SIBÉAL ANNUAL CONFERENCE
PROGRAMME
NOVEMBER 17 & 18, 2017
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
Summary Timings
Friday Nov 17th _ Humanities Institute, UCD
9:15 Registration
10:00 Opening remarks
10:15 Winning essay
10:40 Keynote
11:45 Tea/Coffee
12:00 Panel 1
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Panel 2 Generously sponsored by WHAI
16:00 Comfort break
16.15 Panel 3
18:00 Free time
19:30 Conference dinner
Saturday Nov 18th _ Newman Building & Humanities Institute, UCD
9:00 Registration
9:30 Panel 4, Panel 5 & Panel 6
10:00 ***STEM Workshop (10:00-14:00) Humanities Institute
11:00 Tea/Coffee
11.30 Panel 7 & Panel 8
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Panel 9 & Panel 10
15:30 Tea/Coffee with AGM & Workshop Results
16:30 Panel 11
18:00 Wine reception Newman
Friday Nov 17th _ Humanities Institute, UCD
9:15 Registration
10:00 Opening remarks
10:15 Winning Undergraduate Essay: Jennifer Shaughnessy
Boundary Zone: The Monstrous Feminine in Art
10:40 Keynote: Dr Mary McAuliffe
‘Citizenship 100’
Considering a Gendered Citizenship, Ireland 1918-2018
Chair Dr Deirdre Flynn
11:45 Tea/Coffee
12:00 Panel 1: Feminist Theory and Resistance Humanities Institute
Chair: Mary McGill
Andrea García González: University of Brighton
Peace as a practice of resistance
Arpita Chakraborty: Dublin City University
Is Bourdieu still relevant to gender studies? Methodological usefulness and challenges
Caroline West: Dublin City University
Reclaiming Female Pleasure and Sexuality on Screen: Female Made Pornography as a Site of Resistance
Maya Caspari: University of Leeds
The Poetics of Potentiality as Feminist Resistance
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Panel 2 : Generously sponsored by WHAI Humanities Institute
Convergent temporalities – (hi)Stories of Resistance
Chair: Arpita Chakraborty
Aimee Walsh: Liverpool John Moores University
‘Unthinkable’ Pasts?: Towards Gendering the Northern Irish Conflict
Clare Neylon: University of Salford
Suffragettes and the Sergeant-at-Arms : How the suffragettes used performative tactics of protest in and around the Houses of Parliament.
Nancy Rochford-Flynn: Limerick Institute of Technology
Cultural Amnesia: How Active Commemoration works as a means of Countering Cultural Forms of Magdalene Forgetfulness
16:00 Comfort break
16.15 Panel 3: Reproductive Justice & Motherhood Humanities Institute
Chair: Dr Chamindra Weerawardhana
Clare Brophy: NUI Maynooth
Exiling Selfishness: rejecting motherhood, silence, and the occupation of public space
Emily O’Brien: Miami University
Beyond Choice to Reproductive Justice: The Affective Potential of Abortion Narratives
Lauren O’Sullivan: Queen’s University Belfast
Obstetrics claims, Clinical Negligence Law and the ‘Compensation Culture’: Resisting the Status Quo”
Margaret O’Connor: University of Limerick
Choice as a form of resistance – Decision making regarding motherhood in Ireland
18:00 Free time
19:30 Conference dinner
Saturday Nov 18th _
9:00 Registration
9:30 Panels 4, 5 & 6
Panel 4: Reimagining the Dynamic: Ethics and Power Room J208
Chair: Mary McGill
Aoife Prendergast: Limerick Institute of Technology
Locating and Crafting the Art of Resistance: The Evolution and Visibility of Irish Women in Modern Social Care Practice
Emily Murphy: NUI Galway
Fame and Feminism: Gender Performativity and Celebrity Activism
Suzanne O’Keeffe: Mary Immaculate College: University College Limerick
Bodily boundaries: an exploration of agency, performativity and materiality in Irish primary schools.
Panel 5: Resisting Normalcy Room J207
Chair: Carol Ballantine
Cait Harrigan: NUI Maynooth
Violent Trauma upon the Home: Grieving Female Bodies in Dark
Touch (2013) and A Dark Song (2016)
Charlotte Amrouche: NUI Galway
The Bleedin’ Irish Female Body: Menstrual Activism in Ireland, 1980 & 2015
John Singleton: NUI Galway
‘Home is where the Harp is’: Defining the Family in John McGahern’s The Barracks.
Paul McNamara: Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
Resisting Disability and Normalcy: The Independence of Christopher Boone in The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time
Panel 6: Resistance on the stage Room C214
Chair: Aimee Walsh
Carole Quigley: Trinity College Dublin
Reclaiming the Canon: Beckett’s Waiting for Godot as a critical commentary on the Failure of Patriarchy
Ciara L. Murphy: NUI Galway
Spaces of Resistance: Second-Wave Feminism and the Growth of Feminist Performance Practice
Ellen Reid: University College Cork
Louder than the Literary: Locating protest in the poetry of Sarah Clancy and Elaine Feeney
Dr. Shonagh Hill: University College Dublin
Revolutionary Bodies: The Tableaux Vivants of the Inghinidhe na hÉireann
10:00 STEM Workshop (10:00-14:00) Humanities Institute
See below for details
11:00 Tea/Coffee
11.15 Panels 7 & 8
Panel 7: Decolonising Resistance Room J208
Chair: Mary McGill
Hiyem Cheurfa: Lancaster University
‘Transgression Narratives’: Testimonial Life-Writing and the Politics of Resistance in Samar Yazbek’s The Crossing and Suad Amiry’s Nothing to Lose but your Life
Inshah Malik: Independent Scholar
Protest, Violence and Public funeral: Women in resistance mourning in Kashmir
Nayema Nasir: Ambedkar University, Delhi
Memory of Pain and Dawoodi Bohra womanhood
Sandra Duffy: Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUIG
Decolonising human rights: a gender diversity perspective
Panel 8: Changing the Genre Room J207
Chair: Ciara L. Murphy
Hollie Fitzmaurice: Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
The Female Body as a Form of Resistance. Deconstructing the Stereotypes of Hypersexualisation and Femininity Within the Comic Book Industry
Leonard Sanderman: University of York
Do the oppressed have access to a method of resistance in nineteenth-century church music?
Sarah Hoover: NUI Galway
Game Changer: Affect, encounter and embodied resistance in #Feminism Nano-Games participatory performance
Svitlana Balinchenko: Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
Ignoring as a Trigger of Other-Alien Mythologemes Misbalance
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Panels 9 & 10
Panel 9: Agency, Voice and Participation Room J208
Chair: Ellen Reid
Carol Ballantine: NUI Galway
African Migrant Women in Ireland: impacts of Gender Based Violence
Danielle Roberts: Ulster University
Political participation in Northern Ireland; an exploration of the experiences of Protestant Unionist and/or Loyalist women
Lisa Keenan: Trinity College Dublin
Gender differences in portfolio allocation: evidence from the Republic of Ireland
Timothy Ellis: Teeside University
Political cartoons as an art-form of gendered resistance in the Irish Free State, 1922-39
Panel 10: Sex, sexuality and resistance Room J207
Chair: Dr Chamindra Weerawardhana
Katie Mishler: University College Dublin
We’re All Born Naked: Rupaul’s Drag Race and Dragging the Reality Show
Yvonne Murphy: University of Limerick
Sexual consent; are the lines really that blurred?
15:30 Tea/Coffee with AGM & Workshop Results
16:30 Panel 11: Performance and Resistance Room J208
Chair: Ciara L. Murphy
Dr. Davina Kirkpatrick & Alys Mendus: University of the West of England & Alys Mendus: University of Hull.
No One Comes: The Art of Female Ejaculation and other Stories
Kathy D’Arcy: University College Cork
Weighted Silences: A Creative Writing PhD Work in Progress
SoftTack (SarahJayne Booth, Mieke Vanmechelen and Jennifer Redmond)
Diving the Wreck
18:00 Wine reception C214 Newman
Chairs: Mary McGill & Dr Chamindra Weerawardhana
Saturday, Nov 19 Diversity in STEM workshop at the Humanities Institute
9am – 10am Registration and coffee
10am Introductions Chair Dr Deirdre Flynn
10.30 Workshop
14:00 Lunch
15:00 Results and Sibéal AGM
Workshop participants are welcome to come to Newman for final panels and wine & resistance event
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