The Gender, Culture & Society (GCS) seminar series at the University of Limerick, Ireland, runs in tandem with the
new MA in Gender, Culture and Society, convened by Women’s Studies in the Department of Sociology. GCS aims to revisit debates within gender and sexuality studies in order to celebrate, challenge and rethink them by pushing the field in new directions. GCS is committed to supporting highly theoretical work and pioneering efforts in the areas of gender and sexuality. All speakers are invited and include thinkers whose work has had or will have a formidable influence on the development of critical theory and gender and sexuality. The emphasis is on discussion.
MARCH
Monday, 7 March 2011
Dr. Kate Kenny and Dr. Gordon Euchler (NUI Galway)
‘The Impossible Object? Email Jokes and
Gender Identities in a Creative Industry Organization’
TIME: 2-4 pm
LOCATION: MC2005
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Professor Rosalind Gill
(King’s College London)
‘“Digital Nomads”? Academics and New Media Workers in Precarious Times’
and
Dr. Lee Monaghan (University of Limerick)
‘Ireland in Crisis, "Silver Vigilantes" and Public Sociology:
Protesting Against Neoliberalisation’
TIME: 2-5pm
LOCATION: TBC
APRIL
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Dr. Kate Boyer (University of Southampton)
‘Of Breastpumps and BlackBerrys: Work/Life Integration,
Heroic Motherhood & Stories of a Troubled Technology’
and
Dr. Doris Ruth Eikhof (University of Stirling)
‘Searching for the Female Lead: Gender Inequalities
in Creative Careers and Employment’
and
Dr. Katie Milestone (Manchester Metropolitan University)
‘Place, Gender & Mobility: Manchester’s New Media Workers’
and
Professor Diane Perrons (with Majella Kilkey and Ania Plomien) (LSE)
‘Global Inequalities and Gendered Work Performances:
Mobile Handymen in London’
TIME: 2-5 pm
LOCATION: TBC
*These seminars are run in conjunction with the Nomadic Work/Life in the Knowledge Economy research project International Seminar Series on ‘Mobility, Technology, Gender and Work’
