research Network, 8 July 2020.
• Annette Clancy, '"We Believe", but they are angry: The psychodynamics of brand-as-leader', 36th EGOS Colloquium: Organizing for a Sustainable Future: Responsibility, Renewal & Resistance, University of Hamburg 2020,  3 July 2020.
• Victoria Durrer & Campbell, P., 'Negotiating Borders and Identities: The Operation of Cultural Policy across Contested Nation-States', Transnationalising the Humanities, UCD Humanities Institute, June 2020.
• Victoria Durrer, Cuyler, A., & Nisbett, M., 'Steadfastly White, female, hetero, and abled-bodied: An international survey of the motivations and experiences of arts management graduates', Arts Equity Summit, 2020, USA [online], 25 April 2020.
• Conor Lucey, 'Built in the best style of modern architecture’: property pages and property markets in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world', UCD Humanities Institute Research Seminar, 4 March 2020.
• Victoria Durrer, 'A Tale of Two Arts Offices: Building capacity for participatory governance, Northern Ireland & the Republic of Ireland', EU-South Africa Dialogue on Cultural Mapping, Planning and Impact Assessment for Sustainable & Just Urban Development, Urban Centre for African Studies, University of Capetown, Dept of Arts and Culture South Africa, 26–28 February 2020.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, 'Keeping Going’, Changemakers Conference: The Transformative Power of Festivals, Arts Council of Ireland. University of Limerick, 14 February 2010.
• Lynda Mulvin, 'Reflections in Digital Educational Uses: keeping up with the pace of change', Decolonising the Museum: narratives from nationalism to universalism, JNU, New Delhi, 14 February 2020.
• Lynda Mulvin, 'Ireland Uncovered: The Book of Kells & Perspectives on Irish Art', JNU School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Dehli, 13 February 2020.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Keynote speaker, Race, ethnicity, equality & inclusion in higher education in Ireland and the UK, Royal Irish Academy and the British Council, 30 January 2020.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Henry van de Velde und Frank Lloyd Wright: Parallele Leben', Tagung: Ein Flame in Deutschland – Henry van de Veldes Wirken für Europa und die Welt, Chemnitz, 11 December 2019.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Living for the Bauhaus: Houses or Housing?', Temple Bar Studios, Dublin Art Book Fair 2019, 30 November 2019.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Panel ’Town planning - from Beaux Art to Critical Modernism’, Louis Kahn ’Silence and Light’, Zurich, 22 November 2019.
• Philip Cottrell, 'Leonardo: the science of the painter', Leonardo Visits University College Dublin, UCD O’Brien Centre for Science, 21 November 2019.
• Conor Lucey, 'A new perspective on James Malton’s A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin’, Foxrock Local History Club, 19 November 2019.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, 'Paul Strzelecki and the Great Irish Famine', Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny, Krakow, 19 November 2019.
• Róisín Kennedy, ''Mobilise the Poets' - art and culture in the Irish Revolution', History Ireland Hedge School, Allingham Festival, Ballyshannon, 9 November 2019.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Harry Clarke’s Geneva Window. Censorship and Art in Ireland', Inaugural Nicola Gordon Bowe Lecture,  Nano Nagle Place in partnership with Cork Decorative & Fine Arts Society, Saturday, 19 October 2019. 
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Site of Production, Using Visual Materials as Historical References', IAPH Workshop, 12 October 2019.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'From the Local to the Transnational: Situating the Bauhaus', National Gallery of Ireland, 6 October 2019.
• Conor Lucey, 'Chambers and Stuart at Ely House', Transformation: From Fortified House to Georgian Villa, Office of Public Works, 5 October 2019.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, 'To leave and to remain: Irish migration museology and diaspora politics', Migrating memories: dialogues on the relationship between memory, heritage and migration, Association of European Migration Institutions, Red Star Line Museum, Antwerp, 4 October 2019.
• Conor Lucey, 'Building reputations', Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Torino, 4 October 2019.
• Conor Lucey, 'Developers and scrubbers: women in the building industry', Embroidered with Dust and Mortar: Women and Architecture, 1660–1830, Society of Antiquaries, London, 28 September 2019.
• Annette Clancy, Paper Development Workshop (jointly hosted with John Cullen School of Business, Maynooth, Alison Hood Dean of Teaching & Learning, Maynooth, Claire McGuinness School of Information & Communication Studies, UCD) for Special Issue of the Journal of Management on "Experiential Learning in Large Classes", University of Maynooth Business School, 27 September 2019.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Irish Art of the Revolution', Douglas Hyde Conference, Ballaghaderreen, 27 September 2019.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Harry Clarke: artist of the Irish Free State', Clifden Arts Festival, 21 September 2019.
• Lynda Mulvin, 'Making Monasteries: Irish 'Peregrine' Monks in Alpine and Apennine Networks, Recorded by Margaret Stokes (1832–1900)', Forum Mittelalters, Bern, 18-21 September 2019.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Gallery Talk - Oidhreacht: Transforming Tradition', Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, 14 September 2019.
• Lynda Mulvin (with Dr Anna Kadzik, & Niall O Hoisin, Noho),'Keeping pace with change – Digital Tools for Education sustainable use of resources', Role of Digital Technologies in framing policy: Cultural Heritage Education Conservation, NMI, 13 September 2019.
• Conor Lucey, ‘Views and prospects: James Malton’s eighteenth-century vedute of Dublin’, Biennial conference of the Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana, Bologna, 11-14 September 2019.
• Lynda Mulvin (with Dr Anna Kadzik, & Niall O Hoisin, Noho), 'CEMEC Digital Tools for Education /sustainable use Cross Cultural Timeline', Digital Technologies and Education: Keeping up with the pace of change, UCD Humanities Institute, 6 September 2019.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Speaker and Panel organiser: ‘Archiving the 8th’, Activist Histories of Ireland, Oxford University, 12 July 2019.
• Lynda Mulvin, 'Travels of Neoclassical artists and ‘imitation’ of the antique: Robert Wood (1717-1771) and Approaches to the ruins of Palmyra and Baalbek as journeys through space and time', SAHANZ 2019 Distance Looks Back, University of Sydney NSW, 11 July 2019.
• Annette Clancy, (with R. Vince, I. Kjellstrand, M. Mohamed & F. Yang), ‘How to Study Emotions?’, Enlightening the Future: The Challenge for Organizations: 35th EGOS Colloquium, University of Edinburgh Business School, 6 July 2019.
• Annette Clancy, ‘Emotions that Inhibit Reflexivity in Organisations’, Enlightening the Future: The Challenge for Organizations: 35th EGOS Colloquium, University of Edinburgh Business School, 6 July 2019.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Teaching to the Chester Beatty: Courts and Court Cultures', Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, Chester Beatty Library, 22 June 2019.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, ‘Paul Strzelecki: Philanthropy and the Irish Famine’, Royal Irish Academy, 12 June 2019.
• Róisín Kennedy, ‘Harry Clarke. Stained Glass Legacy’, University of the 3rd Age, Dun Laoghaire, 11 June 2019.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'From the Local to the Transnational: Situating the Bauhaus', keynote, Bauhaus and Greece: Art and Architecture, Athens, 29 May 2019.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'The Diversity of Women’s Engagement with Modern Design', Women in Design, National Museum of Ireland, 24 May 2019.
• Philip Cottrell, '“What in the world do you want with art in Manchester?”: Sir George Scharf’s Survey of Country House Collections, 1856-57', Country House Collections: Their Past, Present & Future, 17th Annual Historic Houses Conference, Maynooth University, Castletown House, National Gallery of Ireland, 13-15 May 2019.
• Conor Lucey, ‘System decorating and the early-nineteenth century interior’, The Nineteenth-Century Decorative Interior, Dublin Civic Trust, 14 May 2019.
• Annette Clancy, Keynote, ‘Backwards and in High Heels’, Soroptimist International 53rd Annual North-South Conference, Newcastle, Co Down, 11 May 2019.
• Lynda Mulvin, ‘Practical Architectural and design and the role of architectural publications in the nineteenth century: the impact of James Cavanah Murphy (1760-1814) and Owen Jones (1809-1874)’, Global Diffusion of the Moorish revival Exhibitions, Academies and Polytechnical Schools, Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitecture de la Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, 10-11 May 2019.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, ‘The Impact of Formalism upon Vincent Scully’, Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Providence, USA, 26 April 2019.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'César Daly and the Architecture of the Future', Dialogue with Gary He, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, 22 April 2019.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, ‘Balancing Activism and Academic Life’, Athena Swan Lecture Series, Queen’s University Belfast, 10 April 2019.
• Philip Cottrell, 'The Age of Titian: Venice's Oldest Old Master', National Gallery of Ireland, 4 April 2019.
• Conor Lucey, ‘A new perspective on James Malton’s Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin’, Rathmichael Historical Society, 3 April 2019.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, ‘Troubled Pasts and the Sins of Irish Public History-Making’, American Conference of Irish Studies, Boston, 22 March 2019.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, ‘Love/Hate: Harry Furniss, Ireland, and Zozimus (the “Irish Punch”)’, American Conference of Irish Studies, Boston, 21 March 2019.
• Philip Cottrell,’The Venetian cityscape from Carpaccio to Canaletto’, Canaletto Study Morning, National Gallery of Ireland, 2 March 2019.
• Nicola Figgis, ‘Venice and the Grand Tour, Canaletto Study Morning, National Gallery of Ireland, 2 March 2019.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, ‘Fact and Fantasy: Social Realism and 19th c. Social Depiction, An Culturlann, Derry, 21 February 2019.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, ‘Reform not Revolution: German Church Architecture 1919-1968’, Twentieth-century Society, London, 21 February 2019.
• Annette Clancy, ‘The Emotional Life of Organisations’, Chartered Accountants Leinster Society, Chartered Accountants House, Dublin, 12 February 2019.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, ‘Commemorating Famine: A Visual Culture of Memory’, symposium to accompany premiere of Famished by Cherry Smyth, University of Greenwich, 7 February 2019.
• Róisín Kennedy, Chair: Mary Swanzy Seminar, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1 February 2019.
• Philip Cottrell, ’Venice’s Myths and Traditions through Canaletto’s Lens’, National Gallery of Ireland, 3 February 2019.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, ‘Bauhaus 50th anniversary in 1969’, Center for Critical Studies in Architecture, German Architecture Museum Frankfurt, 31 January 2019.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, ‘Archiving Activism: Archiving the 8th’, Why Not a Woman? Celebrating Women in Public and Private Life in Ireland, 1918-2018, Dublin Castle, 15 December 2018.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'The Bauhaus Legacy in the German Democratic Republic', C-MAP research seminar, Museum of Modern Art, 6 December 2018.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'The Bauhaus, its Pedagogy and its Global Context', Moving Away – Bauhaus Pedagogy, India International Centre, New Delhi, 2 December 2018.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Panellist: 'Entertaining protest – can museums be spaces of dissent, fact and entertainment at the same time?’, UK Museums Association annual conference, Belfast, 9 November 2018.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Convenor: 'The future of exhibiting troubled pasts: institutional histories in Ireland and Northern Ireland’, UK Museums Association annual conference, Belfast, 8 November 2018.
• Róisín Kennedy, chair, AICA-Ireland, Art and Brexit, Belfast City Hall, 1 November 2018.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Denise Scott Brown’s campus planning', University of Chicago, 1 November 2018.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, 'The Monster in the Mirror: Frankenstein, Magic Lanterns, and Early Cinema’ Frankenweek Conference, University of Limerick, 26 October 2018.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Modernism as Memory: Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany', University of Edinburgh, 25 October 2018.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Why do [Irish] museums love Modern Art? Is this a good thing?', ResFest Belfast, in conjunction with the Courtauld Institute, Ulster Museum Belfast.
• Conor Lucey, ‘Sir William Chambers’, Great Georgian architects: how they shaped the classical city of Dublin, Irish Georgian Society and Dublin City Council, 2 October 2018.
• Conor Lucey, ‘The stuccoed interior in Georgian Ireland’, Big House Interiors, Dromana House, Waterford, 9 September 2018.
• Conor Lucey, 'Architectural graphics and the terraced house in Dublin and Edinburgh, 1790-1810', European Association for Urban History, Rome, 30 Aug 2018.
• Philip Cottrell, ‘The Portrayal of Death and Dying in Renaissance Art’, Friends of the Chester Beatty Library, 29 August 2018.
• Conor Lucey, ‘Neoclassicism and the book in eighteenth-century Ireland’, Irish Architectural Archive, 23 August 2018.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, ’To Fix the Public Eye: Ireland Through the Stereoscope c. 1900’, Stereo and Immersive Media Conference, Lusófona University, Lisbon, 28 July 2018. 
• Nicola Figgis, ‘Foreign artists in 18th-century Dublin’, Irish Georgian Society, 24 July 2018.
• Lynda Mulvin, ‘Margaret Stokes and pioneering investigations of ‘Irish Scribes on the Continent’’, Scholar in Focus: Margaret Stokes (1832-1900): Archaeologist and Antiquary, RSAI, 27 June 2018.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, 'Ireland through the Stereoscope: Seeing Irish Poverty in 3D at the turn of the Century', American Conference of Irish Studies, University College Cork, 18-22 June 2018.
• Conor Lucey and Lynda Mulvin, 'Rethinking architectural colour' [Chaired Session], European Architectural History Network, Tallinn, Estonia, 13-16 June 2018.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, ‘Art / Activism / Community / Nation', Building Stronger and More Stable Neighborhoods In Europe and North America Conference, Indiana University Berlin Gateway / IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Berlin, 8 June 2018.
• Lynda Mulvin, 'Extra Illustrations by Charles Robert Cockerell and James Cavanah Murphy from Collections at the Gennadius Library Athens and Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven', The Unique Copy: Extra-Illustration, Word and Image, and Print Culture, Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, Germany, 24-25 May 2018.
• Conor Lucey, 'James Malton's views of Dublin in context', National Gallery of Ireland, 20 May 2018.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Clouds, Blue Mountains and Black Bogs. The Ireland of Paul Henry',  The Schoolhouse for Art, Enniskerry, 15 May 2018. 
• Conor Lucey, 'Town houses: Classicism and the building world', English Architecture 1690-1750: To Be or Not To Be Palladian, University of Oxford, 12 May 2018.
• Conor Lucey, 'Personality crisis? Public architecture in 18th-century Ireland', Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Queen's University Belfast, 30 April 2018.
• Lynda Mulvin, (chair & paper) 'Presenting new approaches to virtual museum exhibitions: CEMEC ‘Connecting Early Medieval Museum' Collection of Europe', Virtual Heritage Network (VHN) Conference, Royal Irish Academy, 12-13 April 2018.
• Lynda Mulvin, 'Magnificent Some of Pompeii and the Roman World', Eithne Ryan Classics Lecture, Alexandra College, Dublin, 12 April 2018.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Plenary speaker & panellist, Public History & the Archive Seminar, NUI Galway, 11 April 2018.
• Lynda Mulvin, 'Redefining Creative Outcomes in CEMEC ‘Connecting Early Medieval Museum Collection of Europe’, Redefining Creativity in a connected world workshop, Unexpected Collaborations: Forging new connections between Heritage and Innovation, Near and Far, Creativity and Purpose: Culture Summit 2018, Abu Dhabi, 9 April 2018.
• Conor Lucey, 'Social transvestitism and the eighteenth-century building world: the case of the Macaroni Bricklayer', Association for Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art and King's College London, 5-7 April 2018.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, 'Public art & memory: commemorating contested histories in contemporary Ireland', Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 20 March 2018.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, co-organizer & chair, Collecting the Future (Irish Museums Association Annual Conference), Enniskillen Co. Fermanagh, 2-3 March 2018.
• Róisín Kennedy, 'Harry Clarke and the new Ireland', Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, Tralee, 27 February 2018.
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, ‘Set in stone? The Politics of Public Statues’, National Museum of Ireland, 27 January 2018.
• Kathleen James-Chakraborty, 'Denise Scott Brown and Zaha Hadid: From Periphery to the Centre', (Keynote) Women Architects and Politics in the Long 20th Century: Biographies, Buildings, Ideologies, Memories conference, German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt, 18 January 2018.