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THREADS OF MEMORY: Conflict Textiles, Poetry and Transitional Justice in Chile
Dec
16
2025
Posted: 15:21 GMT
The Irish Centre for Human Rights invites you to a public, interdisciplinary event exploring how textiles, poetry, and arts serve as powerful forms of testimony and resistance in the aftermath of political violence. Focusing on Chile’s struggle for truth and justice after the Pinochet dictatorship, the session highlights the evocative power of arpilleras poéticas, textile artworks accompanied by poetry, that weave together personal and collective memory.
Speakers:
Dr Anita Ferrara: Organiser and Chair, (Irish Centre for Human Rights)
Roberta Bacic (University of Ulster / Conflict Textiles)
Presentation of the book Arpilleras Poéticas
Pamela Luque: Chilean Arpillera artist
Dr Rachel Robinson (Lecturer, University of Galway)
Dr Kate Quinn (Lecturer, University of Galway)
Date:23 January 2026
Time: 4:00–5:30 pm
Venue: O’Donoghue Theatre, University of Galway
The event will feature music and bilingual poetry readings (Spanish and English).
All Welcome – Public Event
Photo: Martin Melaugh © Conflict Textiles
Gala Torres, 1989
Oshima Hakko Collection
