See below details of forthcoming Women's History Association events:
afternoon conference and reception on 18 June 2005 at Newman House, Dublin
and annual conference, 18-19 November 2005 at UCC.
Symposium and reception in celebration of Mary O'Dowd, A History of Women in
Ireland, 1500-1800, Pearson Longman, 2005-04-30
Saturday, 18 June, Boston College Dublin Campus, 86 St. Stephen's Green,
Dublin 2
3pm - 5pm
Chair: Professor Christine Meek (TCD)
Dr Phil Kilroy
Lady Anne Conway, 1631-1679: Neo-Platonism and Heremeticism in Cambridge,
Lisburn and Ragley Hall
Dr Marian Lyons (St Patrick's College, Drumcondra)
The plight of widows and orphans of Jacobite soldiers in Paris and St
Germain-en-Laye in the 1720s
Rosemary Raughter
'Let heart and pen flow together, to the glory of God': faith, activism and
family in the journal of Elizabeth Bennis, 1764-79
5pm - 7pm
Reception.
Speaker: Dr Margaret MacCurtain
Women's History Association of Ireland
Annual Conference 2005
Public and Private Voices:
Irish Women's Personal Writings in Historical Perspective
NUI Cork, 18 -19 November 2005
Call for Papers
This Conference will explore Irish women's personal writings (such as
diaries, letters, memoirs and autobiographies, both published and
unpublished) as a rich source for understanding the mental, social and
political worlds of Irish and Irish-based women from the medieval to the
modern period. This kind of writing ranges from unpublished spiritual
diaries of religious women to the published and widely read memoirs of
notorious women, such as Mrs Leeson, a Dublin brothel-keeper of the
eighteenth century. In other words, it spans the purely private and
contemplative to the openly public and self-justificatory, with many points
in between.
Proposals for papers on any aspect of the Conference theme are welcome.
Proposals (200 word max), together with a brief CV, should be sent to Dr
Clare O'Halloran, Dept of History, NUI Cork, Cork by 31 July 2005. It is
intended to publish a select number of the papers from the Conference.
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