Feminist Storytelling Working Group

PI: Dr Miriam Haughton, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance

Supported by: School of Humanities Research Incentivisation Scheme, the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, and Gender ARC.

Registration: This is a free event but places are limited. To reserve a place, please email ‘miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie’ by 5pm Thursday 18 May. Research topics under discussion are accessible online or will be emailed in advance.

This is a half-day workshop intended to reflect on significant moments of feminism and gender equality as they are represented or addressed via diverse modes of storytelling in an interdisciplinary forum. Considering feminism and gender in both Irish and international contexts, this workshops draws from institutional and international expertise to review points of urgency and change in women’s lives from perspectives of history, law, culture, politics, and the arts. The aim of the workshop is to situate the trajectory and legacy of critical thinking on feminist storytelling and narratives in modern contexts. Chairs will introduce topics, which are then open to the floor for discussion, analysis and debate.

Guiding Themes: Feminist Storytelling; Gender, Justice and Equality; Women and Health; Women and Nation; ‘Nasty Women’

Schedule

12pm: Light lunch

12.15–12.30 Dr Miriam Haughton, Workshop Introduction and Research Aims (DTP)

12.30-12.45 Professor Marie-Louise Coolahan, Project Planning: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700 (English)

 12.45–1.30 Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, Desertion and Divorce (History)

1.30–1.45: Break

 1:45–2.30 Dr Lucy-Ann Buckley, Feminist Judgments Project (Law)

2.30-3.15: Professor Niamh Reilly: Women, Nation, Sovereignty: Socio-Political Perspectives (Sociology and Politics)

3.15-3.30: Break

3.30-4.15: Mary McGill, Feminism and the Selfie in Contemporary Culture (Hardiman PhD Scholar, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

4.15-5.00: Professor Elaine Aston, Feminism and Storytelling in Theatre and Performance: Reflections, Methodologies and Transnational Perspectives (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts)

Recommended Reading

Aston, E. (2016) ‘Agitating for Change: Theatre and a Feminist ‘Network of Resistance’,’ Theatre Research International, 41:1, pp. 5-20Bailey, J., Steeves, V., Burkell, J. & Regan, P. (2013) ‘Negotiating With Gender Stereotypes on Social Networking Sites: From “Bicycle Face to Facebook’, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 20(10), pp.1-22

http://www.equalityproject.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/C2-Negotiating-with-Gender-Stereotypes-on-Social-Networking-Sites.pdf

Buckley, SA. (forthcoming, 2018) ‘Desertion and ‘divorce Irish style’ (1937-1997)’ in Marriage and the Irish: a Miscellany, ed. Salvador Ryan

Jones, J. (2016) ‘Those taking selfies with Hillary Clinton aren’t narcissists – but our best hope’, Guardian, Monday, September 26th, 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/26/taking-selfies-hillary-clinton-not-narcissists

Feminist Judgments Project: https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/fjp/about/index.html

Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project: http://www.feministjudging.ie

The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700: www.recirc.nuigalway.ie

Yuval-Davis, Nira “Gender and Nation”, Ethnic & Racial Studies. Oct93, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p 621. 12p.