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Munster Women Writers Conference Programme
Friday 20th July 2001
7 pm
Conference Launch & Registration
Venue: Staff Common Room, North Wing.
8 pm
Keynote Address
Prof. Janet Todd, University of Glasgow.
Chair: Prof. Patricia Coughlan, Munster Women Writers Project
NUI Cork.
Venue: Electrical Engineering Building, L1
Saturday 21st July
Venue: Electrical Engineering Building, L1 9.00
9 am Registration
9.30 - 10.45
Dr. Margaret Kelleher, NUI Maynooth.
"Struggles for Fame: The Publication of Nineteenth-Century Irish
Women's Writing."
Mary Breen, NUI Cork.
"Dorothea Herbert's Retrospections: Text and Context."
Dr. Tina O' Toole, NUI Cork.
"The Irish Aspect of the New Woman Question: The Work of George Egerton."
10.45 Coffee Break
11.15 - 12.45
Dr. Biling Chen, U Connecticut.
"Culture, Class and Gender in the Works of Edith Somerville and Martin
Ross."
Dr. Silvia Diez Fabre, U of Burgos.
"The Real Charlotte and the Drishane Archive."
Prof. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, TCD.
"The Horned Women: Women's Literary History, Folklore, and the Irish
Woman Writer".
12.45 Lunch
A list of local cafés is available from the Registration Desk.
2.00 - 3.15
Dr. Anne Fogarty, NUI Dublin.
"Lesbian Texts and Contexts: The Fiction of Emma Donoghue and Mary
Dorcey."
Dr. éibhear Walshe, NUI Cork.
"Relocating Genius: Kate O'Brien's Critical Voice."
Prof. Patricia Coughlan, NUI Cork.
"The Peig Sayers Texts: Self, Social History, and Narrative Art."
3.15 Coffee Break
3.45 - 5.00
Irish Women's Writing: The Publishers' Perspective
Round-table Discussion.
Participants:
Catherine Rose (Co-Founder, Arlen House),
Mary Rose Callaghan (Writer and Editor),
Róisín Conroy (Co-Founder IFI and Attic Press),
Dr. Mary Mulcahy (Author, Women in Publishing Report 2001),
Jessie Lendennie (Salmon Press),
Jo O'Donoghue (Marino Books),
and Gaye Shortland (Poolbeg Press).
Sunday 22nd July
11-1.00
Bibliographical Work and Feminist Literary Research
This session will be devoted to the technical issues arising in compiling
a database and bibliography of literary research. This workshop has a
specialist character, and space is limited. Please contact the registration
desk to reserve a place if you have a particular interest in attending.
Chair: Dr. Claire Connolly, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff U.
Participants:
Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, Centre for Editorial and Textual Research, Cardiff
U.,
Monica Cullinane, Library UCD,
Dr. Magda Stouthamer Loeber, U of Pittsburgh,
Dr. Gerardine Meaney, Editor, Field Day Anthology Vols. 4 & 5,
and others.
The Munster Women Writers Project
The Munster Women Writers Project is a bibliographical research project currently underway at NUI, Cork. Part of an interdisciplinary, three-strand project on Women in Irish Society: Understanding the Past and Present Through Social Research and Archives, the project secured funding from the Irish Higher Education Authority in 1999.
This conference is hosted by the HEA Munster Women Writers Project, NUI Cork
Registration
contact Karen McSweeney at:
International Students Office
University College Cork
Ireland
tel: 353-21-4902918
Registration: £15 or £10 students/unwaged
Please notify us by 30th June if you require crèche facilities.
Additional funding assistance from NUI, Cork Faculty of Arts, and Department
of English, gratefully acknowledged.