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10th SWIP Ireland Conference

Maynooth University 5-6th December 2025

Ways of Knowing:

Epistemologies and Pedagogies

Conference details

  • Conference Registration Link

  • Conference Programme

    Book of Abstracts

  • A limited number of guest accommodation has been reserved on campus at reasonable rates.  Early booking is advised and attendees can make a reservation on campus once conference registration opens.

  • Abstracts (max of 300 words) should be prepared for blind review and submitted in a MS Word document (with a separate cover sheet, which includes the author’s name and contact details) and emailed to: swipireland@gmail.com

    Eligible early career researchers are also invited to indicate their interest in being considered for The Maria Baghramian Prize for excellence in philosophical research on their cover sheet.

    In order to be eligible for the award, presenters must

    • Indicate on their abstract cover sheet that they wish to be considered for the prize;

    • Submit their full paper to SWIP Ireland (4000 words max) by  October 31 2025

    • Deliver the paper at the SWIP Ireland conference;

    • Identify as a woman, or as a trans or gender non-conforming person;

    • Be either a postgraduate student in philosophy or be within 5 years of completion of their PhD and not yet hold a permanent academic post.ription

Register Here!

Keynote Speakers

  • Katharine Jenkins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. Previously she worked at the University of Nottingham and Jesus College, Cambridge, and received her PhD from the University of Sheffield. She researches topics in feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, and social ontology, with a particular focus on social construction and oppression. She has also written on pornography, on hermeneutical injustice and gender-based violence, and on the challenges of staging racist and sexist operas. She is the author of Ontology and Oppression: Race, Gender, and Social Reality (2023) and Feminist Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2024), both published by Oxford University Press.

    Keynote (with Han Edgoose): Epistemic and ontic oppression in the UK Supreme Court ruling on sex

    Renehan Hall, Saturday, December 06, 13:45-14:45

  • Phil Mullen is Assistant Professor of Black Studies, and deputy director of the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict in the Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. Previous to this, she spent many years working in the NGO-sector, a great deal of which was with the Irish Traveller Movement. She spent 16 years in the industrial school system in Ireland and returned to Trinity College in 2016 to undertake a PhD to examine the racist and racialised aspects of how, mixed-race women of African/Irish descent who grew up in the Irish industrial school system constructed their identity and was awarded a Government of Ireland (IRC) scholarship to fund this research.

    Her current research focuses on processes of ‘race’ and racialisation in Ireland, highlighting the presence and voices of children of African-Irish descent in Irish institutions in the 20th century, and recovering the historical presence of people of African descent in pre-Celtic Tiger Ireland. She is co-chair of the Race, Ethnicity, Equality Working Group in Trinity College Dublin. She is a Trustee of the Association of Mixed-Race Irish (AMRI) and is also a member of the African Scholars Association of Ireland (AFSAI). She is a director of Skein Press, a not-for-profit publishing company committed to amplifying underrepresented voices in Irish literature. She was appointed by the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in 2023 to the Advisory Committee on the Restitution and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage. She served on the UN IDPAD Steering Committee, established to work with the Irish state in implementing programmes for the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015–2024).

    Keynote: Strategic Unknowing and blackness in Ireland

    Renehan Hall, Friday, December 05, 15:45-16:45

  • Han Edgoose is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where they also received their PhD. They are a feminist philosopher whose research is focussed on the contemporary 'trans panic' in the UK, and broader patterns of injustice and oppression, including issues relating to ideology and epistemic injustice. Their paper 'Hermeneutical Sabotage' is published in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

    Keynote (with Katherine Jenkins): Epistemic and ontic oppression in the UK Supreme Court ruling on sex

    Renehan Hall, Saturday, December 06, 13:45-14:45

  • Ella Whiteley is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the LSE. Their research interests lie primarily in ethics and political philosophy, particularly in connection with epistemology and language. What illuminates this intersection for Ella is the normative dimension of attention and salience. They are interested in questions such as: Can we harm people simply through how we attend to them? Can an entirely truthful account of a phenomenon nevertheless mislead through the order in which its truths are communicated? After completing their PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2019, they remained there to work on The Invisible Labour Project; this developed their interest in the philosophy of work, especially the subtler ways in which institutions can exploit workers. After this project, Ella became a Fellow at the LSE before joining the University of Sheffield 2023 to 2025.

    Keynote: Salience Traps and Responding to Exclusion

    Renehan Hall, Saturday, December 06, 09:45-10:45

Past events

  • SWIP Ireland ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024

    World Building in Times of Violence

    SWIP Ireland invites abstracts that present philosophical reflections on world building, and we also invite contributors to consider the nature of violence; how violence is shaped and oriented; what it means to refuse particular forms of violence; the meaning of nonviolence; and the nature of societal transformation.

    Find out more
  • Cultivating Intersex, Trans- and Gender-Diverse Inclusive Education in Healthcare. Feminist, Trans, and Queer Perspectives

    CONFERENCE Cultivating Intersex, Trans- and Gender-Diverse Inclusive Education in Healthcare. Feminist, Trans, and Queer Perspectives

    A conference on new educational paths towards gender affirmative healthcare. Call for abstract open now.

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  • SWIP Ireland 2023 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Annual Conference Philosophy and Thinking Differently

    What counts as doing philosophy? Does philosophy enable us to think differently and think difference? What qualifies one as a philosopher? Why do philosophy?

    Maynooth University, 17-18 November 2023

    Conference Programme

Maria Baghramian Prize

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