Beyond "Feminism v Multiculturalism": Revisiting
the relationship between power, beliefs, identity and
values
To be held at the London School of Economics,
Houghton Street, London
All day on 17 November 2006
A workshop jointly organised by:
School of Law, King's College, London, LSE Gender Institute,
and CentreLGS.
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workshop report
Further information on http://www.kcl.ac.uk/law/femworkshop.html
For registration and admin details contact Lauretta
Alexander on law-feminismworkshop@kcl.ac.uk;
For academic queries contact Davina Cooper on D.S.Cooper@kent.ac.uk
This inter-disciplinary workshop brings together academics
from various disciplines (including law, politics, women’s
studies, cultural studies and sociology), as well as
non-academics, to debate the ‘feminism and cultural
difference’ stalemate, and explore ways of moving
through and beyond it. At its crudest, the stalemate
involves two polarities: ethnic and religious minorities,
alongside advocates of cultural relativism and autonomy,
on the one side; and, on the other, feminists seen as
targeting minorities for their veiling, female circumcision,
marital and divorce practices in ways that deflect attention
from relations of (post)colonial power, and from the
gendered practices perpetrated by dominant constituencies
and western states. While there are bodies of work that
avoid this polarity, its growing power and salience
within academic and policy arenas makes it worthy of
further consideration and debate.
Programme
9:30-10:30 Registration and refreshments
10:30-11:45 Panel one – chair: (tbc)
Anne Phillips (LSE) Multiculturalism
without Culture
Madhavi Sunder (University of California)
The New Enlightenment
11:45-12:00 Tea break
12:00-13:15 Panel two – chair: Aisha Gil
(Roehampton)
Reina Lewis (London College of Fashion)
Consuming Multiculture: Veils, Uniforms and Agency
Erica Burman (Manchester Metropolitan
University) Trans/National Topologies: Power Gradients
of Multiculturalisms
13:15-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:30 Panel three – chair: Andrea Baumeister
(Stirling)
Oonagh Reitman (LSE) Feminism, Multiculturalism and
their Borderlands
Monica Mookherjee (Keele) Decolonizing the Other’s
Rights: Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Right to
Mediation
15:30-15:45 Tea break
15:45-17:30 Panel four and concluding remarks –
chair: Davina Cooper (UKC)
Brenna Bhandar (Reading) Race, Law
and Religion: A Feminist Re-appraisal of Secular Fundamentalism
Maleiha Malik (KCL) "The Branch
on Which We Sit": Feminism, Multiculturalism and
Minority Women
To register please contact Lauretta Alexander on law-feminismworkshop@kcl.ac.uk.
Registration includes lunch and is £20
waged, £10 unwaged. This event is sponsored
by Social and Legal Studies and The Centre
for European Law, KCL.
