Des O’Rawe lectures in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has published on various aspects of cinema aesthetics and is particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of film and visual culture. His book, Regarding the Real: Cinema, Documentary, and the Visual Arts, publishes in 2016.Mark Phelan lectures in Drama at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has published widely on Irish theatre and performance with articles in Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama. Presently, his research is concerned with role that the arts - specifically theatre and performance - 'play' in ongoing processes of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland.