Queer Perspectives on Law: Sharing Reflections
THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED

Various Speakers
Date: 13 May 2011Time: 9:00 AM
Finishes: 13 May 2011Time: 5:30 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: G3
Type of Event: Workshop
Interest in engaging queer theory in the context of law, domestically and internationally, has grown in recent years despite, or perhaps in response to, an intensification of hostility to critical legal thinking in a world dominated by crisis law-making and governance. While the imperatives and dilemmas associated with recognizing diverse and fluid gender identities and sexual orientations in human rights law have dominated these scholarly developments, there is an emerging body of critical legal scholarship that is using queer theory to re-examine the orthodoxies and assumptions that underpin the law, and to open new imaginaries aimed at producing global conditions that are less crisis-driven and more egalitarian, cooperative, democratic and free. The workshop provides an opportunity for participants to share reflections on these hopeful developments and to strengthen their own contributions to this field through discussion and networking.
Time | Event |
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09.00-09.30 | Registration and Coffee |
09.30-09.45 | Welcome Matt Craven (SOAS Dean, Co-Director CCEIL) Catriona Drew (Director, CCEIL) Nadje Al-Ali (Chair, SOAS Centre for Gender Studies) |
09.45-11.15 | Panel I: Resisting Hegemonies - Local and Transnational Encounters
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11.15-11:30 | Break |
11.30-13.00 | Panel II: 'Homonationalisms': Reading the Effects of Progressive Legal Reforms
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13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
14:00-15.30 | Panel III: What Queer Legal Theory Might 'Do' Beyond Rights
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15.30-15.45 | Break |
15.45-17.15 | Panel IV: Queering International Law
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17.15-17.30 | Conclusions
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Organiser: Professors Aeyal Gross (Tel-Aviv/SOAS) & Dianne Otto (Melbourne/SOAS)