From 18th to 21st October 2024, Professor Aoife O’Donoghue (Queen’s University Belfast) and Dr Ruth Houghton (Newcastle Law School) were teaching a course on “Feminist Constitutionalism: Law, Gender and Constitutions” at Masaryk University (MUNI) Law School. MUNI Law is based in Brno in Czechia. The module was divided into five seminars: (1) Gender, Feminism and … Read more
In October 2024, Dr Ruth Houghton visited UNESP College of Humanities and Social Sciences in Franca in Brazil to lead a set of seminars on the module, ‘Globalization, Inequality and Democracy’. Across the course of the week, Masters and PhD researchers discussed the contemporary challenges for global constitutionalism, and questions of democracy and constituent power … Read more
Funded by Northern Bridge and Gender and Law at Durham, in June 2024 we ran a workshop titled Feminist Utopias and Constitutionalism: Reimagining Feminist Futures. The purpose of this workshop was to provide hands-on training in critical feminist methodologies of knowledge production. Using the popular 2023 Barbie film as a starting point, the event was … Read more
Bridget let us keep our eyes and poke theirs out – we need another word than justice for these contests where everyone we care about almost always loses, we need new phrases for the way our bodies are perceived as traps for men to unsuspectingly get caught in and for how we are made comply … Read more
At the Cork Irish Association of Law Teachers Conference in 2021, still in the grips of Covid, myself and Maebh Harding, stood by the river Lee having a great catch-up and chat. Maebh had returned to Ireland to work at UCD just a bit beforehand, and I had just gotten my job at Queen’s. We … Read more
Doing Feminist Legal Work (DFLW) Conference ‘Feminist Drafting: Legislation, Activism & Reflection?’ School of Law, University Limerick · January 17th, 2025 ‘Feminist Drafting: Legislation, Activism & Reflection?’ focuses on theories of feminist drafting, including prefiguration as a technique, on examples of feminist activism using drafting across multiple areas of the law such as reproductive rights, … Read more
Agenda Welcome & Introduction 12:00 Mentoring: 12:10 Maebh Harding, Sarah Craig, Victoria Barnes, Martin Regan Lunch 1:15 Launch DFLW Feminist Pedagogies 2:15 Norah Burns Feminist Constitutional Futures Cloak 2:45 Dr Emma Campbell, Artist, Academic Brenda Malone, Curator, National Museum of Ireland Prof Catherine O’Rourke & Prof Máiréad Enright Tea/Coffee 4:00 The Future of DFLW 4:15 … Read more
Agenda Tea/Coffee 9:30 Welcome & Introduction 09:45 (Launch of Best Practice Guide) Textbooks & Teaching 10:00 Deirdre McGowan & Maebh Harding Teaching Feminism in the curriculum and Beyond 11:00 Sahar Ahmed & Máiréad Enright Roundtable 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Followed by an event, starting at 2pm in honour of Caroline Fennell: Justice, Equality & Rights: Transforming … Read more
Agenda Registration 10:00 Welcome 10:15Aoife O’Donoghue, Maebh Harding Panel on Experiences of Feminist Projects and Responses 10:30 – 11:30Speakers: Ruth Fletcher, Julie McCandless, Aoife O’Donoghue Tea/Coffee 11:30 Panel on Care & Current Projects 11:45 – 12:45Speakers: Ciara Fitzpatrick & Laura Cahillane, Maebh Harding Lunch 1:00 – 2:00 Workshop Feminist Projecting: Rapid Responses 2:00 – 3:30 … Read more
Agenda Welcome & Introduction to the Project 10:30-10:45 Maebh Harding & Aoife O’Donoghue Networking Exercise I 10:45 – 11:15 Name Tag facts Fiona de Londras 11:15 – 12:00 Media Engagement on Feminist Issues Lunch 12:00 – 1:00 Networking Exercise II: 1:00 – 1:15 Desert Island: Playlist Julie Morrissy presents… 1:15 – 2:00 “Certain Individual Women” … Read more