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!