The Centre for the Study of Democracy wishes to welcome a new theme of gender and sexuality research to the centre by hosting a workshop for staff and postgraduate students working in this area. The premise of this workshop is that gender and sexuality are not only political in the formal policy-making sense, but that the everyday practices of gender and sexuality are themselves political. This inter-disciplinary workshop aims to highlight the work of current staff and postgraduate students and provide opportunities for networking.

Programme:

Coffee 9:30am

Institutions and Professional Identities 10am-11:30am

• Olimpia Burchiellaro (Westminster Business School) ‘Qu(e)rying LGBT Inclusion: The Authentic (Sexual) Employee, Gay-Friendly Organisations, and their Other(s)’

• Helen Glew (History, Sociology and Criminology) ‘The Married Woman’s Right to Work in early-mid twentieth century Britain’

• Derek Hird ‘(Modern Languages and Culture) Globalizing Chinese masculinities: East meets West in the narratives of Chinese professional men in London’

• Marc Mason (Law) ‘Who’s at the gay Bar?’

Political Subjectivities 11:30am-1pm

• Hans Assenbaum (Politics and International Relations) ‘Democratic Innovations between Consensus and Diversity’

• Bridget Cotter (Politics and International Relations) "Teaching Feminism and Gender"

• Nitasha Kaul (Politics and International Relations) ‘"Gendering Democracy and Occupation in India and Kashmir"

• Oliver Phillips (Law) "The roles of law, social media and political capital in changing the reach of a skirt; reflections on women's empowerment in downtown Harare"

Lunch 1pm-2pm

LGBTQ 2pm-3:30pm

• Dibyesh Anand (Politics and International Relations)) "Queering the Self, Critiquing the Nation"

• Daniel Conway (Politics and International Relations)) ‘Rupaul’s Drag Race: Global Queer Activism or Complicit Homonormativity?’

• Naomi Rudoe (History, Sociology and Criminology) 'LGBTQ teachers in schools: sexualities and inequalities'

• Francis Ray White (History, Sociology and Criminology) ‘Fat/Trans: Queering the Activist Body’

Coffee 3:30pm-3:45pm

Violence and Rights 3:45pm-5:15pm

• Rachael Attwood (History, Sociology and Criminology) ‘All for the love of the lash (or who is the bigger pervert)? Sex, Race, Nation and Masculinity in Socialist responses to the 1912 Criminal Law Amendment Bill’

• Jack Clayton Thompson (Law) 'Rights, Rationality and Reproduction: Balancing Interests in the Abortion Debate’.

• Maria Holt (Politics and International Relations)) A Commentary on Sacrifice: Palestinian Women’s Experiences of Violence in the Context of Conflict’

• Ashley Kitchen (Politics and International Relations)) ‘Violence as a Contemporary Barrier to Citizenship and Substantive Equality’

Concluding Remarks and Drinks 5:15pm-6pm