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IDAHOT Lecture 17 May – The personal is political (or why family law needs political philosophy): Religion and transphobia in the courtroom – Professor Aleardo Zanghellini
Lecture for IDAHOT
(International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia)
[Download our event poster as a PDF here]
The personal is political (or why family law needs political philosophy): Religion and transphobia in the courtroom
Professor Aleardo Zanghellini
17 May 2017, 5pm in Lg16 at Canterbury Christ Church University
Abstract: In this paper I discuss a recent Family Court decision in which a parent who transitioned to a different gender after separation was denied direct contact with her children. The reason why the Court rejected the trans parent’s application for a contact order was that, had the children maintained contact with her, they would have been rejected by the fundamentalist Orthodox Jewish community within which they and the cisgender parent live. I critique the soundness of the Court’s decision, including on the ground that it has the effect of ratifying religious transphobia, and I argue that neither the law nor the children’s best interest required this outcome. I also argue that political philosophy can help us understand why.
Bio: Aleardo Zanghellini is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the School of Law, University of Reading. His areas of research interest are law, gender & sexuality; legal philosophy; and law & literature. Prof Zanghellini’s work regularly appears in leading international journals. His 2015 book, The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority, is an analysis of the erotic dimensions of state power, arguing that the disavowal of male same-sex desire has been, and partly remains, central to mainstream understandings of political authority.
Islam & Pakistan: Reflections on a Relationship Through Time – Zulfi Ali – Part of the Islam & Social Justice Lecture Series
Queering the Caymans – Dr Leo Raznovich (INCISE Visiting Senior Research Fellow)
Islam & Gender in Yemen – Tanya Halldórsdóttir – Part of the Islam & Social Justice Lecture Series
Lecture by Professor Bee Scherer for World Mental Health Day 2016 at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
Director of INCISE, Professor Bee Scherer spoke at the Canterbury Christ Church University World Mental Health Day 2016 (10 October). Bee addresses Mental Health from a Social Justice perspective, challenges ‘disability discourse as disabling discourse’ and zooms in on Trans Mental health.
Islam & Social Justice – Sheikha Halima Krausen (Hamburg)
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.
Programme 2016/2017
Download as PDF here
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
| 16-Sep | 2:30pm | Professor Rob Hattam (University of South Australia) Research pedagogy in an urban region serving high poverty communities | Lg25 |
| 01-Oct | 6:15pm | Julie Parker – The Platonic Myths – Community Arts & Education | |
| 10-Oct | 10am-3pm | World Mental Health Day Speakers: Yasmin Ishaq (Open Dialogue Specialist), Bee Scherer, Adele Phillips School of Public Health, Midwifery and Social Work/INCISE. More info and registration at here. (photos and video) |
Broadstairs Campus, Main Hall |
| 11-Oct | 5pm | Professor Tom Foster – Enslaved Men and Same-Gender Intimacy and Exploitation – Part of Black history month @CCCU |
Pg09 |
| 14-Oct | 5:30pm | Professor Naomi Goldenberg (Ottawa) – Queer Theory meets Critical Religion – INCISE Launch celebration (PDF/video) | Og46 |
| 15-Oct | 6:15pm | Chris Pike – The Detective, the Shulamite and the Garden of Dreams – Community Arts & Education | |
| 17-Oct | 5pm | Sheikha Halima Krausen (Hamburg) – Islam and Social Justice (PDF/video) – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice | Lg16 |
| 21-Oct | 1pm | Research Theory Roundtable – Researcher Development Programme | Af33 |
| 29-Oct | 6:15pm | Simon Wilson – John Wood and the Cosmological Vision of Albion – Community Arts & Education | |
| 31-Oct | 5pm | Bojan Koltaj – Žižek on Islam – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice | Lg16 |
| 03-Nov | 5pm | James Frost – Introduction to Hermeneutics – RDP with INCISE : Theory of Knowledge Series | |
| 10-Nov | 5:30pm | Dr Felicity Callard – Interdisciplinarity as Research Methodology – RDP with INCISE : Theory of Knowledge Series | Pg06 |
| 12-Nov | 5pm | Lucy Wyatt – Psychedelics, Cities and a Question of Origins – Community Arts & Education | |
| 14-Nov | 5pm | Dr Fahid Qurashi – Muslim Radicalisation in Britain – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice | Lg16 |
| 21-Nov | 5:30pm | INCISE TDoR – Transgender Day of Remembrance (video) | Lg16 |
| 26-Nov | 6:15pm | Livia Sevier – Indian raga, restoring an ancient house – Community Arts & Education | |
| 28-Nov | 5pm | Dr Lynn Revell – Islamophobia – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice (video) | Lg16 |
| 05-Dec | 5pm | Dr Wim Peumans (University of Witwatersrand)- Queer Muslims in Belgium: Religion, Migration and Sexuality – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice (video) |
Lg16 |
| 08-Dec | 5pm | Bojan Koltaj – Post Marxism (Zizek) – RDP with INCISE : Theory of Knowledge Series | |
| Postponed | Dr Lynn Revell – Critical Race Theory – RDP with INCISE : Theory of Knowledge Series (New date to be announced) | tba | |
| 20-Jan | 3pm | Julia Moore – Myth Discussion Group: Intuitive Reading (Workshop) | Nt07 |
| 23-Jan | 5pm | Dr Simon Hayhoe (Bath University) – Islamic and Christian Perspectives on Disability – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice (video) | Lg16 |
| 25-Jan | 5pm | Dr Leo Raznovich – Queering the Caymans: QP7, Law and Progress – INCISE Public lecture (video) | Og46 |
| 01-Feb | 3pm | James Frost – Research seminar: ‘Re-sacralising the Tarot’ (Discussion) | |
| 01-Feb | 5pm | Dr Cathy Cantwell – Reflections on Tibetan Tantric Rituals Connected with Healing (video) | Og46 |
| 02-Feb | 5:30pm | Dr Jennifer Hardes – Biopolitics – RDP with INCISE : Theory of Knowledge Series (video) | Lg48 |
| 06-Feb | 5pm | Dr Tanya Halldórsdóttir – Islam and Gender in Yemen – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice (video) | Lg16 |
| 16-Feb | 5:30pm | Professor Linden West – Introduction to Psychoanalysis – RDP with INCISE : Theory of Knowledge Series | tba |
| 17-Feb | 3pm | Geoffrey Cornelius – Myth Discussion Group: Discovering the I Ching (Workshop) | The Priory – Garden Room |
| 20-Feb | 5pm | Rami Younes – Perspectives from Syria – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice (video) | Lg16 |
| 02-Mar | 5:30pm | Professor Bee Scherer – Queer Theory – RDP with INCISE : Theory of Knowledge Series (video) | Lg48 |
| 06-Mar | 5pm | Zulfi Ali – Perspectives from Pakistan – INCISE seminar series: Islam & Social Justice (video) | Lg16 |
| 16-Mar | 10am-4pm | Beneath the Mask: Artists, Archives and A/Gender A day of events, exhibitions and spectacle prompted by Claude Cahun’s exploration of identities and masking. (Sidney Cooper Gallery, in cooperation with INCISE) (Photos and Videos) | Sidney Cooper Gallery |
| 17-May | 5pm | Aleardo Zanghellini Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Reading – The personal is political (or why family law needs political philosophy): Religion and transphobia in the courtroom – INCISE IDAHOT lecture (video) | Lg16 |
| 29-Jun to 02-Jul | Critical Suicidology Conference – Call for Papers (photos and videos) | ||
| 6-Jul | 2-3pm | Dr Alexandra Polyzou Post-feminism and sexual health Ideological presuppositions in Greek women’s lifestyle magazines |
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
