Research Institute @ NCAD in collaboration with UCD 2015 colloquia series
(All sessions in Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD 100 Thomas St. Dublin 8.)
Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 5.00-7.00pm
Use your imagination! Aligning qualitative social science methodologies and arts based enquiry within interdisciplinary and transcultural research
Dr. Richard Siegesmund, Northern Illinois University, Dr. Maruska Svasek, School of Anthropology, Queens University Belfast, Dr. Alice Feldman, School of Sociology, UCD
(Chair, Gary Granville, Head of School of Education, NCAD)
Tuesday 10 February 2015 5.00-7.00pm
Independent thinking: the role of the creative arts within the contemporary university
Professor Chris Breward, Principal, Edinburgh College of Art; Prof. Janis Jefferies, Professor of Visual Arts, Associate Pro Warden Culture and Creative Industries, Goldsmith College, London; Prof. Declan McGonagle, Director NCAD; Prof. Hugh Campbell, Dean Architecture, UCD, Prof. Tom Inns, Director Glasgow School of Art, (Chair Prof Des Bell, Head of Research, NCAD)
Monday, 23 February 2015 5.00-7.00pm
Lack of discipline? : history, visual arts and critical method in the academy and studio
Prof. Jessica Hemmings, Head of School of Visual Culture, NCAD, Prof. Kathleen James-Chakrobarty, Prof. Art History UCD; Prof. Griselda Pollock, Professor of the Social & Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds, (Chair Prof. Des Bell, Head of Research, NCAD)
Tuesday 3 March 2015 5.00-7.00pm
Making a show of ourselves: public arts policy and re-construction of the civic in austerity Ireland
Cllr. Mannix Flynn, Dublin City Council; Dr. Aine O’Brien Pivotal Arts, London, Dr. Pat Cooke, Cultural Policy UCD, (Chair Dr. Emily Mark-Fitzgerald, School of Art History, UCD)
Tuesday 10 March 2015, 5.00-7.00pm
Rearranging the furniture: designers and educationalists collaborate to re-imagine the classroom for the 21st century
Prof. Alex Milton, Research Prof. NCAD, Prof. Lisbeth Goodman, School of Education, UCD, Simon Dennehy, Perch Assoc., (Chair, Prof. Ciaran Sugrue, UCD) - in association with Irish Year of Design 2015
Tuesday 24 March 2015, 5.00-7.00pm
Crisis aesthetics, crisis politics: how can artists and educators resist?
Dr.Kieran Allen, Dept of Sociology, UCD, Dr. Declan Long, School of Visual Culture, NCAD, Hito Steyerl, University of the Arts, Berlin (by video link), Prof. Terry Eagleton, Dept of English, Lancaster University
Friday 17 April 2015, (full-day event 09.30am – 17.30pm)
Mind the Gap! A national workshop on practice based PhD research in the creative, media and visual arts
Keynote: Prof. Marcus Banks, Head of Dept. of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford in association with DIT, Dublin, Queens University Belfast, IDAT