2019 Annual Meeting Program
Back to Meeting OverviewAll events in Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin except where noted.
JUMP TO: Wednesday, June 19 | Thursday, June 20 | Friday, June 21 | Saturday, June 22 | Sunday, June 23 | Ongoing Exhibits
Wednesday, June 19
- 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | Concurrent CHCI Network Meetings
These meetings were designed for CHCI members to network and share information and resources around research interests or professional development. Other groups and networks—including those wishing to form new networks— used the time and space allotted in our lunch breaks on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Use the links below to see the program and schedule for each network meeting:
Thursday, June 20
- 8:30 am | Registration
- 9:00 am - 10:30 am | New Directors Meeting
- Chair: Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa, and Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge
- 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee
- 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Panel: CHCI International Collaborations
- 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Break
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | CHCI Business Meeting
- 3:00 pm - 4:30pm | Panel: Advocacy for the Humanities
- Daniel Carey, Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA) and NUI Galway
- Jennifer Edmond, DARIAH-EU and Trinity College Dublin
- James Schulman, American Council of Learned Societies
- Andrew Thompson, Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Chair: Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University
- 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Coffee
- 5:00 pm | Welcome by the Provost of Trinity College Dublin, Professor Patrick Prendergast, followed by Keynote
- Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam
Introduction: Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College Dublin
6:30 pm | Reception
Friday, June 21
- 9:30 am - 11:00 am | Keynote
- Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town
- Chair: Peter Crooks, Trinity College Dublin
- 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Coffee
- 11:30am - 1:00pm | Panel: Cultural Interventions and Commemoration in a Postcolonial World
- Zoe Norridge, King's College London
- Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
- Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Chair: Richard Neer, University of Chicago
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch & Networking Meetings (Lunch provided)
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Panel: Cultural Trauma and Documentary Making
- Esther Hamburger, University of São Paulo
- Joyce C.H. Liu, National Chiao Tung University
- Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, University of Notre Dame
- Chair: Eileen Julien, Indiana University Bloomington
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm | Coffee
- 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm | Silent Shakespeare in the Samuel Beckett Theatre
- Judith Buchanan, University of York
- Introduction: Nicholas Johnson, Trinity College Dublin
Saturday, June 22
- 9:30 am - 11:00 am | Srinivas Aravamudan Memorial Lecture: The Radical Middle, convened by Homi Bhabha
- James Chandler, University of Chicago
- Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia
- Premesh Lalu, University of Western Cape
- Wang Hui, Tsinghua University
- Chair: Sara Guyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Coffee
- 11:20 am - 2:00 pm | Concurrent Panels at Cultural Institutions (Lunch not provided)
Venue: Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane or National Library of Ireland or Chester Beatty
Trinity is in the heart of the cultural quarter of Dublin. These panels explored the interventions made by three of Ireland's leading cultural institutions. Each visit included a tour of the institution and a conversation with the institution's director.
- Hugh Lane Gallery (15 minute walk from Trinity College)
- Director of the Hugh Lane Gallery, Barbara Dawson, in conversation with Georgina Jackson, Director of the Douglas Hyde Gallery together with artists Seamus Nolan and Garett Phelan
Chair: Jonathan Elmer, Indiana University Bloomington
National Library of Ireland (5 minute walk from Trinity College)
- Sandra Collins, Director of The National Library of Ireland, in conversation with Margaret Kelleher, University College Dublin
- Chair: Nicholas Allen, University of Georgia
- Chester Beatty (15 minute walk from Trinity College)
- Jessica Baldwin, Head of Collections, in conversation with Kathleen James-Chakraborty, University College Dublin
Chair: Mark Canuel, University of Illinois at Chicago
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Panel: Civil War & Cultural Interventions: The Example of Field Day
- Stephen Rea, Actor and Humanitarian
- Angela Bourke, University College Dublin
- Conor McCarthy, Maynooth University
- Clair Wills, University of Cambridge
- Chair: Chris Morash, Trinity College Dublin
- 4:30 - 4:45 pm | Screening of Brexit: a cry from the Irish border, written by Clare Dwyer Hogg and performed by Stephen Rea
- 4:45 - 5:30 pm | Stephen Rea in conversation with Clare Dwyer Hogg
- Chair: Chris Morash, Trinity College Dublin
- 5:30 - 6:00 pm | Coffee
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Performance: Stephen Rea will perform Seamus Heaney's Book VI Aeneid
- Chair: Jim Chandler, University of Chicago
7:00 pm | Members’ Dinner at the Dining Hall, Trinity College Dublin
Sunday, June 23
There are no organized events for this day. We have put together suggested excursions in our Travel section.
Ongoing Exhibits
Exhibitions on at the Douglas Hyde Gallery
- Gallery 1
- Artist: Valérie Blass
- Exhibition: The Mime, the Model and the Dupe
- Dates: Friday, June 21 - September 7, 2019
Opening Ceremony: Thursday, June 20, 2019
Gallery 2
- Exhibition: The Artist’s Eye: Cynthia Girard-Renard
- Dates: Friday, June 21 – September 7, 2019
- Opening Ceremony: Thursday, June 20, 2019
Political Cartoons exhibition at the Library
Four centuries of political cartoons go on display in the Trinity Library exhibition
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- Natural History is a cabinet-style museum, laid out over four floors, the upper two of which are currently closed. The exhibits showcase a comprehensive zoological collection and have changed little in over a century.
With support from Meet in Ireland.
