Detailed Schedule

Symposium 

Black Irish Contemporary Cultural Production and Social Processes

Time

Event

Location

9:15 am – 9:45 am

Registration and Tea/Coffee

The Douglas Hyde

9:55 – 10:35

Welcoming & Introduction Session

Dr Georgina Jackson, Director of The Douglas Hyde
Dr Linda Doyle, Provost of Trinity College Dublin
Dr Phil Mullen, Assistant Professor of Black Studies, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Alice Rekab, Artist

Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute

10:35 – 12:10

Session I: Heritage and Identity

Registos Bantu – Corporeality, Memory and Placement,  Henrique J. Paris, Artist

‘They don’t do much in the cane-hole way’, Hidden Histories of the Irish Diaspora in Jamaica, Marianne Keating, Artist and Researcher

Moving from Ally to Accomplice – A comparative analysis of Alice Rekab’s ‘Family Lines’ and Stanley Février’s ‘Museum of the Invisible’ in positing pragmatism through exhibition making, Ingrid Lyons, Writer

Thinking Alice Rekab’s ‘Family Lines’, Dr John Wilkins, Writer and Researcher

Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute

12:10 – 12:30

Tea/Coffee Break

Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute

12:30 – 14:10

Session II: Migration and Culture

Mmiri & I, Chinedum Muotto, Artist

Darling, Don’t Turn Your Back On Me, Thaís Muniz, Artist

Migration / Integration, Ishmael Claxton, Artist

The making of Bia! Zine: A migrant storytelling project and food publication, Victory Nwabu-Ekeoma, Writer, Creative Producer, and Global Health Researcher

Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute

14:30 – 15:15

Lunch

Hoey Ideas Space, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute

15:15 – 16:00

Workshop (Group I)

Community Oracle Reading, Samantha Brown, Artist

The Irish Art Research Centre (TRIARC)

16:15 – 17:00

Workshop (Group II)

Community Oracle Reading, Samantha Brown, Artist

The Irish Art Research Centre (TRIARC)

Culture Night 2022 Programme

18:00 – 18:45

Performance

Mythlantic Family/Clann Miotlantach, Alice Rekab and Steve Rekab, Artists

The Douglas Hyde

19:00 – 20:00

Artist Talk

Alice Rekab in-conversation with Georgina Jackson

The Douglas Hyde

20:15 – 21:15

Music Session

BLACKBOYSBLUSH*, E the Artist and Guests

The Douglas Hyde