Browsing Glucksman Memorial Symposium Posters 2008 by Date of Publication
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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. -
Centre for War Studies
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)The Centre for War Studies was established, with the support of the Long Room Hub, in February 2008 to promote the study of the origins, nature and consequences of war in history and in the contemporary world. It draws on ... -
A computational stylometric analysis of characterization by playwrights
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)Is it possible for an author to create characters truly independent of their own voice? Do characters from the same play exhibit similar characteristics in style? Are some playwrights arguably better at creating unique ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 architectural and cultural reception of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai and its frieze
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)This project is an analysis of how this Classical Greek temple and important UNESCO world heritage site, situated in ancient Arcadia, has impacted on art, architecture and academia, creating new narratives within specific ... -
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 ... -
The Bridge-IT Project: digitally connecting academic research with the wider community in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)The Bridge-IT Project will interview older men and women in Ireland using multimedia technologies. The data generated from the interviews will be used to produce experimental and highly innovative content that will be ... -
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 ... -
Dairine Vanston 1903-1988
(Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)The subject of my research is the contribution made by the artist Dairine Vanston to Irish Modernism. Although she received critical acclaim in her day and was considered to be the most avant-garde of her generation, she ... -
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 ...
