Katerina Zouboulakis and Megan Brien from the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College Dublin invited paper proposals to a one-day symposium on the 7th of March 2025 at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. The symposium’s aim was to cultivate conversation by connecting early career scholars to share ideas, practices, and challenges through the launch of a new early career researchers’ forum called Tarraingt. The event began with a collaborative ‘Seedlings Workshop’ for scholars to develop initial ideas and seek peer-to-peer feedback on works in progress. The morning workshop was followed by a series of afternoon paper sessions, open to the public.
Participants were invited to explore the socio-cultural, political, and global influences that shape our understandings of materiality, spatial perspectives, and their relationship to the practice of writing histories of art, design, and architectural history, in all its forms and facets. Katerina and Megan encouraged participants to submit paper proposals for works in progress that touched on the symposium’s theme of pushing and pulling between and within thresholds in their discipline, and emphasised that this one-day symposium would be supportive and constructive, thus all ideas were welcome.
The prospect of a supportive and constructive space was very enticing for me as an interdisciplinary imposter who is always pushing and pulling between and within thresholds, and I was honoured to have been accepted.
For more information on the workshop and Tarraingt, the early career researchers’ forum, visit https://www.tarraingt.com
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