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Seminar on Martha Fineman's Work

The seminar will take place on May 21, 2010 at University College Dublin. It will be held in room L532 of the School of Social Justice, located in the library building on the main UCD campus. The schedule includes opening remarks by Martha Fineman at 9:30am. There will be two panel sessions from 10:00-11:15am and 11:30am-1:00pm, each with multiple presenters discussing Fineman's work on vulnerability and related topics like gender recognition, feminist perspectives, and disability rights. Coffee will be served between the two panels. The seminar will conclude at 1:00pm.

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Seminar on Martha Fineman's Work

The seminar will take place on May 21, 2010 at University College Dublin. It will be held in room L532 of the School of Social Justice, located in the library building on the main UCD campus. The schedule includes opening remarks by Martha Fineman at 9:30am. There will be two panel sessions from 10:00-11:15am and 11:30am-1:00pm, each with multiple presenters discussing Fineman's work on vulnerability and related topics like gender recognition, feminist perspectives, and disability rights. Coffee will be served between the two panels. The seminar will conclude at 1:00pm.

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SEMINAR ON THE WORK OF MARTHA FINEMAN

MAY 21, 2010


UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

Location

The seminar will take place in the seminar room of the School of Social Justice in UCD. This
is room L532, which is located in the library building (in front of the lake in the main UCD
campus in Belfield). When you enter the library building proceed up the stairs in front of you.
There you will see the entry to the library on your right hand side; walk past this to the door
straight in front of you, slightly to the left. You will see a sign here directing you to the
elevators. Take the lift to the 5th floor and, upon exiting, follow the signs for the seminar. A
map of the Belfield campus, which is served by numerous buses (esp. from the city centre, the
No. 10 bus), is available here: [Link]

There is parking on campus for those who are driving and, as exams are finished, there ought
to be spaces in the morning.

Schedule

9.30 am Welcome & Opening Remarks by Prof. Martha Fineman

10.00 Panel I

Chair: Fiona de Londras, UCD School of Law

Máiréad Enright, Kent Law School: “Looking for Legal Citizenship: Shachar's Multicultural
Jurisdictions, Fineman's Myths and Law's Vermonter”

Tanya Ní Mhuirthile, University College Cork: “”Realising Gender Recognition: Rendering


the Vulnerable Visible or Further Vulnerabilisng the Invisible?”

11.15 Coffee break


11.30 Panel II

Chair: Roja Fazaeli, TCD School of Religions and Theology

Angela O’Connell, Global Women’s Studies Project, NUI Galway: “Vulnerable Standpoints:
Using a Vulnerability Framework for a Feminist Standpoint Project”

Melanie Hoewer, John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, UCD: “’Equality in
Difference’: Positioning and Perspective of Women in Processes of Contentious Politics”

Eilionoir Flynn, Mary Keogh & Noelin Fox, Centre for Disabilities Study, NUI Galway:
“How far towards equality? A vulnerabilities approach to the rights of disabled people”

13.00 End

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