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Bodies, Vulnerabilities, Empowerment: Symposium

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The Centre for Creative Ethnography at Queen's, in collaboration with Seamus Heaney Centre is hosting a one-day, in-person symposium in March.

Date(s)
March 6, 2026
Location
Wolfson Lecture Theatre, The Seamus Heaney Centre
Time
09:00 - 18:30
To register - amanda.lubit@dcu.ie

Employing creative ethnography, poetry, and other modes of artistic exploration, papers at the symposium will explore how inequalities related to intersectionalities of gender, sexuality, race, religion, class, age, and/or disability are embodied and experienced, embedded in wider societal structures, politicised and resisted. 

Organised by Maruška Svašek, Amanda Lubit, Milena Williamson. With keynote speakers, Bebe Ashley and Karen Nakamura.   

LIMITED PLACES, to register please email Amanda Lubit (amanda.lubit@dcu.ie), with the subject heading AUDIENCE REGISTRATION - BODIES, VULNERABILITIES, EMPOWERMENT,  and indicating your name, affiliation, and whether you wish to participate in the morning, the afternoon, or the whole day. The symposium is free.

Fri 6 Mar Schedule

9.00am - Introduction 
9.10-10.05am - Session 1: Ving Fair Chan, Joel Grimsley, Alexandra Morris
10.05-10.55am - Keynote 1: Bebe Ashley
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11.10-12.25pm - Session 2: Megan Blinn, Sara Conti, Amanda Lubit, Petra Honkysova
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1.00-1.55pm - Session 3: John D'Arcy, Becky Higgins, Mhairi Claire
1.55-2.50pm - Session 4: Milena Williamson, Nat Jobbins & Hannah Bevan-Woolley, Fiona Magowan
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3.00-3.55pm - Session 5: Rina Schiller, Sophia Obermeyer, Anna Hollis
3.55-4.45pm - Keynote 2: Karen Nakamura
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4.55-5.50pm - Session 6: Linda McKenna, Maruška Svašek, Kristina Jacobsen 

Followed by a drinks reception. 
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Name Amanda Lubit
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