3rd International Seminar Series*: 'Mobility, Technology, Gender and Work '

Spring Semester 2011, University of Limerick
 
*We would like to acknowledge and thank our main funder, ISSP and the Higher Education Authority under the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, Cycle 4.

Seminar 1 - Mobility, Technology, Gender and Work
7th March (2-4pm) Room: MC2005

Dr. Kate Kenny (NUIG):
The Impossible Object? Email Jokes and Gender Identities in a Creative Industry Organization*
[*Co-authored with Gordon Euchler]

Seminar 2 - Mobility, Technology, Gender and Work
Wed 30th March (2-5pm) Room: TBC

Prof. Rosalind Gill (King's College London)
"Digital Nomads"? Academics and New Media Workers in Precarious Times

Dr. Lee Monaghan (University of Limerick)
Ireland in Crisis, 'Silver Vigilantes' and Public Sociology: Protesting Against Neoliberalisation

Seminar 3 - Mobility, Technology, Gender and Work
Wed 27th April (2-5pm) Room: TBC

Dr. Kate Boyer (University of Southampton)
Of Breastpumps and 'Blackberrys': work/life integration, heroic motherhood & stories of a troubled technology

Dr. Doris Ruth Eikhof (University of Stirling)
Searching for the Female Lead: Gender Inequalities in Creative Careers and Employment

Dr. Katie Milestone (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Place, Gender & Mobility: Manchester's New Media Workers

Dr. Diane Perrons (London School of Economics)
Global inequalities and gendered work performances: Mobile handymen in London*
[*Co-authored with Majella Kilkey and Ania Plomien ]

For Registration, Room Details & Abstracts: Please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) 

This seminar series on 'Mobility, Technology, Gender and Work' is organised by Lisa Wixted and Breda Gray on behalf of the Nomadic Work/Life in the Knowledge Economy project team. 

These seminars are co-sponsored by the Gender, Culture and Society@UL Seminar Series and by the Department of Sociology.  

Everyone is welcome to attend!

Please visit our website: http://nwl.ul.ie for more details.