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Aideen Barry

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Aideen Barry visual artist based in Ireland but with an international profile. Her work encompasses a vast range of disciplines and subjects, including domestic labour, environmental changes, classism, intersectionality and human vulnerability.

Her means of expression are interchangeable, incorporating performance, sculpture, film, text and experimental lens based media, She often employs visual trickery to create a heightened suspension of reality that comments on otherness; often collaborating with artists & communities to manifest her multi-diverse socio-political works.She is a member of Aosdána and the Royal Hibernian Academy. Barry lectures in several universities and schools of visual art in Ireland, the US, South America and Europe, currently she is on a sabbatical from her teaching position at the Technical University of the Shannon, Limerick School of Art & Design.. Her debut feature film Klostés, commissioned by Kaunas 2022, is presently touring international film and architecture festivals including Newport Beach (USA), Oaxaca Film Fest (MX),The IFI (IRL), Galway Film Fleadh (IRL), London Festival of Architecture (UK) and Cordoba Film Fest (ARG). Her work is in prestigious private and public museum collections globally, including Art OMI (New York), Centro de Art Contemporary Malaga, The Arts Council Collection and the National Collection at Crawford Art Gallery. In 2021 she won the Golden Fleece Award , the Thomas Dammann Junior memorial trust award. and a Project award from the Arts Council of Ireland to support her current touring body of work the "By Slight ligaments" which will be shown later this year in the Salzburger Kunstverein in Austria. She is currently artist in residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Programme (ISCP) in Brooklyn awarded by Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin and is invited speaker at Wellesley College Boston, Cornell and Hamilton Collage Ithaca, Georgetown University Washington DC and Parsons at The New School in NYC.

Sophia Labadi

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Sophia Labadi is Professor of Heritage at the University of Kent in the UK. Much of Professor Labadi’s research focuses on whether and how heritage sites and museums can address some of the most pressing global challenges, including social justice, gender equality or sustainable development.

Her research is nourished by her experiences as consultant for international organisations and governments, including for UNESCO. Professor Labadi’s books include Rethinking Heritage for Sustainable Development (UCL Press, 2022); The Cultural Turn in International Aid (Routledge, 2019); Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability (co-edited with Bill Logan, Routledge 2015); and UNESCO, Cultural Heritage and Outstanding Universal Value (AltaMira Press, 2012). Her work has received many prizes, including the 2022 European Archaeological Heritage Prize from the European Association of Archaeologists.

Desna Whaanga-Schollum, M.Sci Comm, B.Design

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Resident in her iwi (tribal) territories on the East Coast of Aotearoa New Zealand, Communications advisor Māori for Sustainable Seas Science Challenge; and an Ambassador for Landscape Foundation NZ, Desna is actively involved in indigenous discourse. Desna has worked across a wide range of projects for 26 years, reinscribing ancestral narratives in cultural landscapes, advocating respect, and reciprocal relationships with Place. Applying mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge systems) through Design, Strategy, Arts, Science Communications, and Governance roles. Previous governance roles incl: Chairperson and founding member Ngā Aho Māori Design Professionals; Chairperson Artspace Aotearoa; Trustee Arts Foundation NZ; Trustee Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery; Board Member Auckland Urban Design Panel.

Professor Seth Asumah

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Dr. Seth N. Asumah is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Africana Studies Department. Professor Asumah is the author and co-editor of ten books and over 100 scholarly articles, book chapters, reviews and essays. Professor Asumah is a recipient of many international, national, and local awards and honors, including the National Role Model Faculty Award, Minority INC. (2018), State University of New York at Oneonta Distinguished Alumni Award (2016), Steven J. Barnes Outstanding Faculty Award, SUNY Cortland (2016), Outstanding Achievement in Service Award, SUNY Cortland (2014), Carnegie-University of Ghana Diaspora Fellowship (2015), the Professor Ali A. Mazrui Outstanding Publication and Educational Activities Award (2014), SUNY Cortland Outstanding Service Award (2014), the State University of New York’s highest teaching honor, award and rank, Distinguished Teaching Professor (2007), the American Political Science Association Outstanding Teaching in Political Science Award (2008), the Rozanne Brooks Dedicated and Excellence in Teaching Award (1999), SUNY Cortland Excellence in Teaching Award (2002), The New York Africana Studies Association Outstanding Service Award (2012); The 2012 New York Africana Studies Book Award Honorable Mention and he has received many honors, including The Honor Society of Phi kappa Phi, the Political Science Honor Society of Pi Sigma Alpha and the International Honor Society of Phi Beta Delta. As a Fulbright-Hay National Screening Committee Member, he was recognized for his endeavors for the Africa Region in 2019 by the Institute of International Education (IIE). Dr. Asumah is a Boren Fellowship National Screening Committee Member for U.S. National Security Education Agency and the Institute of International Education (IIE).

Obafemi Olukoya

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Obafemi Olukoya is a Research Associate at the Chair of Environmental Planning at Brandenburg Technical University, Germany, and the founder of Vernacular Heritage Initiative, Nigeria. His academic research focuses on the conservation of vernacular landscapes in the context of climate change impacts. His professional practice specialises in impact assessment and architectural conservation as a tool for sustainable development. He has worked on several internationally funded impact assessment and architectural conservation projects in Germany, Cyprus, Tanzania, Malawi, and Nigeria. He is a scientific member of ICOMOS International Committee on Vernacular Architecture (CIAV), the International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA), ICOMOS Nigeria, the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF), and the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, among others. He is a German Academic Exchange (DAAD) Alumna.

Comedy duo Aoibheann McCann & Andi Ipaktchi

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Comedy duo Aoibheann McCann and Andi Ipaktchi met at Tyrone Guthrie Artist Retreat in Annamakerig, Co. Monaghan in 2019. This resulted in a creative partnership that explores the commercialisation of Irish heritage, genealogy & artistic values in a darkly comic way. The pair debuted with a live performance in 2020 and performed a second live show in 2021. Their six part audio comedy series Retreat Comedy was released in September 2022. Retreat Comedy went on to top the Irish & French comedy fiction charts and also made a showing in the US, Australian & UK charts. It continues to gain new listenership around the world. Their work has been shortlisted for a Hammond House Comedy Award . They are currently working on new material.

Steven Rottman

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Jane Kee

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Key Speakers

Key Speakers

Aideen Barry

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Aideen Barry visual artist based in Ireland but with an international profile. Her work encompasses a vast range of disciplines and subjects, including domestic labour, environmental changes, classism, intersectionality and human vulnerability.

Sophia Labadi

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Sophia Labadi is Professor of Heritage at the University of Kent in the UK. Much of Professor Labadi’s research focuses on whether and how heritage sites and museums can address some of the most pressing global challenges, including social justice, gender equality or sustainable development.

Desna Whaanga-Schollum, M.Sci Comm, B.Design

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Professor Seth Asumah

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Obafemi Olukoya

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Comedy duo Aoibheann McCann & Andi Ipaktchi

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Steven Rottman

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Jane Kee

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