Video and Audio
BACES/JMC IV Workshop on Gender & Sexuality in the EU - May 2024
Kath Browne: ‘Considering sexual and gender equalities and legal changes through the lens of those who have concerns or oppose them’. Barcelona Centre for European Studies Annual Workshop on Gender and Sexuality in the EU May 2024.
You can view the full lecture here
Muscailt Podcast - March 2024
Kath Browne: 'Beyond Opposition': How can we live together when we don't agree? Muscailt Podcast March 2024: Listen back here
Papers and Seminars
Please find following a list of Conference papers, seminars and other research dissemination activities carried out by the Beyond Opposition team:
Andrew McCartan: That actually felt so much more real to me… than pretending we could coexist”: Uncomfortably imagining spaces ‘beyond opposition’ in relation to sexuality, gender and abortion. European Geographies of Sexualities Conference. University of Brighton, September 2024
Carol Ballantine: ‘Little Oases’ – a reading from an auto-theoretical work in progress. Transcare conference, University College Cork, September 2024
Kath Browne, et al. ‘How Can we Live Together where we Disagree on Sexualities, Genders and Abortion?’: Creative Conversations around Artist-led Workshops Feminist and Queer Spatialities Conference. Gender Commission of the International Geography Union/ UCD, August 2024
Carol Ballantine: Making sense of polarisation: qualitative research methods for queer and feminist research with the “wrong” people. International Association for Feminist Economics, Sapienza University, Rome, July 2024
Carol Ballantine: Paradoxical resonances in post-8th amendment times: unheard voices of those who are concerned about/opposed to repealing the 8th. American Association for Irish Studies, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, June 2024
Andrew McCartan: ‘“They’re still here… but it’s perfect” Developing theatre for utopian (re)thinking of everyday space in relation to gender, sexuality and abortion’ American Association of Geographers, Honolulu, April 2024
Kath Browne: ‘Insights from the Beyond Opposition project: Everyday Experiences of those who are opposed to/concerned about socio-legal changes to sexualities/genders/abortion in Ireland, Great Britain and Canada’Lesbian Lives, Brighton, March 2024
Carol Ballantine, Leah Hilliard and Kath Browne: ‘Beyond Opposition: an artistic collaboration.’International conference for creative research methods, Manchester, September 2023
Katie Young: ‘“I made it weird for everyone”: Reflections from Music-Led Workshops on Divisions around Gender, Sexualities and Abortion.’ EUGEO Congress. Barcelona, September 2023.
Beyond Opposition Research Symposium: ‘Polarising Sexual and Gendered Lives: Divisions, Differences, and LGBTQI+ Equalities’, UCD Dublin, June 2023
Carol Ballantine and Kath Browne: ‘Researching and addressing polarisation around gender, sexuality and abortion. Beyond Opposition: an artistic collaboration.’ Sociology Association of Ireland Annual Conference, UCD Dublin, June 2023
Katie Young: ‘Hearing people out: Feminist ways of listening to opposition.’ British Forum for Ethnomusicology Conference, Edinburgh, April 2023.
Kath Browne: ‘“It’s only when it landed at my door”: Contesting Changes in the New Socio-Legal Realities in Sexualities, Genders and Abortion.’ Recreating the World: Critique, Control and Crisis in New Social Realities, Waterford, March, 2023
Kath Browne: ‘From Hegemonic to Where? The public spatialities of shifting positionings for those who are concerned about socio-legal changes in sexualities and genders.’ Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers, August 2022