Irish Masculinities Conference
When: 26 - 27 February 2010
Where: Irish Studies International Research Initiative
Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast
Northern Ireland, UK
Peter Middleton has asserted that 'Modern writers have revelled in masculinity without ever quite naming 'it' and this is particularly true of Irish authors and cultural practitioners. This inaugural interdisciplinary conference on Irish Masculinities will examine the multitudinous ways in which the Irish male has been portrayed and interrogated in Irish culture and society. Criticism on this issue is only now beginning to emerge and it is the aim of this conference to draw this diverse body of researchers together to locate and theorise Irish Masculinities for the first time within the specific context of Irish Studies.
Irish Masculinities Conference Programme
Plenary speakers:
- Professor Gerardine Meaney (UCD): 'The Undercover Irishman: Race, Masculinity and Popular Culture'
- Professor Patricia Coughlan (UCC): '"Taking real things for shadows": Contemporary Irish Literature and Masculine Affects'
- Professor John Wilson Foster (QUB)
Contact: iris...@googlemail.com
Register: Deadline for registration is 29th January 2010
http://admin.qol.qub.ac.uk/ecommerce/irishmasculinities/index.php
Website: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudies....
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