Grian Conference 2007

The 9th Annual Grian Conference:
Ireland and Gender

March 1-3, 2007

Glucksman Ireland House
New York University 

Conference Schedule for the 9th Annual Grian Conference: Ireland and Gender

Thursday, March 1, 2007

5-7pm: Open registration
7pm: Screening of Guns and Chiffon (2004 Paradox Pictures BSÉ/IFB, RTÉ)

Guns and Chiffon is a one-hour documentary that tells the story of the involvement of women in Ireland’s fight for national independence, from the 1916 Rising, through the War of Independence and into the Civil War. It also tells the story of the fight for the rights of workers and the struggle for equal opportunities and votes for women. Their story is told by themselves and in their own voices.
Director: Geraldine Creed, Producer: Nuala Carr.

Friday, March 2, 2007

9:00 - 9:30am	Registration & Continental Breakfast (included in price of registration)
9:30 - 11:00am	Panel One: Teaching Gender, Talking Sex
	Una Bromell & Donal Donoghue, University of Limerick, Gendering Teachers: Masculinizing And Feminizing Practices in the Training Colleges in Early 20th Century Ireland
	Michael G. Cronin, NUI Maynooth (IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar), Order And Chaos: Repression And Freedom: Historical Origins Of Contemporary Problems In Irish Sexual Discourse
	Isabelle Matte, Laval University, The Powerful Virgin Mother: The Perverse Core Of Catholicism?
11:00 - 11:15am	Break
11:15 - 12:30pm	Panel Two: Reading Irish Gender
	Claire Bracken, UCD, Amnesia and Feminist Forgetting: Claire Kilroy’s All Summer
	Lindsay Welsch, Indiana University, Seminal Text: Rereading Gender in 'Penelope'
	Nicole McClure, University of Connecticut, What’s A Boy To Do? Gender Inversion And Nationalism in Breakfast On Pluto and The Crying Game
12:30 - 2:00pm	Lunch (included with registration)
2:00 - 3:30pm	Panel Three: Finding Her Place
	Eileen Sullivan, Rutgers University, Irish-American Catholic Women And Domesticity: Guidance From 19th Century Popular Fiction
	Una Bromell, University of Limerick, The Role Of Catholic Periodicals In The Construction Of A Lay Female Catholic Identity, 1885-1920
	James Walsh, University of Colorado at Boulder, Helen Donovan, Sadie McGary, and the Survival of Irish Women in Nineteenth Century Mining Camps
	Gay Smith, Wesleyan University, Abigail Adams and the Irish: From Playhouse to White House
3:30 - 3:45pm	Break
3:45 - 4:15pm	Special Presentation
	Maria Luddy, University of Warwick, and Anne Mulhall, UCD, Women in Modern Irish Culture Project
4:15 - 4:30pm	Break
4:30 - 6:00pm	Plenary Talk
	Katie Conrad, University of Kansas, Sex, Surveillance and the Politics of Paranoia in Northern Ireland

Saturday, March 3rd, 9am to 6:30pm

9:00 - 9:30am	Registration & Continental Breakfast (included in price of registration)
9:30 - 11:00am	Panel One: Mise Éire
	Colette Kavanagh, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Éire’s Descent: Separation, Trials & Renewal
	Tara Rider, Stony Brook University, Irish Women: Nurse to All Rebellions
	Patricia Hamill, Pace University, Teaching Irish Women
	Sheila Dickinson, UCD, Domesticity and Ireland as Woman: Maps & Bodies
11:00 - 11:15am	Break
11:15 - 12:45pm	Panel Two: Voices from the Outside
	David Cregan, Villanova University, Queer Nation: Homosexual Representations of National Identity in Frank McGuinness’ Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and Dolly West’s Kitchen
	Mary Burke, University of Connecticut, The Deviant Female as Threat to Patrilineal Inheritance in post-Revival drama: Frank Carney’s The Righteous Are Bold
	Richard Daniel Wilcox, Texas State University, The Lieutenant of Inishmore: Aggressively Enforcing Violence in Masculinity
	Sejal Sutaria, Monmouth University, W.B Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore: The Politics and Aesthetics of Two Mystic Men
12:45 - 2:00pm	Lunch (included with registration)
2:00 - 3:00pm	Special Reading & Discussion
	Anne Maguire, Rock the Sham! Reading and discussion with the author about her experiences of emigration and identity in 1990s New York centering on the struggle by the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization to march in the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade
3:00 - 3:15pm	Break
3:15 - 4:45pm	Panel Three: Scandal, Subversion, and Social Order
	James Murphy, DePaul University, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Dublin Castle Scandals of 1884
	Maria Luddy, University of Warwick, Abandoned Women and Bad Characters: Prostitution and its Control in Ireland, 1850-1925
	Kevin James, University of Guelph, Gender and Irish Tourism at Killarney, 1849-1914
	Lisa Weihman, West Virginia University, Con Markievicz, Bean na hÉireann, & the Perplexities of Women’s Archival Research
4:45 - 5:00pm	Closing Remarks
5:00 - 6:30pm	Closing Reception

The Grian conference is open to the public, but attendees must register. Registration includes a light breakfast and lunch both March 2nd and 3rd.

Full conference: $40
Full conference for Members of Glucksman Ireland House NYU: $25

One day: $20
One day for Members of Glucksman Ireland House NYU: $13

NYU students with valid ID may attend the conference for free without registering, but no meals will be provided; NYU students intending to participate in meals must register at the Members rate ($25/$13).

You may register in advance by mail, or in person as listed in the above schedule.  The registration fee is to cover the costs of the conference.

Click here to download a registration form as a PDF file.

Please fill out the form and mail it (with payment) to:

Grian 2007
Glucksman Ireland House NYU
1 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003

If you have questions, please email ireland.house@nyu.edu.