The Early Career Workshop on Religion, Law and Gender was hosted by UCC’s Law Faculty and Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR).
Participants travelled from universities in Hong Kong, Istanbul, Helsinki, Essex, London and Dublin, to join researchers at UCC for this IRCHSS funded event. Dr McNay's research and teaching interests are in continental social theory and feminist thought. She is one of the world’s leading contemporary political theorists and has published widely on the politics of recognition and multiculturalism.
The workshop discussed a series of themes and questions including:
Recent years have witnessed a shift by states away from policies and politics of multiculturalism. Against a background of diminishing state sovereignty, matters of affiliation, allegiance, membership and belonging, have become important projects for government. Religious citizens have appealed to notions of religious rights grounded in law, in an effort to bypass or restrict state scrutiny and regulation of group activity. Such attempts can be seen today in debates on the role of Muslim family law, in litigation on the display and wearing of religious symbols and in the regulation of intimate relations and reproductive autonomy.
The workshop forms part of a three year IRCHSS project on gender, multiculturalism and religious diversity, led by Dr Siobhan Mullally, Faculty of Law.
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