AGENDA

Date: Saturday 12th October 2024
Venue: Canada Room, 1st Floor, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University Belfast
Time: 10am – 1pm

Opening Remarks

Adam Murray – Lead Organiser
Dr. Matt Leebody – Chair of Cara-Friend
Dr. Tom Hulme – Reader, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy & Politics at Queen’s University
Panel 1 – Where Is Our LGBTQIA+ Heritage? 10.10am
Panellist 1 – Dr. Karen Logan (Ulster Museum)
Panellist 2 – Lorraine Bourke (Public Records Office NI)
Panellist 3 – Samantha McCombe (Linenhall Library)
Panellist 4 – Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell (NI Screen’s Digital Film Archive)

Comfort Break

Panel 2 – The Value of LGBTQIA+ Heritage 11.00am
Panellist 1 – Dominic Montague (Kabosh Theatre Company)
Panellist 2 – Dr. Richard O’Leary (Performance Storyteller)
Panellist 3 – JT Politzer (Graduate Student, Kent State Uni.)
Panellist 4 – Cathal McGuigan (LGBTQIA+ Heritage Project Volunteer)

Feature – UTV Archive clips

Panel 3 – Looking To The Future 11.55am
Panellist 1 – Adam Murray (Cara-Friend)
Panellist 2 – Mary Ellen Campbell (LGBTQIA+ Heritage Project)
Panellist 3 – Dr. Tom Hulme (Queer NI Project)
Panellist 4 – Dr. Molly Merryman (Kent State University)

Closing Remarks

This symposium is the opening event of the Founding Cara-Friend: Preserving At Risk LGBTQIA+
Heritage Project made possible thanks to generous funding by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Cara-Friend wishes to thank the NLHF and the lottery players who make this possible.