Women, Law and Disorder
2015 International Women’s Day Conference
6th-7th March 2015
Queen’s University Belfast
Friday, 6th March 2015
12:00-13:00
Registration
13:00-14:15
Panel 1
Women and Institutions of the State
The Irish Magdalene Laundry: Establishing State and Social
Responsibility in the ‘Disciplinary Society’
Sinéad Mercier – London School of Economics
Disciplining female delinquents: Liverpool Female Penitentiary
(1809-1921)
Kirsty Greenwood – Keele University
A Retreat from Wicked Companions and Corrupting Influence:
Examination of a benevolent institution - the Ulster Female
Penitentiary, Belfast
Pamela Emerson – Independent researcher
14:15-15:30
Panel 2
Women at Work
'With fingers weary and worn'?: Factory legislation and the
treatment of women workers in the Londonderry shirt industry,
c.1860-1920
Chelsea Brownlee – Queen’s University Belfast
Women in Archaeology: the pioneers at work in the 19th century
Marta Lorenzon – University of Edinburgh
Labour Law and Women Workers in the United States: The Right to
Work for Less?
Erin Ferguson – University of Strathclyde
15.30-15.50
Tea and Coffee
15:50-17:00
Panel 3A
Marital Law
‘…with ye malice of an open enemy’: Frances, Dowager Countess of
Tyrconnel, and her efforts to secure her jointure lands, 1691-1702
Frances Nolan – University College Dublin
"We must have a confiscation of property": Personal Possessions and
Marital Rights in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Marissa Bolin – University of York
Draupadi and Female Law: Feminine Views of Legalities in The
Mahābhārata and The Palace of Illusions
Natasha Cooper – University of Durham
Panel 3B
Race and Representation
‘I Can Say What I Like’: Gendered Rebellion and Authority in
‘Judge Dredd: America’
Kelly Kanayama – University of Dundee
‘The White man Ripped my Dress off:’ Rape, the Law, and Space for
the Ethnic Woman in David Mamet’s Race
Catherine Casey – Trinity College Dublin
17:00-18:00
Keynote Address
Enemy Women and the Laws of War
Professor Stephanie McCurry – University of Pennsylvania
18:00-19:00
Wine Reception
Saturday, 7th March 2015
9:30-10:45
Panel 4A
Enemies of the State
Breaching the Peace: breaking the law at Greenham Common
Elaine Titcombe – University of the West of England
‘Substantial’ ‘Sentiments’ and Partisan Domesticity: The Political
Resistance of Southern Unionist Women of North Carolina
Devin Sizer – Queen’s University Belfast
The Strange Tale of the Women’s Internment Camp on the Isle of
Man, 1940-42
Sonia Lambert - Goldsmiths
Panel 4B
Women Under the Law
‘I suppose you think your socks will pick themselves up?’ Irish
women’s fight for franchise, 1870-1918
Michelle O’Connor – Trinity College Dublin
Women and law in the nineteenth-century Papal States
Sara Delmedico – University of Cambridge
Irish Women, the Carrigan Committee and the Criminal Law
Amendment Act 1935
Dr David Doyle – University of Oxford
10:45-11:00
Tea and Coffee
11:00-12:15
Panel 5A
Injustice in the Contemporary State
Restorative Justice, Shame and Stigma – Implications for female
identity
Jodie Hodgson – Liverpool John Moores University
The Criminalization of Black Women in the United States
Oran Kennedy – Queen’s University Belfast
When Equality Fails: The Liberal State and Female Citizenship
Esther Shallan Williams – Oxford Brookes University
Panel 5B
Sexuality as Crime
How Laws are Gender Discriminatory: A Perspective of Prostitutes in
Zimbabwe
Isabel Mapingure – Cardiff University
‘I am as innocent as the child unborn’: the challenges the crime of
unlawful carnal knowledge of 13-16 year olds posed to Ulster courts,
1890-1900
Eliza McKee – Queen’s University Belfast
12:15-13:00
Lunch
13:00-14:15
Panel 6A
Motherhood
The Affiliation Orders (Illegitimate Children) Acts in Northern
Ireland and the Irish Free State, 1923-30
Alexandra Tierney – Trinity College Dublin
‘...no authority to detain the child against its mother’s consent’:
The curious case of Eliza Langdon and the Galway Poor Law Union
Jamie Canavan – Queen’s University Belfast
Panel 6B
Policing Women’s Activism
Muriel Lester; how the ‘mother of world peace’ was imprisoned by
her government, and what it teaches the artist about activism
Alexandra Carey – University of Kent
Guns & Ammo: Women and Weaponry in the American Black
Freedom Movement
Matthew Law – Queen’s University Belfast
Gendering Pacification: Policing Women and Girls at Anti-Fracking
Protests
Dr Helen Monk & Dr Will Jackson – Liverpool John Moores University
14:15-15:30
Panel 7A
Women and Crime
Casting the Audience as Criminals in the Early Modern Theatre
Morwenna Carr – University of Reading
Discourses on Women Sentenced to Death in Ireland
Lynsey Black – Trinity College Dublin
Women, Crime and justice in thirteenth and fourteenth-century
Ireland
Dr Sparky Booker – University of Swansea
Panel 7B
Women in the Middle East
Women and political administration in 6th century Byzantium: a case
study of Empress Theodora, wife of Justinian I
Rebecca Mason – Queen’s University Belfast
Legislation affecting women
Zahra Khamseh and Sepideh Gholizadeh Aharanjani– Istanbul Bilgi
University
The Women of My Life
Parvaneh Farid – University of Winchester
15:30-15:45
Tea and Coffee
15:45-17:00
Panel 8
Outspoken Activists
Two Little Women From Different Centuries Who Raised Their
Voices Against Human Exploitation
Ekin Deniz Horzum -- University of Glasgow
Incarceration in the work of Anna Mendelssohn
Eleanor Careless – University of Sussex
Constance Lytton: A Personal Prison
Wendy Tuxill – Anglia Ruskin University
17:00-17:15
Closing Remarks