EQUALITY WEEK
April, 20th to 23rd, 2010 in UCD
Where are all the women?
Female Representation in Irish Life
Tuesday 20th April
11am – 12:30pm – Room L532 5th Floor Library Building UCD
Coffee Morning with Rachel Doyle from National Women’s Council of Ireland.
Rachel Doyle is a member of the Senior Management Team and is responsible for the management, development and implementation of the NWCI’s outreach and support programme to its affiliates and to the women’s sector. She is also responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with strategic partners.
1:30pm to 3:30pm – Room L503 5th Floor Library Building UCD
Workshop: How do I Look? Gender Representations in Popular Advertising Images and the Development of Media Literacy
Bernie Grummell and Mimi Doran
Mimi Doran and Bernie Grummell teach on the Media and Equality module in the MSc in Equality Studies, which intends to develop media literacy and critical knowledge amongst those interested in equality issues.
Mimi Doran is a communications practitioner and media lecturer with interests in social justice and participatory approaches to learning, research, and communication. She is in her final year of a PhD on media literacy with St Michael’s Estate Regeneration Team, at the Equality Studies Centre. Mimi has provided strategic planning, communications strategies and media training to a variety of businesses and organisations.
Bernie Grummell is currently Research Manager and Lecturer in NUI Maynooth and previously worked with the School of Sociology and the Equality Studies Centre in University College Dublin. She completed media research projects with several organizations, including Department for Education and Science, National Adult Literacy Agency and Radio Telefis Eireann and worked in independent film production.
7:30pm to 9pm – Room L532 5th Floor Library Building UCD
(Venue to be confirmed)
Lecture: Gender Equality and Quotas for Women
“Do we need quotas to ensure women are fairly represented?”
Guest speakers: Mary McAuliffe and Sile de Valera
Síle de Valera is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. She is the granddaughter of Fianna Fáil founder, Taoiseach and third President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera. She was first elected aTeachta Dála (TD) in 1977 serving as a member of Dáil Éireann until 1981, and then again from 1987 to 2007, as well as being a MEP from 1979 to 1984 representing Dublin. She served as Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands from 1997 to 2002. Her final government office was Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science, with special responsibility for Adult Education, Youth Affairs and Educational Disadvantage. She resigned as a Minister of State on 8 December 2006.
Mary McAuliffe graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with a BA in History and subsequently was awarded a PhD in Medieval History from TCD. She teaches mainly in the area of Irish women’s history and has been teaching on the Outreach Certificate and Diploma courses in Women’s Studies, along with the postgraduate programmes in WERRC. She is the co-ordinator of the BA (Modular) in Women’s Studies. Her main area of research interest is in medieval studies, specifically women in Medieval Ireland. She is also interested in and has published in the areas of women and power, women and representation in art and sculpture in medieval Ireland and the history of sexualities of Early Christian and Medieval Ireland.
Wednesday 21st April
11am – 12:30pm – Room L532 5th Floor Library Building UCD
Coffee Morning: Shirley Graham, Co-ordinator of the Hanna’s House Peace Project will talk about community activism, advocacy and networking.
The Hanna’s House Peace Project is designed to enable women to engage in a process of reconciliation on an all-Ireland basis through participation in a series of events intended to develop awareness of feminist ideals of justice, equality and non-violence, thereby promoting strategies for transformative change and articulation of a feminist peace.
3pm – 4:30pm – Room L532 5th Floor Library Building UCD
Workshop facilitated by Gisela Boehnisch and Linn Vizard:
‘Being A Young Woman in a Men’s World’: What are the opportunities and obstacles for young women living in today’s largely male-dominated world?
Join us for a fun, informal discussion and share your thoughts on career choices, relationships, feminism and more.
Gisela Boehnisch is doing an MSc in Equality Studies at UCD and has a background in linguistics, journalism, new media and the nonprofit sector. She is currently working on a thesis on women’s film festivals and their potential for achieving social change. Linn Vizard is doing a BA in Industrial Design at NCAD and has been working on various projects to do with gender and design.
7:30pm to 9pm – Room L504 5th Floor Library Building UCD
Lecture: Diversity in the Irish Workplace and Irish Media
Guest: Dil Wickremasinghe – Social Entrepreneur, Broadcaster & Columnist
Dil Wickremasinghe is the director of Diversity and Equality Works, providing Irish businesses with diversity and equality training. Dil is on the Board of Akidwa and is involved with numerous other NGO’s that campaign towards social and racial integration and has made numerous oral and written submissions to the Oireachtais. Dil presents a weekly 2 hour live radio programme on Newstalk 106-108 FM called “Global Village” Irelands only mainstream radio programme which focuses on equality and social justice issues. The programme also hopes to raise awareness of the Irish 9 Grounds of Equality.
Thursday 22nd April
11am – 12:30pm – Room L532 5th Floor Library Building UCD
Presentation: Examining the Concept of “Harm” in Sex Consumption.
Coffee Morning with Melissa Stobie, Senior lecturer in Ethics, School of Philosophy and Ethics University of KwaZulu-Natal, currently PhD student at DCU.
“When Tiger Woods sms’d his lovers that he wanted to DP them, and give them ATM, what did he mean? If you know, you’re been enculturated into porn culture. But what does this mean, for you, me, and society at large?”
Melissa Stobie majored in Philosophy and English in 1996 at the University of Natal, PMB. She has been teaching at UN/UKZN since 1999, and is now the academic co-ordinator for Ethics Studies. Her published research has focussed on health research ethics. Melissa sits on the ethics committees of Greys Hospital and Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital. She is a founding member of the Ethics Society of South Africa, a member of the International Network of Bioethics, South Africa’s Country Representative for the International network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, and a member of the Philosophy Society of South Africa.
2pm – 4pm – Room C108 2nd Floor Newman Building UCD
Coffee Afternoon: Story–telling with Female Activists
Guests: Mary Banotti (former Minister of European Parliament), Mary Killoran, (activist) and Anna Farrell (student adviser UCD).
Mary Banotti has been a prominent, respected elected official in Ireland for many years. In 1984 Mary was first elected as a Member of the European Parliament. From being elected to the European Parliament, she has worked on a variety of issues including environmental and women’s rights and is currently the European Parliament President’s Mediator for Transnationally Abducted Children. Mary Banotti resigned from Parliament in June 2004.
Mary Killoran worked in the European Parliament Office in Dublin. She has been involved in many campaigns and will speak about her experiences as a campaign worker and activist.
Equality Society’s Annual Lecture
7pm to 8:30pm – Astra Hall Student Centre – UCD Belfield
Joan Burton, Labour TD: “My journey through politics”
Joan Burton is serving her second term as Labour TD for Dublin West. In the present Dáil she is Labour’s Finance Spokesperson. Previously she served as a Minister of State, first in Social Welfare and later in Foreign Affairs overseeing a dramatic extension of Ireland’s International Development Programme. Joan is one of the most high profile TDs in the Dáil. She has won much praise from political observers for the high quality of her contributions to public debates and Dáil QuestionTime.
Friday 23rd April
7pm onwards
Social Night for Equality
Trinity Capital Hotel,
Pearse Street, Dublin 2
