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Gender, Sexuality and Culture

13 May 2014
A symposium, followed by a reception, in honour of Professor Patricia Coughlan, 
to mark the occasion of her retirement from ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork 
Friday May 16 th 2014  
 
This event will be streamed live online and subsequently archived at:
 
 

 

Programme

All Welcome

 

10.30am Coffee, CACSSS Meeting Room, Ground Floor, ORBBuilding

  

11am Welcome, CACSSS Seminar Room : Prof Claire Connolly, School of English, UCC 

 

 

11.00 am-12.30pm Session I – Gender and Place in Irish Culture

 

Chair: Dr Lee Jenkins , School of English , UCC 

 

  • Prof Máire Herbert, Early and Medeival Irish, School of Irish Learning, UCC: â€˜An Irish Manuscript Linked with Kilcrea’
  • Dr Ruth Connolly, School of English Literataure, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã: 'Mapping Space and Bodies in the Poetry of Hester Pulter' 
  • Dr Pat Palmer, Department of English, Kings College London:‘Flirting with Sappho: Warrior Women and the Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland’&²Ô²ú²õ±è;

 

12.30-1.15pm Lunch (Staff Restaurant) 

 

 

1.30pm-3.00pm Session II&²Ô²ú²õ±è;–&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Irish Writing from New Woman Fiction to Modernism: Forms of Experience

 

 

Chair: Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir, School of English, UCC 

 

  • Prof  Anne Fogarty, School of English, Drama and Film, UCD: â€˜ ' The odour of ashpits and old weeds and offal ' : The Transmission of Affects in Joyce's Dubliners’&²Ô²ú²õ±è;
  • Dr Ellen McWilliams, Department of English, ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã of Exeter: â€˜Celebrity, Harper’s Bazaar, and the Writing of Maeve Brennan’
  • Dr Tina O’Toole,  School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication, UL:  'Migrant Intimacies: George Egerton’s Decadent Marriage Plot'

 

3.00 pm-5.00 pm Session III – Conceptualising Irish Culture

 

Chair: Dr Piaras MacÉinrí, Department of Geography, UCC 

 

  • Prof Angela Bourke, School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics, UCD: 'Four Women in West Kerry, 1892' 
  • Prof Lucy McDiarmid, Department of English, Montclair State ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã: 'Elsie Mahaffy's Counter-revolutionary Hospitality' 
  • Dr Moynagh Sullivan, Department of English, NUIM: â€˜Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics’
  • Dr Linda Connolly,  Department of Sociology and ISS21, UCC: â€˜Feminism, Irish Studies and Social Change’

 

  

5pm: Reception, Staff Common Room

 

 

If you have any queries, contact one of the organisers:  l.connolly@ucc.ieclaireconnolly@ucc.ie orp.maceinri@ucc.ie

 

 
 
 
 

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