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Interdisciplinary Master’s & PhD degree in Women's Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. https://www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/ Taught by a vibrant multidisciplinary team & managed by program director Dr Evelien Geerts (@egeertsphd.bsky.social).

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Tomorrow (w ISS21 & @radhumslab.bsky.social)! Come join us!

27.10.2025 22:41 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Collage of pictures from the TM&G event

Collage of pictures from the TM&G event

Yesterday afternoon, ISS21 Genders, Sexualities & Families Research Cluster in collaboration with @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social held a 🫖Tea, Meet & Greet for postgrad students, postdocs, and visiting researchers ☕️

22.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2
Yellow graphic with dark blue text reading Fall Sale. 50% off with code FALL25. Available Books & Journal Issues. Oct 20-Nov 9. Duke University Press logo is in bottom right corner.

Yellow graphic with dark blue text reading Fall Sale. 50% off with code FALL25. Available Books & Journal Issues. Oct 20-Nov 9. Duke University Press logo is in bottom right corner.

Our Fall Sale begins today! Save 50% on books & journal issues now through November 9 with coupon code FALL25. buff.ly/Bk390cu

20.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 58    🔁 38    💬 0    📌 18
Call for papers poster, with QR code, titled 'Gender and Sexuality Research in Times of Crisis'

Call for papers poster, with QR code, titled 'Gender and Sexuality Research in Times of Crisis'

Interesting cfp!

14.10.2025 23:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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LEX Public open for registration 'Trump's Authoritarian Takeover' Details 👇
@arlainerockey.bsky.social @ucdgender.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social @alexsharpe.bsky.social @mniness.bsky.social @lesgrenades.bsky.social @adrienneyong.bsky.social @greggormattson.bsky.social

13.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Poster of UCC event with QR registration code

Poster of UCC event with QR registration code

Do check out this wonderful UCC event on Global & Comparative Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence on October 15!

29.09.2025 16:50 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Announcing the Certificate in Gender Studies - The New University in Exile Consortium The New University in Exile Consortium is proud to offer a new Certificate in Gender Studies.  Since the launch of our series of free, co-led online seminars in 2019, the Consortium […]

This looks like an amazing seminar series: newuniversityinexileconsortium.org/news/consort...

18.09.2025 11:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Collage of pictures of MAWS’ first week

Collage of pictures of MAWS’ first week

Welcome to @ucc.ie’s 2025-26 MA in Women’s Studies cohort! We were joined by UCCFemSoc & UCCGlobalJustice during the intro session taught by program director @egeertsphd.bsky.social, which focused on the discipline’s politico-epistemological origins.
Looking forward to this academic year!

10.09.2025 12:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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International Symposium-Workshop “Critical Ecologies: Crisis, Grief, and Resilience in Philosophy, Art, and Science”, 2-3 October 2025 Dear all - we finally have a pleasure to open the registration for the International Symposium-Workshop “Critical Ecologies: Crisis, Grief, and Resilience in Philosophy, Art, and Science”, hosted by The Eco- and Bioart Lab, Linköping University. The event takes place on 2nd - 3rd October 2025 (it starts at 13:00 CEST on the 2nd, and ends at 14:00 CEST on the 3rd) at Arbetets Museum in Norrköping.

International Symposium-Workshop “Critical Ecologies: Crisis, Grief, and Resilience in Philosophy, Art, and Science”, 2-3 October 2025

Dear all - we finally have a pleasure to open the registration for the International Symposium-Workshop “Critical Ecologies: Crisis, Grief, and Resilience in…

23.07.2025 13:13 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2
Radical-hope-conference – LEX Research Network

📣General registration for4th joint annual conference 'A feminist Politics of Radical Hope in a Time of Oppression'
is now open.
Details: www.lexnetwork.org/radical-hope...

LEX now reviewing membership applications
Details: lexnetwork.org
@sharronfitz.bsky.social @genderandjustice.bsky.social

03.09.2025 17:00 — 👍 10    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 2
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🌈 Some stories were never meant to be hidden. But they were. We’re joining the effort to bring them into the light.
📣 “In Conversation” at Collins Barracks
🗓️ Sept 4 | 🕕 6–7PM | 🎟️ Free
With Dr. El Reid Buckley & @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

27.08.2025 10:45 — 👍 27    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 2
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Our Graduates' Successes: What the Data Tells Us About the Value of Women's and Gender Studies Degrees Despite political attacks, data shows graduates of cultural and gender studies programs are equipped with skills in demand in the workforce.

Our Graduates' Successes: What the Data Tells Us About the Value of Women's and Gender Studies Degrees msmagazine.com/2025/07/20/c...

17.08.2025 16:14 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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JOIN OUR TEAM: Social Prescribing Project Lead The National Women’s Council (NWC) is recruiting a Social Prescribing Project Lead to coordinate and project manage an 18-month Equality Proofing Project evaluating HSE-funded social prescribing sites

And one more interesting job opp: www.nwci.ie/index.php/le...

13.08.2025 21:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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JOIN OUR TEAM: P.A. to the Director / Operations Officer An exciting opportunity has come up to join our team as P.A. to the Director / Operations Officer, a key role supporting the smooth and effective running of the organisation’s leadership, governance a

Another interesting job opp: www.nwci.ie/index.php/le...

13.08.2025 21:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 We're Hiring: Social Prescribing Project Lead
🕓 4 days | 💼 18-month contract | 📍 Hybrid (Dublin office Tue & Wed)
This is a fantastic opportunity to shape real change in community health through a feminist, equality-focused lens
Apply: www.nwci.ie/learn/articl...

#JobFairy

30.07.2025 11:19 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This is an excellent resource for all those interested in (publishing in) the field of women's, gender & sexuality studies: www.mcgill.ca/igsf/graduat...
#academicjournals #womensandgenderstudies

11.08.2025 13:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Doge meme on feminist pedagogies

Doge meme on feminist pedagogies

@uccwomenstudies.bsky.social is getting ready for the 2025-26 academic year!

07.08.2025 12:41 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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UCC Treasures Tour | University College Cork Experience the Great Book of Ireland exhibition as part of the UCC public tour between August and October 2025

Do check out @ucc.ie's Visitors' Center & the UCC Treasures Tour: www.ucc.ie/en/visitorse...

31.07.2025 15:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Call for new website manager

Call for new website manager

📢OPPORTUNITY Do u want participate in a feminist research network?
✳️We seek an ECR/PhD candidate to join the existing LEX events team
✳️To manage & curate our website.
✳️Details: www.lexnetwork.org/call-for-web...

29.07.2025 16:35 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Gender and Justice – Call for Book Editor – LEX Research Network

We seek a committed & dynamic feminist to join the existing team as a new book review editor @genderandjustice.bsky.social
Details:
✳️Deadline 1 August 2025 17:00 CEST
✳️Informal enquiries: admin@lexnetwork.org
✳️Info: www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j...
@lexnetwork.bsky.social

18.07.2025 16:08 — 👍 13    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 4

As we received more applications this week, note that Irish & EU citizens can still apply for our MA in Women's Studies for 2025-26. Non-EU international applicants can also still shoot us a message to find out more about the scholarship opportunities for 2026-27. See the poster below for details.

18.07.2025 15:09 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Gender Jobs - Find Job Opportunities To Work On Gender Equality and LGBTQI+ rights A platform with a comprehensive list of job opportunities and tools to work on gender equality and LGBTQI+ rights, curated by gender professionals and intersectional feminists

A message for our current students & former graduates: Lots of new jobs (both in Ireland & abroad) have recently been added to genderjobs.org.

11.07.2025 08:53 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you to everyone who has sent us an abstract so far, we’re blown away by the amazing scholarship we’re encountering! If you’d like to send us an abstract, take a look at our CFP!

07.07.2025 08:11 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
We're Hiring: 
The National Museum of Ireland is seeking a Curator of Contemporary Irish History

We're Hiring: The National Museum of Ireland is seeking a Curator of Contemporary Irish History

We're Hiring:
The National Museum of Ireland is seeking a Curator of Contemporary Irish History
🕔 Deadline: Friday, 18 July 2025 at 17:00
📄 Learn more & apply: www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...
#JobFairy #museumjobs

07.07.2025 10:14 — 👍 27    🔁 28    💬 0    📌 4

Note that the application deadline for non-EU international candidates has already passed - but you can still email us if you are keen on applying.

30.06.2025 16:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
UCC Women's Studies MA program poster

UCC Women's Studies MA program poster

EU and Irish students can still apply to @ucc.ie's @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social program - use the QR code on the poster below for more information & various testimonials from our current & past students. And do feel free to spread the word!
#UCC #postgrad #MA #Ireland #womensandgenderstudies

30.06.2025 14:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 2
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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!

Want to publish your Gender Studies BA/MA thesis as an academic article? - This is your chance.

Curious to learn more? Find all details using the link below.
▶️ www.aup-online.com/upload/TvGen...

#GenderStudies #TvG #Academia #AUP

23.06.2025 10:06 — 👍 12    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 3
Leitrim Women Through Time - Nursing reminiscence roundtable event 2024 | Image by Donna Gilligan

Leitrim Women Through Time - Nursing reminiscence roundtable event 2024 | Image by Donna Gilligan

Rural Women’s History: A Talk by Donna Gilligan
Join us in person for a powerful exploration of the lives of rural Irish women, from 1850 to 1950.
Saturday, 28 June
3:00 PM
📍 National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Castlebar
Booking required: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

20.06.2025 11:51 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 3

Are you attending the Men and Masculinities in Transition conference? If so, consider publishing with us! We welcome critical feminist scholarship on #Gender #Justice #inequality from
⭐Gender studies
⭐Queer studies
⭐Sociology
⭐Criminology
Learn more bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal

12.06.2025 14:17 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

This looks like an amazing #feminist #conference on radical hope and that with @ucc.ie's own @maggieoneill.bsky.social! Check out the details below!

17.06.2025 14:00 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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