Launch of "Following the Footsteps of the Disappeared"

"Following the Footsteps of the Disappeared" is a two-day programme incorporating a textile display and 2 seminars to mark International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances 30 August 2020.

The two-day programme, and online textile display, will be launched online:

• Sunday 30 August 2020
• 14:00 to 14.45pm
• 15.00pm YouTube Premier of the short introductory film to the online exhibition

Speakers

• Introduction: Karen Logan, Senior Curator of History National Museums Northern Ireland, Belfast
• Greeting: Roberta Bacic, collector and curator of the Conflict Textiles collection
• Input: Rainer Huhle, Germany, independent expert of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearance (2011-2019) and response to the arpillera Recuerdos de Guadalupe / Guadalupe's Longings (1989)

YouTube Premier of the short film on the textiles exhibition will be screened (3pm)

Moderator: Professor Brandon Hamber, the John Hume and Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Peace, Ulster University

Photo credit: Recuerdos de Guadalupe / Guadalupe's Longings (Peru/Chile arpillera, Guadalupe Ccallocunto, 1989), photographer Martin Melaugh, © Conflict Textiles