KFG workshop | The Sexual Politics of Liberal Internationalism, 1990s to the Present

Venue: West Court, Jesus Lane, Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL

Thursday 8 May

Arrival and Introduction (14.00-14.30)

Panel 1 (14:30 – 16:00)

Hate: A Criminal History of Germany’s Violent ‘90s
Christopher Ewing (Department of History, Purdue University)

Queer Internationalism, Austria and the Nazi Past: The 1995 Human Rights Tribunal
Craig Griffiths (Department of History, Manchester Metropolitan University)

Public Lecture: Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Trinity Street (17:15 – 19.00)

Professor Dagmar Herzog (CUNY): Sexual-Political Paradigm Shift. From Liberal Internationalism to Postmodern Fascism

Friday 9 May

Panel 2 (9.30 – 11.00)

Happy people of the world, unite!’ Nude Activists Making Sense of the Changing World in 1990s Poland
Anna Dobrowolska (Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw)

Queer Rights and Art as Stimuli of Social Change: the Freedoms and Limits of Democratization and International Liberalism in Post-1989 Central Europe
Paweł Leszkowicz and Tomasz Kitliński (Academy of Art, Szczecin)

Panel 3 (11.30 – 13.00)

Transformation-Era Feminism Negotiating Liberal Internationalism and the Socialist Past
Zsófia Lóránd (Department of Contemporary History / RECET, University of Vienna)

Globalising Gender Studies After the Cold War
Celia Donert (Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)

Panel 4 (14.00 – 16.15)

Liberal Internationalism and "Global Women's Issues" in U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1990s to the Present
Rebecca Turkington (Hillary Rodham Clinton Research Fellow, Georgetown)

The Gendered Subject in U.S. Immigration Policy
Zain Lakhani (Director of Migrant Rights and Justice, Women’s Refugee Commission)

Liberal Internationalism, Fascism, and the Imaginative Geography of Sex Trafficking
Jeanne Morefield (Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Oxford)

Closing Discussion (16.15-16.45)

 

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