Our Crowdfunding Groups
Friends and colleagues —
You have been amazing. We are so deeply grateful to so many people. Our project goal is 107 percent funded, and we have only 17 hours to go. Right now is your last chance to become a donor — help us support the work of young scholars in Irish studies and queer studies. And please plan to join us for one of the keynotes, which are free and open to the public, or for the final reception, which is open to donors to the conference as well as conference participants. Two weeks from now! This is going to be an amazing, rich, provocative, intellectually fascinating, politically challenging, and community-building weekend!
THANK YOU! In less than a month, you have helped ensure that graduate students and junior faculty from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Canada, France, and the United States, as well as independent scholars who have no institutional support, can attend join us at Queering Ireland this May.
But the work doesn't stop just yet! Any additional donations to our crowdfunding campaign will increase our outreach potential and give us the opportunity to welcome more students and faculty that otherwise would not be able to attend.
Keep sharing, keep clicking, and again, thank you all so much! We are thrilled to bring Queering Ireland to Carolina with your support.
One of our keynote speakers, the inimitable Ailbhe Smyth, graces the cover of the latest Gay Community News, Ireland's LGBTQ monthly!
http://theoutmost.com/gcn-magazine/gcn-current-issue/current-issue/
Congratulations to Ailbhe! We look forward to hearing from her on Saturday, May 20!
The Nickelodeon Theater is hosting The Queen of Ireland on May 16 in conjunction with the Queering Ireland conference at USC! The documentary film tells the story of trailblazing Irish drag queen and gay activist Panti Bliss, pictured below.
http://nickelodeon.org/films/the-queen-of-ireland/
A longtime anchor of Dublin’s gay culture, Panti was also active in the 2015 marriage referendum campaign. If you haven’t seen Panti’s amazing speech about homophobia, “Panti’s Noble Call,” delivered from the stage of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre (Ireland’s national theatre), check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXayhUzWnl0
The film is the second screening in the Nick’s new OUT Here film series (http://nickelodeon.org/series/out-here/), a community-curated monthly LGBTQ film series.
Thanks for your support of the Queering Ireland conference and stay tuned for more exciting updates!
Your gift at this level will help us to print the conference program and publicity for our speakers and public events. (And we’ll be sure to get copies to you!)
A gift at this level will help us to continue our conversations—and pack our daily schedules—by including coffee and food at the conference. A gift at this level will also cover the shuttle from the Charlotte airport to downtown Columbia for a young scholar or performer who is jet-lagged but excited to be here.
A donation at this level covers the registration for a young scholar or an activist who wants to participate in the ongoing critical conversation.
Your gift at this level will cover two nights in the conference hotel for a young scholar without institutional resources. A donation at this level and above will include an invitation to a conference reception, where you can meet our diverse and exciting participants!
Your gift at this level helps us to bring over a performer—an Irish dancer, a cast or crew member of TheatreofplucK, a choreographer. A donation at this level and above comes with reserved seating at the Theatreofpluck performance, maybe even an invitation to an Irish dance workshop!
Your gift at this level will cover airfare for a graduate student or younger scholar otherwise unable to attend our conference. A donation at this level comes with an invitation to a private pre-conference reception at the home of one of our local hosts, as well as benefits listed above.
Your gift at this level will cover airfare and other travel expenses for a graduate student or younger scholar otherwise unable to attend our conference. A donation at this level comes with all the benefits listed above, as well as a signed book by one of our conference participants.
