Seminars

Seminar Presenter: nature drawing nature - April 3rd 2025 Online seminar with Black Books: Drawing and Sketching Online Journal.

Panels Moderation: Pedro Soares Nevels (Lisbon University, Portugal)​ Presenter: Kiera O'Toole (Loughborough University, UK) – "Drawing Spatialized Feelings: Counter Mapping Atmospheres"
The video recordings are available:‍ ‍April 3rd and 4th, 2025:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIFjdh6nk2s&t=6s

Seminar presenter: Architecture, Urbanism, Public Art, participation, Drawing, and the Environment,  University of Lisbon, University of São Paulo, 8th Nov 2024.

Co-produced by Dr. Pedro Soares Neves from the University of Lisbon and Prof. Dr. Lilian Amaral from the University of São Paulo, organizers of two synchronous seminars, one in Europe and the other in the Americas, respectively APD - Architecture, Public Art, Drawing (online) and the Nomadic Seminar Valongo Expedition (hybrid).

2026

Nature Drawing Nature 2nd Seminar: Situated Drawing - Cartographies of Practice, Co-organized by Pedro Soares Neves, Black Books: Drawing and Sketching Online Journal in collaboration with Sara Schneckloth (University of South Carolina) and Kiera O’Toole (Loughborough University)

The video recordings are available:
April 2, 2026:https://youtu.be/WA7tMUJA9dk
April 3, 2026 : https://youtu.be/btUyp4WKj7g

Seminar presenter: Drawing Research Network. DRN 2023

Drawing in Relation: Affect & Agency

The second event in this year’s DRN series of Drawing in Relation events at Loughborough University is concerned with entanglements of agency and affect. The artists present work that is informed by art theoretical narratives of embodiment and new materialist conceptions of post human and more than human intra-actions. They are interested in the way that phenomenologies of space, atmosphere and site affect the form and structure of expanded practices of drawing, how a new materialist lens creates opportunities for thinking about who or what draws in arts practice research as they trouble the nature of and agency and subjectivity through drawing intra-actions within a specific place.

https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/tracey/drn2023-drawing-in-relation-affect-agency/

Conference chair: Drawing Research Network at Loughborough University investigating 'Ecologies of Drawing; Mapping Environments, 25th May 2022

DRN Ecologies of Drawing: Mapping Environments Recording
Delighted to have chaired an online conference organised by the Drawing Research Network at Loughborough University investigating 'ecologies of drawing'. The panel invited Daniel Coombes, Ann McDonald and Uri Wegman  to present papers on the role of drawing in mapping environments.This is the third in a series of online events organised by the DRG at Loughborough University investigating ecologies of drawing.

Seminar Presenter: NOT JUST NED: THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE IRISH IN AUSTRALIA,

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA , 2nd July, 2011 https://www.nma.gov.au/__data/assets/audio_file/0004/529213/not-just-ned-what-sort-of-his-020711.mp3Not Just Ned: what sort of history of the Irish in Australia? Symposium chaired by Orla Tunney, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Ireland, with short contributions from other speakers giving their opinions on the Not Just Ned exhibition.

Shane Carmody, Pat Cooke, Vale Noone, Keira O’Toole and Orla Tunney

Conference presenter with Dr. Annemarie Murland, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

20th Australasian Irish Studies Conference
Sydney, December 2013
Convenors: Ronan McDonald and Gemma Clark

The mission of the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand is to promote and facilitate the advancement of knowledge about Ireland and Irish matters broadly conceived in Australia and New Zealand.

https://isaanz.org/conferences/past-conferences/

-No recording available