Development Research Seminars
SRI/DRS Spring/Summer Series 'Why Sex Counts'
Theme: Why Sex Counts
Held in Aula A, every other Monday, from 16:15 - 17: 45 (unless otherwise stated)
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
http://www.iss.nl/research/conferences_and_seminars/development_research_seminars/
Full Schedule to be found here
| Speaker | Topic | Date |
| Shuchi Karim, ISS | 21st January | |
| Delwar Hussain, University of Cambridge | DRS/SRI: The Sexual Lives of Borderlanders: Hijras on the Bangladesh-India Border | 4th February |
| Huong Nguyen, (visiting scholar from Vietnam) and Roy Huijsman, ISS | DRS/SRI: Debate on Migration, Youth and Sexualities
| 18th February |
| Saskia Wieringa, University of Amsterdam, Gé Meulmeester (ATRIA) and Gemma Andriessen, HIVOS
| DRS/SRI: Panel Debate on Feminisms, Gender and Sexualities
| 4th March |
| Ramzy Qumsieh, Palestine Link
| DRS/SRI: Sexuality Discourse and Queer Organizing in the Political Context of Palestine | 18th March |
| Stefan Dudink, Raboud University | DRS/SRI: Sex and the Nation Again: Homosexuality in Dutch Debates on Multiculturalism and Islam
| 8th April |
| Susan Paulson, Miami University Dolibois European Center, Luxembourg and Lund University, Sweden | DRS/SRI: Virility, Potency and Changing Political Economies in Latin America | 22nd April |
| Paul Boyce, University of Sussex | DRS/SRI: The State of Sexuality: Modernity, Law and Same-Sex Sexualities in Nepal
| 6th May |
| Kate Bedford, University of Kent
| DRS/SRI: Heteronormativity, Harmony Ideology, and Development | 21st May (Tuesday) |
| Sylvia Marcos, Center for Psycho-ethnological Research, Cuernavaca | 3rd June | |
| Kristen Cheney and Auma Okwany, ISS | DRS/SRI: Neocolonialism and Homophobia in Uganda
| 10th June |
