The Centre for Law, Religion and Society and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at @uniofgalway.bsky.social developed a #freeonline course, in Persian, "Innovative Legislative Strategies to Combat Domestic Violence" to take place in July and August 2025. Find out more here: tinyurl.com/4snzm3zy

Food for thought in Galway International Arts Festival’s First Thought Talk series… connachttribune.ie?p=217607

A great programme for the CSR co-hosted (with CITE) Religion on the Ethnic Frontier workshop on 29th April! Further details below....

We look forward to this workshop on 29th April, where BILQIS' Dr Nazife Kosukoglu and Dr Joel Hanisek will present their papers. Once again BILQIS is happy to work together with the School of History. The event is co-hosted by @csrgalway.bsky.social and CITE. All are welcome

Join us at 4.30pm to celebrate the launch of the Centre for Law, Religion and Society and welcome Professor Mary McAleese to the @uniofgalway.bsky.social. The Centre is a multi-disciplinary university hub. Find out more about the Centre - visit their website www.universityofgalway.ie/research-sit...

We are a week away from the Launch of the Centre for Law, Religion and Society, organised by our colleagues at the School of Law on 10 April 2025 at 4.30pm at @uniofgalway.bsky.social Register here: forms.office.com/e/76EMf70JSq. For more info, visit: www.universityofgalway.ie/bilqis/newse...

We look forward to the launch of the Centre for Law, Religion and Society on 10 April 2025, in the Aula Maxima, @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Please register here for the event: forms.office.com/e/76EMf70JSq

We look forward to Dr Polatel's seminar this Wednesday at 4pm in room G010 in the Hardiman Building @uniofgalway.bsky.social.

❗ SAVE THE DATE! ❗ Do not miss the launch of the Centre for Law, Religion and Society on 10/04/2025 at 4.30pm in the Aula Maxima, @uniofgalway.bsky.social with former President of Ireland, Prof. Mary McAleese, in conversation with Prof. Roja Fazaeli. Register here: forms.office.com/e/76EMf70JSq

Spoke to Middle East Eye about Israel’s attacks and policies towards Gaza the past week as the most egregious example of collective punishment in this or indeed any recent conflict. Complete defiance of applicable international law. Full article here: www.middleeasteye.net/news/collect...

The School of History and Philosophy will host an event on "Hey EU! What does Trump’s second presidency mean for the European Community?" When: March 25th, 2025 in HBB-B001 Small Lecture Theatre – Human Biology Building. Contact us at [email protected] and [email protected]

We are delighted to share this event organised by our colleagues: - the launch of the Centre for Law, Religion and Society: Professor Mary McAleese in conversation with Professor Roja Fazaeli, on 10 April at 2025 at 4.30pm. For more info, visit our website: www.universityofgalway.ie/bilqis/newse...

The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist and lawful permanent resident, is another attack on human rights by the Trump administration. Freedom of expression and peaceful assembly are human rights, not grounds for deportation.

We are delighted to share that Prof. Roja Fazaeli will take part in the virtual panel "Towards the abolition of the death penalty", to celebrate International Women's Day on 8th March at 5:30PM GMT. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @uniofgalway.bsky.social @amnestycanada.bsky.social

We are delighted to welcome our new intern, Emi Kartsonas, to the BILQIS team! Emi is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Notre Dame and this spring, she is a visiting student at the University of Galway. See Emi's bio on our website: www.universityofgalway.ie/bilqis/teamm...

Using embroidery 🧵 as a creative research method - a glimpse from the presentation and workshop led by Liza Caruana Finkel, which we hosted on 13 February. Liza shared with us her research, which explores abortion stigma through creative methods and group discussions. @uniofgalway.bsky.social

Using drawing ✏️ as a creative research method - at the last week's workshop Dr @letha-b.bsky.social shared with us her research on graphic ethnography. Letizia has actively contributed to scholarly debates on graphic anthropology and has written about its methodological and epistemological potential

Thank you Dr @tibabonyad.bsky.social for this fascinating seminar this afternoon. The presentation was very insightful and was followed by an engaged Q&A session. It was organised by Charles O’Mahony and the @uniofgalway.bsky.social School of Law, as part of their Research Seminar Series.

Final reminder to register for our workshop on 13th February (www.eventbrite.com/e/using-crea...) - we have very few tickets left! The workshop draws on the works of @letha-b.bsky.social on graphic ethnography and Liza Caruana-Finkel on embroidery as a creative method of feminist research practice.

Join this fantastic webinar tomorrow! @historyatgalway.bsky.social

All welcome to tomorrows webinar and talk by Tara Mozafari, to register go to universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Due to the unpredictability of #storméowyn we do not have a definite re-opening time as of now. Please keep up to date with social media for any developments or @meteireann.bsky.social . Currently the Red alert is from 03.00 Fri - 11.00 Fri. #staysafe everyone.

Tickets are flying out the door for our workshop on 'Using creative methodologies in social research’ with Dr @letha-b.bsky.social and Liza Caruana-Finkel on 13 Feb! There is limited space, register here if you would like to attend: lnkd.in/dufUByiR. For more info visit our website: lnkd.in/dmcWp54R

Click here to register for upcoming research seminar with our visiting academic, Prof. Deirdre Rafferty, UCD (in collaboration with Dept. of History) universityofgalwayie.zoom.us/j/9527178221...

CFP for the April 'Religion on the Ethnic Frontier' workshop now available!

Reminder First History seminar of new year wednesday 22 January at 4pm. The talk is organised in collaboration with the Centre for the study of Religion, University of Galway. For further details, contact [email protected] @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social

Gosh I've been enjoying the enormous privilege of talking to scholars around the world and learning from their experiences of interdisciplinarity over their career for our Borderlands project. We are gonna make a badass book. Would you be interested in participating?

Join our fantastic workshop on 13 February on ‘Using creative methodologies in social research’, with Dr @letha-b.bsky.social and Liza Caruana-Finkel. Registration is required, visit our website for more details: www.universityofgalway.ie/bilqis/newse... @uniofgalway.bsky.social

We would like to welcome Đermana Kurić to our team! @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Her research interests include human rights, religion and secularism; Islam and Muslims in Europe; anti-Muslim racism; and Muslim women’s identity, agency and religion. Bio at: www.universityofgalway.ie/bilqis/teamm...

CFP for this year's @ria.ie International affairs conference, with the theme 'Reconstructing the Global Order: Imperatives and Possibilities for Co-operation in Turbulent Times'. Details at the link below. Deadline for submissions: 24 Feb 2025. Conference: 8 May 2025. www.ria.ie/2024/12/20/c... 🗃️

Workshop on 'Religion on the Ethnic Frontier' to take place in Galway on 28-29 April 2025. Interested scholars at all career stages can send a 250-word paper proposal and a biographical note to Dr Róisín Healy ([email protected]) by 31 Jan. 2025.

Nollaig na mBan Shona daoibh go léir! #womenschristmas #littlechristmas #NollaignamBan #claddaghwomen

"Workshop on 'Religion on the Ethnic Frontier' to take place in Galway on 28-29 April 2025 with deadline for paper proposals on 31 Jan. 2025."

Registration is now open for the 25th Summer School on the International Criminal Court. Taking place @uniofgalway.bsky.social 9-13 June 2025 Super early bird offer available until 31 December. For information on scholarships & registration visit: www.universityofgalway.ie/irish-centre...

❗We are accepting application for a fully funded PhD scholarship in Islamic Law and Gender❗ Join the BILQIS Team at the Irish Centre for Human Rights as PhD researcher. For requirements visit: www.universityofgalway.ie/bilqis/vacan... Deadline for applications: 28 January @uniofgalway.bsky.social

“We are disturbed that this siege, coupled with expanding evacuation orders, appears intended to permanently displace the local population as a precursor to Gaza’s annexation in further violation of international law.” UN experts on Israel's annihilation of Gaza www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

If you are interested in the cross-disciplinary challenges of "Law as Data, Data as Law", have a look at the new symposium in Law, Technology and Humans co-edited by myself and Dr Brian Barry of Trinity College Dublin: tinyurl.com/lthj140

Assad is gone, but a revolution that doesn’t free women is no revolution at all | Mona Eltahawy

Applications are open for a fully funded PhD researcher position in Islamic Law and Gender with the BILQIS ERC project and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at @uniofgalway.bsky.social ! Deadline for the applications is 28 January 2025. For details, visit our website: www.bilqis.ie/bilqis/vacan...

Great line-up of speakers for next semester's seminar series at the Irish Centre for Human Rights @uniofgalway.bsky.social Expertly curated by @illanwall.bsky.social

Doing Feminist Legal Work have partnered up with the Law School at UL to have an event on Feminist Drafting: Legislation Activism & Reflection - more details in the link below #feminism #feministlegalstudies #DFLW dflw.ie/feminist-dra...

We will not forget this day in a hurry! The lecture on The Counter-Archives of the Long Iranian Revolution was very insightful and the 'Hitch. An Iranian story" in a very moving documentary. Thank you @chowmak.bsky.social for being so generous with your time and expertise! Thank you all for coming!

Join us *tomorrow* 5th December for 2 events with Dr @chowmak.bsky.social 👩‍🏫 Light lunch will be provided following the lecture + Q&A at 1pm (this is a hybrid event, register for Zoom: universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 📽️ Don't miss the film screening 'Hitch. An Iranian story' at 5pm!

My book on the revolutionary uprisings in Iran in Turkish, by the wonderful publisher Otonom in Istanbul 🙏❤️‍🔥✊️ For now, the book is travelling in India and Turkey thanks to brave, badass independant publishers. Feminists International: this is what #womanlifefreedom is about!

Women are so creative and resilient! Even under Taliban rule, some Afghan women have managed to set up small businesses and are even the main breadwinners #afghanwomen www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11...

*Join the BILQIS Team as a PhD researcher!* BIQLIS and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at @uniofgalway.bsky.social have announced a fully funded PhD position in the field of Islamic Law and Gender. More information here: www.bilqis.ie/bilqis/vacan.... Deadline for the applications: 28.01.2025.

We are happy to share that BILQIS's Principal Investigator, Prof. Roja Fazeali will present at the International Congress Human Rights & Women at Universidad de Salamanca on 3rd December 2024 👩‍🏫