Here is the provisional programme for the Sibeal Conference 2010, which takes place on Saturday November 27th in NUIG, Galway.

Women in Action – Active Genders: Interdisciplinary Gender and Feminist Postgraduate Conference

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09.00
Registration Arts Millenium Foyer
09.15 – 9.45
Welcome by Dr. Nata Duvvury Co-director of Global Women’s Studies NUIG Martin O Tnuthail Theatre
09.45 – 11.15 Panel 1 (a) Gender and civil society AM109  Chair: Marja Almqvist (NUIG) Rapporteur: Emma Brannlund (NUIG) Sheila McArdle (NUIG) Youth civic engagement: A hegemonic process contributing to gender inequality? Iris Elliot (NUIG) Institutionalised Feminism and Activism: an ambiguous relationship Maeve O’Riordan (UCC) Helping others – to help themselves: the community work of women from landed backgrounds in Munster Aurelie Sicard (DCU) ‘And international discourse created women”: A content analysis of four UN international texts on gender Panel 1 (b) Gender, Memory and Identity AM110  Chair: Amiee Curran (NUIM) Rapporteur: Carol Staunton (NUIG)Lisa Kiely (UL) Nation Building and Gender in the Irish Context: From Famine to Free State Aoife Connolly (NUIG) Women as Keepers of Algerian pied-noir Identity? Lisa Wixted (UL) The Doing of Gender by Solo Creative Workers Deirdre Finnerty (UL) Motherhood, politics and subversion in testimonial narratives of “dissident” Spanish women.
11.15 – 11.30
Tea/Coffee Arts Millenium Foyer
11.30 – 13.00 Panel 2 (a) Gender and Political Participation AM109  Chair: Emma Brannlund (NUIG) Rapporteur: Aura Lounasmaa (NUIG) Lubna Azzam (NUIG) Women and Nationalism in Egypt during the early foundation of the state Claire Pierson (Institute for Conflict Research, Belfast) Protestant-Unionist-Loyalist (PUL) women and political participation in Northern Ireland Caitlin Ryan (UL) Who are you calling victim? The role of Feminist scholarship in shaping discourse on women as violent political actors Claire McGing (NUIM) Gender, place, and politics: a geographical perspective on female participation in recent Irish elections, 2002-2009 Panel 2 (b) Gender Representations in Contemporary Mexican Popular Culture AM110  Chair: Melanie Hoewer (UCD) Rapporteur: Clionadh O’Keefe (NUIG)Yolanda Reyes (NUIG) “Under the Same Moon”: the absent mother and the fall of the myth Niamh McNamara (UCC) The Hungry Woman: Religion and Feminist Politics in Contemporary Chicana writing Emer Clifford (UCC) Oozing bodies: Politicising Abjection and Taboo in Marisa Sistach’s Perfume de Violetas Jennie Galvin (NUIG) The Narcocorrido: the role of women in a world of machismo, gender hierarchies, drugs and violence.
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch Arts Millenium Foyer European Women’s Studies Photo project ‘Gender on Campus’ Exhibited in the Martin O Tnuthail Theatre during lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 Panel 3 (a) Constructing Genders AM109  Chair: Aura Lounasmaa (NUIG) Rapporteur: Lubna Azzam (NUIG) Alison Mary Nesbitt (TCD) Introducing Joan Wayne and Patricia Swayze: The denial of masculinity in femininity Aoife Neary (UL) Lesbian and Gay Teachers Negotiating the Heterosexual Imperative in Irish Schools Ciara Bradley (NUIG) ‘Representations of single mothers in the Republic of Ireland: Ideology and the gendered construction of dichotomous categories’ Hanne-mette Alsos Raae (NUIG) A tripartite classification of marriages in Medieval Europe Panel 3 (b) Gender Representations in Culture and the Arts AM110  Chair: Clionadh O’Keeffe (NUIG) Rapporteur: Caroline Forde (NUIG) Sara Stokes (NUIG) Jobs for the Girls: WaGs-in-Training Michelle A. Mayefske (UL) The Role of the W(Hole): the female body as depicted in hardcore pornographic film Nicola Depuis (UCC) Celluloid Suppression: A Study of Irish Female Screenwriters and their Position in the Irish Film Industry Aisling O’Connor (UL) Women’s memory work in contemporary Spain: can feminist art influence cultural memory?
15.30 – 15.45
Refreshments Arts Millenium Foyer
15.45 – 17.00
Sibeal Postgraduate network AGM Martin O Tnuthail Theatre chaired by Dr. Katherine O’Donnell, senior lecturer in Women’s Studies in the School of Social Justice, UCD

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