Event Details
(L-R): Breege Doherty; Juliana & Juana, Museo de Arte y Memoria de Mampujan; UK Colombian Ambassador HE Roy Barreras; Vice-Chancellor, UU, Paul Bartholomew; Jeanie Parris, Belfast Campus Library, UU; Roberta Bacic, Conflict Textiles. (Photo: GR)
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| Rotating exhibition: | Conflict Textiles / Ulster University, Belfast - The search for the disappeared |
| Description: | This rotating exhibition is a collaboration between Conflict Textiles Trust and several entities within Ulster University: INCORE, TJI and the John Hume & Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Peace. It builds on previous collaborations across Ulster University, particularly the rotating exhibition Conflict Textiles collection: Library, Derry ~ Londonderry campus launched in 2020.
Comprised of four arpilleras themed on enforced disappearance, particularly in Chile, this inaugural exhibition marks the fiftieth anniversary of the overthrow of democratically elected Chilean President Salvador Allende in September 1973 and the beginning of the seventeen-year-long Pinochet dictatorship, synonymous with enforced disappearance and human rights abuses.
The seminar Responding to Disappearance in Chile, Northern Ireland and Turkey, a component of the exhibition programme, took place 3pm – 4.30pm, Wednesday 25th October 2023.
The exhibition was launched at 5.30pm on 23rd November, by the Colombian Ambassador to the UK, HE Roy Barreras. The launch took place after the workshop Stitching our Stories: Displacement, Healing, New Possibilities and was part of a broader evening programme connected to his visit to Belfast.
Evening programme registration (Launch, reception and lecture)
This exhibition is a satellite of the Conflict Textiles retrospective exhibition Threads of Empowerment: Conflict Textiles’ International Journey at the Ulster Museum, Belfast (June 2024 - March 2025). For more information please visit our Summary page. |
| Commissioned by: | Ulster University, Belfast campus |
| Date(s): | 25th October 2023 - 30th January 2025 |
| Venue: | Library, Belfast campus, Ulster University
Belfast Campus Library (BC Building) |
| Curator: | Roberta Bacic and Conflict Textiles team |
| Facilitator: | Jeanie Parris |
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| Documents: |
• Textile list, UU Belfast, Oct. 2023 - view
• Enforced Disappearance, Chain of events-Chile - view
• Milestones-human rights cases:Chile 1990-2023 - view
• Exhibition poster, UU Belfast campus - view
• Photo gallery: Exhibition guided tour, 25 Oct - view
• Photo gallery: Exhibition launch, 23 Nov - view
• Galería de fotos, inauguración 23 nov - view
• Introduction to Conflict Textiles - view
• Leaflet: Threads of Empowerment & Satellites - view
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