Conference Organisers

Hasret Cetinkaya is a Hardiman Doctoral candidate at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the School of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway. 

Hasret’s research interests are postcolonial and poststructuralist feminist theory (especially Butler, Mahmood, Asad, and Foucault), gender, kinship and the sociology of human rights. 

Hasret's research is on gender propriety, namus (sexual honour) and its relation to the Kurdish imaginary space among the Kurds in the homeland and the diaspora.

She teaches Human Rights and Gender studies at the ICHR and Global Women's Studies at NUI Galway.

Dr Liam Farrell is a critical theorist and teacher in political philosophy at the University of Limerick.

Liam’s research interests are in the politics of non-domination and freedom, post-foundational theories of politics, equality and democracy, bio-politics, black study and postcolonial and decolonial theories and the histories of violence and inequality.

Liam is currently working on a project of the decolonisation of political theory education and practice in the continental and analytical traditions of philosophy.