Interpreting Landscape

Moore Institute International Symposium

Tuesday 30 September 2014

Aula Maxima, The Quadrangle, National University of Ireland, Galway

Booking essential: http://www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute

PROGRAMME

10.30 Registration and coffee/tea, Aula Maxima, Quadrangle

11.00 Welcome by Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute

11.05 Chair: Daniel Carey, NUI Galway

John Wylie, Exeter University: ‰Û÷So near and yet so far: the distances of landscape’

Discussion

11.50 Chair: Rod Stoneman, NUI Galway

Justin Carville, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design, ‰Û÷Lines of sight and historical topographies: Photography, anthropology and archaeology in the west of Ireland’

12.20 Nicolas F̬ve, photographer, ‰Û÷The last loop of lightness: A photographic stance on Tim Robinson’s Connemara’

Discussion

12.50 Lunch break and opportunity to visit the exhibition ‰Û÷Interpreting landscape: Tim Robinson and the west of Ireland’ / ‰Û÷Rian̼ tal̼n: Tim Robinson agus iarthar na hÌäireann’ in the Atrium, Hardiman Research Building. A display of other archives relating to landscape can be viewed in the nearby Special Collections Reading Room.

14.00 Chair: Conor Newman, NUI Galway

Nessa Cronin, NUI Galway, ‰Û÷Interpreting island space: Gender, science, and empire in the life and work of Maude Jane Delap (Valentia Island, 1866-1953)’

14.30 John Elder, Middlebury College, Vermont, ‰Û÷Dwelling on the edge’

Discussion

15.15 Short break

15.30 Screening of ‰Û÷Unfolding the landscape’, a film in which Tim Robinson is interviewed by Vincent Woods, with Nicolas F̬ve

16.30 Close of symposium

Everybody who is registered to attend the symposium is invited to the following event in Room G010 and the Atrium, Hardiman Research Building:

16.30 Launch by Vincent Woods of Connemara and Elsewhere by John Elder, Nicolas F̬ve and Tim Robinson, ed. Jane Conroy (Royal Irish Academy, 2014), followed by a reading by Tim Robinson

Please click on the link below to register for this event

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