Conference: And They Tell Me…An Invisible Crisis: Raising Awareness on Violence Against Women
Conference: Tuesday 10th December 2013, 10am – 3.15pm (Registration 9.30am)
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National College of Art & Design, Harry Clarke House Lecture Theatre
Tuesday 10th December 2013, 10am – 3.15pm (Registration 9.30am)
This conference brings together global, national and community perspectives
on the issue of violence against women. And They Tell Me…An Invisible
Crisis considers women’s support networks and solidarity, the political and
cultural framework for change, prevention strategies and policy frameworks
as well as a range of statutory, community, institutional and artistic responses
to this issue. The work of building a community response to violence against
women is considered as well as the challenges of maintaining the necessary
levels of support against the backdrop of current funding cuts to the
community and voluntary sector. In the context of the role of arts and
cultural institutions in cross-sectoral responses to this issue, institutional
memory and questions of duty of care are explored. The work of a number of
key international feminist artists whose arts practice is informed by broader
social and political issues, in particular issues of violence against women are
discussed.
Target audiences include community workers, women’s support organisations,
artists, arts organizations, voluntary and statutory agencies and services as
well as policy makers.
The conference is being held in the National College of Art & Design in the context of exhibiting the artwork And They Tell Me, which marks the number of women who have died as a result of male violence in Ireland from 1996 to the present day.
Conference Programme
9.30 – 10am Registration, tea and coffee
10am Welcome Address
Declan McGonagle, Director National College of Art and Design
Anastasia Crickley, Head of Dept of Applied Social Studies NUI Maynooth & Conference Chair
10.15 – 10.45 Key Note Address
Niamh Reilly, Co-Director Global Women’s Studies Programme NUI Galway
11 – 12 Panel I
Violence Against Women: Witness, Awareness and Solidarity
Margaret Martin, Director Women’s Aid
Salome Mbugua, Director Akidwa
Alan O’Neill CEO MDN, White Ribbon Campaign
Anita Kopenhofer, Inchicore Outreach Centre
12 – 1 Panel II
Institutional Memory & Artistic Agency: The cultural framework for change
Helen O’Donoghue, Senior Curator, Head of Education and Community Programmes Irish Museum of Modern Art
Victoria Hollows, Museum Manager, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Catriona Crowe, Head of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland
1 - 1.45 pm Lunch
1.45- 2.45 pm Presentations
Without Borders: Pornography & Violence Against Women
Kate McCarthy Inchicore Outreach Centre
Not Natasha: A Case Study
Denise Charlton, Chief Executive of Immigrant Council of Ireland
Feminist Art Practice and Consciousness Raising
Ailbhe Murphy, artist
Discussion & closing remarks Rita Fagan, Director Family Resource Centre,
St.Michael’s Estate & Anastasia Crickley
3.15pm Exhibition closing by invited guest, Helen Norton (RTE Fair City's Vivine Lynch)
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Conference Biographies
Anastasia Crickley is Head of the Department of Applied Social Studies in
NUI Maynooth which for over thirty years has provided professional education
and training for community workers and youth workers. She co-founded Pavee
Point Traveller and Roma Centre and was first Chairperson of the European Union
Fundamental Rights Agency. She is actively involved with Council of Europe and
United Nations initiatives in the fields of Human Rights and Discrimination and is an
elected member and rapporteur of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Niamh Kelly is a Senior Lecturer and co-director of the Global Women's Studies
Progamme at the School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of
Ireland, Galway. From 2004 to 2005 she served as a gender expert on Amnesty
International's Stop Violence against Women (SVAW) Campaign. She has published
widely on transnational women's movements, feminist theory and human
rights. From 1990 to 1995, as coordinator of international campaigns with the Center
for Women's Global Leadership (Rutgers University), Niamh was responsible for
launching and establishing the original '16 Days' as an annual campaign in its first
five years.
Margaret Martin is the Director of Women’s Aid, a leading national
organisation that has been working in Ireland to stop domestic violence
against women and children since 1974. Direct Services offered by Women’s
Aid include the Women's Aid National Freephone Helpline (1800 341 900).
Women's Aid also acts for justice and social change by engaging in policy,
representation and communications and campaign activity at a national level.
Salome Mbugua is the director of Akidwa, a national network of migrant
women living in Ireland. The organisation was established in 2001 by a group
of African women to address, isolation, racism and Gender Based Violence
that the women were experiencing at the time. AkiDwA’s Mission is to
promote equality and justice for migrant women living in Ireland.
Alan O’Neill is Chief Executive of the Men’s Development Network (MDN). MDN
runs programmes in development, health, training, violence intervention, counseling,
equality & equity. The Men’s Development Network is the national promoter of the
White Ribbon Campaign, which is the world’s largest male-led movement to end
men’s violence against women and promote gender equality.
Anita Kopenhofer is a member and participant in the Family Resource
Centre for the last twenty years. She is an outreach worker at the Inchicore
Outreach Centre which offers support and information to women experiencing
physical, mental, sexual or financial abuse. It is a free and confidential
service.
Helen O’Donoghue is Senior Curator and Head of Education and
Community Programmes at IMMA where she has initiated a series of ground
breaking arts education programmes for children, adults and older people
including a youth focused art and human rights education project with
Amnesty International. The Education and Community dept regularly curates
exhibitions and produces publications evolving from these programmes.
Victoria Hollows is the Museum Manager, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow,
where she oversaw GOMA’s series of biennial social justice programmes,
including Rule of Thumb: Contemporary Art & Human Rights, which explored
the issue of violence against women. She is also an area representative for
Engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, as well as a member
of the Engage Scotland Development Group.
Catriona Crowe is Head of Special Projects at the National Archives of
Ireland. She is Manager of the Irish Census Online Project and an Editor of
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy. She is Chairperson of the SAOL Project
and the Inner City Renewal Group both in the North Inner City. She
contributes regularly to the broadcast and print media on cultural and
historical matters.
Kate McCarthy has worked for last 16 years on the issue of violence against
women. In 2006 Kate did an MA in the Women’s Studies Centre UCD where
she took the issue of pornography as her thesis subject. She is a domestic
violence outreach worker at the Inchicore and Outreach Centre, which offers
support and information to women experiencing physical, mental, sexual or
financial abuse. It is a free and confidential service.
Denise Charlton is Chief Executive of Immigrant Council of Ireland, prior to
that, she was the Director of Women's Aid. She has been involved in several
European Commission projects specifically in the area of integration,
immigration and human trafficking. She has been the country coordinator for
ENOTES, an EU observatory on human trafficking; she was the Irish expert to
the European Women's Lobby Observatory on violence against women for
many years.
Ailbhe Murphy is an artist whose earlier work includes collaborations with
IMMA, the FRC St. Michael’s Estate, the LYCS and City Arts over the following
project series: ‘Unspoken Truths’ (1991-‘96), ‘Once is Too Much’ (1996 –‘98)
and ‘Tower Songs’ (2003-‘06). She is a co-founder of Vagabond Reviews an
interdisciplinary arts and research platform. Recent commissions include the
National Women’s Council of Ireland’s Legacy Project, curated by Valerie
Connor.
Rita Fagan is the Project Director of the Family Resource Centre,
St.Michael’s Estate Inchicore. The FRC St.Michael’s Estate developed the first
community-based model in Ireland to address the issue of violence against
women. The FRC St.Michael’s Estate is also known for their ground breaking
creative work in projects such as Once is Too Much and in their regeneration
campaigns. A life long activist, in 2009 Rita received the inaugural John
O’Connell award for outstanding commitment to youth and community work.
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