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Back to the conferences homepage Queering Ireland 2: Coming Out in Contemporary Ireland An International Interdisciplinary Conference July 25 /26th 2011 University College, Cork Despite, or perhaps because of, the continuing growth of Queer
Studies, it remains unclear whether the term contributes to or occludes the
struggle for LGBT rights in an Irish context. Given the still considerable
obstacles to equality in Irish society, can the Queering Ireland project
justifiably focus on queerness as a hermeneutic of disturbance without
unwittingly shifting the focus back on to an interrogation of normative
heterosexuality? Can the two projects, LGBT rights and Queering Ireland, be
conceived together? Should they be held apart? At the final roundtable discussion
at Queering Ireland (2009), it was agreed that more work needed to be done on
the material struggle for equality and recognition among the LGBT communities
in Ireland as a counterweight to the aims of the broader project. To that
end, papers are invited that discuss all aspects of that struggle, placing
especial emphasis on the obstacles, institutional and otherwise, that
continue to discriminate against ‘non-normative’ sexualities in
Ireland. What is the significance of the passing of the recent Civil Partnerships
Bill, for example, or the coming out of Donal Óg Cusack as an openly gay
member of the Gaelic Athletic Association? What are the costs,
psychological, financial and otherwise, of coming out in contemporary
Ireland? Or of deciding not to? How has the Celtic Tiger contributed to the
LGBT struggle, if at all? We welcome papers on these issues as
well as on Queering Ireland and the Law, Queer performance and the Irish
stage, and on Contemporary popular culture and notions of queerness. Proposal of no more than 500 words (or one
page) to be sent to Éibhear Walshe (e.walshe@ucc.ie) and Seán Kennedy (sean.kennedy@smu.ca) by October 31st 2010. |
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