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The Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Trinity College Dublin,
will be hosting a conference on New Research in Irish Feminism on
Saturday, 28th April. |
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Preliminary Conference Schedule
10:45-11:30 Welcome: Dr. Maryann Valiulis, Director, Centre for Gender
and Womenís Studies, TCD
Keynote Address: Dr. Anne Byrne, UCG
'Researching Women's Identities'
11:30-1:00 Exploring Feminist Expressions of Creativity
Louise O'Shea, TCD, 'Sapphic Stages: Irish Lesbian Theatre'
Liz O'Riordan, UCD, 'Borderings: New Exploratory Research on Lesbian
Creative Artists in Ireland'
Tina O'Toole, UCC, 'Narrating the New Woman: The Feminist Fictions of
George Egerton'
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Negotiating Sexualities
Hazel Lyder, TCD, 'Silence & Secrecy: Sexuality and the Strategies
Employed by Dublin Women in the 1940s & 1950s'
Angela O'Connell, UCC, 'Rails, Jet-trails and Emails: Routes to
Pregnancy for Irish lesbians'
Siobhra Reid, TCD, 'What's in a Name? A Study of Contemporary Naming
Practices in Ireland'
3:30-5:00 Feminisms
Laury Oaks, University of Santa Barbara, 'A New Challenge to Irish
Feminism: The International Pro-Life Feminist Movement'
Sile Ni Chonlain, UCD, 'Racism in Ireland is not something new: A
White
Feminist Analysis of White Privilege in Ireland'
Marie Hammond Callaghan, UCD, 'Doing' Women's Peace History in Northern
Ireland'
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Contact wscentre@tcd.ie for a Registration
Form
Registration Fee: £5.00 / £3.00 Conc.
Registration Deadline: Friday, April 20, 2001
A vegetarian lunch will be available for all Conference participants
who register before April 20, 2001. If anyone has special dietary
requirements, please contact the Centre and we will do our best to
accommodate you.
The venue is wheelchair accessible.
There will be a sign language interpreter.
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Childcare
Limited childcare will be available for the day of the conference at
the
day nursery on campus, if there is sufficient demand. The cost is £30
per day per child (£15.00 conc.). Each child must bring her/his own
lunch. The nursery will care for children between the ages of 3
months
to 4 and half years. Children must be collected by 17.00 on the day of
the conference. Payment should accompany registration.
Childcare must be booked no later than 12 April 2001. Please book as
soon as possible, as places are limited.
Please make all cheques payable to the Centre for Gender and Women's
Studies, Trinity College and return to:
Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Trinity College, Dublin 2.
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