Browsing Glucksman Memorial Symposium Posters 2007 by Title
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'Ancora Imparo' (Still I am Learning): An Inquiry into Visual Artists' Experience of Creativity in Old Age
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)As a student of Irish Modern and Contemporary Art History, my contribution to The Lived Life project explores the topic of later-life artistic creativity amongst older visual artists. In their capacity as self-employed ... -
Annotating Fine Art Images
(2007-06-13)The project's objective is to work with art galleries to help them find innovative ways of indexing images, especially by having automatically created and updated thesauri. -
Beneath the Wine-Dark Sea: Marine Imagery and Artefacts from the Bronze Age Aegean
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)This project began as an attempt to explain why the Minoan islanders developed and nurtured this marine interest, while neighbouring island cultures did not. In order to understand the enduring popularity of the sea in ... -
The Campus Martius, Rome
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The Campus Martius was an area in Rome located on a flood plain in the bend of the River Tiber. A pomerium (a sacred boundary associated with the foundation of Rome) ran to the South of the Campus Martius. This boundary ... -
Christian Responses to Modern Slavery
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)This research project explores the theological and ethical issues around modern slavery and movements to abolish it. Topics include: human trafficking; human rights; racism; theological language and doctrines; Christian ... -
The Clash of Empires in Africa: The First World War in the British and German Colonies
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)From its very beginnings the First World War was a global war. The most severe fighting outside Europe took place in the tropical German colonies of the Cameroons and German East Africa (present-day Tanzania), as well as ... -
Connecting Gender, Age and Social Engagement
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)Social Structures and cultural norms have powerful prescriptive qualities. I have come to this project with the belief that both gender and age are simultaneously constructed by social and cultural structures, while ... -
Constructs of War: Evaluation and Representation of the First World War in the Republican Press in Weimar Germany 1918-1920
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The fall of Weimar democracy in 1933 has evoked massive interest among historians and the general public and numerous attempts have been made to explain Hitler's rise to power. In this context, many historians have explained ... -
DoppleGang's (Sub)Version of Oz
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)For the 2006 Dublin Fringe Festival, DoppleGang expanded their performance from a song-based cabaret to a theatre piece with songs, dance, and dialogue. Their performance, entitled 'Oz: A Fairytale Plot,' borrows songs, ... -
Dublin Local Politics and Government, 1898 to 1920
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)This research aims to assess the performance of the parties and leading personalities involved in Dublin local politics and government from 1898 to 1920 by tracing newspaper reports, political campaigns and electoral ... -
Eating Disorders: Distractions from Problems of Self and Meaning
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)This study focuses on how anorexia nervosa, compulsive overeating, as well as combinations of these disorders, are complex manifestations of emotional, psychological, and cultural difficulties. Emily's hypothesis is that ... -
An Examination of Compositional Writing Instruction in Irish Primary Schools
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)Recent government reports highlight potential delays in the implementation of the revisions to writing instruction outlined in the 1999 English Curriculum for primary schools. Although delays appear to exist, the nature ... -
Female artists during the First World War in Germany, 1914-1918
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The war and its consequences were the dominant themes in German women's art between 1914 and 1918. Their artistic interpretation and observations of the conflict represented the artist's own as well as more general wartime ... -
Harmonia Macrocosmica: Andreas Cellarius, 1596-1665 (Part I)
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The publication of Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica in 1660 represented the completion of an ambitious cartographic project begun over twenty years earlier by the family of Johannes Jansonnius. Jansonnius had ... -
Harmonia Macrocosmica: Andreas Cellarius, 1596-1665 (Part II)
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The publication of Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica in 1660 represented the completion of an ambitious cartographic project begun over twenty years earlier by the family of Johannes Jansonnius. Jansonnius had ... -
The History of Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1914
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)This project investigates how and why the once elite game of chess became popular in Victorian times, and the phases of its development up to the caesura caused by the First World War. The research will throw light on ... -
Houses of the Augustinian Canons in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The Augustinian canons are first documented in Ireland in the twelfth century and in this there is a clear parallel with the colonization in Ireland of the Cistercians. The houses of the canons range from large, wealthy ... -
Images of older people in Irish children's books
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)This study captures an overview of a variety of images of older people in Irish children's books published in the last fifty years. It examines how different models of the older person function in different texts, and how ... -
Irish Foreign Policy and Sub-Saharan Africa 1956-1976
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)Using a wide variety of sources, from archival and printed works to the interviews with those involved in policy-making, this project uses the example of sub-Saharan African policy to explore the internationalisation of ... -
The "Joyce Brain Atlas" Project: Mapping the Neuro-Architecture of Modernity
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)Like "Second Skin", a dynamic model of architecture pioneered by Marcos Lutyens at the Architectural Association in London, Finnegans Wake asks the reader to extend his/her consciousness to become a co-producer of an ...