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Andy Charlesworth
SEXING THE NATION: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON
BELONGING
July 3, 1998 Cheltenham and Gloucester College of HE (Park campus)
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
10:00-10:15: Welcome and registration
10:15-11:15: Plenary session
Lynne Pearce: +Reading, writing and devolution: UK Feminists in Search
of
Home+
Sarah Radcliffe: +Grounded belonging: race and gendered corporeality+
11:15-11:30: coffee
1130-12:45 Parallel session
Session A: Sexual unions
i) Joanna Gibbs; +Gendered fictions: Scotland, England and the
Literature of
unifcation 1540-1612+
ii) Philip Schwyzer: +Mating in the Marches: Gender, Language and
Identity
in the Elizabethan Borderlands+
Session B: Modern women
i) Fran Stafford: +Sexing Europe: Expressionist Women Artists and the
search
for roots, 1900-1914+
ii) Brendan Fleming: +Re-gendering the nation: representations of
Ireland and
the figure of the New Woman+
Session C: Professions of/and belonging
i) Fatih Ozbilgin: +belonging and otherness: defining the +ideal worker+
ii) Madeleine Howe; +Are Judy o+Grady and the colonel+s lady sisters
under
the skin?+
iii) Ann Mathie: +Becoming a teacher; Personal Accounts of former
students
1920-1960+
12:45-2:00: Lunch
2:00-3:15: Parallel session
Session A: Body/nation/trauma
i) Wren Sidhe +Complexities of belonging: National Wombs and Lesbian
Bodies+
ii) Sinead McDermott +The Red Suitcase: national identity and the female
grotesque+
iii) Tina Papoulias +Representing Historcial trauma: Nation, trauma and
memory in Titanic
Session B: Negotiating belongings
i) Pauline Dooley +No place to be Private:experiences of girls educated
in
former boys+ independent schools in the UK+
ii) Anira Rowanchild +I was not born to live alone: Anne Lister and the
academic outlaw+
iii) Ros Jennings: +Opting out: the cases of out and Beth Jordache+
3:15-3:40: Tea
3:40-4:50 Parallel session
Session A: Migration, Nation and sexual difference
i) Breda Gray: +Thresholds of belonging: Irish women and national
identity+
ii) Lynn Ang ling-Yin: +Migration and the representaion of +nation+ and
+self+
with special reference to the Singapore context
iii) Kwadwo Osei-Nymae: +Gendering the Nation: Identity and Community
in the work of Bessie Head and Lewis Nkosi+
Session B: Branding
i) Anne Cronin: +Branding Europe: Cultural Essentialism and Women+
ii) Alison Goodrum +Wearing britishness; (re) negotiating natioanl
identity in
the fashion and clothing export industry+
4:50-5:00: Conference closes
Registration (by June 16)
Cost (including lunch) 20 waged, 12 unwaged (cheques payable to
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of HE)
Enquiries to:
Ruth McElroy
Humanities dept,
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of HE
Park Campus
CHELTENHAM,
GL50 2QF
Tel: 01242 543481
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Venue; Teaching centre, Park campus (approx 10 mins taxi ride from
Cheltenham Spa train station - ask for dunholme/challinor entrance -
main
road routes M5, A46, A40)
B+B: Bentons, 71 Bath Road, tel: 01242 517417
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