Domestic Worker's & Performing Migrant Women's Labor in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Submitted by CRG on Thu, Sep 17, 2009 - 5:33 pm – No comments
Charlotte McIvor from Berkeley's Performance Studies examines art practice as a mode of intercultural engagement and anti-racist work in Ireland through the “Opening Doors” project, which combined work on a quilt showing the experience of domestic workers in Ireland, a collaborative photography project depicting scenes from domestic work with artist Susan Gogan, and independent photography captured by the women.
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Foreign Bodies: Gendering Transnational Migration in Contemporary Italy and Ireland
Presenter:
"Made in Chitaly," Dr. Laura Fantone, Beatrice Bain Research Group
Presenter2:
"'Opening Doors': The Domestic Worker's Support Group and Performing Migrant Women's Labor in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland," Charlotte McIver, Performance Studies
Date:
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location:
691 Barrows Hall
FOREIGN BODIES: GENDERING TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION IN CONTEMPORARY ITALY AND IRELAND
**Re-scheduled to Sep 17th to acknowledge university walkout on Sep 24th**
