We are delighted to announce that Greg Ellis, an English actor and so much more, has accepted our invitation to be a Guest of Honour at this conference.

Greg is the author of The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law – Introduction by Johnny Depp, Foreword by Alec Baldwin – the Amazon #1 Best Seller in three different categories: Divorce, Fatherhood and Suicide. He has taught classes in phenomenology to orphans born with HIV in India, storytelling at the Parva Slum School in Jaipur, practiced shamanic rituals with the Cherokee Nation, purification sweat lodges with the Skidi Tribe, studied affect theory with epistemologist Dr. Gary David, and created ‘The Mindwell Initiative’ with the Global Wellness Institute. He’s a published author, TV director, Annie Award nominated voice artist and Emmy Award® nominated actor who has appeared in Oscar-winning movies, directed Hollywood superstars, produced and written television shows and commercials, performed leading stage roles in Broadway musicals, voiced cartoon characters for movies, TV series, cartoons, over 120 video games and toys, and has recorded multiple albums, singles and soundtracks.

Greg’s major motion picture film credits include billion-dollar franchises like the Pirates of the Caribbean series, and Titanic, Star Trek, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Beowulf. TV credits include 24, The X-Files, CSI, Dexter, NCIS, Hawaii Five-O, and more. Under his production company banner, Monkey Toes, Greg has written and directed projects for Kiefer Sutherland and Stephen Fry, and produced and directed multiple commercials. He hosts the video podcast series The Voices in My Head, Wiser Life Practices, and The Respondent.

Greg’s online Alive Coaching improvement program helps people address past problems and improve their future, and his official website provides information on all of Greg’s projects, while the multimedia child advocacy series The Respondent aims to inspire family champions through his non-profit organization CPU: Children and Parents United.

Greg has recently interviewed a number of people who are very well known to ICMI attendees, YouTube videos here – Warren Farrell (here and here), Philip Davies MP and Erin Pizzey.

Follow @ellisgreg, @TheRespondent, on Twitter, @realgregellis on Instagram, and Monkey Toes Studio on YT. Join The Respondent Monkey Toes Studio and CPU Clubs on the Clubhouse app @ge, and subscribe to The Respondent on Substack.

Since 2014, International Conferences on Men’s Issues (ICMIs) have been the flagship events of the global men’s rights movement. They cover issues affecting men and boys directly, and women and girls indirectly.

Following the success of ICMI20, the organizers of the event decided that another major online ICMI would be held in 2021.The event will be held over 10:00 AM GMT, Monday, 13 December – midday GMT, Sunday, 19 December, 2021. Video presentations and interviews will be retained on the conference platform for six months after the event.

The event will be highly interactive. As well as pre-recorded presentation and interview videos (70+ of them) there will be 70+ live Q&A sessions, and more. There will also be ample opportunities for networking with speakers and other attendees, and attendees will be able to set up their own discussion groups, and more. We have invested in the market-leading virtual event software to optimise the attendee experience. You can attend the conference on either your computer or your mobile devices. 

Conference-related costs need to be covered. Tickets cost £20.00 (or the equivalent in your local currency), and are on sale now, here. We look forward to you joining us for what will surely be a memorable event. Buy your ticket now because the Whova app has some great discussions going already, and you’re missing out on communicating with men and women from around the world.

I am responsible for organizing online ICMIs as well as in-person ICMIs in Europe, my next in-person event in Europe being scheduled for 2024. Anil Kumar is responsible for in-person ICMIs in India, his next event is scheduled for early 2023. Robert Brockway is responsible for in-person ICMIs in Australia, the next is due 2025. 

The last conference (ICMI20)

The hugely successful sixth International Conference on Men’s Issues (ICMI20). 120 videos, many of them interviews by the organizers, were posted over the course of five days – on the hour, every hour. 

I’d like to thank my fellow organizers – Elizabeth Hobson (at the time, and until March 2021, the leader of the British political party Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), Tom Caulfield (J4MB Technical Director), Paul Elam, Tom Golden and Robert Brockway. They were all a pleasure to work with throughout the months before ICMI20, and during it.

I’d like to thank everyone who provided a video, or was interviewed on Zoom for the event. The technical quality standards of the videos were generally higher than we were expecting, given that the vast majority of the speakers were not professional video makers, some had never made a video in their lives. It surely goes without saying that the quality of the content of the videos was high, and we had very positive feedback.

The list of speakers and interviewees is here. The mirror videos – posted because for various reasons a number of videos didn’t materialise – are numbered 109-125.

With the exception of the mirror videos, all the videos were released simultaneously on dedicated playlists on the J4MB YouTube channel – here – and on Paul Elam’s “An Ear for Men” YouTube channel – here. The mirror videos are only on the J4MB playlist. Paul’s channel has 103,000+ subscribers, more than the J4MB channel, so there are more comments there.

Mike Buchanan – Conference Director, chairman of the organizing committee

E: mikebuchananuk@gmail.com M: (+44) 7967 026163 (United Kingdom)

Conference-related costs need to be covered. Tickets will cost £20.00 (or the equivalent in your local currency), and will go on sale at 10:00 BST on Monday, October 18, a month before the start of the event. A link will be posted here.

We are pleased to announce that Bettina Arndt, an Australian woman who is highly regarded across the men’s rights movement, will be a Guest of Honour at this conference. Her impressive biography can be found here.

We are delighted to report that Professor Janice Fiamengo has agreed to be the keynote speaker at this conference. Her talk title will be:

Why Men and Women are Working Together to Create a Non-Feminist Future.

Janice is a writer and the creator of the Fiamengo File YouTube series at Studio Brulé. She is a retired professor of English, and advocate for men’s issues, free speech, and western culture. She taught literature for 20 years, latterly at the University of Ottawa, and is the author of The Woman’s Page (2007), a study of early Canadian female journalists. She has also published online articles criticizing feminism and political correctness in magazines such as PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine. She lives in New Westminster, British Columbia, with her husband, poet and songwriter David Solway.

Janice is a participant in the weekly video series Regarding Men with Paul Elam and Tom Golden, also speakers at this event.

She was the third guest on the Justice for Men & Boys Gender Matters video series. The playlist of the series is here.

Janice spoke at the following events:

International Conferences on Men’s Issues

2016, London – How Feminism is Destroying Higher Education
2018, London – The Demonization of Young Men: Campus Sexual Misconduct Tribunals
2019, Chicago – Why We Need Male-Positive Histories (keynote)
2020, online –  We Must Stop Anti-Male Indoctrination of Boys