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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Agency FB'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">MASCULINITY: BETWEEN TROUBLE & FRAGILIZATION<BR><BR>Dr Fintan Walsh (Trinity College Dublin)<BR><BR>THURSDAY 29 APRIL 2010, 3.15-5.30 pm<BR>ERB007, Engineering Research Building, University of Limerick<BR><BR>Including an informal response by Professor Ed Madden (University of South Carolina)<BR><BR>ERB007, Engineering Research Building, University of Limerick<BR>(<A onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "9ce8e", event)' href="http://www.ul.ie/main/places/campus.shtml" target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: black">http://www.ul.ie/main/places/campus.shtml</SPAN></A>)<BR><BR>This seminar is hosted by Women’s Studies @ UL (<A onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "9ce8e", event)' href="http://www.ul.ie/womensstudies" target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: black">http://www.ul.ie/womensstudies</SPAN></A>)<BR><BR><BR>DESCRIPTION<BR>This lecture explores the notion of ‘trouble’ in the field of masculine ontology and cultural representation. Moreover, drawing on a range of case studies, the presentation considers the relationship between hegemonic masculinity and sacrificial modes of signification. The talk argues that these proliferative aesthetic practices gravely restrict relational, cultural and political transformation, not least of all because they are invariably premised upon the traumatization of the feminine, and the feminization of trauma.<BR><BR>This lecture addresses the writing of visual artist and psychoanalyst Bracha L. Ettinger, whose work seeks to reclaim the feminine from psychotic positionality. While Ettinger focuses on visual art, she is more broadly interested in the manner in which our encounters with the matrixial in art practices might open lanes of fragiliztion that resist the foreclosure of subjectivity. I look to Ettinger’s work to redress the place of the feminine/matrixial in the field of male relationality. Drawing on a selection of illustrative performances and representations, I suggest that if male trouble is to be truly transformative, then it must be fragilizing, and the feminine (and its associated others) must be disassociated from abjection and psychosis and negotiated as the basis for a border-linking, border-sharing ethical relation.<BR><BR><BR>CHAPTER FOR DISCUSSION<BR>Delegates should read the following chapter in preparation for this seminar: Fintan Walsh, ‘Introduction: Performing Male Trouble’ in Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis (<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">Basingstoke</st1:place>: Palgrave Macmillan 2010), pp. 1-32. Copies are available electronically from <A href="mailto:noreen.giffney@ul.ie">noreen.giffney@ul.ie</A> Please note: copies can only be sent for people who register and confirm their attendance at the seminar.<BR><BR><BR>SPEAKER<BR>Fintan Walsh is an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Drama Studies in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Drama</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, Film and Music at Trinity College Dublin. He is co-editor of Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2009), editor of Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ireland</st1:place></st1:country-region> (Cork University Press 2010) and author of Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan 2010). He has published articles on contemporary theatre practice, performance studies and queer theory in journals such as Irish Theatre International, Contemporary Theatre Review, Studies in the Maternal and Theatre Research International as well as a number of edited book collections.<BR><BR><BR>RESPONDENT<BR>Ed Madden is Associate Professor of English and Director of the undergraduate program in Women's and Gender Studies at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">South Carolina</st1:PlaceName> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Columbia</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">SC.</st1:State></st1:place> He is currently the 2009-2010 Irish American Cultural Institute Research Fellow at the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway, working on a study of marginal masculinities in Irish literature. Madden is the author of Tiresian Poetics: Modernism, Sexuality, Voice, 1888-2001 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2008) and co-editor of The Emergence of Man into the 21st Century (Jones and Bartlett w/ National League of Nursing 2002), a medical humanities anthology of essays and poems on male experience. He has published articles on gay and lesbian culture, sexuality, and twentieth century literature, most recently a study of sodomy and feminisation for a retrospective on the work of James Dickey.<BR><BR><BR>SEMINAR SCHEDULE<BR>3.15 Welcome & Introductions (Dr Noreen Giffney, Women’s Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick)<BR><BR>3.45 Masculinity: Between Trouble and Fragilization (Dr Fintan Walsh, Trinity College Dublin)<BR><BR>4.25 Informal response (Professor Ed Madden, University of South Carolina)<BR><BR>4.35 Short Break<BR><BR>4.50 Discussion of presentation, responses and required reading<BR><BR>5.39 Thanks and close of seminar<BR><BR><BR>FOR FURTHER INFORMATION & TO REGISTER<BR>Dr Noreen Giffney, Women’s Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick: noreen.giffney@ul.ie<BR><BR><BR>GENDER, CULTURE & SOCIETY SEMINARS @ UL<BR>This event forms part of the new Gender, Culture & Society seminar series at the University of Limerick. The Gender, Culture & Society (GCS) seminar series runs in tandem with the new MA in Gender, Culture and Society, convened by Women’s Studies in the Department of Sociology. GCS aims to revisit debates within gender and sexuality studies in order to celebrate, challenge and rethink them by pushing the field in new directions. GCS is committed to supporting highly theoretical work and pioneering efforts in the areas of gender and sexuality. All speakers are invited and include thinkers whose work has had or will have a formidable influence on the development of critical theory and gender and sexuality. Seminar themes include: posthumanism and bioethics, intersex, discourses of embodiment, queer theory, theories of the image, masculinities, gender and sexuality in clinical psychoanalysis, and critical theory and the maternal. The emphasis is on discussion. For further details, contact Dr Noreen Giffney, Women’s Studies, Department of Sociology: noreen.giffney@ul.ie See <A onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "9ce8e", event)' href="http://www.ul.ie/womensstudies" target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: black">http://www.ul.ie/womensstudies</SPAN></A> for a list of upcoming events in the series.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Agency FB'"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>