The MU SexGen network held its inaugural symposium ‘Faces of Change: Researching Sexuality and Gender at Maynooth University’ on Tuesday 30th April 2019 in the Iontas Building, Maynooth University. Details of the symposium programme are available here:
12.30pm Opening remarks by Professor Kath Browne (Department of Geography)
Welcome by Professor Thomas O’Connor, Director of the Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute
12.45pm Panel: Bodies
Chair: Professor Kath Browne
Aoife Sheridan (undergraduate student in the Department of Geography): ‘Men Wearing Makeup and Everyday Resistance in Ireland’
Dr Michael Cronin (faculty member in the Department of English): ‘Erotics and Politics of “Closetedness” in Colm Tóibín’s Fiction’
Jamie Howell (graduate student in the Department of Psychology): ‘Transgender Experiences of Transition-Related Healthcare in Ireland’
2pm Panel: Identities and Communities
Chair: Professor Gerry Kearns (faculty member in the Department of Geography)
Dr Elizabeth Boyle (faculty member) and Chelsey Collins (graduate student) in the Department of Early Irish: ‘“Judgments on Categories of Sons” and the regulation of Sexual Behaviour in Early Medieval Ireland’
Dr Eglè Kačkutė (researcher at the MU Motherhood Project): ‘Inner Lives and Difficult Choices of Educated Female Expatriates in Geneva’
Angela Rickard (faculty member in the Education Department): ‘Opening the Conversation: LGBTQ Youth and Irish Schools’
3pm Panel discussion: Disruptions
Moderator: Dr Jennifer Redmond (faculty member in the Department of History)
Professor Philipp W. Rosemann (faculty member in the Department of Philosophy) on a Foucauldian perspective on studying the history of sexuality
Séan Henry (doctoral student in the Education Department) on rethinking religious schooling, radical conservatism and queer Muslim hermeneutics
Dr Fergus Ryan (faculty member in the Department of Law) on disrupting binaries and non-binary gender identities in Irish law
4pm Closing remarks by Professor Linda Connolly, Director of the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute