Wednesday 14th January  2009 
(2:00pm) Room TBC
Elena Marchetti, Griffith University, Law School, Australia
Title: Sentencing Indigenous offenders of partner violence:  A comparative analysis of Indigenous sentencing courts and specialist family violence courts
Abstract: One of the most common forms of violence in Indigenous communities is violence between intimate partners.  Indigenous sentencing courts and specialist family violence courts (as well as mainstream courts) are used in Australia to sentence Indigenous partner violence offenders.  I (together with Professor Kathleen Daly and Dr Jackie Huggins) have recently been awarded funding from the Australian Research Council to conduct research on finding (1) what unique contribution Indigenous sentencing courts make in addressing Indigenous partner violence that may not be present in specialist family violence courts; and (2) what each type of court process can learn from the other.  The project is due to start in 2009 and will run for five years.  My presentation will focus on aspects of this project.  I will start by briefly outlining the different processes used by Indigenous sentencing and family violence courts in Australia, and the theoretical frameworks underpinning each type of specialist court.  I will then discuss the debates which exist between and among feminist and Indigenous groups about whether informal justice processes, including Indigenous sentencing courts, are appropriate in responding to family, sexual, and partner violence.  Although I will not be able to provide, at this point, any answers to the questions that typically surround the debates in this area, I will be seeking to clarify the issues raised and to discuss how the research project will be endeavouring to answer some of those key issues.

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Monday 8 December 2008
(5-6.30pm) Room: CBA1.102
Visiting lecture – all welcome.
Annelise Riles, Cornell University Law School, USA
Title: The Legal Relation: Towards a Feminist Theory of Legal Knowledge
Annelise’s work focuses on the transnational dimensions of legal theories, doctrines and institutions. She has conducted legal and anthropological research in China, Japan, and the Pacific and she has written extensively on cultural problems in the law. A forthcoming book, Collateral Knowledge, is an account of modern transnational legal thought based on anthropological fieldwork among financial regulators in Tokyo and New York. Another forthcoming co-edited volume, The Return of the Private in Private International Law rethinks the field of Conflict of Laws from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her first book, The Network Inside Out, won the American Society of International Law's Certificate of Merit for 2000-2002. Her second book, Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law, is a cultural history of Comparative Law presented through its canonical figures. Her third book, Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge, brings together lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists and historians of science. Professor Riles speaks Chinese, Japanese, French, and Fijian. She was recently featured in the Cornell Chronicle.

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Thursday 6th November  2008 
(5:00pm) Room TBC
Jon Goldberg-Hiller, University of Hawai'i, USA: 'joint seminar with kls'
Title:Tarrying with the Real: What is the difference that marriage makes?
Since the American realist movement that has challenged legal formalism with social theory, the category of the “real” has continued to haunt the possibility and legitimacy of law. In the case of marriage, the foundations of its real institutional basis have been drawn into these philosophical, legal and political debates. Marriage law has been methodically reformed in light of emergent everyday social realities such as changing gender norms, access to employment, and other civil rights, while political tensions have also sought resolution through the transformation of marriage law, including the reassertion of its formalist character. This seminar explores aesthetic ideas of “the real” in light of the constitutional amendment now pending in California that is the first American attempt to repeal same-sex marriage rights in a jurisdiction that has legalized marriage of same-sex couples. What difference have these rights and these rites made in attempts to say “no” to, or to defend the law?

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Wednesday 29 October 2008 
(2:00pm) Room CBA1.077
Gillian Harkins, University of Washington, English Department, USA
Title: Screening Pedophilia: The Woodsman, Mystic River, and the Space Between
Abstract: This paper explores the growing public interest in pedophilia and the serial predatory pedophile in the 1990s and 2000s United States. While the modern concept of pedophilia has been around since 1886, public fear of the predatory pedophile has been amplified in the past twenty years. The pedophile has emerged in popular visual culture as the vanishing point of a peculiarly recrafted public imagination. The elusive "passing" pedophile marks the horizon of televisual culture's capture of the real and the lure or bait offered as promise of a potentially salvific, fully tele-mediated world.  Television shows such as "To Catch a Predator," "Law and Order," and "CSI" join a number of recent documentaries and films in their attempt to draw the mysterious vanishing pedophile into their lines of sight.  This paper reads the amplification of pedophilia panic in relation to changing technologies of surveillance, militarization, and privatization in the still quasi-national U.S. public sphere.  Reading the documentary "Capturing the Friedmans" alongside the films "Mystic River," "Mysterious Skin," and "The Woodsman," this paper argues that the pedophile figures a delimited zone of the "virtual" as the field of public interest, part of a changing technology of the public sphere and its residual field of vulnerable human embodiment. GILLIAN NOTE: This paper makes specific claims about the U.S. "public sphere" to query the ongoing effort to nationalize pedophilia surveillance in the U.S.  I intend this paper to specify its archive and query the scope/reach of its effects, including a discussion eventually of how the international circulation of pedophilia imagery operates. I do not intend to exceptionalize the U.S. case, since I believe very similar cases can be made about the U.K. and other regions.

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Friday 24 October 2008
(2-4pm) Room CBA1.098
Chris Beasley, School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide, Australija
Title: ‘Re-thinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Global Politics’
Michael Kimmel, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Title: Globalization and its Mal(e)contents
This paper draws on interview data with neo-Nazis and White Supremacists in the US and Scandinavia over a number of years, to illustrate the different ways in which masculinity organizes their racist and anti-Semitic politics.
Abstract: Our understanding of power relations in domestic and global setting is crucially informed by analyses of the gendered character of contemporary societies and global politics.  ‘Hegemonic masculinity’ is a crucial concept in such analyses and indeed is ubiquitously employed in studies of masculinity per se.  However, this concept has also been the subject of debate.  This paper focuses upon this term, and considers possible problems within it, in order to offer some directions for the as yet relatively undeveloped study of masculinities in a globalising world. The paper asserts that, while the concept remains useful, modifications suggested by its originator, R. W. Connell, do not go far enough.
The pervasively used terminology of hegemonic masculinity remains a rather blunt instrument. It is currently used in Masculinity, Feminist and International Studies to stand in for a singular monolithic masculinity, a global hegemonic form ‘on a world scale’ (Connell, 2000) and is understood to refer to ‘transnational business masculinity’, to an elite group of socially dominant men. However, this conceptualisation offers an account of globalisation as a singular and one-way, top-down process in which the political legitimating function of hegemonic masculinity is largely eclipsed by an emphasis on economic power.
Re-thinking the term hegemonic masculinity is necessary to produce a more nuanced understanding of privileged legitimating conceptions of manhood, and of relations between different conceptions of masculinities in the global/national nexus.  Such an analysis provides a means to re-think how gendered global politics, how (gendered) globalization may be conceived.
Venue: Keele University

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Wednesday 22 October 2008
(1-2pm) Room CBA1.077
Postgraduate session – all welcome
Chris Beasley, School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide, Australija
Title: Problems and possibilities in the Gender/Sexuality field: tensions in the emerging ménage of Feminist, Sexuality and Masculinity studies
Abstract: This paper considers the implications of intellectual, political and, relatedly, institutional moves towards locating Feminist approaches within the Gender/Sexuality field—that is, the emerging ménage of Feminist, Sexuality and Masculinity Studies. Such moves offer possibilities and problems for theorising and activism, as well as policy and curriculum development. Importantly, the three subfields of Feminist, Sexuality and Masculinity Studies are not simply commensurable bits that fit together neatly like pieces of a jigsaw. The subfields contain differing knowledge cultures involving different theoretical underpinnings and emphases, different foci, different responses to key terms and to power, and different socio-political histories. Furthermore, there are analytical shifts in relocating the subfields under the rubric of the Gender/Sexuality field, which may be contested. These shifts include the shift from Women’s/Feminist Studies to Gender Studies, as well as from Gender to Gender and Sexuality Studies. Previous discussions about name changes have focussed upon the first of these shifts and on a certain set of problems. This paper aims to extend and update such discussions—concentrating upon potentially dissonant theoretical directions and understandings of the relationship between gender and sexuality—with the aim of clarifying the issues at stake.

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Monday 17 March 2008 (1-2pm)
Judy Fudge, University of Victoria, Canada
Challenging Norms and Creating Precedents: The Tale of a Woman Firefighter in the Forests of British Columbia
Judy Fudge is Lansdowne Professor of Law at the University of Victoria and is well known for her work in labour law, legal history, and feminist and socio-legal theory. This paper locates the path-breaking human rights case of British Columbia Government Employees Union v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [1999] 3 S.C.C. 3 (aka Meiorin), which challenged the male norm for employment-related fitness testing, in its social setting both by delving into the circumstances that gave rise to the litigation and the broader social, economic, political, and legal context of the time. Using interviews with the itigants and the lawyers as well as the court documents, the paper attempts to discover the strategic and legal choices that were made to influence the outcome of the case. It
also looks at who the adjudicators were as the case went through the legal process. The purpose of the paper is to identify the factors that gave rise to this precedent-setting case, as well as to identify its immediate impact and its long-term influence in shaping the law.
All welcome.
Venue: CBA1.070

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Thursday 28th February 2008 (5pm)
Cheshire Calhoun, Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University, USA
"Losing One's Self"
Abstract: What is it that enables agents to find the business of reflective endorsement, deliberation, and willing meaningful? I argue that our having motivating reasons to act-and thus reason to lead a life-depends on a set of background "frames" of agency being in place.
These "frames" are attitudes toward and beliefs about our own agency that, under normal conditions, are simply taken for granted as we lead our lives as agents and that thus do not enter into our normative reflection, deliberation, planning, and intending. Those frames include a perception of our lives as meaningful, lack of alienation from one's own normative outlook, a belief in the effectiveness of instrumental reasoning, and confidence in our relative security from disastrous misfortune. When those background frames are disrupted, we may find our agency not defeated, but emptied of significance.
Venue: Keele University, Chancellor's Building, CBA1.078

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Friday 22 February 2008 (10:00 — 16:00)
Governance & Regulation Workshop at Keele University on agency; links between the transnational and the interpersonal; alternative globalizations ,  and the governance of intimacy, including through the economic  [centre members only] 
10:00 - 11:30 Update and Moving forward…
This session will discuss reports of two recent research events that featured the work of Centre members and an update on the cluster’s summer workshop. Reporters will identify the key themes of these events to stimulate discussion about how to move forward with these research initiatives. 
“Agency, sexuality and law - globalising economies, localising cultures, politicising states”, Report on the December 2007, research workshop co-organised by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and the Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality — Reporters: Ruth Fletcher and Jane Krishnadas
“Towards a Vision of Sexual and Economic Justice”, Report on the November 2007, research colloquium at the Barnard Centre for Research on Women and co-organised by Kate Bedford, Co-ordinator (with Toni Williams) of the AHRC CLGS Regulation and Governance Research Cluster — Reporter: Kate Bedford
“Gender and Regulation - A Global / Local Conversation”, Report on planning for the summer research Workshop at the University of Kent — Reporters: Toni Williams and Kate Bedford.
11:30 — 11:45 health break
11:45 — 13:15 “‘Only Connect’: Linking the interpersonal with the transnational in governance and regulation research”
Sharron FitzGerald: 'Global Governance in  a 'Borderless World': The Case of the Female Trafficked Migrant.'
Tsachi Keren-Paz: “Bases of Clients' Liability to Victims of Sex Trafficking.”
Ruth Fletcher: “Reproductive Mobility: Migrants, Nomads and Consumers”
Jane Krishnadas: 'Local Reconstructions of Global Processes'
13:15—14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 — 16:00 “Governing intimacy through the regulation of space and place, care, debt & desire”
Sarah Keenan: "Spatializing desire: law, space and identity in women's refugee claims based on sexuality"
Simone Wong / Debora Price: “Caring and sharing: on what basis should property be distributed on relationship breakdown?”
Davina Cooper:  "Intimate governance in a sexual utopia"
Toni Williams: “Meddling, managing and monitoring: regulating households through microcredit”
There is no charge for attendance but if you wish to attend please email Suzanne Jenkins by February 08,2008 at: s.jenkins@ilpj.keele.ac.uk
Venue: Keele University, Chancellor's Building, CBA1.077

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Wednesday 6th February 2008 (7.30pm)
Film night We will be showing the critically acclaimed documentary film, "Paris is Burning" (1991) directed by Jennie Livingston. "Poignant, well-received documentary that reveals the community of New York's minority drag queens, gay black and Latino men who cross dress as women and invent the dance style of "voguing," imitating the fashion poses on the covers of the magazine Vogue. As director Jennie Livingston discovers, her subjects band together into family-like "houses" for protection, taking the same last names and competing in drag balls where awards are given out for authenticity or "realness," as well as other categories like "evening wear" and "executive wear." Both an embracing and a refutation of the world of high fashion, the balls become the social locus of this underclass, underground society of outcasts defiantly refusing to be ignored by a world that scorns them." (www.allmovie.com)
Marie-Andre Jacob will give a short intervention on aspects of kinship
in the film to kick-start our discussions.
Venue: in the KPA Clubhouse (near Horwood Hall)

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Wednesday 5th December 2007 (10.00-11am)
Rosemary Auchmuty, University of Reading
Postgraduate Research Training Presentation
Fiction as a Source of Data in Researching Women Law Students' Experiences
Venue: Keele University, Room CBA0.052

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Wednesday 5th December 2007 (1-2pm)
Tom Walker, Keele University
will be presenting Center for Law Ethics and Society work- in -progress seminar- 'What's the difference between a sex addict and someone who just has a lot of sex?"
For more information see AbstractKeele University, Room CBA0.007

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Feminism and International Law roundtable
8 July.  For more information please contact z.pearson@keele.ac.uk

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12 June 2007 (9.00-4.30pm)
Sexing Reproductive Regulation: Gendering Health and Human Rights. Reg. required
Venue: CBA1.021 (r.fletcher@keele.ac.uk)
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/la/events/reproduction_workshop.htm

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Ros Petchesky, Rights of the Body in Times of War All welcome
11 June 2007 (5-7pm)
CBA0.061 ILPJ/AGF/CLGS Public Lecture (r.fletcher@keele.ac.uk) http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/la/events/petchesky_lecture.htm

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Intersex/Transgender: Regulation and Activism All welcome
6 June 2007 (2pm)
CBC1.030 with Dean Spade, “Consolidating the Gendered Citizen: Trans Survival, Bureaucratic Power, and the War on Terror”, and Julie Greenberg, “Sex Matters: Intersexuality, Transsexuality and the Law” For more information please contact a.sharpe@keele.ac.uk

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Gender, globalization and labour research workshop All welcome
16 May 2007 (2-5pm)
Speakers include Professors Lakshmi Lingham and Asha Bajpai of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. For more information please contact j.h.krishnadas@keele.ac.uk

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Postgraduate research workshop All welcome
15 May 2007 (10am – 5pm)
Speakers include visitors CLGS visitors Corie Hammers, Antu Sorainen and Keele colleague Fiona Cownie as well as a number of Keele postgraduate students. For more information please contact j.mccandless@keele.ac.uk

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Women judges: gendering judging, justifying diversity All welcome
Dermot Feenan (University of Ulster and GSL visiting fellow)
18 April 2007 (2.15pm)
CBA1.070 Please contact n.m.priaulx@keele.ac.uk for more information

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Monday 12 March 2007 (1-2pm)CBC1.030
Sarah Lamble (Kent)
‘Retelling Racialised Violence, Remaking White Innocence: The erasure of intersecting identities in Transgender Remembrance Day’ For more information, e-mail:a.sharpe@law.keele.ac.uk

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Thursday 8 March 2007 with Alternative Globalisations Forum
Workshop on topic of lap dancing clubs and sexual labour politics, collaboration with local activists, further details tbc
For more information, e-mail:j.h.krishnadas@law.keele.ac.uk

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Wednesday 14 February 2007 (3-6pm) Old Library, Keele Hall
GSL roundtables 'Why and how do we research in gender, sexuality and law?'
For more information, e-mail:m.weait@law.keele.ac.uk

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Tuesday 13 February 2007 (2pm) CBC1.031
Discussion Group, Hazel Carby reading
For more information, e-mail:n.j.barker@law.keele.ac.uk

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Thursday 8 February 2007 (1-2pm)CBC1.030
Rosemary Hunter (Kent), Close Encouters of a Judicial Kind: 'Hearing' Children's 'Voices' in Family Law Proceedings'. For more information, e-mail:r.fletcher@law.keele.ac.uk

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Thursday 1 February 2007 (4.30-5.30pm)
"Envisage" room in Science Learning Centre
Melanie Latham (Manchester Metropolitan University), 'The Shape of Things to Come: Regulating Cosmetic Surgery'
For more information, e-mail:m.fox@law.keele.ac.uk

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Tuesday 30th January 2007 (12 noon)
CBC1.029
Discussion group, Big Brother controversy
For more information, e-mail: r.fletcher@law.keele.ac.uk

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Wednesday 31st January 2007 (6pm)
GSL Film Night ‘The Handmaid's Tale'
Room CBC1.030 Chancellor’s Building (Law Seminar Room),
'The Handmaid's Tale' (1990) is Directed by Volker Schlöndorff and is described as a ‘’haunting tale of sexuality in a country gone wrong’ and as a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, where a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility. Hopefully, the film should feed into themes of reproduction, consent, regulation etc. for more information on the film see: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099731/ 
There will of course be wine and a few nibbles to sustain us throughout the viewing. (running time under 2 hours)
For more information, email: Suzanne Jenkins

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Wednesday 24th January 2007 (2-4pm)
CBC1.030
Sami Zeidan (City University New York), GSL visiting fellow, ‘From Theory to Policy: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Law and Politics of Sexuality’

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Women’s Rights in State-Building Processes in Afghanistan and Japan
Tuesday 21st November 2006 (10am-12pm)
CBA1.077
An International Law and Feminism Group; Gender, Sexuality and Law; Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality; and Alternative Globalisations Forum Collaboration.
Sari Kouvo (CLGS Visiting Fellow, Rule of Law, Human Rights and Gender Adviser to the EU Special Representative for Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan): Humanising Democracy? Some Reflections on the Role of Human Rights in the State-Building Process in Afghanistan
The presentation discusses the ongoing "democratisation" and state-building process in Afghanistan and especially the different roles that human rights have come to play in this process. In the presentation a special focus will be given to women's rights and to the emphasis on gender mainstreaming.
Yoko Narisada (GSL Visiting Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate, Edinburgh), Gender politics of the state compensation under military occupation
The presentation explores how gender and sexuality norms are regulated through the kinship discourse in the name of traditional custom, customary law, and modern law, by looking at the lawsuit against gendered distribution of compensation for common lands occupied by the U.S. military forces in Okinawa, Japan.
Respondent Jane Krishnadas (Alternative Globalisations Forum, Keele)
Refreshments Provided

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First British-German Socio-Legal Workshop: Law, Politics and Justice' Opening lecture presented by Dr. Konstanze Plett
Thursday, 9th of November 2006 (18.00 -19.00)
Old Library, Keele Hall, Keele University, UK
'Some Paradoxes of Sexual Citizenship, Human Rights, Family and Reproduction'
Abstract: The “original” citizen of the 19th century was conceptualized as a wealthy heterosexual male bourgeois who could – and should – “found” and head a family. The 21st century concept of sexual citizenship, in contrast, includes every human being and tries to overcome old boundaries (public/private, culture/nature, state/family) at the same time. Yet there are some paradoxes or inconsistencies if the additional rights of sexual citizens are looked at more closely. This becomes obvious when reproductive rights are regarded as negative and positive rights. They remain gendered on the one hand, and differ from other human rights on the other hand. The difference lies in the fact that they cannot be granted to any single individual by the state, but require most often a second person, i.e., they must be granted to (at least) a pair of individuals. Hence 21st century concepts of citizenship and human rights should take the difference between individual and relational human rights into account. Event Flyer

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Monday 20 March 2006 (3.45pm)
Wedgwood Room, Keele Management Centre, Keele village
'Uncanny Gametes: Defining the human in the context of womanless reproduction'
Isabel Karpin, University of Sydney, Australia (in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Philosophy seminar series) http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/about/staff/IsabelKarpin/

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Wednesday 8 March 2006 ( 4pm)
CBC1.030
"A Politics of the Unknowable: Social Transformation and a Queer Feminist
Jurisprudence"
Anna Carline, Liverpool John Moores University and Keele University GSL
Visiting Fellow http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/la/gslgroup/fellows0506.htm

Friday 2 December 2005 (2pm)
in Hornbeam Rm 111
Rhon Reynolds, African HIV Policy Network
AHPN is an umbrella organisation which represents African community groups addressing HIV/AIDS and sexual health throughout the UK. It is the only nation wide African organisation operating at policy level. It is involved in developing national HIV strategies and policy. It promotes research and lobbies on behalf of African community-based organisations. The AHPN gathers and analyses information from community organisations, health care providers, researchers, NGOs and government departments and distributes what is relevant, up-to-date and accurate among its member organisations.
Rhon Reynold's background is in public health policy and he has worked on issues such as health care access and HIV, race and human rights, in NYC and in London and has separately developed a National Framework for African living with HIV residing in the UK.Link: http://www.ahpn.org/

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Thursday 1 December 2005 (5pm-7pm)
A seminar by the PG contingency of the CLGS Keele group:
"A man in a woman's world, a woman in a man's world"
Presentations by Jonathan Jones (English), Julie McCandless (Law) and
Gemma Stringer (Criminology).
More information. All welcome.

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Marie Fox, Journal of Law and Society
Ambreena Manji, Social and Legal Studies
Martin Wasik, Criminal Law Review

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23rd November 2005 (12 noon)
Recep Dogan: "When culture goes beyond religion and the law: blood-y reasons for honour killings and revisiting the law of provocation"
ABSTRACT: In the context of honour killings, killings are culturally motivated and governed by 'the specific logic of an honour culture' (Kurkiala, 2003:6) which is completely alien to the both jury and trial judge in the UK, as because it requires that:
"if a woman refused to comply with the rules set down by her cultural community, her 'immoral behaviour' contaminated the whole family. If other strategies to make the women comply failed, the only remedy was for her male relatives to kill her in order to protect the family honour." (Kurkiala, 2003:7).
However, there is a reluctance to explain the concept of honour killings in cultural dimensions. There is also a judicial reluctance to make cultural defences and provocation pleas based on different cultural understanding of honour and shame available in murder cases, contextually honour killing cases. Both reluctances emanate from a widespread fear that such an interpretation and cultural defences might lend itself to racist interpretations and acceptance of negative stereotypes that will promote racism (Yeo, 1996:304, Leader-Elliott 1996, Phillips, 2003:514, Kurkiala, 2003:7).
But,precluding cultural defences to be discussed by the jury and brought before the jury by showing reluctance and giving the impression that they are unworthy, irrelevant, complex and will promote racism is unfair and erroneous. Indeed, this reluctance restricts the presentation of available evidences that have a possible influence on the gravity of the provocation and the defendant's response to the provocation, which is clearly in breach of the principle of fair trial and equal treatment before the law.

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Thursday 8 September 2005
3-5.30pm Room CBC1.098, Chancellor’s Building, Keele University
Research Workshop: 'Judging Values: Gender, Class and Race in Legal Knowledge' More information

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Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd May 2005
Keele Hall
Conference:"Theorising Intersectionality"
50 national and international speakers, Fees from £85. More Information.

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Friday May 20th 2005 (3-5pm)
Chancellors Building, CBA1.071
Open CentreLGS administrative meeting,

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Thursday May 19th 2005 (2-4pm)
Chancellors Building, CBA1.100
International Feminist Scholar, Sherene Razack, Ontario Institute for Studies, 'Feminism and Geopolitics'

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Thursday 12th and Friday 13th May 2005

Conference: "Exploring Key Concepts in Feminist Legal Theory: The state,
governance and citizenship relations"
Fees are £70/30 (except for grant aided places) see programme for further details. Please register with k.e.hollingworth@keele.ac.uk asap so numbers can be accommodated.

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Tuesday May 10th 2005 (2-3.30pm)
CBC1.030 (Law Common Room)
A Critical Conversation about 'Hybridity'.
Conversation will be led by contributions from Sharron Fitzgerald, Human
Geography, Keele and Emily Grabham, Research Fellow, CentreLGS, Kent. Feel free to bring along a late lunch.

Tuesday May 10th 2005 (6pm)
Westminster Lecture Theatre
'Transgender Jurisprudence', Inaugral Lecture by Prof Andrew Sharpe
All welcome.

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Wednesday May 4th 2005 (12-1pm)
Room tbc
Work-in-progress session by Lakshmi Arya, Visiting Fellow from Centre of Historical Studies, JNU, Delhi, India.

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Wednesday May 4th 2005 (1-2.30)
Chancellor's Building CBC1.030.
Materialist Feminist Reading Group meets to discuss 'the point of view of historical materialism' and 'the lesbian' chapters from de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

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Wednesday 23 March 2005 (1-2pm)
CBB0.003
Nikoli Aniekwu 'Converging Constructions: A Gendered Discourse on Post Colonial Feminism'

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Tuesday 22 March 2005 (11.30 – 1pm)
Keele Hall Room 41.
Rhon Reynolds, African HIV Policy Network,
Rhon’s background is in public health policy and he has worked on issues such as health care access and HIV, race and human rights, in NYC and in London. He has been involved in developing a National Framework for Africans living with HIV residing in the UK (Contact rhon.reynolds@ahpn.org). Rhon will talk about the work of the African HIV Policy Network, which is an umbrella organisation that represents African community groups addressing HIV/AIDS and sexual health throughout the UK. It is the only nation wide African organisation operating at policy level. It is involved in developing national HIV strategies and policy, promoting research and lobbying on behalf of African community-based organisations. The AHPN gathers and analyses information from community organisations, health care providers, researchers, NGOs and government departments and distributes what is relevant, up-to-date and accurate among its member organisations.

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Monday 14 March 2005 (12-1)
CBC1.030.
Suzi Shukor, Kent Law School, "Educating Muslim Women for Empowerment in Indonesia: The Prospects and the Challenge",

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Tuesday 8 March 2005 (12-2)
CBC1.030
Materialist Feminist Reading Group meets to discuss Fredrick Engels, On the Origins of the Family, State and Private Property.
Reading available at: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/
works/1884/origin-family/index.htm

Tuesday 8 March 2005 (12-2)
CBC1.030. Materialist Feminist Reading Group,We will discuss Simone de Beauvoir's, The Second Sex, 1949.
Reading: 'Introduction: Woman as Other' which is available at http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/debeauv.htm and chapter 1 from Book One 'The Data of Biology' which is available at http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/debeauv1.htm All welcome!

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Tuesday 1st March 2005 (12-1pm)
CBA0.003.
Onalenna Selolwane, University of Botswana, "Gendered Spaces in Party Politics in Southern Africa",
Professor Onalenna Selolwane, is a distinguished sociologist and previous head of the department of sociology at the University of Botswana. She was until quite recently the Chair of Emang Basadi, a famous feminist NGO in Botswana.

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Wednesday 23 Feb 2005 (7pm)
CBC1.012
Postgraduate Film Forum: All About My Mother
Viewing and Discussion

Tuesday 22 Feb 2005 (12-1)
CBC1.030.
Materialist Feminist Reading Group,
For discussion: a chapter from Rosemary Hennessy, Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism (Routledge, 2000).

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Tuesday February 22nd 2005 (1pm)
in the Law Seminar Room CBC1.030.
Malcolm Voyce, Macquarie University, 'Shopping Malls and Neoliberalism: Governance by Consumption?' on

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Tuesday Feb 15th 2005 (5pm)
CBC1.030.
Margrit Shildrick will give a talk drawing on her work on the disabled body entitled: 'Transgressing the Law with Foucault and Derrida'.

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Thursday 3 February 2005 (6-8pm) SCR, Keele Hall
Postgraduate Film Forum: Aimee and Jaguar
Viewing and discussion;

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Wednesday 2 Feb 2005 (2-5pm)
Regulating/Celebrating Intimate Relations, Research Workshop, CBC1.100
Rosie Harding, Kent Law School
‘Regulating same sex relationships: A survey of lesbian and gay attitudes to law and the legal recognition of same sex relationships.’
Matthew Weait, School of Law, Keele University
‘What are we like? Preliminary findings from the Gay Times/Diva Relationship Survey.’
Beccy Shipman & Carol Smart, Centre for Research on Family, Kinship and Childhood, University of Leeds
‘Gay and Lesbian Marriage: An exploration of the meanings and significance of legitimating same sex relationships.’
Brian Simpson, School of Law, Keele University
‘Regulating adult-child intimate relations in the classroom.’
Tracy Simmons, Centre for Mass Communication Research, Department of Geography, University of Leicester
‘UK Immigration: recognising and regulating same sex couples.’
Christian Klesse, Sociological Review Research Fellow. Keele University
‘Are Queers the Pioneers of Emotional Democratisation? Some Critical Comments on the Myth of Same-Sex Relationship Equality.’

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Tuesday 1 Feb 2005 (1-2pm) CBC1.030
A Critical Conversation about Race, Gender and Sexuality led by Ruby Greene (Health Planning and Management) and Ruth Fletcher (Law), both of FEMM and CLGS
Ruby and Ruth will introduce the discussion by reference to Ruby's work on the impact of socio-cultural factors on the vulnerabitlity of African-Caribbean women to HIV/AIDS and Ruth's work on reproductive migrants and the Irish citizenship referendum 2004

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Thursday 9 Dec 2004 (1-2pm)
CBA0.021 Education Dept's lunchtime research series
Nicola Barker, ‘What about the ‘others’?’ A lesbian feminist standpoint on difference in legal education and academia

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Tuesday 7 Dec 2004 (1-2 pm)
CBC2.028
Why materialist feminism?
An informal exchange led by Jenny Smith (Phd student) and Ruth Fletcher (lecturer).
This will be the first in a CentreLGS series of lunchtime 'Critical Conversations'. The aim is to provide an informal space for discussing a particular concept, approach or theoretical framework and why individual researchers have found it useful in their work. Jenny and Ruth would also like to invite interested individuals to participate in a reading group on materialist/Marxist/socialist feminism which will evolve from this session. All interested staff and postgraduate students welcome (contact r.fletcher@keele.ac.uk for more info).

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Wed 24 November 2004 (2-3pm)
CBC1.030, Work-in-progress presentation
Brian Simpson, Law Department, 'Monsters in the bedroom: The cyberchild, cybersex(uality) and state control'

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Tuesday 23 November 2004 (5pm)
CBC1.030, Work-in-progress presentation
Christian Klesse, 'Legal Equality and Sexual Citizenship'.
Christian is the Sociological Review Fellow at Keele and he is currently working on a book on gay male and bisexual non-monogamies and is co-editing a forthcoming issue of Sexualities on Non-Monogamy and Polyamory. Contact c.klesse@keele.ac.uk

Tuesday 16 November 2004 (6pm)
Film show: Venusboyz
Senior Common Room, Keele Hall
Venusboyz is a documentary about female masculinity and drag kings in London and New York. The website describes it as: A FILM JOURNEY THROUGH A UNIVERSE OF FEMALE MASCULINITY. Women become men - some for a night, others for their whole lives. Masculinity and transformance as performance, subversion and existential necessity. An intimate film about people who create intermediate sexual identities. (http://www.venusboyz.net/):

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Wednesday 3 November 2004 (2pm)
CBC1.030, Work-in-progress presentation
Lieve Gies, Law Department, 'Courting the Media: Press Judges in Holland'

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Wednesday 3 November 2004 (1pm)
CBA1.075, Open meeting for new Keele members

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Tuesday 2 November 2004 (5-7pm)
CBC1.030, Research Workshop
‘Childhood, Child Law and the Reproduction of Gender Relations’
with Michelle Cottier, GSL Visiting Fellow, University of Basel, Switzerland; Alice Hearst, GSL Visiting Fellow, Smith College, USA; and Anne Worrall, Criminology, Keele University

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Wednesday 20 October 2004 (2-3pm)
CBC1.030, Work-in-progress presentation
Matthew Weait, Law Department, ‘The problem of shared responsibility in the criminal law’

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