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Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Institutions and Ireland: Medicine, Health, and Welfare

Institutions and Ireland: Medicine, Health, and Welfare
Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre,
Trinity Long Room Hub, Friday 5 February 2016
Institutions & Ireland: Medicine, Health, and Welfare
9.00-9.30Registration and coffee
9.30-9.45Welcome: Professor David Dickson, Department of History, TCD
Opening Remarks: Professor Aideen Long, Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Clinical Medicine, TCD
9.45-11.00Panel One: Architecture of the State
Chair: Professor David Dickson (TCD)
Dr Francis Anthony O’Neill (QUB), Boundaries, Diagnosis, and Nation States
Emma Farrell (TCD), Socio-Historical Factors Fueling Ireland’s ‘Institutional Drive
Dr Niamh NicGhabhann (UL), Negotiating the Asylum in Irish Urban Public Spaces
11.00-12.15Panel Two: Care of the Patient
Chair: Dr Ciaran McCabe (NUIG)
Dr Tracy Fahey (LIT/LSAD), Revealing and Revoicing: Patient Narratives in Contemporary Irish Art
Dr Hilary Moss (TCD; Tallaght Hospital), Creativity and Mental Health in Modern Medical Settings: The Role of the Arts for Patients in an Acute Hospital
Elena Vaughan (NUIG), Structural and Symbolic Violence within the Irish Healthcare System: The Case of HIV in Ireland
Michael Robinson (University of Liverpool), Ireland’s Forgotten Lunatics? The Great War Veteran in the Post-War Asylum
12.15-13.15LUNCH
13.15-14.30Panel Three: Gender and Sexuality
Chair: Dr Mel Duffy (DCU)
Marion Quirici (University of Buffalo; UL), Disability and the Justification of Women’s Incarceration in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Lloyd Houston (Brasenose College, Oxford), ‘The Wages of Sin is a Month in the Locke’: Irish Modernism and the Politics of Venereal Disease
Dr Clara Fischer (UCD), State Building as Affective Politics: Ireland, Shame, and the Institutionalisation of Gendered Others
14.30-15.45Panel Four: Childbirth
Chair: Dr Peter Boylan (Chair, Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists)
Professor Linda Connolly (UCC), The Construction of Gender and Motherhood through the Lens of Church–State Power in Ireland
Caitlin Nic Iomhair (TCD), To Terrify or Comfort? Spirituality and Culpability in Three Poems on the Death of Ann Lovett
Sylvia Murphy Tighe (TCD), Contemporary Media Representations of Concealed Pregnancy: Shaming, Blaming, and Vilifying Women
15.45-16.00COFFEE, Ideas Space, Long Room Hub
16.00-17.00Keynote Address: Dr Rhona Mahony (Master, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street), The Birth of a Republic: Giving Birth in Ireland, 1916–2016
Chair: Professor Patrick Geoghegan, Department of History, TCD
17.00-18.00Round Table 
Chair: Professor Eve Patten, Department of English, TCD
18.00-19.00Reception, Ideas Space, Trinity Long Room Hub