Elsewhere on Ulster
A three-day programme (8-10 December 2025) to mark International Human Rights Day with a programme across universities, campuses, and cities
Conflict Textiles, Ulster University, INCORE, Queen’s University Belfast, and the Tower Museum are joining forces to present a three-day programme (8-10 December 2025) to mark International Human Rights Day with a programme across universities, campuses, and cities. Professor Hamber, as the Hume O'Neill Chair, is participating in the activities.
The programme will bring together film students, human rights researchers, activists, curators and the wider community to explore how textiles and film can act as powerful carriers of memory, truth, and justice. Through screenings, workshops, exhibitions, and discussions, the joint programme highlights creative responses to trauma and the disappeared across different global contexts.
The specific event the Chair will participate in will take place on 10 December 2025, 6-8pm on the Derry-Londonderry Ulster University Campus. This will include the screening of short films, curated by Cinematic Arts student Jessica Buchanan and PhD researcher Tabassum Islam, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Esther Vital, Roberta Bacic (Conflict Textiles), Prof. Élise Féron and Prof. Brandon Hamber (INCORE). Register for the screening and panel discussion.
There are a range of events over the week specifically led by Conflict Textiles and focusing on the film and related arpillera by Esther Vital, i.e. Cadê Heleny? / Searching Heleny. Heleny Guariba was a philosopher, professor and theatre director who disappeared in 1971 under the Brazilian dictatorship.
To find out more about the talks, screenings and also DIY film workshops visit the Conflict Textiles events page.
You can also download the programme.
Photo credit: Cadê Heleny? / Searching Heleny - Front (Photo: Martin Melaugh) and from the Conflict Textiles collection.
