The final INIA network event

took place in Brussels, Belgium on January 31st and February 1st, 2024. At this event, the INIA consortium hosted a final conference and stakeholder event “Expanding the future of intersex studies.”

Panelists at the stakeholder event included Gabriella Calleja (Senior Policy Advisor, SOGIESC Unit, Council of Europe), Surya Monro (INIA coordinator, University of Huddersfield and Loughborough University), Dan Christian Ghattas (Executive Director, OII Europe), Morgan Carpenter (Intersex Human Rights Australia) and Michael van Gelderen (Human Rights Officer, Office of the United Nations High Commissionner for Human Rights). The panel was chaired by David Paternotte (Université Libre de Bruxelles).

The conference was attended by over 150 participants. A full programme for the event can be found here.

The seventh INIA network event

took place in Lyon, France, from 9-14 July 2023. Activities included training events on key issues such as grant capture and impact generation, collaborative work on final conference planning and collaborative output production including a collection of ebriefs to be made available in several languages. A schedule for the event can be viewed here. Photo courtesy of Leea Berry. 

The sixth INIA network event

took place in Valletta, Malta from September 23-28, 2022. During this event, researchers looked at  Intersex theory building, law and human rights, education, medicine and healthcare as well as alliance building and collaboration. Invited speakers include Dan Christian Ghattas from OII Europe and Emma Smith from the Council of Europe. A stakeholder event was held on September 26th with a presentation from Silvan Agius (Cabinet of Commissioner for Equality of the European Commission). A schedule for the event can be consulted here.  Photo courtesy of Svet Sol.

The fifth INIA network event

took place in Lisbon, Portugal from May 27-June 1st, 2022. This was the first in-person INIA event. The theme of the event was Innovative and Creative Methods “Bootcamp.” A schedule for the event can be consulted here.  Photo courtesy of Daria Abrosimova and Axel Keating.

The fourth INIA network event

took place online in February and March 2022 due to ongoing travel restrictions related to the Covid pandemic. A full programme for the event is available here.

The third INIA network event

took place online from September 10-24, 2021 with a series of guest lectures and workshops. The training was organised into three blocks of one full day on Friday September 10th, 17th and 24th. A programme for the event is available here.

The second INIA network event

took place online from March-May 2021 with a series of guest lectures and workshops. Although we had hoped to meet in person, this was not possible due to COVID related travel restrictions. The lectures were spread out over a longer period in an attempt to avoid online burnout. A programme for the event is available here. The INIA network was also present in a panel at the DCU online conference: Intersex 2021 – A vision for the future. For more information about this event, please visit our Outreach page.

The first INIA network event

was scheduled to take place in Dublin, Ireland in November to coincide with the DCU sponsored conference: Intersex 2020: A vision for the future. However, due to COVID, the conference was postponed until April 2021. As a result, we brought forward the second INIA network event which was scheduled to be an online conference offered in February 2021. Instead, we offered a series of guest lectures to the INIA researchers during the week of November 16-20, 2021. A program for the event is available here.