Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “GENDER&VIOLENCE”
Tuesday 2 May 15:00-17:00 Organised in collaboration with the Violence, Conflict and Gender cluster’s Erasmus+ visiting researcher, El Plaza, this event facilitates conversations across languages, time periods and contexts to explore the cultural representation of trans* lives with a view to questioning depictions lacking in nuance, or the creation of trans-exclusive narratives. Following contributions from the four speakers, all at …
Representing Gender-Based Violence Monday 20 March North Council Room at 2pm The Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster in the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) warmly invites you to the launch of Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan 2023) edited by Dr Caroline Williamson Sinalo (UCC) and Dr Nicoletta Mandolini (Universidade do Minho). Dr Alan Gibbs …
The Violence, Conflict and Gender Cluster, with the Department of Italian, invites you to join us for the launch of Dr Nicoletta Mandolini’s book, Representations of Lethal Gender-Based Violence in Italy between Journalism and Literature: Femminicidio Narratives (Routledge 2021) on Friday, 6 May at 1pm. Professor Nuala Finnegan will present the book, followed by a wine reception. All welcome.
The Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster in the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC), together with Women’s Studies, invites you to join is for the next event in our Global Feminisms seminar series. This Friday, 11 March, at 12 midday, join us as we welcome Lisselot Martín Plaza, Erasmus visiting scholar and cluster member, to deliver …
Cocoon Nights is an informal open mic event series that aims to raise awareness of the concerning and growing numbers of femicides in Ireland, as well as providing a space to grieve and process the emotions that arise from such experiences. It facilitates a space for our UCC community to come together, to showcase, and support each other’s creative responses to femicide, …
We are continuing our Global Feminism Webinar Series this week with another hybrid event on Friday, 4 March with Dr Felicity Daly’s talk ‘Advocacy for the sexual health of women who have sex with women: analysis of South Africa’s policy response to HIV’. This event will take place in the CACSSS Seminar Room (ORB G.27) and will also be available …
The Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster in the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC), together with Women’s Studies, invite you to the first event of 2022 in our Global Feminisms series. This Thursday, 17 February, we will welcome Dr Saumava Mitra of DCU to UCC. He will present ‘’C’est un combat’. Women photographers’ fight against professional …
We are delighted to invite you to a talk by Charles Ngwena, from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, organized by UCC’s research cluster on Violence, Conflict and Gender, in the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC), UCC, in partnership with the Women Studies MA, UCC. The talk will take place on Friday 26 November at 11:30. Please …
Recognising and Responding to Genocide Denial: The Case of Rwanda Volume edited by Catherine Gilbert, Paul Rukesha and Caroline Williamson Sinalo Denial of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda has significantly increased in recent years, with prominent intellectuals and journalists finding a growing voice in the mainstream media and in academic institutions. This volume will bring together Rwandan …
This public event was organised in collaboration with the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Dr Sara Motta, Associate Professor in University of Newcastle (NSW) presented her work on decolonising feminist methodologies and the importance of enfleshed and embodied experiences when undertaking these practices. Abstract: In this presentation I …
