Gender and Sexuality PGR Conference

We are delighted to welcome you to Critical Enough? Orientations of Authority and Resistance, a one-day postgraduate research conference bringing together researchers from across the island of Ireland and further afield.

Across twenty-three papers in six panels, a keynote address, and a plenary workshop, the day maps the many orientations through which research on gender and sexuality engages the regimes of authority that shape bodies, knowledge, and how we live.

Keynote Address

We are honoured to welcome Dr Mary McAuliffe (University College Dublin), whose keynote A gender / queer turn in the archive: having fun and (re)making histories, will be followed by a Q&A.

Plenary Workshop

The day closes with a plenary workshop led by Professor Dina Zoe Belluigi (Queen's University Belfast), Animate, entangled, troubled, clash, sustain: a "Mail Art" Workshop. Each participant will be provided with postcards, letter-writing materials, and envelopes, you decide how you wish to play, what you express, whom you address, how it is signed, and whether it is ever posted.

Schedule

• 08:00–09:00: Registration
• 09:00–09:15 : Welcome & Opening Remarks
• 09:15–10:55: Panel Slot 1 (Panels A & B)
• 10:55–11:15: Coffee Break
• 11:15–12:55: Panel Slot 2 (Panels C & D)
• 12:55–13:35: Lunch Break
• 13:35–14:40: Keynote Address & Q&A - Dr Mary McAuliffe
• 14:40–14:50: Break
• 14:50–16:30: Panel Slot 3 (Panels E & F)
• 16:30–18:00: Plenary Workshop - Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi
• 18:00: Closing Remarks

Panels

• Panel A: Queer and Trans Literary Resistance
• Panel B: Institutional Care / Harm
• Panel C: Gendered Authority and Embodied Knowledge
• Panel D: Recording Queer Mobilities and Spatialities
• Panel E: Creative Counter-Methods
• Panel F: Discomforting the Irish Historical Record

A full programme with all paper titles and speakers is available, and will be circulated to registered attendees ahead of the conference.

Venue

The conference takes place at Queen's University Belfast, across two rooms: the South Dining Hall and Lanyon Building, Room 0G/074. Registration opens from 08:00, please arrive to collect your name badge, and signage will direct you between sessions. Parallel panels run in both rooms; the programme indicates which panel is in which room.

Registration

Attendance is free. Please register via this page. Light refreshments and lunch will be provided.

We look forward to welcoming you for a day of generative, challenging, and sustaining conversation.

For any queries, please contact the organising committee on gendersexualitypgr@gmail.com or Niall Herron via email on nherron12@qub.ac.uk.