Exhibiting the Past and the Present: Scottish and Irish Museums, 1880 to the present

Exhibiting the Past and the Present: Scottish and Irish Museums, 1880 to the present

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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