World Café Conversations: Boys, Men and Masculinities

This event aims to open a conversation on engaging boys and men in caring masculinities and promoting gender equality. We will explore strategies to redefine masculinity by embracing empathy, care, and compassion as core aspects of being a man. Through meaningful dialogue, we will examine narratives surroounding 'traditional' masculinity and envision strategies to encourage boys and men to engage in caring practices for women, themselves, and other men.

Dr. Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila is an Assistant Professor in Social Justice at University College Dublin. By background, he is a medical anthropologist with a PhD from Columbia University, New York. He co-edited Unsustainable Institutions of Men: Transnational Despersed Centres, Gender Power, Contradictions (Routledge 2019) and is the author of Being a Man in a Transnational World: The Masculinity and Sexuality of Migration (Routledge 2014). He has previoously taught at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima; Georgetown University, Washington, DC; at the University of the Philippines, Manila.

Further information:

• Click here to find out how to get to NCAD Gallery
• NCAD Gallery is wheelchair accessible.
• Accessible toilet facilities on site.
• If you have specific questions please get in touch with Dannielle McKenna ([email protected]).

Host or Publisher Fiona Whelan and Rialto Youth Project