OUTing The Past 2019 Festival Programme: Dublin
OUTing The Past 2019 will be celebrated at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin on 23. March 2019. Please find below a detailed programme of the first OTP celebrations in Dublin!
11.00-11.05 ————- Welcome by Sinead Rice, Education Manager
11.05-11.30 ————- Keynote (TBC)
11.30-12.00 ————-‘Either that wallpaper …’: AE, queerness and the Celtic renaissance
by Brian Lacey, historian + Q&As
12.00-12.30 ————- Tea, Coffee & Snacks in the Gallery’s newly refurbished Courtyard
12.30-1.00 ————- The ‘New Woman’ Sarah Purser and her Lesbian Friendships
Katherine O’Donnell, UCD+ Q&As
1.00-1.30 ————- Who was Suleika Aldini? Rainer Schulze, University of Essex + Q&As
1.30-2.30 ————- Lunch in the Gallery’s Courtyard
2.30-3.00 ————- LGBTQ+ Art in the National Gallery of Ireland Kate Drinane,
NGI+ Q&As
3.00-4.00 ————- Breakout Session
National Gallery of Ireland & Irish Queer Archive LGBTQ+ Display
Leah Benson, NGI & Tonie Walsh, Irish Queer Archive
Sir Denis Mahon Reading Room
3.00-4.00 ————- Breakout Session
Students’ Roles in LGBTQ+ Rights: Past and Present
Laura Harmon, Journalist & Patrick McDonagh, EUI
NGI Members’ Room
3.00-4.00 ————- Breakout Session
Rising Queers: LGBTQ+ Involvement in the 1916 Easter Rising
Michael Cronin, NUI Maynooth & Mary McAuliffe, UCD
ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art
3.00-4.00 ————- Two Art Practice Based Breakout Session
Artists (TBC)
Lavery Room & Millennium Wing Studio
4.00-5.15 ————- Final Reception
Closing Remarks and Performance (TBC)
Shaw Room