Browsing Glucksman Memorial Symposium Posters 2008 by Title
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Eileen Gray: a child of Japonism?
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)My interest is in Gray's lacquer work and the influences on that work in the context of nineteenth-century fashion of Japonisme. Gray (1878-1976) had an appreciation of the Japanese characteristics of lacquer - perhaps ... -
The Fagel Project
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)The East Pavilion of the Old Library houses the Fagel Collection - the books, pamphlets and maps amassed by a powerful Dutch family by the end of the 18th century. The Fagels having fallen on hard times as a result of the ... -
Flesh wounds?: new ways of understanding self-injury
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)My research uses methodological and representational practices from the humanities and arts in order to develop a non-medical understanding of self-injury. The aims of the project are: to use creative practices to promote ... -
Identity, conflict and community art
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)This research, based on an ethnographic study of a community art project from the Atlas Women's Centre in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, examines the contribution of such art programmes to the processes of conflict transformation. ... -
Irish identity and the modern step dancing costume
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)The early step dancing costume was developed in concurrence with the Celtic Revival as a response to the need for visible national identity. Today's step dancing costume, by contrast, stresses the individual, looking outward ... -
Irresistible toy or social leveller: motion pictures in Irish life, 1900 - 1939
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)This research examines the cinema as an important alternative public sphere in 1920s and 1930s Ireland. The cinema-going public in Ireland during the first two decades of the Free State's existence kept in touch with the ... -
LibViz: a visualisation toolkit to support the preservation of the Old Library
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)The Graphics, Vision and Visualisation (GV2) group in TCD's School of Computer Science and Statistics is working with the Preservation and Conservation Department of the Library, to develop a fully interactive 3-D model ... -
Privacy and exposure: domestic tragedy in early modern England
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)The genre of domestic tragedy emerged during a period in which the burgeoning ideology of private life was matched by active publication of cheap printed texts offering sensational 'news' stories. This research project ... -
Reconstructing popular perspectives: the role of political language in structuring Classical Athenian democracy
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)This research project employs post-structuralist theory and techniques to examine the role that political language played in the performance and reception of radical democracy in Classical Athens. It aims to reveal and ... -
Repositioning Irish identities: exhibiting Irish contemporary art abroad (1980-2005)
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)The aim is to examine models of thinking about the international exhibition of Irish contemporary art (IEICA) and account for the discursive frameworks and institutional networks within which Irish contemporary art is ... -
Research Ethics Module
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)Aimed at postgraduate students, the Research Ethics module is run as a Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) project by TCD's Irish School of Ecumenics and School of Religions and Theology in collaboration with UCC and NUIG. The ... -
The role of memory in revenge tragedy drama of the early modern period
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)This project addresses the role that memory plays in revenge tragedy drama of the early modern period. The project asserts the primary cultural importance of memory studies in this period, and examines how contemporary ... -
Rome ruler?: John Redmond and Westminster's Catholic interest, 1900-1918
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)This project aims to explore the relationship between John Redmond, the chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900, and the Catholic Church in both Ireland and Britain. Redmond was the political heir of Charles ... -
Second language acquisition and native language maintenance in the Polish diaspora in Ireland and France
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)Since the accession of ten new member states to the EU on May 1st 2004, the Republic of Ireland has experienced a significant reversal in the direction of migration - from outward to inward. Large numbers of Polish nationals ... -
SIF II and SIGNALL II
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)The Centre for Deaf Studies has been recently funded under the SIF II framework and is embarking on an exciting phase of research. The collaborative research allows for three main research strands: (1) a cognitive-functional ... -
Spatial music performance with the hexaphonic guitar
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)Spatial music can be defined as any form of music in which the spatial location of performers or sounds is used as an explicit compositional parameter. Most spatial music is not performed live but rather consists of either ... -
TCD Greek papyri digitisation project
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)One of the 'treasures' of Trinity College Library is its collection of ancient papyri from Egypt. Greek papyri are difficult to read, and inaccessible not just to the general public, but even to scholars. Ultimately it is ... -
Towards a research platform for the 1641 Depositions: new technologies and the humanities
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)This project will investigate innovative technology to structure and lend meaning to a large corpus of unstructured information. The objectives of this project are: to investigate how text analytics and semantic mark-up ... -
Weingreen Museum digitisation project
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)The Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities holds over 2000 objects, which encompass the entire Mediterranean world from North Africa to Mesopotamia and from the oldest city, Jericho (ninth millennium BCE), to the Crusades ... -
Who in Ireland speaks and understands Russian?
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)This is a research project on cultural and linguistic diversity, drawing on the experience of people in Ireland who speak and understand Russian.
