title: Gender and Irish Studies Events at Queen's University, Belfast
type of event: conference
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location:		 Queen's University Belfast
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city: Belfast
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country (in English): UK
start date: 09/02/2010
end date: 04/05/2010
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abstract/call for papers: Gender and Queer Theory Programme 2010

In association with the Irish Studies International Research Initiative, Institute
of Irish Studies.

All events are open to academics, activists, students and members of the
general public.

Panels:
These will be held at 5.15 pm.
Tuesday 9th February: Performances
(Institute of Irish Studies, Seminar Room 1)
Emma O’Kane (Drama, QUB): Bachelor Farmers, Lonely on the Land: Sex and
violence in Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West and Sebastian Barry’s Boss
Grady’s Boys.
Shonagh Hill (Drama, QUB): Storytelling, myth and gender in Mary Elizabeth
Burke-Kennedy’s Women in Arms.

Tuesday 9th March: Young People
(Institute of Irish Studies, Seminar Room 1)
Dr Vicky Conway (Law, QUB): Gender and Sexuality in Irish Policing.
Chelsea Marshall (Law, QUB): Young women in the 'new’ Northern Ireland.

Tuesday 23rd March: Transgender Lived Experiences
(Room 1.037, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work)
Dr Tam Sanger (Sociology, QUB): Trans people’s narratives in social science
research.
Dr Zowie Davy (Sociology, University of Leeds): The Gender Recognition Act,
Social Policy and bodies of difference.
Dr Vicky Conway (Law, QUB): Gender and sexuality diversity in the Irish Police.
Dr Sally Hines (Sociology, Leeds): Towards a Sociology of Transgender.
To be followed by a book launch for Transgender Identities: Towards a Social
Analysis of Gender Diversity (Ed. Hines and Sanger) 7-9pm.

Tuesday 20th April: Gay Alternatives in Belfast
(Institute of Irish Studies, Seminar Room 1)
Dr Caroline Magennis (Irish Studies, QUB): The (im)possibility of Queer Space
in Northern Irish Men’s Fiction.
Ruth McCarthy (Outburst Arts): Scissors, paper, glue and the worst toilet in
the world: Wildly subjective stories of queer social and cultural alternatives in
Belfast, 1990-Present.
Dr Marian Duggan (Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University): “Getting sexy in
the city: representing and regulating sexualised identities in Belfast”

Conference:

26-27th February: Irish Masculinities

*The deadline for registration is 29th January 2010*

A two-day international interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Irish
Studies International Research Initiative, the Institute of Irish Studies and the
School of English. Plenary speakers include Prof. John Wilson Foster (QUB),
Prof. Patricia Coughlan (UCC) and Prof. Gerardine Meaney (UCD).

http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/Events/Iri
shMasculinitiesConference

Seminars:
These events are co-organised and co-sponsored by the Irish Studies
International Research Initiative.

Thursday 22nd April: 5.15
(Institute of Irish Studies Seminar Room)
Dr Anne Mulhall (UCD): 'Of Bodies and Time: The Queer Temporalities of Irish
Studies'

Tuesday 4th May: 5.30
(PFC 212)
Dr Tara Keenan-Thompson (Rome): ‘“These girls really weren't good enough
for politics”: class, gender and Dungannon in the early 1960s’.
This will be followed by a book launch in the Naughton Gallery from 7-9.


Gender and Queer Theory Research Seminar Series Organising Committee:
Caroline Magennis (Irish Studies), Claire McCann (Law) and Tam Sanger
(Sociology).

Contact c.magennis@qub.ac.uk for further details.
URL: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/NewsandEvents/Events