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Women’s Studies University College Cork
Irish Feminist Activism and the Arts Conference 15th June, 2013
Call for Papers and short performances
Women’s Studies in University College Cork will host a conference on Irish Feminist
Activism and the Arts on Saturday 15th June.
(Venue will be Room G06 in the Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, College Road, Cork.)
Theme
We want to look at the radical and creative ways in which feminist activists used the arts in the past and continue to use them today to raise consciousness of issues, provide information in accessible forms, challenge patriarchy, bring about legal change, and provide platforms for groups and individual women to contribute to feminist debates.
We would like the conference programme to include a mix of academic papers and feminist performance.
Proposals
We welcome proposals for papers and short performances (up to 20 minutes each). We are interested in all areas of the arts including but without the list being confined to:
- Irish feminist publishing and writing for any medium, including poetry and plays;
- performance, including theatre, street performance and story-telling;
- visual representation including film and other representational arts;
- feminist activism and the newer media, including blogs, Twitter, and inventive/radical ways of using the internet.
Proposals should be sent to Dr Sandra McAvoy at sandra.mcavoy@ucc.ie (or at Women’s Studies, c/o the History Department, University College Cork) by Friday 10th May 2013.
Selection process
The subject is one to which we could devote several days. As we will only have one day this time, there will be a selection process for papers/performances. It may be possible to return to this theme at a future date if we have a sense that there is
lots of material out there for which we could provide a further platform.
More information will be posted on the conference website as it becomes available: