26 – 27 February 2010
Irish Studies International Research Initiative,
Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast
Contact: irishmasculinities@googlemail.com
Call for Papers
Peter Middleton has asserted that ‘Modern writers have revelled in masculinity without ever quite naming it’ and this is particularly true of Irish authors and cultural practitioners. This inaugural interdisciplinary conference on Irish Masculinities will examine the multitudinous ways in which the Irish male has been portrayed and interrogated in Irish culture and society. Criticism on this issue is only now beginning to emerge and it is the aim of this conference to draw this diverse body of researchers together to locate and theorise Irish Masculinities for the first time within the specific context of Irish Studies.
Papers of 20 minutes’ duration are invited on themes which may include, but are not limited to:
� Representations of masculinity in Irish literature
� The Irish male on stage and screen
� Irish masculinities and socio-cultural taboos
� Sport and the Irish male
� Historicising Irish masculinity
� Performing Irish masculinities
Please submit an abstract of not more than 300 words by 15th December to Dr. Caroline Magennis and Raymond Mullen at irishmasculinities@googlemail.com<mailto:irishmasculinities@googlemail.com>
Plenary speakers:
Prof. Gerardine Meaney (UCD): ‘The Undercover Irishman: Race, Masculinity and Popular Culture’.
Prof. Patricia Coughlan (UCC): ‘”Taking real things for shadows”: Contemporary Irish Literature and Masculine Affects’.
Prof. John Wilson Foster (QUB).