Gender Arc – International Women’s Day and International Women’s History Month.

7th March

School of Education Research Seminar Series

“Exploring Sexuality and Gender Identity in the Irish Education System”

Speaker: Dr. Aoife Neary, School of Education, University of Limerick

5pm: Wednesday, 7 March 2018

Venue: AM214 Siobhán McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway.

 Biography: Dr Aoife Neary joined UL School of Education 2014. She currently has a funded research partnership with the Transgender Equality Network of Ireland. Drawing on feminist, queer and affect theory, her work explores the politics of gender and sexuality as they are lived, constructed and configured in schools and society. Her recent book entitled LGBT-Q Teachers, Civil Partnership and Same-sex Marriage: The Ambivalences of Legitimacy is published with Routledge.  RSVP by 5 March 2018 to caroline.casey@nuigalway.ie, 091 495985

8th March

University Women’s Network – International Women’s Day Lecture – 2018

“Excellence in higher education through gender equality: a personal and professional reflection”

Keynote Address: Máire Geoghegan-Quinn

Date/time: Thursday 8 March/12.30-14.00

Venue: Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Art Millennium Building

 During her parliamentary career from 1975 to 1997, Dr. Geoghegan-Quinn became Ireland’s first female cabinet minister since the foundation of the State when she was appointed Minister for the Gaeltacht in 1979. She also served as Minister for Justice, Minister for Tourism, Transport and Communications, Minister for European Affairs, and Minister of State in the Department of Education. As EU Commissioner, she pioneered the development and delivery of Horizon 2020, the world’s largest public research funding programme.Most recently, she chaired the HEA Expert Group who conducted the extensive National Review of Gender Equality in Irish Higher Education Institutions.

9th March

The Irish Centre for Human Rights in association with Gender Arc at NUI Galway

“Abortion Law Reform”

Date time: Friday, March 9th 2018/ 11.00am-2.00pm

Venue: Aula Maxima, NUI Galway

As the mooted date for a referendum on Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution draws closer, this event draws together a number of prominent human rights advocates and academics to consider the challenges and possibilities of abortion law in a post-Eighth Amendment Ireland.

 Speakers:

Professor Carol Sanger, Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and author of About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in the 21st Century

Les Allamby, Chief Commissioner Northern Irish Human Rights Commission

Dr Eilionóir Flynn, Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy , NUI Galway

Dr Claire Murray, School of Law, University College Cork

Professor Siobhán Mullally, Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/about-abortion-the-law-and-politics-of-reform-tickets-43025789294

9th March

The Centre for Global Women’s Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology

Invites you to the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights, coinciding with International Women’s Day and the 100th anniversary for women’s suffrage in Ireland.

Speakers will include former and current students and staff and will feature a student-produced documentary on the ways in which the MA has helped our students to  ‘press for progress’ on gender equality issues.

 Date/time: Friday March 9th, 3.00-5.00pm, with a reception (including birthday cake!) to follow

Venue: AM243 lecture theatre, Aras Moyola

All are welcome but please RSVP for catering purposes to m.geoghehan7@nuigalway.ie

Main Contact: genderarc@nuigalway.ie