Select recent presentations
Lone Parenting and the Crisis: Shame and the Great Recession, Critical Perspectives on Stigma, Shame, and the Irish Welfare Imaginary, University College Cork, 20th September 2020
Gendered Shame and Lone Parenting in Contemporary Ireland, Gender, Sex, and Shame in Ireland conference, University College Dublin, 5th September 2019
Shameful Crisis: Lone Parenting in Ireland During the Great Recession, Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies: Reflexivity, Resistance, and Action conference, CIEG (Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies), Portugal, 25th July 2019
Emotions in Politics, Soapbox speaker, UCD Festival, 8th June 2019
Shame and Lone-Parenting in Ireland, SWIPI winter workshop, Sex, Gender, Race, and the Political in the UK and Ireland, Queen’s University, Belfast, 15th February 2019
Reproduction and Gendered Shame, College of New Rochelle, New York, USA, 15th November 2018
Shame and Gendered Violence in Contemporary Ireland, invited presentation to the Theorising and Countering Gendered and Sexual Violence workshop, John Carroll University, Cleveland, USA, 12th November 2018
Re-imagining the Irish Nation: Abortion and the Gendered Politics of Shame, presentation to National Women’s Studies Association annual conference on Just Imagine: Imagining Justice, Atlanta, USA, 10th November 2018
Pragmatism and Feminism, invited panellist for event and podcast on Pragmatism, London School of Economics and Political Science, 29th October 2018 – see http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/pragmatism/
Traversing Irish National Imaginaries: Lone Parenting and the Politics of Shame, Terrors of Injustice: Gender Violence and Ethics of Shame, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 5th October 2018
Roundtable on Abortion and Women's Right to Choose: Ireland's Gendered Politics of Shame, SWIP Ireland Annual Conference: Women in Philosophy - Past, Present, and Future, University College Dublin, 18th May 2018
Reproduction and Ireland’s Politics of Shame: Nation, Affective Spatiality, and Place, Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland conference, University College Dublin, 9th March 2018
Abortion and Reproduction in Ireland: Shame, Nation-Building, and the Affective Politics of Place, invited presentation to Spatiality and Abortion Travel workshop, University of Birmingham Institute of Advanced Study and Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 27th February 2018
Emotion and Affect in Feminist Philosophy, invited Women in Philosophy lecture, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 21st November 2017
Shame, Stigma, and the Grievability of Irish Lives, SWIP Ireland conference on The Home, University College Cork, 26th May 2017
Re-covering Affective Ireland: Apology, Shame, Nation, 1916: HOME: 2016, University College Dublin, 28th October 2016
Redressing Inequality in Ireland: Equality Budgeting, invited Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) presentation in response to Budget 2017, 18th October 2016
Institutionalisation, Shame, and the Space of Dis/Appearance, Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference on ‘Changing Political Landscapes’, Belfast, 9th October 2016
Clara Fischer in conversation with Iain Atack, Fellow-in-Focus Session on my research, academic interests, and career as part of a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 10th May 2016
Institutionalisation and the Gendered Politics of Emotion, Gender, Public Policy, and Philosophies of Emotion, University College Dublin, Dublin, 6th May 2016
Gender, Activism, and the Politics of Shame in an Irish Context, invited panellist for a plenary session on ‘Gender, Diversity and Activism’ at Gender and Diversity: Leadership, Development, and Activism in Ireland conference, NUI Maynooth, 9th March 2016
State-building as Affective Politics: Ireland, Shame, and the Institutionalisation of Gendered Others, Institutions and Ireland: Medicine, Health, and Welfare, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 5th February 2016
Revealing Ireland's 'Proper' Heart: Gender, Nation, and the Politics of Shame, Gender and the Politics of Shame, LSE, London, 14th November 2015
Modern Ireland's Affective Politics: Shame, Nation, and the Institutionalisation of Gendered Transgression, British Academy Early Career Research Symposium, British Academy, London, 9th October 2015
Pragmatist Lessons for Contemporary Theorising on Affect and Emotion, plenary panel on Feminism and Pragmatism, Summer Institute in American Philosophy, UCD, Dublin, 11th June 2015
Ireland's Politics of Shame: Gender, Sexuality, and Irish Nation-Building, Class and Culture in 20th Century Ireland, St. John's College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 19th April 2015
Philosophy and Feminist Activism: A First-Person Account, SWIP Ireland Mentoring conference, Newman House, Dublin, 28th February 2015
Gender and the Politics of Shame: An Irish Solution to an Irish Problem? LSE Gender Institute Research Seminar, LSE, London, 18th February 2015
Inequality, Gender, and the Economic Crisis: On the Need for Equality Budgeting, cross-party presentation to the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), Leinster House, Dublin, 17th February 2015
Gender and the Irish State: A Troubled History, SPARK: Informing and Reforming, Liberty Hall, Dublin, 17th January 2015
Turning to Affect: Shame and Embodiment in Feminist Philosophy, SWIP Ireland annual conference on Women's Bodies, Newman House, Dublin, 21st November 2014
Ireland's Culture of Containment: Magdalen Laundries and Feminist Transgression of Nationhood, National Women's Studies Association annual conference on Feminist Transgressions, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 15th November 2014
Gender Theory in the 21st Century: The Turn to Affect, Some Indexical You: Gender in the 21st Century, University of Ulster, Belfast, 7th November 2014
What Really is an Emotion? Feminism, Pragmatism, and the Contemporary Turn to Affect, Gender Institute Reading Group, LSE, London, 20th October 2014
The Politics of Emotion and Shame, soapbox speaker at Universities Week: Ideas for Life, Natural History Museum, London, 11th June 2014
Equality Budgeting and Transformation, Alternatives for Transformation, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, 9th March 2013
Conference organisation
Gender, Sex, and Shame in Ireland, co-organised with Mary McAuliffe and Cormac O’Brien, University College Dublin (supported by MSCA funding), 5th September 2019
Thinking Gender Justice, co-organised with the Centre for Gender, Feminisms, and Sexualities, University College Dublin, 22nd-24th May 2018
Women in Philosophy: Past, Present, and Future, co-organised with SWIP Ireland, University College Dublin, 17th-19th May 2018
Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland, co-organised with Áine Mahon, University College Dublin, 8th - 9th March 2018
John Dewey and Critical Philosophies for Critical Political Times, co-organised with Conor Morris, University College Dublin, 19th - 20th October 2017 (supported by SAAP and Mind Association funding)
Gender, Public Policy, and Philosophies of Emotion, organised on behalf of SWIP-I, University College Dublin, 17th June 2016 (supported by SAP funding)
Ways of Knowing: Feminist Philosophy of Science and Epistemology, co-organised with SWIP-I, Newman House and Irish School of Ecumenics, Dublin, 27th - 28th November 2015
Gender and the Politics of Shame, LSE, London, 14th November 2015 (supported by British Academy funding)
Women's Bodies, co-organised with SWIP-I, Newman House, Dublin, 21st - 22nd November 2014
Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland Annual Conference, co-organised with SWIP-I, Irish School of Ecumenics, Dublin, 15th - 16th November 2013
Civil Society Forum on Equality Budgeting, co-organised with PILA in response to Budget 2014, Mansion House, Dublin, 17th October 2013
Embedding Equality in Policymaking: Lessons from Northern Ireland and Scotland, organised and chaired on behalf of the Equality Budgeting Campaign, National Women's Council of Ireland, Dublin, 20th April 2013
Feminist Activism in Ireland: Past, Present, and Future, organised on behalf of the Irish Feminist Network, Sean O'Casey Community Centre, Dublin, 19th May 2012