Event Details
Roberta showing students the hessian backing (Photo: Claire Wright) |
| Seminar: | Conflict Textiles seminar with Year 3 students, School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences, Ulster University |
| Description: | The seminar, delivered by Roberta Bacic and facilitated by Claire Wright, explored the relevance of arts-based approaches to dealing with conflict, as part of the Transforming Violence Module offered to Year 3 students of Politics and International Studies at Ulster University (Belfast). It follows on from two collaborative seminars held in 2025 and 2024. In this year’s session, Roberta offered the students a guided tour of the Aftershocks Exhibition at the Belfast School of Art and introduced them to the work of Conflict Textiles more broadly. As part of the seminar, Roberta facilitated a hands-on activity, giving the students the opportunity to learn about attempts to deal with the past through the materiality of textiles and to reflect upon arpilleras as a means to express lived experiences of conflict and its aftershocks. |
| Commissioned by: | School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences, Ulster University |
| Date(s): | 22nd April 2026 - 22nd April 2026 |
| Venue: | Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, Belfast Campus, Northern Ireland
York St, Belfast BT15 1ED |
| Curator: | Roberta Bacic |
| Facilitator: | Claire Wright |
| Outcome: | This was a very meaningful, participatory learning activity, giving students an opportunity to engage with and reflect on the lived experience of conflict and the materiality of textiles. The students are in the final weeks of their undergraduate programme and this will surely be a memorable experience for them. |
| Documents: |
• Photo Gallery Year 3 Students 2026 - view
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