DRS/SRI: Development Research Seminars (DRS): January-June 2013

Theme: Why Sex Counts?

The DRS Spring-Summer Series will be organized by the newly formed ISS 'Sexuality Research Initiative' (SRI).

Under the title 'Why Sex Counts' the series aims to readdress what sexuality and sex means not just
as a subtext to development but as an important entry point through which to understand development
studies.

The series will unpack concepts such as masculinities, sex work, sexual rights, erotic justice,
embodiment, showing how the body (sexualized and desexualized) is embedded in development
discourse. Speakers from around the world will illustrate how sexuality is not marginal but part
and parcel of political economy debates in development, the experience of global inequalities, and
the legacy of colonialism intersecting with racism and mechanisms of social exclusion.

The sessions are designed as interactive conversations with members of SRI facilitating each
session with the invited speaker and ISS staff or PhD students engaged in a dialogue format.

Contact:  harcourt@iss.nl or heumann@iss.nl

Held in Aula A, every other Monday, from 16:15 - 17: 45 (unless otherwise stated)

http://www.iss.nl/research/conferences_and_seminars/development_research_seminars/ 

Full Schedule can be found here


Shuchi Karim, ISS Living middle class sexualities in Bangladesh, 21st January

Delwar Hussain is anthropologist and has recently completed a PhD from the University of Cambridge, The Sexual Lives of Borderlanders: Hijras on the Bangladesh- India Border, 4th February

Huong Nguyen (visiting scholar from Vietnam) and Roy Huijsman,  ISS, Migration, Youth and
Sexualities, 18th February

Panel Debate: Feminisms, Gender and Sexualities, 4th March

Ramzy Qumsieh , Palestine Link, Queer Politics in Palestine, 18th March

Stefan Dudink, Sex and the Nation Again: Homosexuality in Dutch Debates on Multiculturalism and Islam, 8th April

Susan Paulson, Miami University Dolibois European Center, Virility, Potency and Changing Political Economies in Latin America, 22nd April

Paul Boyce,University of Sussex, The State of Sexuality: Modernity, Law and Same-Sex Sexualities in Nepal, 6th May

Kate Bedford, University of Kent, Heteronormativity and the World Bank, 21st May* (*Tuesday)

Sylvia Marcos, Center for Psycho- ethnological Research, Cuernavaca, Indigenous Cosmologies on Sexualities, 3rd June

Kristen Cheney and Auma Okwany, ISS Neocolonialism and Homophobia in Uganda. A Dialogue, 10th June

See for more information:

International Institute of Social Studies

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