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Women’s History Association of Ireland

Annual Meeting

Friday Evening, 17th November &

Saturday, 18th November, 2006

IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building,

Trinity College, Dublin

 

Friday Evening, 17th November

19.00 Keynote address by Professor Catherine Hall (University College London)

"Gendering Ireland: Macaulay and the Writing of English History"

20.00 Reception

Saturday 18th November

9.30 Opening Lectures

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)

"Doing Gender History: Mixed Marriages in Early Modern Ireland"

Professor Maureen Flanagan (Michigan State University)

"What a City ought to Be and Do: Gender and Urbanism in North America"

10.30 Panel I

Dr. Deana Heath (Trinity College Dublin)

"The Moral Logic of Colonialism: Gender, Governmentality and the Double Bind of Moral Relativity"

Angela K. Dowdell (University of Michigan)

"Nimrods and Amazons: British big game hunters in fin-de-siecle Africa"

Dr. Carol Acton (St. Jerome’s University)

"My Darling Englishman: First World War Letters and the Construction of a Shared Story"

11.30 Coffee Break

11.45 Panel II

Dr. Katherine O’ Donnell (University College Dublin)

"Emotion Between Men: Methods and Questions for Gender History"

Dr. Mary McAuliffe (University College Dublin)

"Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Ireland – re-reading the Florence Newton witchcraft trial"

Dr. Stephanie Kirk (Washington University, St. Louis)

"The Jesuits and Masculine Ideology in Colonial Mexico: Arrogance and Anxiety"

Dr. Una Ni Bhroimeil & Dr. Donal O’Donoghue (Mary Immaculate College)

"What lies beneath: Making Visible the Gender Construction of Teachers"

 

1.15 Lunch/AGM

2.15 Panel III

Ms. Cliona Rattigan (Trinity College Dublin)

"Abortion Cases and Gender Relations in Ireland, 1925-1950"

Dr. Sandra McAvoy (University College Cork)

"Reasonable Cause to Believe: Gender Bias and Gender Stereotyping in the Conception of Sexual Crime Legislation in Ireland 1922-1935"

Ms. Eve Morrison (Trinity College Dublin)

"Female Republican Activism 1913-1923, the Bureau of Military History and the need for gender studies"

Mr. Thomas Mohr (University College Dublin)

"The Rights of Women under the Constitution of the Irish Free State"

 

4.00 Closing Lectures

Professor Mary O’ Dowd (Queen’s University, Belfast)

"Daniel O’ Connell and the Patriot Ladies: Towards a Gendered History of Early Nineteenth Century Ireland"

Dr. Mary Cullen (Trinity College Dublin)

"Towards a New History: The Potential of Gender History"