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‘The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland’ Annual Conference

Name: ‘The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland’ Annual Conference
Start: 2018-06-07T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2018-06-08T23:59:59+00:00
Location: Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building

June 7, 2018 - June 8, 2018

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Details

Start:: June 7, 2018
End:: June 8, 2018

Venue

Seminar Rooms G010 & G011, Hardiman Research Building

Organizers

: Bronagh McShane
: Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan

The 2018 H-WRBI Annual Conference will take place at the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway at the Moore Institute on Thursday 7 June and Friday 8 June. Please see programme for the event on the following link: https://historyofwomenreligious.org/conf_programme/

Call for Papers

The conference will explore the history of women religious across a broad chronological timeframe, from medieval to modern. We invite proposals (for 20-minute papers) that engage with the theme, ‘Space, Place and the History of Women Religious’. Proposals might consider, for example:

International and Transnational Perspectives
Buildings and Architectural Planning
Lived Experiences of Space
Mobility and Geography
Visualisations/Imagery of Space
Archives, Women Religious and Space
Gendered/Contested Space
Space, Place and Identity

We invite both individual and panel proposals. Proposals from postgraduate students are particularly welcome. Please send abstracts (max. 200 words), together with a short biography (100 words) to hwrbi.conference@gmail.com by Friday 9 February 2018