Monday 4th March: "Monsters of Creation": Snapshots of Women in Higher Education: Panel Discussion and Launch of the Women’s Museum of Ireland

"A learned girl is one of the most intolerable monsters of creation" Saturday Review, 1869
Join us on March 4th as we kick off International Women's Week and celebrate the launch of the Women's Museum of Ireland. The Launch of the Women's Museum of Ireland will take place next Monday March 4th at 7pm in Trinity. The Women's Museum of Ireland, TCD Centre for Gender & Women's Studies & TCD Equality Office present "Monsters of Creation": Snapshots of Women in Higher Education

• 7pm, Ui Chadhain Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College: Panel Discussion involving Professor Susan Parkes, Fellow Emeritus of TCD and editor of the book ‘A Danger to the Men? A History of Women in Trinity College Dublin 1904-2004’, Ms Justice Catherine McGuinness, Judge and Activist and TCD Graduate, Jean Sutton, recent TCD Graduate, Co-editor of Siren Magazine and founding member of the Women’s Museum of Ireland. Chaired by Hannah McCarthy, Auditor College Historical Society.
• 8pm, Long Room Hub, Trinity College: Launch of the Women's Museum of Ireland and "Monsters of Creation": Snapshots of Women in Higher Education exhibition with Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness

All welcome to attend.
For further information please contact: lawlessc@tcd.ie, equality@tcd.ie; suttonj@tcd.ie
Further details available on the Equality Office website.

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Wednesday 6th March: Shadows and Lights – Women and Visual Culture Event

The Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Equality office, with the support of the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies invite you to an event entitled “Shadows and Lights - Women and Irish Visual Culture”. The event forms a panel discussion to mark International Women’s week (4th-8th March) and will take place on Wednesday 6th March from 7-8pm in the Emmet Theatre, Trinity College Dublin. The panel discussion will be chaired by Dr Angela Griffith, History of Art and Architecture Department, Trinity College Dublin with panellists; Geraldine O’Neill, ARHA, artist, Rowan Sexton, Independent curator and Catherine Marshall, Joint Editor, 20th Century Ireland, Dictionary of Irish Art & Architecture, Royal Irish Academy and former Head of Collections Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).

To a large extent, the focus of scholarship surrounding the question of women and Irish visual culture has, not unjustifiably, been one of recuperation by reintroducing audiences to earlier Irish women practitioners, educators and patrons, and addressing the (patriarchal) social constructs within which they operated. However, the primary aim of this panel discussion is to acknowledge and celebrate the contribution and agency of women in visual culture in Ireland today. A conscious decision was made to invite active practitioners and/or those who work directly with female practitioners, in particular with relation to curatorship. As the panelists discuss their professional experiences and individual perspectives, audiences will have a unique opportunity to engage with the contemporary issues surrounding women and Irish visual culture. The format, of panel presentations and audience participation, will provide an opportunity for synergistic discourses to emerge.

This event, to mark International Women’s Week, aims to create new levels of awareness of women’s contributions to Irish visual culture and will ideally provide dynamic platforms for further exploration and debate.
For further information please contact: griffita@tcd.ie or equality@tcd.ie.

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Mary Bridgeman(PhD Student, CGWS) recently attended the 2011 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Association and the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association. Her paper entitled “Twi-hard”: Violence and the Female Body in Stephanie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga was awarded the Richard Tuerk “Out of This World” Paper Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy which recognizes an outstanding graduate essay presented in the Science Fiction and Fantasy area.

Congratulations to Mary Cullen, who will be conferred with an Honorary Degree by NUI Maynooth on 8 June, 2011. Mary lectures in Organised Irish Feminism from 1860 – 1922 on the MPhil in Gender & Women’s Studies.

CGWS would like welcome all the participants who have signed up to take part in 'The Life History Digital Repository' project which is funded by the IRCHSS and co-ordinated by Dr. Kathleen McTiernan (Director CGWS 2010/11) and Deirdre O'Donnell (Research Unit, CGWS).