This is a past event
10 am
Opening remarks by Professor Thomas Bartlett (University of Aberdeen)
10.10-11.15 am
Professor Fintan Cullen (University of Nottingham): Art, Union and Nationhood: creating a museum for Dublin in the 1890s Chair: T. Bartlett
11.15-11.30 am
Coffee
11.30 am - 12.30 pm
Dr Neil Curtis (University of Aberdeen): The Scottish Exhibition of 1911: Exhibiting Scottish Identity Chair: Professor John Morrison
12.30-1.30 pm
Dr Mark O’Neill (Glasgow Life): The Origins of Kelvingrove: Immortality, Exhibitions, Social Reform and Identity Chair: to be confirmed
1.30-2 pm
Lunch (available in RIISS)
2-3 pm
Lar Joye (National Museum of Ireland): Challenges of Context and Content: designing the Soldiers and Chiefs exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland Chair: T. Bartlett
3-4 pm
Visit to the Jacobite Exhibition in the New University Library. Talk by Siobhan Convery (Curator of Special Collections) Refreshments will be served
4-5 pm
Trevor Parkhill (National Museums of Northern Ireland): Nobody knows the Troubles I’ve seen: a museum’s display of recent conflict in Northern Ireland Chair: Dr Michael Brown (Acting Director, RIISS)
5-5.45 pm
Roundtable discussion, chaired by Professor Andrew Blaikie (University of Aberdeen)
6.30 pm
Dinner for Conference speakers.
- Venue
- University of Aberdeen