Global & Comparative Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence Seminar

20 Oct 2025

Last week, a seminar titled Global & Comparative Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence took place in the Dora Allman Room in The Hub at UCC.

The well received seminar was jointly hosted by the Violence, Conflict and Gender Cluster - Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures Centre for Mexican Studies - Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and the ISS21 Gender, Sexualities and Families Cluster research cluster.

The keynote address; All Mexican Violence is Gender Violence was delivered by Professor Pablo Piccato, Columbia University with a response from Professor Nuala Finnegan, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at UCC. Dr Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, co-convenor of the ISS21 Genders, Sexualities and Families research cluster introduced the keynote address. 

The seminar featured three round table discussions:

• Gendered realities:representation,reproduction, mediation
• Violence(s) and exclusions: borders and entanglements 
• Resistance and action: crafting alternative futures

Dr Gema Kloppe-Santamaría and Dr. Fiachra Ó Súilleabháin, co-convenors of the ISS21 Genders, Sexualities and Families research cluster took part in the round table talks. 

Thank you to everyone for attending and particpating in this engaging seminar including ISS21 research cluster members.