Session 1
09.45 – 09.50: Helen Beaumont, Education Department, NMI / Open
09.50 – 10.00: Eimir O’Brien, Education Department, NMI / Introduction
10.00 – 10.20: Fiona Ahern, Design History MA NCAD / Irene Gilbert: Identity, Agency, Image
10.20 - 10.40: Elaine Hewitt, Design History MA NCAD/ Beetle wing Dress by Mrs Sims c. 1880
10.40 – 10.50: Chair, Prof. Jessica Hemmings, NCAD / Panel Questions
10.50 – 11.20: Coffee
Session 2
11.20 – 11.40: Jessica Cunningham / From the Orient to Skinner Row: John Cuthbert, Dublin goldsmith,
and the chinoiserie style in seventeenth-century Irish silver
11.40 – 12.00: Breda Scott, PhD candidate Maynooth / Beautiful and ingenious: horsehair jewellery manufactured by the ‘idle people’ of Ireland c.1750 to c.1870
12.00 – 12.20: Dr Helen McAllister, Head Fashion & Textiles Department, NCAD / The Shoe as a making skill
12.20 – 12.40: Frances MacDonald, Independent Arts Advisor / KILKENNY WOODWORKERS 1905 – 1920
12.40 – 12.55: Chair, Prof. Jessica Hemmings, NCAD / Panel Questions
12.55 – 2.00: Lunch
Session 3
2.00 – 2.20: Emma O’Toole, PhD Candidate, Visual Culture NCAD / The Material Culture of Infancy & Early Childhood in Ireland, c.1680-1830
2.20 – 2.40: Dr Dominique Bouchard, Curator of Education and Outreach The Hunt Museum / Red-figure Bell Krater and the Hamilton Collection
2.40 – 3.00: Dr Alison Fitzgerald, NUI Maynooth / “History’s little black joke”? “Cromwell’s cabinet”
3.00 – 3.20: Alex Ward, Curator of Dress and Textiles, NMI / A dress for The White House
3.20 – 3.35: Chair, Prof. Jessica Hemmings NCAD / Panel Questions
3.35 – 4.00: Coffee
Session 4
4.00 – 4.20: Dr Audrey Whitty, Ceramics, Glass & Asian collections, NMI / The Albert M. Bender
(1866-1941) Collection of Far Eastern Art in the National Museum of Ireland and his Cultural Interests in Ireland and California
4.20 – 4.40: Nigel Cheney, NCAD / ‘Collect- ED’
4.40 – 4.55: Chair, Prof. Jessica Hemmings NCAD / Panel Questions
5.00: Close
Schedule may be subject to change on the day
Please note: lunch not provided