Final week to apply to the Ireland Fellows funding program - and our Women's Studies MA is one of the application options! If you are an international student with an interest in women's & gender studies, then check out the IFP website here…

@uccwomenstudies.bsky.social Program Director Dr Evelien Geerts delivered a (memes-filled!) training session on positionality statements & feminist onto-epistemologies at BNU. Interested in UCC’s feminist pedagogies-driven Women’s Studies MA? Check out our application page: www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/

A current UCC Women's Studies MA student is conducting research on body shame, perimenopause, and resistance in Ireland. Use the QR code below for more information & the survey or go directly to the survey here: ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Interested in women's & gender studies w a critical theoretical & feminist pedagogical twist? Apply now & join our cohort at @ucc.ie (non-EU internationals deadline is 15/6). Use the QR code or find out more via www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/. #UCC #womensstudies #genderstudies #Ireland #postgraduate #MA

Our Women’s Studies MA students presented their amazing dissertation projects last week, which they will be focusing on in the months-to-come. From silencing, feminist epistemologies & women’s history to queer migration theory and zine-making, from digital GBV to somatics & autoethnography…

Our @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social MA students recently were taught the ins & outs of queer/ing geography & migration studies in our Gender & Society module by the wonderful Dr Mei Meng, who is currently a @radhumslab.bsky.social postdoc on the "Orders and Borders of Global Inequality" ERC project.

We had the wonderful Wura Ayodele, Nigerian women’s rights activist, lawyer & MA Women’s Studies graduate, teach about African feminist theories on our MA program today! Also see www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/ne... for more about Wura ✨✨✨

Congratulations to our 2024-25 MA Women’s Studies graduates - YaFei (who was there with us digitally), Sharon, Ava, Aoife, Shampa, and Anna ✨✨✨

This looks like a fantastic event, organized by @ucc.ie's Violence, Conflict, and Gender research cluster. Register here: sites.google.com/view/constru...

Studying women's & gender studies at UCC also means that there are a lot of research events that you as an MA/PhD student can attend and participate in. Last week, the ISS21 Populism and the Rise of the Far-right cluster (shorturl.at/UNok3), co-led by Dr Amin Sharifi Isaloo & Dr Yasmine Ahmed, …

Check out this interesting film screening & roundtable at @ucc.ie next Monday!

@uccphilosophy.bsky.social & @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social are currently hosting Dr. Özlem Çakmakoğlu from Karadeniz Technical University under the Erasmus+ exchange scheme. Özlem will be following Dr Evelien Geerts' Philosophy classes and also sit in on some of the Women's Studies MA sessions.

In addition to reflection sessions, keynotes & seminars w inter/national faculty from UCC, Utrecht University & Maynooth University, our #PG7044 module on #gender, #intersectionality & #interdisciplinarity also had the participants present on their own (& on what they learned during the module)!

And last but certainly not least: Our #PG7044 also included Prof Maggie O’Neill (@maggieoneill.bsky.social), who taught the participants the ins & outs of feminist participatory action research, followed by a session on critical hope for critical pedagogies by Dr Katy Dineen

Another inspiring #intersectionalhumanities contribution on carbon encounters by Prof Anna Hickey-Moody (@annahm.bsky.social) (Maynooth University) on our fifth day of the #PG7044 module, followed by a lecture on double colonization & postcolonial feminist solidarities by Dr Laura Kennedy.

As part of our #PG7044 seminar, our seminal CASiLaC #PoliticalTechnologies cluster seminar series, and #IWD, we were honored to have Prof Debbie Ging (@debbieging.bsky.social) keynote about her feminist research on the neo-manosphere. What a thought-provoking event! See www.ucc.ie/en/casilac/r...

We continued our #PG7044 module with a wonderful session on #positionality (and #positionalitystatements) with Dr Anastasia Hacopian (Utrecht University). This was followed by another critical pedagogies-driven tutoring sessions during which the participants could discuss what they had seen so far.

A closer look at the live drawing of our #PG7044 (partly #SATLE-sponsored) seminars on feminist onto-epistemologies, #diffraction & #interdisciplinarity by the very talented artist Hazel Hurley (www.hazelhurley.com)

Day three of our #PG7044 module focused on an advanced intro in feminist onto-epistemologies, intersectionality and #interference by Dr Evelien Geerts (@ and a co-taught session by Dr Geerts & Prof Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University).

Day two of our #PG7044 module focused on seminars taught by Dr Liz Kyte and Prof Des Fitzgerald (@desfitzgerald.bsky.social) on feminist entanglements in gender and radical histories & feminist theory and the biosciences

During our first day of the #PG7044 module, Dr Evelien Geerts set the feminist pedagogical scenery and introduced key conceptual & methodological frameworks to think with critical theory in polarized #polycrisis times.

Recap of the first day of our @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social PG7044 module on #gender, #intersectionality & #interdisciplinarymethodologies for UCC CACSSS PhD students! With program director dr Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social & PG tutors Izzy Gritsch & Shelley Etkin

Wonderful IWD event at the Cork Migrant Centre this Friday!

Our Women’s Studies MA students were treated to a rhizomatic & thought-provoking guest lecture by Women’s Studies PhD student Fiona Leigh last week. Fiona, who is working on the intersections of queer & trans* philosophies, talked about auto-ethnography & post-qualitative research methodologies.

Interesting event on March the 9th at UCC - do check it out!

Interested in women's & gender studies? You can now apply to join our MA Women's Studies 2026-27 cohort at @ucc.ie. Use the QR code below or find out more via www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/. March 12th is the GOI-IES fellowship deadline. #UCC #womensstudies #genderstudies #Ireland #postgraduate #MA

Do check out this interesting Scaling Spaces seminar series at UCC!

Interested in contemporary women's & gender studies? You can now apply to join our MA Women's Studies 2026-27 cohort at @ucc.ie. Use the QR code below or find out more via www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/. #UCC #womensstudies #genderstudies #Ireland #postgraduate #MA

Are you currently a Chinese student at @ucc.ie or are you in China & thinking about MA opportunities abroad? Then do attend our @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social webinar with program director Dr @egeertsphd.bsky.social & our recent graduates Kunyao & Yafei. More about our program: www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/