Location: IMMA Reception
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Rethinking Histories: From (un) Making Empire to Making Peace 
Keynote conversation chaired by Jane Ohlmeyer, Professor of Modern History, Trinity College Dublin; with Róisín Higgins, Professor of, History, Maynooth University; Susan McKay, award-winning journalist and author; and others. Followed by exhibition viewing and reception. For more details click here. 

Location: Offsite: TU Dublin, Bolton Street, Dublin 1
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Technologies of Peace – Ungrounding with Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture)
Keynote Lecture Eyal Weizman, Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture (FA), chaired by Jim Roche, TU Dublin, with contributions by Mary Cremin, Head of Programming at IMMA, and others. Includes book launch for Weizman’s new book ‘Ungrounding’. For more details click here. 

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SESSION 1 | 9:30am – 11:30am
Technologies of Peace 
Northern Ireland & Transitional Europe from 1988 to the Present.

Paper: Maria Fusco
The Best Way to Fill Time is to Waste It Because: Class, Conflict, Humiliation, Retreat

Paper: Martin Pogačar
Yugoslavia, 1991+35. Peace and Contributory Tech

Paper: Petra Matić
The First World Peace

Panel Discussion with Q&A

Break | 11:30am – 11:45am

SESSION 2 | 11:50am – 1.10pm
Trauma & Reverberation

Artist’s Presentation: Willie Doherty
Stories

Artist’s Presentation: Sandra Johnston
The Radicality of Stillness and Silence

Artists’ Discussion with Susan McKay + Q&A

Lunch | 1:10pm – 2:10pm

SESSION 3 | 2:15pm – 4:30pm
Reclaiming Narratives – Oral Histories & Pedagogies 

Paper: Isobel Harbison
These Bonds of Love: Recording History

Conversation: Clare Carolin & Amanda Dunsmore
Whose Technologies of Peace? – Fighting men, weeping women and the legacy of feminine pacifist imaginaries

Panel: Glenn Loughran, Clare Bailey & Paul Caskey
Evental Site(s): Lagan College and the Desegregation of Society in N. Ireland.

Round Up Discussion with Closing Q&A

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SESSION 4 | 9:45am – 11:30am
Peace, Extractive Ecologies, the Commons 

Paper: Pascal Gielen
In the Absence of Bombs – On the Aesthetics of Life and Death 

Paper: Umut Yıldırım
Extractive Peace: Critical Empathy with the Land in Catastrophic Times

Artist’s Reflection / Response: Emily McFarland
Pollanroe Burn or An Pollán Rua – Sites of Resilience and Refusal 

Panel Discussion with Q&A  

Break | 11:30am – 11:45am  

SESSION 5 | 11:50am – 1:15pm 
PEACE – A Living Practice
Interview: Eamonn McCann, Aoife Moore
People movements, solidarities, resistance  

Conversation with Q&A  

Lunch | 1:15pm – 2:10pm 

SESSION 6 | 2:15pm – 3:30pm
Imaginable Futures I: Identity  

Convenor: Colin Graham with respondents Katy Hayward, Jess Majekodunmi, Siobhán Garrigan, Padraig Regan. 

Roundtable Conversation with Q&A  

SESSION 7 | 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Imaginable Futures II: A Shared Island  

Speculative Propositions 
Contributors: Array Collective, Maria-Adriana Deiana, Lyónn Wolf, Ainle Ó Cairealláin. 

SESSION 8 | 4:30pm – 5pm 
Closing Plenary & Reflections: Technologies of Peace 2026/ 29 

REFRESHMENTS | 17:30-18:30  

The symposium brings together perspectives spanning critical reflection, lived experience, and speculative dialogue. Drawing on diverse practices, knowledges, countercultures, and collective modes of world-making. 

Jane Ohlmeyer (Prof of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 

Roisín Higgins (Prof. of History at Maynooth University, Ireland) 

Susan McKay (Press Ombudsman, writers, journalists, Ireland) 

Eyal Weizman (Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 

Jim Roche (recently retired, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, Building and Environment (SABE) at TU Dublin) 

Maria Fusco (Writer, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Prof of Interdisciplinary Writing at the University of Dundee, UK) 

Martin Pogačar (Researcher at Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia) 

Petra Matić (Interdisciplinary curator, researcher, cultural activist, Zagreb, Croatia) 

Willie Doherty (Visual artist, photography, video, sound installation, Derry, Northern Ireland)

Sandra Johnston (Visual artist, performance art, video/audio installations, Belfast, Northern Ireland) 

Isobel Harbison (Irish art historian, Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 

Clare Carolin (Contemporary art historian, curator and writer, London-based, UK) 

Amanda Dunsmore (Visual artist, film installation, born in England, lived and worked in Ireland / Northern Ireland)  

Glenn Loughran (Visual artist, educator, and researcher based in Dublin, Ireland)  

Clare Bailey (Senior public affairs leader in shaping policy, legislation, and public debate across Northern Ireland) 

Paul Caskey (Chief Executive of Integrated Education Fund, Belfast, Northern Ireland) 

Pascal Gielen (Writer, public intellectual, and Prof. Sociology of Culture and Politics at University of Antwerp, Belgium)  

Umut Yıldırım (Assistant Professor, Anthropology at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland) 

Emily McFarland (Visual artist, film, sound, Tyrone, Northern Ireland) 

Eamonn McCann (Journalist, author, and leading figure of the Civil Rights Movement, Derry, Northern Ireland)  

Aoife Moore (Journalist and author from Derry, Northern Ireland) 

Colin Graham (Author and Prof. of English at Maynooth University, Ireland) 

Katy Hayward (Prof. of Political Sociology, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland) 

Jess Majekodunmi (Design historian, innovation researcher, a Member of the Board of Directors, IMMA) 

Siobhán Garrigan (Prof. of Theology and Social Justice, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) 

Padraig Regan (Poet, writer, and Poetry Editor of the Belfast-based Tangerine Magazine, Northern Ireland) 

Array Collective (Artist Collective Group based in Belfast, Northern Ireland) 

Maria-Adriana Deiana (Senior Lecturer, and director of Centre for Gender in Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland) 

Lyónn Wolf (Visual artist, writer engaged with de-productive trans & class poetics, based between Berlin, and Belfast Northern Ireland) 

Ainle Ó Cairealláin (Irish Language Activist and Managing Director at ACLAÍ, Belfast, Northern Ireland) 

IMMA Moderators

Sheena Barrett, Head of Research and Learning, IMMA.

Sophie Byrne, Assistant Curator: Talks & Public Programmes

Mary Cremin, Head of Programming

Johanne Mullan, Curator: Collections