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Melancholia

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07 Nov 2014 / 08 Nov 2014 National Museum for Decorative Arts, Collins Barracks, Dublin
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The UCD Humanities Institute, the Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, the Irish Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland, and the UCD Centre for Gender, Culture and Identities, present Melancholia.

 

Description:

This two-day international, multidisciplinary seminar explores the topic of ‘melancholia’ from clinical, theoretical, film studies, and visual arts practice and curatorship perspectives. What does this term mean and how is it understood, worked with and represented in different contexts? We will be looking at how meanings for the term have developed over time and how contemporary understandings of ‘depression’, the ‘sublime’ and ‘affect’ have been used to think about experiences of melancholia. The programme includes a film screening, an art installation screening, an art performance, as well as a range of talks, responses and discussions with speakers specialising in the areas of clinical psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychology, visual arts practice and curatorship, and academic research fields, such as literary theory and criticism, philosophy, film studies, history, gender and sexuality studies, and art history and visual culture. The emphasis will be on discussion. Places are limited so early registration is advised. 

 

Schedule: 

Friday 7 November 2014

8.00 am-8.45 am Registration (including tea & coffee)

Room: Palatine Room

9.00 am-9.30am Welcome & Opening Remarks

Room: Palatine Room

9.30 am-11.00 am SESSION 1 - WHAT IS MELANCHOLIA?

Room: Palatine Room

Panel: Olga Cox Cameron, Isabel Nolan, Mary Pyle, Moynagh Sullivan

Chair: Anne Mulhall

11.00 am-1.15 pm SESSION 2 - SCREENING OF MELANCHOLIA, dir. Lars von Trier

Room: Audio Visual Theatre

1.15 pm-2.15 pm LUNCH

2.15 pm-3.45 pm SESSION 3 - RESPONSES TO MELANCHOLIA

Room: Palatine Room

Panel: Caroline Bainbridge, Bice Benvenuto, Judy Gammelgaard

Chair: Noreen Giffney

3.45 pm-4.15 pm TEA & COFFEE BREAK

4.15 pm-5.15 pm SESSION 3 - DISCUSSION OF MELANCHOLIA

Room: Palatine Room

Chair: Noreen Giffney

 

Saturday 8 November 2014

Tea & coffee will be available from 9.15 am

10.00 am-10.15 am SESSION 4 - SCREENING OF CECILY BRENNAN’S MELANCHOLIA

Room: Audio Visual Theatre

10.15 am-12.00 pm SESSION 4 - RESPONSES TO MELANCHOLIA

Room: Palatine Room

Panel: Cecily Brennan, Lisa Moran, Ann Murphy, Emma Radley, Medb Ruane, Marie Walshe

Chair: Tina Kinsella

12.00 pm-1.00 pm LUNCH

1.00 pm-3.00 pm SESSION 5 - ART PERFORMANCE BY AMANDA COOGAN

Room: Palatine Room

3.00 pm-3.30 pm TEA & COFFEE BREAK

3.30 pm-4.30 pm SESSION 6 - OPEN DISCUSSION 

Room: Palatine Room

Chair: Eve Watson

An art installation on the topic of melancholia, by Ann-Marie Delaney and Frances O’Dwyer, will be screened during the open discussion. 

4.30 pm Thanks & Close of Seminar

 

Organisers: 

Dr Noreen Giffney

Dr Tina Kinsella

Dr Anne Mulhall

Dr Emma Radley

Dr Eve Watson

 

To download the Programme click here.

 

 Photo credit: Ann-Marie Delaney

DETAILS

07 Nov 2014 / 08 Nov 2014 National Museum for Decorative Arts, Collins Barracks, Dublin
More information:

Conference Email