About this Event
Exploring Masculinities: A One-Day Symposium on Current Manosphere Research and How to Engage Boys and Men in Positive Masculinities Work
In 2000, the then Department of Education and Science launched the Exploring Masculinities educational programme for second-level schools in Ireland. Ahead of its time, it met with reactionary criticism and achieved limited integration into the SPHE curriculum. 26 years later, a sustained backlash against feminism and the subsequent rise of the manosphere present a new wave of challenges to gender equality, preventing VAWG and supporting the development of healthy, diverse masculinities. This one-day symposium brings academics researching the manosphere into constructive dialogue with NGOs, educators and other stakeholders responding to its harmful impacts. More specifically, it creates a space for discussion on how we should best proceed with prevention and intervention strategies to address the rising tide of misogyny in digital, school and other contexts.
PROGRAMME
09.00 – 09.20: Tea and coffee
09.20 – 09.30: Word of welcome from the European Parliament Liaison Office
09.30 – 10.00 Prof. Debbie Ging + Dr. Kenny Doyle - Welcome and introduction
10.00 – 11.15 Prof. Joshua Roose + Prof. Michael Flood - Anti-Woman Movements: Pathways and Patterns of Participation (Australian Research Council)
11.15 – 11.35 Dr. Shane Murphy - Masc Up - Engaging Boys in Tackling the Impact of Masculinity Influencers on Attitudes to Sexual and Gender Based Violence (Research Ireland and the Men’s Development Network)
11.35 – 11.55 Dr. Veronica Ferreira - The MANOSphere Pill: Pathways of Boys and Men into Online Male Supremacism in Portugal and Ireland (European Union)
11.55 – 12.15 Deniz Celikoglu - Young Men and Parents: Insights into the Manosphere (European Union)
12.15 – 12.30 Dr. Catherine Baker – Challenging the Manosphere: Empowering Educators through Critical Digital Literacy
12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH
13.30 – 15.30 Thematic break-out workshops
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 -17.30 Final roundtable and wrap up – next steps
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Europe House, 5 Balfe Street, Dublin, Ireland
EUR 0.00
