Fourth Round

Conference History

On 25-27 July 2025, we hosted the 4th International Conference on LGBT Studies in the amazing city of Dublin, Ireland.

Highlighted Speakers

Prof Dr. Candice D. Roberts

Title:
Queering Community: Space, Place, and Face-to-Face in the Artificial Era

Affiliation :
New York University, United States

Prof Dr. Eliona Kulluri Bimbashi

Title:
Invisible Survivors: Strengthening Local Response to Violence Against LBT Women and Girls in Albania

Affiliation :
University of Tirana, Albania

Prof Dr. Sylvie Berthelot-Dilk

Title:
One step forward, two steps backwards. A political queer, non-binary and trans portrait of the 2025 Canadian landscape

Affiliation :
Université de Saint-Boniface, Canada

Dr. Ash Stephens

Title:
A Missouri Case Study of Deputizing Carceral Care Through Anti-Trans Legislation

Affiliation :
University of Illinois Chicago, United States

Dr. Daniele Durante

Title:
Of Jackets and Brushes: How Cross-Dressing Women Disrupted the Status and Gender Order of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan

Affiliation :
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Dr. Dinghui Wang

Title:
Homosexuality in the Digital Age: A Feminist Sociological Analysis of Online Discourse Among the Public in Southwest China

Affiliation :
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Dr. Jesús García-López

Title:
The effect of work discrimination to the LGBTIQ+ Spanish employees on work stress and their mental health

Affiliation :
University of Murci, Spain

Dr. Kianté McKinley

Title:
Exploring Interventions to Improve Healthcare Access for LGBTQ+ Individuals

Affiliation :
California Baptist University, United States

Dr. Matthys Johannes Uys

Title:
More sins were committed than anticipated: Analysing the threat of religious zealotry in Winterson’s Oranges are not the Only Fruit (1985)

Affiliation :
North-West University, South Africa

Dr. Michael Lapointe

Title:
Queering Irish Nationalist Mythology in Jamie O’Neill’s Fiction

Affiliation :
Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Dr. Penny Harvey

Title:
From Broken to Becoming: Queering the Politics of Infertility and Family in Medical Contexts

Affiliation :
California Institute of Integral Studies, United States

Abdoulie Wilson

Title:
The Forgotten in the Remembrance: The glaring absence of LGBTQI+ victims in The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission.

Affiliation :
Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland

Abubakari Iddirisu

Title:
Homophobic and Misinformation Within the Bill of The Eighth Parliament Versus Informed and Inclusive Judiciary Process of The Fourth Republic of Ghana.

Affiliation :
University Of Zululand, Ghana

Ciara Buckley

Title:
A qualitative exploration of perspectives on help-seeking for LGBTQIA+ survivors of sexual violence

Affiliation :
Dublin City University, Ireland

Jane Murphy

Title:
Examining Differences in Self-Reported Cardiovascular Disease History among LGBTQ+ subgroups in the United States

Affiliation :
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

Jolana Anna Hošková

Title:
Between Law and Real Life: How Abortion Laws Fail and Pro-Choice Activism Struggles in Central and Eastern Europe

Affiliation :
Charles University, Czech Republic

Julie Tracey

Title:
Experiences of parents from the LGBTQIA+ community of family health nursing

Affiliation :
Ulster University, United Kingdom

Oluseye Fakinlede

Title:
Doctrinal Tussle; The Lambeth Conference versus the Nigerian Anglican Communion.

Affiliation :
University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1400 R St, Lincoln, NE 68588, United States

Vrajishni Dumur

Title:
The influence of real-life proximity and parasocial interactions on attitudes towards the LGBTQIA+ community in Mauritius

Affiliation :
Middlesex University Mauritius, Mauritius

Virtual Session