Ireland, Museums, Empire, Colonialism Conference @imec2022
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Great questions and perspectives on whether people relate to binary categorisation of items #imec22 @BrionyWiddis
Our last paper of today is by our conference organiser @BrionyWiddis Dr Briony Widdis (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘Museums, Empire and Northern Irish Identity: some histories and responses to Colonialism and Empire’ #imec22
Lucy Wray delivering a paper ‘Projecting Empire’ discussing lantern slides held in National Museums NI’s collections #Imec22
One of our conference organisers Dr Emma Reisz (Queen’s University Belfast) is now presenting on ‘China in Irish museums: collections and collectors’. Currently providing great insight into the role of the Harte family #Imec22
Great to have our final keynote, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin; Irish Research Council) tuning in from California to deliver her paper ‘The English Empire and Early Modern Ireland’ #imec22
We are grateful that @JolaNandi is sharing her poetry with us #imef22
Amazing insights into the material artefacts collected by casement and the repositories holding these items or ‘curiosities’ by Dr Angus Mitchell #imec22
We now have Dr Angus Mitchell (MDU/University of Limerick) delivering his paper ‘Voice of Reason: curating Roger Casement’s colonial artefacts during the Decade of Centenaries’ #Imec22
Great to be joined by Dr Laura McAtackney (Aarhus University) for her paper, ‘The Potential of Including Other Irish Experiences of Empire’. Laura is currently discussing the Irish in the Caribbean #imec22 @LMcAtackney
Great to be joined online Dr Darragh Gannon (University College Dublin/New York University) from across the Atlantic sharing on ‘Provincializing Irish History: the case for the Global Archive’ @DGannon2016 rte.ie/centuryireland… #imec22
We’re back after lunch and hearing a fantastic paper from Dr Ashok Malhotra (Queen’s University Belfast) on ‘Robert McCarrison's Nutritional Research Laboratories and Museum in Tamil Nadu, 1925-1935’ #imec22
We are now viewing Dr Maebh O’Regan’s paper (National College of Art and Design) ‘A Discourse on Death: Fact and Fiction in Richard Moynan’s Visual Representation of the Battle of Isandlwana’ brilliant visuals! #imec22
Ciaran O’Neill providing reflections on the institutional exposure to the legacy of George Berkeley #imec22
We now have the pleasure of hearing not from one speaker, but three! Dr Mobeen Hussain, Dr Ciaran O’Neill, and Dr Patrick Walsh (Trinity College Dublin) presenting on ‘Understanding Trinity’s colonial legacies’ @amhuss27 @SpeakerConolly @tcddublin #imec22
Thank goodness for hybrid! We’re delighted to be joined online by @drbouchard (Head of Learning and Interpretation, English Heritage) delivering a paper entitled ‘The past and present of British imperial monuments in public spaces on the island of Ireland’ #imec22
Brill start to the 2nd day of @imec2022. Professor Shahid Vawda asking important ?? about epistemes of knowledge-making and decentring European thoughtmuseum spaces and @LMcAtackney reminding us to question who is hired in musuem professions beyond low paid, precarious positions.

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