[ecrea] Call for Papers: Ireland, Masculinity and Popular Culture 1990-2010

Call for Papers

Ireland, Masculinity and Popular Culture 1990-2010

Huston School of Film and Digital Media
NUI Galway, September 23-25th 2011

Keynote Speaker: Prof Diane Negra (UCD)

1990 was a watershed year in contemporary Irish history for several reasons,
but perhaps the most resonant was the election of Mary Robinson, feminist,
activist and lawyer, to the position of Irish President, a position
previously reserved as a retiring ground for elderly male politicians A new
and exciting phase of Irish history was suddenly in the offing and
Robinson¹s inclusive vision of Ireland looked beyond earlier understandings
of the state to give a central importance to the women of Ireland and those
forgotten by generations of emigration; the Irish Diaspora. Slowly but
incrementally over the following two decades the patriarchal authority of
Irish political and religious structures collapsed. During this period Irish
popular culture generated a variety of masculinities across genres and
forms. In fiction and theatre - the stage and screen plays of Conor
McPherson, Martin McDonagh and Mark O¹Rowe; the soft masculinity of Louise
Walsh¹s boybands ­ Boyzone, Westlife, Jedward; the cinema of the Celtic
Tiger; Irish TV drama - Bachelor¹s Walk, Pure Mule, Love/Hate; national
sporting moments circulating around male sports stars and teams. As
traditional roles models and models of male authority gradually eroded and
Ireland became a more multicultural environment, popular culture assumed an
ever-increasing centrality in exploring tensions in Irish manhood.

We invite papers and panels exploring manhood in Irish popular culture ­
sport, film and television, theatre and fiction, music and media - for a
conference to take place at NUI Galway September 23-25th 2011. Proposals of
300-500 words should be sent to (tony.tracy /at/ nuigalway.ie)

Date for submission is June 6th 2011.




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