Research and Events

Global feminisms series 2021-2022

The series was organized in cooperation with the Casilac Research Cluster on Violence, Conflict and Gender, to discuss timely issues related to global feminist, women's and LGBTQ+ movements and struggles.

Picture Credit: J. Lester Feder - Funeral of a lesbian rights activist who died from AIDS related illness, South Africa (circa 2010).

Speakers:

29 April 2022: Dr Carmen Romero Bachiller (Complutense Univerdad de Madrid), ‘Intersectionality in times of transphobia, or the dangers of reading feminist fights as the Oppression Olympics’

11 April 2022: Lisselot Martin Maria Plaza (LU/PhD candidate, University of Huelga), ‘ The Representation of Transgender Characters in Contemporary British Female Fiction: Its Evolution from the Late 20^th Century’

25 March 2022: Conversation with Professor Akwugo Emejulu (University of Warwick) and Dr Francesca Sobande (University of Cardiff), on their edited volume To Exist is to Resist. Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019)

4 March 2022: Dr Felicity Daly (ISS21, UCC), ' Advocacy for the sexual health of women who have sex with women: analysis of South Africa's policy response to HIV.'

17 February 2022: Dr Saumava Mitra (DCU), 'C'est un combat'. Women photographers' fight against professional invisibility in conflict and crises-affected context

26 November 2021: Prof. Charles Ngwena (University of Pretoria), 'African 'transgender', resisting the public secret and precarity

Events Archive 2020-2021

8 March 2021: 4th Annual Athena SWAN President's Symposium, co-organized by Athena SWAN project, Equality Committee, Women's Studies and Mná@UCC.

10 March 2021: Lecture by Professor Shabana Mir (American Islamic College, Chicago) on Muslim Women on Campus, organized by the Study of Religions Department in cooperation with Women's Studies. A recording of the lecture is available on Youtube at this link: Lecture - Professor Shabana Mir

11 March 2021: Lecture by Distinguished Professor Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University) on Posthuman Ethics, in conversation with UCC members of staff. Organized by Women's Studies, Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (Casilac) and Department of Applied Social Sciences. A recording of the lecture is available on Youtube at this link: Lecture - Professor Rosi Braidotti

16 March 2021: A roundtable on gender and precarity of employment on the basis of the two recently published books Women and Industry in The Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector (Bloomsbury 2019, paperback 2021) & Working in Cork: Everyday life in Irish Steel, Sunbeam Wolsey and the Ford Marina Plant, 1917-2001 (Cork University Press, 2020). With authors Dr. Chiara Bonfiglioli and Dr. Liam Cullinane, guest commentators Dr. Rory Archer (University of Konstanz/Graz) and Dr. Maura Cronin (Mary Immaculate College), chaired by Dr. Clíona O' Carroll (Department of Folklore, UCC). A recording of the roundtable is available on Youtube at this link: Gender, labour and precarity roundtable

Women's Studies Webinar Series 2020-2021

Women and Activism in Ireland: Profiling Leaders and Changemakers

This webinar series highlighted the richness and diversity of women's activism, profiled women's impact as leaders and changemakers and showcased feminist strategies and ways of working which promote equality for women.

4 December, 12-1pm

Emma Carroll, co-founder of the Facebook page In Our Shoes - Covid Pregnancy

‘Birthing alone: the movement to revise current maternity care restrictions’

A recording of the webinar is available on Youtube at this link: Webinar with Emma Carroll

11 December, 12 -1pm

Dr. Maeve O’ Rourke - Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR), NUIG

'The Clann Project: Ireland's Unmarried Mothers and their Children: Gathering the Data'

A recording of the webinar is available on Youtube at this link: Webinar with Dr Maeve O Rourke

15 January, 12-1 pm

Erin Darcy, editor of In Her Shoes - Women of the Eighth: A Memoir and Anthology (New Island Books, 2020).

A recording of the webinar is available on Youtube at this link: Webinar with Erin Darcy

12 February, 12-1 pm

Karen Kiernan, CEO, One Family; Dr Tricia Keilthy Society of St Vincent de Paul

Parenting alone during Covid-19- the intersection of care, precarious work and poverty

A recording of the webinar is available on Youtube at this link: Webinar with Karen Kiernan&Tricia Keilthy

16 April, 12-1 pm

Mary McDermott, Safe Ireland

Tracking the Shadow Pandemic - a Safe Ireland Report

A recording of the webinar is available on Youtube at this link: Webinar with Mary McDermott