Civil Partnership and Equality Law: Schooling Complexities

The Department of Law, Department of Sociology, Gender Arc and Sibéal

invite you to:

Civil Partnership and Equality Law:

Schooling Complexities

2pm next Tuesday the 29^th of April

F-1030, Foundation Building First Floor,

University of Limerick

Sexuality, Religion and the Law: Dilemmas in Equality

Dr Fergus Ryan, Department of Law, NUI Maynooth

Teachers’ Experiences of Civil Partnership: The Double-Edged Workings of Legitimacy

Aoife Neary, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick

Chair:

Jennifer Schweppe, Head of Department of Law, University of Limerick

Tea/coffee and light refreshments will be served at 1.50pm.

All are welcome!

Sibeal Undergrad Essay Prize

Undergraduates - take note of this excellent new essay competition from Sibeal the Irish postgraduate feminist and gender studies network.

Sibéal is pleased to announce its inaugural prize for the best undergraduate essay in the area of gender and/or feminist studies. The competition is open to all final year undergraduate students. Essays should be 2500 words maximum. Submission from undergraduates working within any discipline in the field are strongly encouraged.

There will be a prize of 50 euros/ 50 pounds book token for the winning essay, along with free registration at the annual Sibéal conference to be held in November 2014. The winning candidate will be given the opportunity to present the essay at the conference. The essay will also be published on Sibéal’s blog and academia.edu page.

Electronic submissions should be submitted to Elaine Hoysted (elainethoysted@gmail.com ) by Friday 6th June 2014. The winner will be announced in August.

For more information 

http://sibealnetwork.blogspot.ie/2014/03/announcement-inaugural-undergraduate.html

Locating the Gothic - Call For Papers

Conference Call for Papers: 'Locating the Gothic'

Mary Immaculate College and Limerick School of Art and Design

October 22-25, 2014

http://locatingthegothic.weebly.com/keynote-speakers.html

The Gothic is a mode that is intimately connected to location. Sites and spaces both define and demarcate the limits of Gothic aesthetics and have shaped the way varieties of the Gothic have developed over time. From hazy moors and dense forests, to urban labyrinths, contemporary cyberscapes and postmodern dystopias, the Gothic has traversed many varied landscapes, both internal and external, historic and contemporary, from which fearful and disturbing atmospheres emerge. Psycho-geographical underpinnings in the Gothic are often the basis for key Gothic experiences such as the sublime and the uncanny. The correlations between space and identity, site and narrative, are central to this and evoke new and interesting approaches to Gothic art, literature, and culture. Thus, we seek to engage with the notion of location as it underpins the literary, artistic, and physical formations of Gothic, and as it may allow us to ‘locate’ the Gothic, or versions of the same in artistic, critical and cultural terms. We are particularly interested in papers which approach alternative forms of Gothic spatiality, particularly those which discuss the Gothic in contemporary art and media.

Proposals should be e-mailed to Maria Beville (mariabeville@gmail.com and Tracy Fahey (tracy.fahey@lit.ie) by 1st May 2014.

Panels/Papers

Themes suggested (but not limited to) the following;

Urban Gothic

Rural Gothic

Regional Gothic/ National Gothic

Gothic Utopias/ Dystopias/ Heterotopias

Spatially based contexts of Gothic (ie; mythology, folklore, oral traditions)

Colonial/Postcolonial/ Transcultural Gothic

Dramatic spaces

Gothic places and spaces

Gothic and Architecture

Cartography and the Gothic

Spatial structures of Gothic

CyberGothic/ Gothic and multimedia/digital media

Limits and boundaries in the Gothic

The Gothic and Domestic space

Locating the Gothic in genre

Locating the Gothic in culture

Seminar Five - Mental illness and the institution in the 21st century

Thursday, March 20^th @ 5pm T1.01, MIC 

For this month’s Contemporary Concepts we will be looking at the idea of madness in the 21^st century. Have our attitudes to mental illness changed? Have we moved on from the ‘institution’? How do we represent this present? And come to terms with the past? 

The discussion will be led by PhD Candidate Michelle Kennedy whose research is on women who touch, are touched and are “touched” in Modern Irish Literature.  

We will be using this book review to inform our discussion.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n03/jenny-diski/i-havent-been-nearly-mad-enough

All are welcome! 

Seminar four - 21st Century Critical Urban Theory

In the 21st century how do we represent and understand the urban landscape and urban space?
How does culture, theory and philosophy respond to ideas of the cityscape, space, and design? What is the city, and how do we define and design the space?

For the first seminar of 2014 we are looking at Neill Brennar and his essay 'What is critical urban theory?'

Available here
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13604810902996466

The seminar will take place on Thursday February 20 at 5pm in MIC - T1.01

Seminar Three - The Trouble with Trauma

The theory of trauma is becoming more and more popular but can it help us deal with political trauma or state sanctioned torture? How are we representing trauma, and torture? Has a new form of trauma theory and cultural representation emerged?

For our next seminar we will be discussing Roger Luckhurst's article 'Beyond Trauma: Torturous times' kindly suggested by Dr Maria Beville

The article is available here
http://www.tandfonline.com.libraryproxy.mic.ul.ie/doi/abs/10.1080/13825571003588247#.UoTBBHBSjTo

The seminar takes place on Thursday, Nov 21 at 6pm in T2.02

All are welcome!

Seminar Two - The Question of Ecology

In an age of climate change has our understanding and representation of nature and the environment changed? How is literature, philosophy and theory reacting to global warming? What is 'third wave' ecocriticism?

Timothy Morton has published widely on the topic of ecocriticsim, and in his article (2010) 'Queer Ecology' he suggests that ecological criticism and queer theory have a lot in common.

The article is available via academia.edu
http://www.academia.edu/1050754/Queer_Ecology

The Seminar takes place on Thursday, Oct 17th at 6pm in T2.02.

All are welcome!