Brill start to the 2nd day of Ireland, Museums, Empire, Colonialism Conference. Professor Shahid Vawda asking important ?? about epistemes of knowledge-making and decentring European thoughtmuseum spaces and @LMcAtackney reminding us to question who is hired in musuem professions beyond low paid, precarious positions.

Thank goodness for hybrid! We’re delighted to be joined online by Dr Dominique Bouchard (Head of Learning and Interpretation, English Heritage) delivering a paper entitled ‘The past and present of British imperial monuments in public spaces on the island of Ireland’ #imec22

2nd Day of #imec22 Ireland, Museums, Empire, Colonialism Conference - great session by Dominic Bryan on symbolic references, contested spaces and colonialism in Northern Ireland.

We now have the pleasure of hearing not from one speaker, but three! Dr Mobeen Hussain, Dr Ciaran O’Neill, and Dr Patrick Walsh (Trinity College Dublin) presenting on ‘Understanding Trinity’s colonial legacies’ Mobeen Hussain @SpeakerConolly Trinity College Dublin #imec22

Ciaran O’Neill providing reflections on the institutional exposure to the legacy of George Berkeley #imec22

Dr Mobeen Hussain Mobeen Hussain , is now providing illumination perspectives on the cross-disciplinary links of Trinity’s colonial collections #imec22

We are now viewing Dr Maebh O’Regan’s paper (National College of Art and Design) ‘A Discourse on Death: Fact and Fiction in Richard Moynan’s Visual Representation of the Battle of Isandlwana’ brilliant visuals! #imec22

Mobeen Hussain outlines her research into TCDs colonial legacies, including the human remains collected as specimens from around the world and still held in the TCD Anatomy Museum #imec22 Ireland, Museums, Empire, Colonialism Conference

We’re back after lunch and hearing a fantastic paper from Dr Ashok Malhotra (Queen’s University Belfast) on ‘Robert McCarrison's Nutritional Research Laboratories and Museum in Tamil Nadu, 1925-1935’ #imec22

Great to be joined online Dr Darragh Gannon (University College Dublin/New York University) from across the Atlantic sharing on ‘Provincializing Irish History: the case for the Global Archive’ Darragh Gannon rte.ie/centuryireland… #imec22

Great to be joined by Dr Laura McAtackney (Aarhus University) for her paper, ‘The Potential of Including Other Irish Experiences of Empire’. Laura is currently discussing the Irish in the Caribbean #imec22 @LMcAtackney

We now have Dr Angus Mitchell (MDU/University of Limerick) delivering his paper ‘Voice of Reason: curating Roger Casement’s colonial artefacts during the Decade of Centenaries’ #Imec22

Amazing insights into the material artefacts collected by casement and the repositories holding these items or ‘curiosities’ by Dr Angus Mitchell #imec22

We are grateful that @JolaNandi is sharing her poetry with us #imef22

Great to have our final keynote, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin; Irish Research Council) tuning in from California to deliver her paper ‘The English Empire and Early Modern Ireland’ #imec22

One of our conference organisers Dr Emma Reisz (Queen’s University Belfast) is now presenting on ‘China in Irish museums: collections and collectors’. Currently providing great insight into the role of the Harte family #Imec22

Lucy Wray delivering a paper ‘Projecting Empire’ discussing lantern slides held in National Museums NI’s collections #Imec22

Our last paper of today is by our conference organiser @BrionyWiddis Dr Briony Widdis (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘Museums, Empire and Northern Irish Identity: some histories and responses to Colonialism and Empire’ #imec22

Great questions and perspectives on whether people relate to binary categorisation of items #imec22 @BrionyWiddis