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Global Women's Studies at NUI Galway

The programme builds on a long-established tradition of Women's Studies at NUIG. It also complements existing strengths of the School of Political Science and Sociology in development, environmental politics, feminist and gender analyses, globalisation, human rights, international relations, post-colonial studies as well as expertise in the sociology and politics of particular countries and regions in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

We live in a rapidly changing world characterised by intensive globalisation across cultural, economic, political and social arenas. Under conditions of inequality, this poses new challenges for how we rethink and seek to realise democracy, development, equality, human rights, the rule of law, and social inclusion especially in women's lives. The Global Women's Studies Programme recognises that globalisation and related global issues are always simultaneously women's issues and local issues. Armed conflict, environmental destruction, disease pandemics, economic globalisation, fundamentalisms, global governance, organised transnational crime, and migration, for example, are not gender-neutral. They are experienced by women and men differently in context-specific ways. Understanding and challenging the inequalities and exclusions that arise around these and other global issues, therefore, calls for critical scrutiny of the interplay of local realities and global forces in women's lives in different national and regional contexts, including Ireland and Europe, and transnationally.

Toward this end, the Global Women's Studies programme at NUIG is committed to the development of undergraduate and postgraduate education, advanced research, and other activities that build cross-disciplinary knowledge and understanding of gender and global issues through a critical human rights lens.

LUNCH TIME SEMINAR SERIES FOR SPRING 2012

The next event in the Global Women’s Studies Lunch Time Seminar Series for Spring 2012 will be on Wednesday, 15 February 2012. Caroline Forde (NUIG) will speak on Researching Sexual Violence: A Theoretical Framework. For more details, click here. Future speakers in the series include Eoin Donoghue (Department of Classics, NUIG), and Emma Brännlund (Global Women’s Studies, NUIG).

GENDER ARC SEMINAR SERIES

The next event in the NUIG-UL Gender ARC Public Lecture Series 2011-12 will be Prof. Diane Negra (UCD), speaking on Gendering the Recession in Ireland, on 17 Feb 2012 at 1.15-2.15pm at the Moore Institute (NUIG). Future speakers include Prof. Jackie Stacey (U Manchester) and Prof. Diane Elson (University of Essex). For full details on the Public Lecture Series, click here.

LAUNCH OF REPORT ON OLDER WOMEN WORKERS' ACCESS TO PENSIONS

GWS together with Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at NUIG and Queen’s University Belfast is pleased to announce the launch of the CARDI-funded research report on Older Women Workers’ Access to Pensions: Vulnerabilities, Perspectives and Strategies on Friday, 24 February 2012, 11am to 2pm, at the National University of Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin. Inez McCormack, former president of ICTU and a well-known women’s rights leader, will launch the report. In addition, a panel of key stakeholders will discuss the research findings and implications for pensions policy.

DAY SCHOOL ON CRITICAL ISSUES IN GENDER AND GLOBAL HEALTH

GWS will hold a Day School on Critical Issues in Gender and Global Health. This course considers current global health crises created by the worldwide drive to privatize healthcare, the rise of disease pandemics, particularly HIV/AIDS, as well as other complex emergencies. The course will be delivered through three Day Schools held on 25 February, 3 March and 24 March. For more information and to book a place on the course, click here.

WORKSHOP ON GENDER ANALYSIS OF GOVERNMENT BUDGETS

The Public Policy and Gender Cluster in the Institute of Business, Social Sciences and Public Policy is pleased to announce a one-and-a-half-day workshop on Gender Analysis of Government Budgets on 8-9 March 2012. Prof. Diane Elson, an internationally renowned expert in gender analysis of budgets, will lead the workshop. The workshop is limited to 20 participants so reserve a place early. For full information and to book a place, please click here.

GLOBAL WOMEN'S STUDIES MA SCHOLARSHIP

GWS is pleased to announce that an MA scholarship of €2,500 will be awarded in 2012-2013. The deadline for receipt of letters of interest is 31 March 2012. For full details, click here.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Proposals are invited for a two-day literary conference titled Behind the Lines: Women, War and Letters, 1880-1920, organised by NUIG-UL Gender ARC. The conference will be held at the University of Limerick on 9-10 June 2012. Proposals are due in by 31 March 2012. For full details, click here.

GENDER AND ACADEMIC WORK SEMINAR

On 24 April 2012, NUIG will host a half-day seminar on the topic of Gender and Academic Work, with visiting speakers from Ireland and the UK. The event is organized by the Gender, Work and New Economies (GWNE) group within Gender ARC. For further details, contact kate.kenny

nuigalway.ie

16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

The Global Women's Studies Programme hosted a series of events to mark the 16 Days of Activism to end Violence against Women, linking International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (Nov 25) to International Human Rights Day (Dec 10). For more information, click here.

DUVVURY LAUNCHES UNFPA REPORT ON WORLD POPULATION

Dr. Nata Duvvury spoke at the October 26th launch of UNFPA’s report, State of the World Population, 2011: People and Possibilities in a World of 7 Billion. Jan O’Sullivan, Minister of State, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, launched the report. Dr Jacqueline Mahon, Senior Policy Advisor, Global Health and Health Systems, UNFPA, introduced the report and Dr Duvvury commented on the report, based on her extensive international development expertise. The event was organised by the Irish Family Planning Association and held at the Shelburne Hotel, Dublin.

GLOBAL WOMEN'S STUDIES STUDENTS AWARDED IRCHSS POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS

Caroline Forde and Aura Lounasma, PhD students in the Global Women's Studies programme in the School of Political Science and Sociology, were each awarded an IRCHSS postgraduate scholarship in the 2011 round. These highly competitive and prestigious scholarship have a success rate of less than 15% and are open to PhD students studying at Irish Universities in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

RELIGION, GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE

An international conference, funded by the European Science Foundation and Linköping University, and sponsored by NUI Galway, took place on 21-25 June 2011 in Sweden. Entitled Religion, Gender and Human Rights: Challenges for Multicultural and Democratic Societiess, the conference was an initiative of the Gender and Public Sphere thematic group within Gender ARC. The conference aimed to move gender from the periphery to the centre of debate on the role of religion in public and political life in democratic and democratising multicultural societies. For more information, click here.

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WOMEN'S STUDIES CENTRE, 1988-2007

For information about the Women's Studies Centre at NUI Galway (1988-2007), click here.

Global Women's Studies
School of Political Science and Sociology
National University of Ireland, Galway
Tel. +353 91 493450 // Fax. +353 91 494549
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