Symposium Registration

To register for the Symposium 'Inventing and Re-Inventing the Irish Woman 1760-2000'
Please email susan.cahill@ucd.ie as soon as possible.

Symposium Programme

Symposium
‘Inventing and Re-Inventing the Irish Woman 1760-2000’

Venue:
Humanities Institute of Ireland.
University College Dublin.
10-11 October 2008.



Programme.

Friday 10 October.

2.30 p.m. Registration, tea and coffee
2.50 Official Opening:
Professor Mary Daly
College Principal, College of Arts and Celtic Studies, UCD.

3.00 - 4.00 Professor Maria Luddy (University of Warwick)
‘Sex and the Shaping of Irish Woman’
4.00 - 5.00 Dr. Claire Connolly (Cardiff University)
‘Four Nations Feminism: Una Troy and Menna Gallie'

5.00 – 5.15 - Coffee

5.15 – 6.15 Professor Clair Wills (Queen Mary,University of London)
‘Representations of women, marriage and modernity in the 1950s’.

Saturday 11 October.

9.30 – 10.00 - Coffee

10.00 – 11.00 Professor Andrew Carpenter (UCD)
‘Voices in verse: women poets in eighteenth-century Ireland’
11.00 – 12.00 Dr. Anne Mulhall (UCD)
'Intersectionality and the Space of Writing: The Women Writers in the New Ireland Network'

1200 -1.00 - Lunch



1.00– 2.00 Professor Grace Neville (UCC)
‘Living in the material world: the Fashioning of America by Irish Women Emigrants, 1880-1920’
2.00 – 3.00 Dr. Maryann Valiulis (TCD)
‘Gendering the Irish Free State'

3.00 – 3.15 – Coffee

3.15 – 4.15
Dr. Catherine O’Connor (UL)
‘The women who stayed: Perceptions of America and its impact on Irish women 1900-1960’.

Dr. Susan Cahill (UCD)
‘“Let it become a traveller in words” : Contemporary women’s poetry in Irish poetry magazines 1960-2005.’

4.15. Round table session chaired by Professor Gerardine Meaney (UCD); Professor Mary O’ Dowd (QUB); Dr. Bernadette Whelan (UL).
Inventing and Re-Inventing the Irish Woman: External Influences on Gender Construction



The Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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