This weekend, Kirstin Ringelberg of the Art Department will present a paper at a conference at University College Cork, Ireland. The conference, “Representations of Pain,” is part of a series of annual conferences on specific topics held as part of the interdisciplinary, trans-cultural degree program the University calls “Image History.” The goal of the conferences is to bring together a select number of scholars from Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas to consider visual representations in a focused, dialogic manner. Ringelberg’s paper, entitled “The Faked Pain of the Artist: Empathy or Sympathy, Compassion or Concealment?” is one of 15 to be delivered at the 3-day conference, which ends with a recorded round-table discussion by all the speakers.