Programme - Geographical Society of Ireland

interpreting
landscape
Tim Robinson,
Roundstone, August 2014,
by Nicolas Fève
30 September 2014
Aula Maxima, National University of Ireland, Galway
The Moore Institute international symposium ‘Interpreting landscape’, 30 September
2014, is held in honour of Tim Robinson.
‘Unfolding the landscape’, a film where Tim Robinson is interviewed by Vincent
Woods, with Nicolas Fève, in August this year, commissioned by NUI Galway, will be
screened for the first time on 30 September 2014. Production by EyeGlass Films /
Huston School of Film & Digital Media. Extracts can be viewed on the websites of the
Moore Institute and the James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway. The full interview will
be available for consultation in the James Hardiman Library.
The book Connemara and Elsewhere by John Elder, Nicolas Fève and Tim Robinson,
edited by Jane Conroy (Royal Irish Academy, 2014), is jointly produced by NUI Galway
and the Royal Irish Academy, with the support of the Galway University Foundation.
The exhibition ‘Interpreting landscape: Tim Robinson and the west of Ireland / Rianú
talún: Tim Robinson agus iarthar na hÉireann’ will run from 30 September 2014 to 31
January 2015. It includes items from the Tim Robinson Archive in the James Hardiman
Library, with photographs by Nicolas Fève, and extracts from Connemara and
Elsewhere and ‘Unfolding the landscape’. The exhibition is produced by the Moore
Institute and the Library. Graphic design is by Mel Durkan, Proviz Ltd.
Cover: ‘Verity’s anchor’,
Connemara and Elsewhere (2014)
by permission of Nicolas Fève
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Nicolas Fève, Verity’s anchor, Aughrus Beg, August 2013
interpreting landscape
Moore Institute international symposium
Tuesday 30 September, 10.30am ­‑ 4.30pm
Aula Maxima, National University of Ireland, Galway
Booking essential: nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute
Places limited
Programme
10.30 Registration and coffee/tea, Aula Maxima, Quadrangle
11.00 Welcome by Daniel Carey, Director of the Moore Institute
11.05 Chair: Daniel Carey, NUI Galway
John Wylie, Exeter University: ‘So near and yet so far: the distances of landscape’
Discussion
11.50 Chair: Rod Stoneman, NUI Galway
Justin Carville, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design,
‘Lines of sight and historical topographies: Photography,
anthropology and archaeology in the west of Ireland’
12.20 Nicolas Fève, photographer, ‘The last loop of lightness:
A photographic stance on Tim Robinson’s Connemara’
Discussion
12.20 Lunch break and opportunity to visit the exhibition
‘Interpreting landscape: Tim Robinson and the west of
Ireland’ / ‘Rianú talún: Tim Robinson agus iarthar na hÉireann’
in the Atrium, Hardiman Research Building. A display of other
archives relating to landscape can be viewed in the nearby
Special Collections Reading Room.
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14.00 Chair: Conor Newman, NUI Galway
Nessa Cronin, NUI Galway, ‘Interpreting island space: Gender, science, and empire in the life and work of Maude Jane Delap (Valentia Island, 1866-1953)’
14.30 John Elder, Middlebury College, Vermont,
‘Dwelling on the edge’
Discussion
15.15 Short break
15.30 Screening of ‘Unfolding the landscape’, a film where Tim Robinson is interviewed by Vincent Woods, with Nicolas Fève
16.30 Close of symposium
Everybody who is registered to attend the symposium is
invited to the following event in Room G010 and the Atrium,
Hardiman Research Building:
16.30 Launch by Vincent Woods of Connemara and Elsewhere by John Elder, Nicolas Fève and Tim Robinson, ed. Jane
Conroy (Royal Irish Academy, 2014), followed by a reading by
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