I am going to be in Dublin on June 18th - how do I sign up for the
afternoon conference?
Carmel McCaffrey
Rosemary Raughter wrote:
>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.
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>Symposium and reception in celebration of Mary O'Dowd, A History of Women in
>Ireland, 1500-1800, Pearson Longman, 2005-04-30
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>Saturday, 18 June, Boston College Dublin Campus, 86 St. Stephen's Green,
>Dublin 2
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>3pm - 5pm
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>Chair: Professor Christine Meek (TCD)
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>Dr Phil Kilroy
>Lady Anne Conway, 1631-1679: Neo-Platonism and Heremeticism in Cambridge,
>Lisburn and Ragley Hall
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>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
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>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
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>5pm - 7pm
>Reception.
>Speaker: Dr Margaret MacCurtain
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>Women's History Association of Ireland
>Annual Conference 2005
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>Public and Private Voices:
>Irish Women's Personal Writings in Historical Perspective
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>NUI Cork, 18 -19 November 2005
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>Call for Papers
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>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unpublished) as a rich source for understanding the mental, social and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 This kind of writing ranges from unpublished spiritual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.
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>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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