Announcing CCA x Ulster University Lunchtime Research Talks
CCA x Ulster University Lunchtime Research Talks
Wenesdays 4, 11, 18 & 25 February 2026, 1:15–1:45pm
Via zoom.
Link available from CCADLD.org / Instagram.com/CCADLD from 1pm each Wednesday
Every Wednesday in February you can tune into a different talk over lunch with CCA Derry~Londonderry and Ulster University. Over the month different PhD Researchers from UU will be presenting their research via zoom in a bite-sized talk followed by the opportunity for you to ask a question facilitated by CCA.
The aim of these short lunchtime talks aim to share with the wider world just some of the research that is taking place at Ulster University with the pilot month including topics ranging from wool to the sublime.
The talks take place from 1:15 and last no more than 30 minutes including Q&A and the link for the zoom will go live each Wednesday at 1pm available from @CCADLD on Instagram and at CCADLD.org/news.
Programme:
4 February 2026
Jayne Harkness: The idiosyncrasies of wool and how developments in agriculture can support its use in yarns and fabrics for textiles and composites
11 February 2026
Katie McFadden: Imagined Islands: Envisioning beyond the Anthropocene through moving image practice.
18 February 2026
Vasiliki Stasinaki: Little stories from forgotten geographies. The islands of the Aegean Sea as spaces of counter-narrative and resistance.
25 February 2026
Daire O’Shea: The Withdrawn Sublime: Can a Landscape that is Inaccessible to Direct Experience be Truly Sublime?
Image: KatieMcFadden
4 February 2026
Jayne Harkness: The idiosyncrasies of wool and how developments in agriculture can support its use in yarns and fabrics for textiles and composites
All wool is not the same- so how can developments in agriculture enhance its use in yarns & fabrics for textiles & composites?
Jayne writes: “From my professional & personal experience within the wool industry I have observed that UK & Irish wool is considered as one unique fibre… but please allow me to explain…
As a 7th generation sheep farmer & PhD Researcher... Liverman of the Worshipful Company of Woolmen and Freeman of the City of London, you could say I wear many hats... all of them wool!”
linkedin.com.mcas.ms/in/jayne-harkness-bones-203b20360/
facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586516466988&sk=about
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11 February 2026
Katie McFadden: Imagined Islands: Envisioning beyond the Anthropocene through moving image practice.
Hy-Brasil offers a space where the economic and social barriers of our reality can be suspended. Through sensorial moving-image practice, this imagined reality allows us to begin envisioning life beyond the Anthropocene, opening space to explore alternative ways of relating to place and environment.
Katie is a filmmaker, artist and researcher from Donegal, living in Belfast. Katie’s work seeks to capture the dialogue between past and present, exploring the lasting implications that economic and colonial powers have on our understanding of place and identity
katiemcfadden.squarespace.com
Instagram.com/@katie.g.mcfadden
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18 February 2026
Vasiliki Stasinaki: Little stories from forgotten geographies. The islands of the Aegean Sea as spaces of counter-narrative and resistance.
In this presentation Vasiliki will discuss how through her artistic research she has been exploring the marginalised stories of the islands of the Aegean Sea and their use as places of exile during the Greek Civil War, through material research, anarchiving methods and speculative strategies.
Vasiliki is an interdisciplinary artist from Greece, currently undertaking a practice-based PhD research at Belfast School of Art (DfE). She has a background in dance and is currently exhibiting her work don’t write on the margins, at Fisga Space in Porto.
instagram.com/vasilikistasinaki
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25 February 2026
Daire O’Shea: The Withdrawn Sublime: Can a Landscape that is Inaccessible to Direct Experience be Truly Sublime?
In the age of the anthropocene we are at the mercy of hyperobjects whose immensity we cannot truly grasp. This research poses the question of whether artistic intervention can be used to provide a sublime experience of these hyperobjects (such as the seafloor) and thus help us confront them.
Daire O’Shea is a sculptor, academic and lecturer whose practice based research usually manifests in materialist sculptural outputs. His research tends to revolve around speculative realist and object oriented ontologist philosophy and redefining the sublime in the age of the anthropocene.
Instagram.com/daireoshea
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