9:00 Welcome
Prof. Anne Fuchs (Director and Professor, UCD Humanities Institute)
9:10 Panel 1: Digital Thresholds & Methods
Holly Parker (University of Lincoln): Escape from The Stacks: Negotiating Affective Membranes and Virtual Reality in Ernest Cline’s "Ready Player One"
Cáit Murphy (Trinity College Dublin): The Somatic Thresholds of Palestinian Activist Videos on Instagram
Orla Delaney (University of Cambridge): Data Encounters: Towards a Theory of Databasing in the Museum
Fatma Kargin (FHNW Academy of Art and Design/ Justus Liebig University Giessen): Through the Threshold: Responsive, Performative and Self-referential
10:40 Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 Panel 2: Historical Breaks: Befores and Afters
Noble Shrivastava (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Tradition and Transition: Courtesans and the Early Colonial State in 19th Century Delhi
Viktoriia Grivina (University of St Andrews): The 4th Block Triennial of Eco Poster and Dealing with The Trauma of Chernobyl In Ukrainian Graphic Design
Jacob Miller (University College Dublin): The First Rule of Brexit is Don’t Talk about Brexit: 'Liberal Nationalism' in Ali Smith’s "Seasonal Quartet"
Luke Watson (University College Cork): A Break From the Past: Adapting and Reacting to the French Revolution in Ireland, 1789-1798
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Panel 3: Identities in Flux
Fernando Alejandro Remache-Vinueza (University of Glasgow): Changes and Interactions between the Mainstream Narrative and Alternative Identities: The Case of Lithuania
Esha Nadkarni (Goa University): Probing the Transformation of Devadasis in "The Undoing Dance"
Yanli Xie (University College Dublin): Finding a Place for the ‘Modern/New’ Chinese women in Republican Domestic Kitchens: Gender Norms and the Cooking-Related Writings Published in the 1920s to 1930s
Monja Stahlberger (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London): Overcoming Everyday Constraints: Agency and Identity in Diaries of Child Refugees from National Socialist Germany
Sarah Tierney (Swansea University): Exploring Societal Ambivalence: The Experiences of Refugee Women Seeking Sanctuary in Wales
15:15 Tea/Coffee Break
15:45 Panel 4: Artistic Responses to Thresholds
Anton Pereira Rodriguez (Ghent University/University of Verona): Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Jan Vercruysse’s Questioning of a Place for Art
Hattie Idle (University College Dublin): 'On the Outside Looking in': Romantic comedy, Awkward (Sub)urban Aesthetics, and US-Aotearoan Encounters in Taika Waititi’s "Eagle vs Shark" (2007)
Rory Clarkson (Durham University): Travelling through Grief: Elegy Crossing Thresholds in “Sailing Home from Rapallo” and “A Procession at Candlemas”
Annemarie Iker (Princeton University): Books and Secrets in Catalan Modernisme
17:15 Keynote:
Prof Caroline Bassett (Professor of Digital Humanities, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge & Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities)
The Light Under the Door: Technologies and the End of Worlds
18:30 Close
NOTE:
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