Past News and Events
SCREENING OF MISS REPRESENTATION AT UL
April 2012 -- Gender Culture & Society @UL and Gender ARC with The Irish Feminist Network hosted a screening of the documentary
Miss Representation on 19 April at the University of Limerick.
Miss Representation explores women’s under-representation in positions of
power and influence and challenges the limited and often disparaging portrayals
of women in media.
GENDER AND ACADEMIC WORK SEMINAR
April 2012 -- On 24 April 2012, NUI Galway hosted a half-day seminar on the topic of
Gender and Academic Work, with visiting speakers from Ireland and the UK. The event
was organized by the Gender, Work and New Economies (GWNE) group within Gender ARC. For further details, contact
kate.kenny@nuigalway.ie
NUIG GLOBAL WOMEN'S STUDIES LUNCH TIME SEMINAR SERIES
April 2012 -- The final event in the Global Women’s Studies Lunch Time Seminar Series for Spring 2012
was held on
Wednesday, 25 April. Dr. Odette Clarke (History, UL/GWS Visiting Research Associate)
spoke on
'Divine providence and resignation': Caroline Wyndham-Quin (1790-1870) and her emotional management. For more details, click
here.
PUBLIC LECTURE
Mar 2012 -- Recent speakers in the Gender ARC Public Lecture Series
2011-12 were Prof. Jackie Stacey (U Manchester) and Prof. Diane Elson (University of Essex). For
full details, click
here.
WORKSHOP ON GENDER ANALYSIS OF GOVERNMENT BUDGETS
March 2012 -- The Public Policy and Gender Cluster in the Institute of Business, Social Sciences and Public Policy
(NUIG) held a workshop on Gender Analysis of Government Budgets on 8-9 March 2012. Prof. Diane Elson, an internationally renowned expert in gender analysis of budgets, lead the workshop.
For full details, click here.
WORKSHOP ON ARCHIVES, ART AND PUBLIC MEMORIES IN THE WEST OF IRELAND
March 2012 -- The Moore Institute
Workshop on Archives, Art and Public Memories in the West of Ireland: Works in Progress
held at NUIG on 9 March, 2012, was organised by Gender ARC members Anne Byrne, Mary Clancy and Caitríona Clear.
UL IRISH LITERATURE SEMINAR SERIES
March 2012 -- Anne Mulhall (UCD) spoke on 26 March 2012 at UL on This Feeling Called Love: Affect, Biopower and the Regulation of Intimacy. For full details click
here.
CALL FOR PAPERS
March 2012 -- Proposals are invited for a two-day literary conference titled
Behind the Lines: Women, War and Letters, 1880-1920, organised by Gender ARC (the Advanced Research Consortium on Gender, Culture and the Knowledge Society involving UL and NUIG). The conference will be held at the University of Limerick on 9-10 June 2012.
Proposals are due in by 31 March 2012. For full details, click
here.
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LAUNCH OF REPORT ON OLDER WOMEN WORKERS' ACCESS TO PENSIONS
Feb 2012 -- Global Women's Studies (NUIG), together with the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (NUIG) and Queen’s University Belfast, have produced a CARDI-funded research report on
Older Women Workers’ Access to Pensions: Vulnerabilities, Perspectives and Strategies. Former president of ICTU
Inez McCormack launched the report in Dublin on 24 February 2012.
To download the report, click
here.
CELT-GENDER ARC SEMINAR
Feb 2012 -- CELT and Gender ARC co-hosed a seminar by Thamar Melanie Heijstra (U of Iceland) on 28 Feb 2012 on the topic
Because She Is a Woman: Gender Inequalities in the Rank of Full Professor. For full details, click
here.
ECO-POETRY WORKSHOP
Jan 2012 -- The Gender, Nation and Text thematic group held an interdisciplinary one-day workshop entitled
Eco-poetry Now! Reading, Writing and Teaching Poetry in an Age of Environmental Crises on Friday, 13 January 2012.
For more details, click
here.
THIRD GENDER ARC NETWORK MEETING
Jan 2012 -- NUI Galway hosted the third Gender ARC network meeting on Friday, 20 January 2012.
BOOK LAUNCH
Dec 2011 -- The launch of L'Identité de genre dans les oeuvres de George Sand et Colette by
Marion Krauthaker, a member of the Gender, Discourse and Identity research cluster,
took place on 15 December 2011. For more details, click
here.
MASTERING RESEARCH ON THE EDGE: MA RESEARCH METHODS WORKSHOP
Nov 2011 -- Members of the Gender, Discourse and Identities Research Cluster of Gender ARC hosted an MA Research Methods workshop in the
Moore Institute at NUI Galway on Wednesday, 30 November 2011, with students from the NUIG MA in Culture and Colonialism and the UL MA in English.
For more details, click here.
PUBLIC
LECTURE SERIES 2011-2012: ANN GRAY
Nov 2011 -- Prof. Ann Gray (U of Lincoln, UK) spoke on the topic
of the gendered presentation of history on television at the University of
Limerick on
Thursday, 24 November 2011. For more details, click
here. For a news report of the event, click
here.
PUBLIC
LECTURE SERIES 2011-2012: MIA GRAY
Sept 2011 -- The first in a series of Gender ARC public lectures for
2011-12 was delivered by Mia Gray (University of Cambridge), who spoke on
the topic of gendered social networks in an age of austerity on 8 Sept 2011.
For more details, click here.
RELIGION, GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE
July 2011 -- An international conference, funded by the European Science
Foundation and Linköping University, and sponsored by NUI Galway, took place on
21-25 June 2011 in Sweden. Entitled
Religion, Gender and Human Rights: Challenges for Multicultural and
Democratic Societies, the conference was an initiative of the
Gender and Public Sphere thematic group within Gender ARC. The
conference aimed to move gender from the periphery to the centre of debate on
the role of religion in public and political life in democratic and
democratising multicultural societies. For more information, click
here.
SYMPOSIUM ON GENDER, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND EMPLOYMENT IN IRELAND
ANNOUNCED
July 2011 -- The Gender, Education and the Knowledge Economy thematic group held a
high-level, one-day symposium in July 2011
on Gender, Educational Attainment and Employment in Ireland. The symposium explored the development of research on the changing patterns of gender, educational attainment and employment opportunities in Ireland. Invited speakers include experts from the Department of Education and Skills, the Higher Education Authority, the Economic and Social Research Institute, the Central Statistics Office and Teagasc.
INAUGURAL SEMINAR OF GENDER, LAW, EQUALITY AND RIGHTS THEMATIC GROUP
June 2011 -- The Gender, Law, Equality and Rights thematic group held its inaugural seminar at NUI Galway on Friday, 24 June 2011. Entitled
Equality through the Ages: An Exploration of Key Gender Equality Issues Affecting
Individuals through Stages of the Life Cycle, this one-day seminar is
the first of a series of activities being organised by the group. This one-day seminar is the first of a series of activities being organised by the group
and was held in conjunction with the Irish Centre for Social
Gerontology and the School of Law at NUI Galway. It explored themes
including birth, childhood, family, work, and later life. The seminar
was chaired by Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness, Adjunct Professor of Law, NUI Galway.
Dr Sylvia Meehan, first CEO, and Chair, Employment Equality Authority,
and former President of the Irish Senior Citizens' Parliament was the keynote speaker.
GENDER, NATION, TEXT: A SYMPOSIUM
May 2011 -- Gender, Nation, Text, a symposium of the NUI Galway–UL Gender ARC,
Gender, Discourse, Identities thematic group, was held on 10–11 May 2011. The symposium featured
Prof Nuala Finnegan, Dr. Luz Mar Gonzalez Arias, Dr
Nigel Harkness and Prof Gerardine Meaney. For
more details, download the flyer and the
programme.
CLOSED RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON WOMEN, RELIGION AND AGENCY ANNOUNCED
May 2011 -- The Gender and Public Sphere thematic group convened a closed research workshop on the topic of
Women, Religion and Agency in May.
SECOND GENDER ARC NETWORK MEETING
April 2011 -- The University of Limerick hosted the second Gender ARC network meeting on 1 April 2011. This day-long networking event,
which took place in Plassey House, provided theme members an opportunity for forward planning of activities and allowed members from across the themes to discuss their work.
GENDER ARC PUBLIC SEMINAR
March 2011 -- The first Gender ARC Public Seminar was held on Friday, March 11th,
at NUI Galway. Historical Perspectives on International Women’s
Day featured historians Caitríona Clear (Department of
History, NUI Galway) and Bernadette Whelan (Department of
History, University of Limerick). Mary Clancy of Global Women’s Studies (NUI Galway) moderated the seminar, which was sponsored by GWS.
Dr. Clear spoke on 'Women's Day Traditions and Women's Collective Action in Ireland and Europe' and Dr. Whelan spoke on the subject of 'American
Influences on Irish Women, 1921-60'. For more information and
photos from the event, click
here.
CELEBRATING THE CENTENARY OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
March 2011 -- In recognition of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day (March 8th, 1911-2011),
Global Women’s Studies
at NUI Galway, in conjunction with the
Irish Centre for Human Rights, the
Galway Film Society, the
Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) and
Gender ARC, played host to a series of public events held throughout the week of March 7-11, 2011.
For more details, click
here.
NEW BOOK BY DEIRDRE BYRNES
Feb 2011 -- Rereading Monika Maron: Text, Counter-Text and Context by Dr Deirdre Byrnes was launched at the Moore institute on Thursday February 10th. The author is a member of the Gender, Discourse, Identities thematic group and lecturer in German in the School of Languages, For further information, click
here.
