深夜亚洲福利久久

Saturday 15th June, 2013

Registration 9.30 - 10.00am

Conference running time 10.00am to 5.00pm

Contact: sandra.mcavoy@ucc.ie for further information and to register (021 490 3654)

Some preliminary information on the programme.

This year鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Studies conference is something of an experiment as we called for proposals for performances as well as papers. We have some interesting material lined up for the day.

Two keynote speakers, Sonja Tiernan and Ailbhe Smyth, will introduce ways in which feminists past and present, denied of a more conventional 'P'olitical platform, have used the arts to reach into the core of their concerns and place them in the public domain.

Sonja Tiernan(Department of History and Politics Liverpool Hope 深夜亚洲福利久久), whose biography of Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926) was published by Manchester 深夜亚洲福利久久 Press in 2012, will present on 'Eva Gore-Booth; politics, parity and poetry' discussing how Gore-Booth used her creative writing to advance feminist causes.   ( and 

Ailbhe Smyth, is a feminist activist, academic, and was a key figure in the development of Women鈥檚 Studies in Ireland 鈥� as well as in Attic Press. Her presentation is entitled 'More of your lip there, girl!': A Personal Reflection on Feminism, Culture and Protest.

Catherine Cabeen is a former member of the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and the Martha Graham Dance Company among others. 

鈥凌别补诲测,础颈尘鈥�  is a 20-minute solo performance created and performed by Catherine Cabeen.  The comedic, dance-theater work explores the history of Western concert dance in relation to female objectification and relates changes in traditional costuming to the manifestation of eating disorders. Ready, Aim鈥� is a celebration of female anatomy and at the same time a reminder of the politics that are inherent in the female body in performance. Ready, Aim鈥� is interactive.鈥�  See Catherine鈥檚 website at 

Members of Sawa Le Arts Collective came together in 2011when the women involvedwere at various stages of their asylum/migration journey in Ireland. They will perform scenes from the devised play 鈥淥n our Way鈥� and engage in discussion with the audience. The performance will be framed by an introductory video involving Women鈥檚 Studies PhD student Nilmini Fernando, whose feminist participatory research project brought the group together. It introduces 鈥榦ne formulation of feminist participatory research within an artist/academic/activist model using
drama as a 鈥渄e-colonising鈥� research tool that can facilitate self-representation and 鈥渆mbodied鈥� activism - bringing the women along with
their stories.鈥� (See 
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Valerie O鈥機onnor, Chairperson of the National Campaign For the Arts is curator of the The Legacy Project,which has been initiated by the National Women鈥檚 Council of Ireland in the year that marks the centenary of the 1913 Lockout. Launched at the , organised by SIPTU Equality, on 9 March 2013, the project aims to challenge mainstream thinking on women and work and to celebrate women鈥檚 activism. The NWCI website notes three things that emerged in the development of the brief for the four artists involved:

 鈥楩irstly, the growing experience of 鈥榩recarity鈥� among women in particular; how changing work practices that remove security and redefine paid and unpaid work are becoming more and more mainstream. Secondly, the concept of access to 'representation'; whether that is legal, political, or cultural remains a struggle. Thirdly, 'visibility', or the lack of it; typically, the day to day work and working environments of those active in the voluntary and community sector remains invisible as the focus is normally on outcomes and specific output. In this case the commissions offer a great opportunity to address this at a time when the sector is undergoing change.鈥�

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Caitriona Reilly of Queens 深夜亚洲福利久久 Belfast will present on Performing Prostitution and the Postfeminist Problem in Contemporary Ireland: The Boys of Foley Street and Taking Back Our Voices: A collaboration with Ruhama. Caitriona will look at the representation of prostitution and the lives of sex workers in Ireland as depicted in contemporary performances.  With the current review of legislation, the paper raises current and key issues.

 Emma Campbell,artist, photographer and film-maker will present a short film and photographic series, representing the abortion journey in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The text and audio for the film are taken 鈥榲erbatim from Hansard notes of a Northern Ireland Assembly debate on abortion access in June 2000.鈥� (See )

 Katie Gillum,  activist filmmaker and researcher, and artist Siobh谩n Clancy will present on 鈥榟ow media may be used creatively - using the
Abortion Rights Campaign - as a case study and how creativity in the form of participatory arts can broaden feminist discourse.  Our multi-media
presentation examines post-modernist theories of cyber-feminism in current activist contexts.  We hope to reflect on how we, as an intergenerational network of pro-choice activists in contemporary Ireland engage in creative communicate currently.鈥�  (; Katie has also contributed to: ; ; ; Siobhan has also contributed to:  ;  

 Liz Dunphy is a journalist and film-maker. LauraKinsella is an academic and film-maker whose research at DIT focuses on using media as a tool for social justice.  This research perspective influenced the work they will present on 15th June. Their 鈥�No More Shame Project鈥�, an initiative designed to give voice to women in Ireland who have had abortions and who have been silenced for decades by 鈥榝ear of criminal reprimand and
crippling social stigma鈥�. 鈥楳igrating feminist activism to a digital platform, this lens based presentation focuses on the methodology and generative process of No More Shame.鈥� ( ;  )

 Ann Rossiter鈥檚 bookIreland's Hidden Diaspora:The 'abortion Trail' and the Making of a London-Irish Underground, 1980-2000was launched at our Women鈥檚 Studies conference in 2009 ( ).

As Ann says, 鈥楽ince Edna O鈥橞rien sent The Country Girls to London more than half a century ago and imbued them with much of her own life experiences, including sexual desire, Irish women of the diaspora have become increasingly emboldened to dig where they stand and tap into their own life stories despite being marginalised or even edged out of the 鈥榤ainstream鈥� Irish community in Britain.鈥�  Ann will present three three-minute tales from a work in progress. Describing them, she says 鈥� 鈥楻ather than being in the established genre of 鈥榝lash fiction鈥�, these are in the style of 鈥榝lash鈥� life writing.鈥�

Colette Nolan鈥檚contribution promises to be both challenging and playful. She suggests that the fact that the word 鈥榗unt鈥� is mainly used in anger or hate but very rarely in joy or love speaks volumes ... 鈥� She works to encourage 鈥榯he use of this word in a positive way鈥� . Colette鈥檚 workshops use poetry and Cuntcraft to encourage women to tell their stories. She will use spoken word performance, a continuous loop presentation of images from previous events and play-dough on 15th June. ( )

Lynne Glasscoe is a business woman and trainer who recently returned to Ireland after working in the Caribbean, Singapore and Central Asia. She raises a sustainable entrepreneur's questions about feminist activism and the arts. Asking us to be honest about the extent to which we are talking amongst ourselves, she considers some ways in which feminist activists might draw on entrepreneurial thinking to get their
messages out.