Professor Auga’s inaugural lecture and IDAHOT lecture at Canterbury Christ Church University on 21 May 2018
Challenging the Government of the Living: The Cult of Confession and Bodily, Material Resistance – Professor Ulrike Auga
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IDAHOT lecture – Religion and Transphobia in the Courtroom
Buddhism, Gender and Sexuality – Professor Bee Scherer at the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies – University of Nottingham, Malaysia (15 December 2016)
Queering the Caymans – Dr Leo Raznovich (INCISE Visiting Senior Research Fellow)
Queer Muslims in Belgium: Religion, Migration & Sexuality – Wim Peumans (University of Witwatersrand) – Part of the Islam & Social Justice Lecture Series
INCISE Launch event – 14 October 2016
14 October starting at 17:45 the Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice will officially launch at Canterbury Christ Church University.
After a welcome by the vice-chancellor of the university there will be a keynote by Professor Naomi Goldenberg (University of Ottawa) – Queer Theory meets Critical Religion. The evening will be closed by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Tickets are available here.
INCISE welcomes Dr S.N.Nyeck
Dr S.N. Nyeck has joined INCISE today as Visiting Senior Research Fellow.
SN has earned her PhD in Political Science 2013 from the University of California Los Angeles, UCLA.
Her dissertation is titled The Political Economy of Ways and Means: Procurement Contracts and Development in Africa (1620-1919).
SNs areas of interest include
➢ Political Economy of Freedom as Development; Government Outsourcing/Public Procurement; Public Sector Reform; non-State Actors; Public Policy; Governance; Identity; Economics
➢ Sexuality, Religion and Politics, Human Rights (LGBTQI),
SNs expertise lies in public private-partnerships for development with a focus on developing countries (Africa); leadership in multicultural and transnational settings, multicultural communication, public speaking, grantwriting, strategic planning and evaluation, high-level negotiation, policy communication, writing and editing; data analysis (quantitative and qualitative).
Dr Nyeck will add a much needed and very welcome queer African voice to INCISEs intersectional scholarship and projects.
Follow SN on twitter: @DrSNNyeck
Check out her two edited volumes
Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016)
http://goo.gl/ZSQPbE
Sexual Diversity in Africa: Politics, Theory and Citizenship (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013)
http://goo.gl/5qcFcZ
INCISE events Oct 2016-Mar 2017: Launch celebration and ‘Islam and Social Justice’ series
INCISE Launch celebration (PDF)
Friday, 14 October 2016
Location – Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, CCCU, North Holmes Campus, Canterbury
| 17:45 | Welcome by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Rama Thirunamachandran |
| 18:00 | Keynote speaker followed by Q&A Professor Naomi Goldenberg (Ottawa) Queer Theory Meets Critical Religion |
| 19:00 | Close by Dr Keith McLay, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
Islam and Social Justice
2016-2017 Lecture/research seminar series
(Mondays, fortnightly, 5-6pm, venue Lg16 (subject to change), CCCU, North Holmes Campus, Canterbury)
| 17 Oct | Sheikha Halima Krausen (Hamburg): Islam and Social Justice | video |
| 31 Oct | Bojan Koltaj: Žižek on Islam | video |
| 14 Nov | Fahid Qurashi: Muslim Radicalisation in Britain | |
| 28 Nov | Lynn Revell: Islamophobia | video |
| 05 Dec | Wim Peumans (University of Witwatersrand) – Queer Muslims in Belgium | video |
| 23 Jan | Simon Hayhoe (Bath University): Islamic and Christian Perspectives on Disability | video |
| 06 Feb | Tanya Halldórsdóttir: Islam and Gender in Yemen | video |
| 20 Feb | Rami Younes: Islam and Social Justice: Perspectives from Syria | video |
| 06 Mar | Zulfi Ali: Islam and Social Justice: Perspectives from Pakistan | video |
Dr Leonardo Raznovich joins INCISE!
Leonardo Raznovich LL.B (Buenos Aires) LL.M (Harvard) DPhil (Oxford) joins INCISEs Queering Paradigms team as Senior Research Fellow.
A practising barrister in England and Wales and former Law Lecturer at Truman Bodden Law School of the Cayman Islands, Leo return to his old home institution Canterbury Christ Church University where he taught law in torts, dispute resolution, evidence law, jurisprudence and human rights between 2003 and 2012 and headed the Law and Dispute Resolution unit (2008-2010).
He is currently the Education Officer of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Law Committee of the International Bar Association for the biennium 2016-2017.
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