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UPCOMING EVENTS

WISPS IX Conference

Transcultural Encounters

Dublin City University
31 October – 1 November 2008

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (Word)

The WISPS Conference organising committee, Patricia O’Byrne, Niamh Thornton, Gabrielle Carty, and Jacqueline Mulhall, on behalf of WISPS, gratefully acknowledge the support of the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, DCU; the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; the Instituto Cervantes, Dublin; the Embassy of Mexico in Ireland; the Faculty of Humanities Research Committee, DCU; and the Office of the Vice President for Research, DCU.

Confirmed speakers:

Doris Sommer

Professor of Romance Languages and Literature at Harvard

Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative

Ana García Bergua

Mexican Author

Catarina Alves Costa

Award-winning Portuguese anthropologist and documentary film maker

Info in English / Info in Portuguese

Maria Cañas

Cultural encounters are more than a coming together of equal and common ideas that meld and produce new ideas. The experience leads to both positive and negative results. Conflicting or complementary cultures can share the same space and inhabit the same national boundaries. What happens when cultures collide, come into conflict or fashion new relationships through encounter? The intention of this conference is to ask contributors to consider the experience of transcultural encounters in any period, space or cultural form. Proposals are welcome from those interested in studying women and gender issues or academics interested in addressing these questions as they pertain to male producers of cultural products.

For further information, please contact the conference organisers:

Dr Pat O’Byrne (e-mail) / Dr Niamh Thornton (e-mail)

REGISTRATION FORM (Word)
ACCOMMODATION LIST (Word)

Please note that if you wish to make payment in sterling (bank drafts in euro have steep charges) you must do so before September 12^th; after this date payment will only be accepted in euro. If you are paying in euro please follow the instructions on the registration form. Your cheque should be made payable to ‘Women in Spanish Studies’ and forwarded together with your registration form to Pat O’Byrne, (address on registration form). Sterling equivalents to the euro values on the registration form are given below:

Costs	Full amount	Students/Unwaged
Conference Fee	€40 (₤32)	€20 (₤16)
(One day only)	€25 (₤20)	€10 (₤8)
Refreshments	€20 (₤16)	€20 (₤16)

PREVIOUS EVENTS

• VIII Conference. Manchester, Oct 2007 (Word)
• VII Conference. Birmingham, Sept 2006 (Word)
• VI Conference. IGRS, Sept 2005 (Word)
• V Conference. Cambridge, April 2004
• IV Conference. Liverpool, June 2003
• III Conference. IRS, London, April 2002
• II Conference. IRS, London, June 2001
• I Conference. IRS, London, May 2000

· 2008 Study Day. Liverpool.

Where do we go from here? Women in Languages at Mid-Career.

Programme (report to follow)

• 2007 Writing Retreat
  Sneaton Castle, Whitby
  Report (Word)
• 2007 Study Day. Birkbeck, U of London.
  Women in (Cross-Cultural) Academic Life
  Programme (word)

• 2006 Study Day. Sheffield.
  Creating an External Profile
  Report (word) / Photos!
• 2005 Writing Retreat
  The Burn, Aberdeen
  Report (word)
• 2005 Study Day. Cambridge.
  Professional Development for Women in HE
  Report (word) / Photos!

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Updated by Kirsty Hooper on 20 October 2008