The Department of Gender Studies with the support of MGRM, the HRID and the Institute of
European Studies is pleased to announce a Research Symposium on LGBTIQ issues to be held on
17 May 2019.
LGBTIQ Research Symposium
Call for Abstracts:
The main aim of this symposium is to bring together under-graduate and post-graduate students as well as
academics, from various departments and faculties, who are interested in research on LGBTIQ topics.
The research symposium will take place on the evening of 17 May 2019 as part of the IDAHOT activities.
The themes chosen for this symposium will therefore be a reflection of the studies that have been
conducted by under-graduate or post-graduate students on LGBTIQ. The authors of the study will be
allocated 12 minutes for a presentation.
Abstracts of research studies that have been conducted within the last 5 years are being accepted for the
symposium. Abstracts of not more than 300 words should be sent to lgbtiqsymposium2019@um.edu.mt
by 11 January 2019. Preliminary enquiries should also be sent to this email address.
Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their submission by 18 February 2019. Papers from the
proceedings of the Symposium will be published.