Exploring Masculinities: A One-Day Symposium on Current Manosphere Research

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

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