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Irish Art in Practice: Legacies of Justice

March 3, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

FREE

The Irish American Heritage Center, in partnership with the Consulate General of Ireland, Midwest, presents Irish Art in Practice. Join Jennifer Keating, Ph.D. as she brings us through the world of Irish arts and artists, and the living applications and impressions it makes on the world around us. Jennifer Keating is a Senior Lecturer and the Writing in the Disciplines Specialist in the William S. Dietrich II Institute for Writing Excellence. Most recently, she served as Assistant Dean for Educational Initiatives in the Dietrich College for Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. She brings an educator’s perspective to this fascinating series.

Legacies of Justice, March 3rd, 7:00pm CST
In 2014 filmmaker Mairéad McClean was awarded the MAC International prize for her film No More. This meditation on the implications of Internment Without Trial in 1971 resonated the world over as evidence of torture and prisoner abuse emerged from Guantanamo Bay to Abu Ghraib. In Legacies of Justice we will screen the short film and discuss its explorations and symbolism. McClean, daughter of civil-rights activist Paddy-Joe McClean, interrogates concepts of security and the political contortions of conflict in this work. Together we will discuss its poetic meditation on these infringements on human rights in the name of security, as we also bring examples like Rita Duffy’s painting, Guantanamo amas amat, and Paula McFetridge’s staging of Convictions in the Crumlin Road Courthouse, to bear on the conversation.

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Date:
March 3, 2022
Time:
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cost:
FREE
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