Notre Dame Hosts Gender Confusion and Childhood Conference

A University of Notre Dame conference on “Gender and Childhood” currently taking place includes a broad range of topics in at least 20 panel discussions. The Cardinal Newman Society reached out to Notre Dame to learn how the large event would integrate Catholic teaching, but the conference organizer did not identify whether or not Catholic teaching would even be discussed.

The conference, “Fun with Dick and Jane: Gender and Childhood,” aims “to explore issues of gender and childhood through multiple lenses and from a wide range of disciplines,” according to the event page. Running from December 4-6, it is sponsored by seven Notre Dame departments and programs, and presented by the Gender Studies Program.

The program identifies panel sessions concerning “Gender Variant Parenting” and “Queer Temporalities.”  Another panel discussion on “Queer(ing) Parenting” will apparently include the topic “Raising Them to Be Who They Truly Are: LBGTQ Parents Resisting Heteronomative Gender.”  (more...)

Notre Dame Hosts ‘Gender and Childhood’ Conference