Event Title
Plenary 2: Domesticity Across Disciplines: Different Scholarly Approaches to Domestic Life
Location
Moakley Auditorium
Start Time
14-5-2014 1:15 PM
End Time
14-5-2014 2:15 PM
Description
Many people think of “domestic” issues or “domesticity” as distinct from the public world, and also as outside of nature. Presenters on this panel challenge such divides, exploring the cultural, social, and/or political ramifications of domesticity from three disciplinary perspectives. Dr. Ellen Scheible of the English department will discuss her scholarship and teaching on issues of how literary presentations of domesticity reflected Irish politics and society before and after the 1922 partition of Ireland. Dr. Erin O’Connor will analyze negotiations and struggles between domestic servants and their employers in Latin American history, with particular attention to Ecuadorian history. Dr. Ellen Ingmanson takes a different approach, exploring different types of family relations among apes and monkeys, and what these have to teach us about domesticity more generally. Though these presentations are from different disciplinary approaches, they identify common themes about the crucial and complex domain of domesticity.
Plenary 2: Domesticity Across Disciplines: Different Scholarly Approaches to Domestic Life
Moakley Auditorium
Many people think of “domestic” issues or “domesticity” as distinct from the public world, and also as outside of nature. Presenters on this panel challenge such divides, exploring the cultural, social, and/or political ramifications of domesticity from three disciplinary perspectives. Dr. Ellen Scheible of the English department will discuss her scholarship and teaching on issues of how literary presentations of domesticity reflected Irish politics and society before and after the 1922 partition of Ireland. Dr. Erin O’Connor will analyze negotiations and struggles between domestic servants and their employers in Latin American history, with particular attention to Ecuadorian history. Dr. Ellen Ingmanson takes a different approach, exploring different types of family relations among apes and monkeys, and what these have to teach us about domesticity more generally. Though these presentations are from different disciplinary approaches, they identify common themes about the crucial and complex domain of domesticity.
Comments
Moderator: Dr. Paul Rubinson