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Next The(e)ories Seminars @ UCD
Sexuality and Phenomenology: Reading Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology,
a 2-day international, interdisciplinary seminar on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 May 2008. This seminar will
be devoted to discussing the publication of Sara Ahmed's important book, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
(Duke University Press, 2007) with responses from queer theorists, feminists, psychoanalysts and philosophers who specialise
in phenomenology. Professor Ahmed (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) will participate in the
seminar and give a plenary lecture entitled 'On Being Directed: Promises, Happiness, Deviations'. Respondents
and facilitators include Dr Jones Irwin (St Patrick’s
College, Drumcondra, Dublin,
Ireland), Dr Katherine Johnson
(University of Brighton, UK), Dr Aislinn O’Donnell (National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland) and Dr Felix Ó Murchadha (National University of Ireland, Galway,
Ireland), Eve Watson
(Psychoanalyst and UCD School of Psychotherapy, St Vincent’s University
Hospital, Dublin, Ireland), Dr
Jon Mitchell (National University
of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland),
Professor
Margot Backus (University
of Houston, Texas, USA), Michael Cronin (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Professor Eileen Joy (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville,
USA) and Dr Fintan Walsh (University of Dublin, Trinity
College, Dublin, Ireland) and Dr Anne Mulhall (University
College Dublin, Ireland).
Gender, Sexuality & Bioethics,
a 2-day international, interdisciplinary seminar on Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 July 2008 with sessions on
organ transplantation, intersex activism and studies, self-injury, reproductive rights, Orlan--performance artist, plastic
surgery, and animal studies. Speakers include Professor Morgan Holmes (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada),
Dr Kay Inckle (The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland), Dr Anat Pick (University
of East London, UK), Dr Margrit Shildrick (Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland), and Ailbhe
Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland). Respondents will be announced soon.
New Critical Theory/Cultural Studies Book Series at the University
of Wales Press
Noreen Giffney & Michael O'Rourke are the editors of Cultural
Connections: Key Thinkers and Queer Theory, a new critical theory/cultural studies book series at
the University of Wales Press (distributed by the University of Chicago Press in the USA). See the 'Cultural Connections'
page on this website for further details of books in the series and details of how to submit a proposal.
New Queer Theory Book Series at Ashgate Press
Noreen Giffney &
Michael O'Rourke are the editors of Queer Interventions, a new queer studies book series at Ashgate Press.
See the 'Queer Interventions' page on this website for further details of books in the series and details of how to submit
a proposal.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies
Noreen
Giffney has been appointed Humanities Book Review Editor for GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
(Duke University Press). She takes over the position from Laura Doan.
New
Centre for Studying Sexuality & Gender @ Uni of Exeter
Noreen Giffney & Michael O'Rourke have recently become Research Affiliates at
the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe at the University of Exeter. Further details
at www.sall.ex.ac.uk/centres/cissge/
Queer(y)ing Psychology Collective
Noreen Giffney
& Michael O'Rourke are members of the Queer(y)ing Psychology Collective, a group of health professionals
and cultural theorists who meet during the year at the Open University, Milton Keynes. Further details at http://www.queeryingpsychology.org.uk/
New Queer Theory Articles
Noreen Giffney and Michael O'Rourke, 'The "E(ve)" in The(e)ories: Dreamreading Sedgwick
in Retrospective Time' in Irish Feminist Review, 3 (2007).
Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird, 'Queering
the Non/Human' in Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird (eds.), Queering the Non/Human (Ashgate, 2008).
Michael O'Rourke, 'The roguish future of queer studies' in Journal of Queer
Studies in Finland, 2 (2006).
Noreen Giffney, 'Quare theory' in Wanda Balzano, Anne Mulhall & Moynagh
Sullivan (eds.), Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Michael O'Rourke, 'What's so queer about the queer theory to-come?' (in Portugese)
in Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais (Critical Journal of Social Sciences) (2006).
Noreen Giffney, 'Queer apocal(o)ptic/ism: the death drive and the Human' in
Noreen Giffney & Myra J. Hird (eds.), Queering the Non/Human (Ashgate, 2008).
Michael O'Rourke, 'Introduction: siting queer masculinities' in Katherine O'Donnell
and Michael O'Rourke (eds.), Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800: Siting Same/Sex Desire in the Early Modern World (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006).
Noreen Giffney, 'Quare Eire' in The Journal of Lesbian Studies, 11,
nos. 3-4 (2007).
Noreen Giffney, '"And they lived ugly ever after": the new queer cartoon' in Noreen
Giffney and Michael O'Rourke (eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory (Ashgate, 2008).
Copies available from the authors.
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