Conferences:
Past Conferences:
2021: ‘Throughotherness’ & ‘Trans-corporeality’: Towards a Critical Posthuman Feminist Entwinement of Childbirth with Birthplace. European Federation of Associations & Centres for Irish Studies (EFACIS), Interfaces & Dialogues Conference, Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague
2021: “Tracing and Telling Stories”: Mapping Cartographies of Birthplace Stories, Oral History Network of Ireland Annual Conference
2021: Where were you born? … Does it matter?: Exploring entanglements between place and birth in rural Ireland, Association of Medical Humanities Conference, University of Limerick, Ireland
2021: Why do we visit birthplaces? : Tracing the Materiality of Birthplace, American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), Derry, Ireland
2021: Haptic Encounters with Birthplace: Mapping Cartographies of Birthplace & Birthplace Stories from Co. Clare, Geography Society of Ireland Annual Conference
2021: Locating a Mother’s Touch: Cartographies of Haptic Encounters, The Missing Mother Conference, University of Bolton, UK
2021: Subverting Confinement: mapping maternal art practices during the pandemic and beyond, CAA (College Art Association) Annual Conference
2019: Birthing Grounds: Mapping Places of Birth in Rural Ireland, c.1918-2012, MIRCI Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada
2019: Birthplace or Place of Birth? Mapping Places of Birth, Sibeal Conference, NUI Galway
2019: Home or Hospital: What is your place of birth? Centre for Irish Studies Conference, NUI Galway
2019: Art in Activism …. in conversation with Orla Ryan & Tony Walsh, Wexford Art Centre
2019: Update on Elephant Collective, Silence + Voice Festival, Clare Women’s Network, Co. Clare
2013: Conference Co-convenor: Reimagining Birth: International Research Symposium,Humanities Centre, University College Dublin. This was an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary symposium co-convened with Doreen Balabanoff. The website for this conference includes podcasts from our keynote speakers whose roles at that time were: Pauline Cummins, artist & lecturer National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Marilyn Foureur, Professor of Midwifery, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, Jo Murphy-Lawless, Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. Click below to go directly to Reimagining Birth website with keynote speaker podcasts and participants abstracts.
2013: Visions of Reproduction: The Anatomical Venus in Victorian Dublin Irish Association of Art Historians/Artefact Study Day, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
2013: Visions of Reproduction: The Anatomical Venus in Victorian Dublin, RCPI History of Medicine Award, Dublin
2009: Joining the dots..connecting birthing experiences with maternal identity’, Irish Feminisms and the Future Conference, UCC
2009: Keeping Mum, Community Art Project, Association for Research on Mothering (ARM), York University, Toronto, Canada