Women’s Studies Open Forum
2007 - 2008
September
Frances White, Kingston University
Iris Murdoch and Hannah Arendt: Two Women in Dark Times
18 September
November
Agnes Walsh, Newfoundland Poet Laureate
Poetry Reading (organised together with
the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies)
6 November
Piia Varis, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Maud Gonne's Autobiography and History:
The Contextualisation of a Servant of the Queen
13 November
Caoilfhionn Ni Bheachain, University of Limerick
Female Phantoms: The Ghost Pamphlets of Cumann na mBan
27 November
January
Geertje Mak, Institute for Gender Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen
Sex and Self in a Praxiographic Approach of the History of the Body
29 January
March
Maureen O’Connor, NUI Galway
Frances Power Cobbe, Political Animal
11 March
Carmen Kuhling, University of Limerick, and
Kieran Keohane, University College Cork
(in coordination with Sociology Seminar Series)
Globalisation, Quality of Life and Work/Family Balance in Ireland
1-2 pm, 26 March (EM009)
April
Heather Laird, University College Cork
The “Placing” and Politics of Elizabeth Bowen in Contemporary
Irish Literary and Cultural Criticism
1 April
Jane Kilby, University of Salford
Incest: The Romance of the Notion
11 am-12 pm, 8 April (C0072)
Susan Cohen, Parkes Institute for Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations,
University of Southhampton
(in coordination with the Centre for Irish-German Studies)
German Academic Women Refugees and the
British Federation of University Women, 1933-1943
12-1 pm, 8 April (C0072)
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