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International Research Forum on Women

The International Research Forum on Women at Queen's serves as a meeting place for researchers with an interest in the history of women and gender. We welcome participants at the seminars from within and from outside Queen's (see below for programme).

All seminars are held at 4 p.m. in the Auditorium (ground floor) of the McClay Library, QUB. Everyone welcome.

For further information contact Professor Catherine Clinton ( c.clinton@qub.ac.uk ) or Professor Mary O’Dowd ( m.odowd@qub.ac.uk ).

Women and Media Conference, 9th-10th March 2012

This two-day interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine the multi-faceted
nature of women’s relationship with the media. Encompassing the press, art,
advertising and literature alongside a progressive shift towards more modern
forms such as social networking and blogging, this conference will look at the
media’s categorization and censorship of women through culture and the law,
issues of prostitution, abortion, illegitimacy, rape and asylums as well as
challenges to heteronormativity.

We seek to discuss the marginal experiences of women and highlight the silences in the
news cycle, while acknowledging the ways in which women have sought redress for this
silence, clawing back a female space in the column inches.

Below are some of the themes which will be addressed:

  • Celebrity culture and the journalist’s cult of personality
  • Media treatment of rape and abortion
  • Historical aspects of newspaper reporting
  • Censorship, victimisation and exploitation
  • Social networking and feminism in media
  • Representations of female criminality
  • Political control of the media
  • Silence and absent voices
  • Spectacle and hysteria

The call for papers has now closed, but anyone interested in attending the conference can now register by clicking the registration link at the top of this page.


A meeting of the Forum

Autumn Semester, 2011

Monday, 3 October 2011

SUSIE BROWN, Head of Communications at the Northern Ireland Assembly, and ANN WILLIAMSON, Head of a Government Press Officer since 2007, currently Head of the Press Office of the Department for Regional Development will open this year's session with a discussion on

GETTING OUT YOUR MESSAGE! [download poster - pdf file]

Monday, 15 November 2011

Dr Eileen Murphy,
School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, QUB [download poster - pdf file]

WOMEN AND INFANT MORTALITY
“Children’s burial grounds (ciilini) in Ireland and parental emotions towards infant death”

Monday, 5 December 2011

Pr. Rebecca Rogers, Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales-Sorbonne

WOMEN AND EDUCATION
Schooling and work training for Muslim girls in colonial Algiers: gendering the French civilizing missions (1845-1875)”