Celebrating International Women’s Day 2012
‘CONNECTING GIRLS, INSPIRING FUTURES’
International Women's Day on 8 March is a global day celebrating the struggles and achievements of women from all over the world. It grew from two
sources – the struggle of working class women to form trade unions and the fight for women’s right to vote. The theme for 2012 - “CONNECTING GIRLS,
INSPIRING FUTURES” - recognises that if every International Women's Day event held in 2012 includes girls in some way, then thousands of minds will
be inspired globally.
Queen’s Events
Date and time
PG Contemporary Women’s Writing
Network Symposium
'Queer Sisterhoods' in Women's
Writing
Wednesday 29 February
2012
12 - 6pm
18 College Green, Belfast
Keynote speaker: Dr. Tina
O’Toole
Contact: cmcgurren01@qub.ac.uk
Call for papers: pgcwwn.wordpress.com/
Film Screening of ‘Budrus’ (PG)
An award-winning feature documentary
about a Palestinian community
organiser, Ayed Morrar, and his
daughter Iltezam, who unite local Fatah
and Hamas members, along with
Israeli supporters, to save their village.
Sunday 4 March
3.15pm
QFT
Pay in person on the day (£6.20/5/4); or book
online at: www.queensfilmtheatre.com
Student Union Event
'Breaking the Glass Ceiling'
An Employability and Networking
Conference, followed by refreshments.
Monday 5 March 2012
6 - 8pm
Riddel Hall
Speakers: Inez McCormack
(Equality Activist)
Judith Gillespie (Deputy Chief
Constable, PSNI)
Rita Lowe (Partner, CMS
Cameron McKenna LLP)
Caroline McLaughlin, (VP for
Private Wealth Management,
Morgan Stanley)
Contact: Teresa Harkin
su.vpequality@qub.ac.uk
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Seminar: ‘ Transition in Nursing and
Midwifery Education and Research:
Tuesday 6 March
4pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1,
Medical Biology Centre
Contact: Dr Valerie Holmes
v.holmes@qub.ac.uk
Venue/Speaker
Contact/further information
Successful Leadership Techniques’
Speaker: Professor Cecily M
Begley, Chair of Nursing and
Midwifery, TCD
Queen’s Women Graduates
Spring Meeting
Tuesday 6 March 2012
Canada Room
Speaker: Dr Stanley Hawkins
Contact Carolyn Forster e-mail
cpforster@talktalk.net
Tel: 028 9079 1649 Mob: 07801240850
School of Medicine, Dentistry and
Biomedical Sciences
Gender Equality Centre
Coffee morning
8 March 2012
MBC ,School Gender Equality
Office
A fundraising event in aid of the
Partners in Health (PIH) charity
raising awareness of women’s
health issues in Lesotho
Prof Barbara McDermott
b.mcdermott@qub.ac.uk
Queen’s Gender Initiative
Women in Leadership Lunch
8 March, 12 - 2pm
Riddel Hall
QGI Office. By invitation only
First Mondays Research Forum at
Queen’s Annual two-day
conference:
Women and Media:
Representations Past and Present
9 and 10 March
Great Hall
Institute of Irish Studies
First Mondays Research Forum at Queen’s:
Victoria Brownlee; Leanne Calvert
Catherine McGurren; Rionnagh Sheridan
www.womenandmedia2012.com
womenandmedia2012@gmail.com
Centre for Advancement of Women
in Politics (CAWP) and Women's
Resource and Development Agency
(WRDA) Conference 'How to elect
more women in Northern Ireland'
9 March
Canada Room/Council Chamber
(including lunch)
contact Victoria Montgomery, cawp@qub.ac.uk
Women’s Resource &
Development Agency.
Group Space, Ulster Hall, Belfast
Email: info@wrda.net
Tel: 028 90230212.
9am - 2pm
http://photos.pih.org/where/Lesotho/Lesotho.html
External Events
Anna Eggert Lecture Series
Belfast Women: Tales from the Past
2 March 2012
12.30 - 2pm
Speaker: Dr Margaret Ward
“Prison, protests and hunger
strikes: the Ulster suffragettes”
A light lunch will be provided
Music, dance, and entertainment
amongst friends
2 March 2012
From 8.00pm (doors
close at 9.30pm)
Town Hall
Portrush, Co Antrim
Bring refreshments and a song/poem. £5 donation
at the door (to support Against Trafficking charity)
k.dillenburger@qub.ac.uk
UNISON Event:
‘Women’s Struggle – The Unfinished
Agenda’
6 March 2012
7 - 9pm
UNISON, Galway House, York
Street, Belfast
Una Ni Mhearain, UNISON
Tel: 07818000483
5th Women's Leadership Conference
Institute of Directors and Women in
Business
"Driving Change in Changing
Times"
8 March 2012
9am - 3.45pm
La Mon Hotel
Conference chair: Joanne Stuart,
Atrus.
Keynote Speakers: Struan
Robertson (Struan Robertson
Associates); Eileen Mullan
(Strictly Boardroom); MarieTherese McGivern (Director,
Belfast Metropolitan College) –
plus a panel of additional
speakers.
To register, at £60 plus VAT, contact:
www.iod.com/northernireland/events
Tel: 028 9068 3234
Or www.womeninbusinessni.com
Eva email: eva@womeninbusinessni.com
Tel: 02890 224 006
Belfast City Council
International Women’s Day
8 March 2012
All day event
Art exhibitions: Sharon Godden &
Amy Millar.
10:30am: Music workshop
themed on the music of Ruby
Murray, facilitated by Roisin
Whyte.
1 - 2pm: Lunchtime music and
poetry
2:30pm: Afternoon writing
workshop, facilitated by Deirdre
Alexander.
5 - 6pm: Rush hour panel debate,
Contact Jan Carson:
carsonjan@belfastcity.gov.uk
facilitated by Belfast Feminist
Network.
7.30pm: Forgotten Footfalls, a
thought provoking play by local
playwright Victoria Gleeson about
the last female inmate of
Downpatrick Gaol to be hanged.
Laughs on the Lagan
The Art of Comedy workshop (for
women)
8 March
2 – 5.30pm
Belfast Barge
www.belfastbarge.com
www.laughtershed.com
Vicki Armstrong at laughtershed@gmail.com
07790 664819.
£20 (£15 for students)
Laughs on the Lagan
Evening performance
All female line-up
8 March
9pm
Belfast Barge
www.belfastbarge.com
www.laughtershed.com
Vicki Armstrong at laughtershed@gmail.com
07790 664819.
£10 at the door
All welcome. Proceeds to Women’s Aid
PG Contemporary Women’s Writing
Network
Sisters in Verse
9 March 2012
Faculty of English
University of Oxford
http://pgcwwn.wordpress.com/
International Women’s Day Event:
A celebration to raise awareness of the
issue of safe maternal health for
women internationally.
Documentary Premier, Art Exhibition
and Auction
24 March 2012
2-6pm
Crescent Arts Centre
2-4 University Road
Belfast BT71NH
Shyler Foundation
Dr Barbara Renzi
b.g.renzi@qub.ac.uk
Tel: o28 9065 4807
Admission free, donations appreciated
Other Events
For further information on International Women’s Day 2012, and to see other events taking place around the world, visit:
www.internationalwomensday.com/