The focus of the workshop is to develop an understanding of how the various disciplines involved in the Cluster’s activities research different dimensions of in/equalities. Questions as the following will be discussed: How does the respective discipline approach the topic of in/equalities in terms of theories, methods, concepts and empirical case studies? Which questions guide the discussion on in/equalities in the specific research area? In which direction could current theories/methods be constructively developed? These discussions are crucial for the elaboration of joint projects in the future.
WHEN: 16-17 November 2023
WHERE: University of Graz, UR 09.23, Heinrichstraße 26, 2nd floor
16.11.2023
17.00-18.30
Welcome and Workshop Introduction
Emma Lantschner (Centre for Southeast European Studies) and Heidrun Zettelbauer (Department of History)
Keynote lecture by
Koen Slootmaeckers
(City, University of London, Department of International Politics)
What is progress? LGBT rights and the imaginary of Europe through Enlargement
LGBT rights have become increasingly salient within the EU enlargement process as a litmus test for Europeanness. But the promotion of these norms has provided a basis for political contestation. This lecture interrogates the normative dimensions of the EU enlargement process, with special reference to LGBT politics. In this talk, Koen Slootmaeckers is engaging in a critical conversation with the way in which LGBT rights are imagined within European politics. Through this analysis, he calls for new politics, a new approach to LGBT equality that moves away from rights based approaches towards a politics that centres the lives of people, that no longer seeks to find progress where it can, but instead focusses on those that are left behind. Through this work, Koen Slootmaeckers calls to action the ethical obligation scholars have in their work to highlight where violence occurs and persists and to provide routes for avenues toward a queer peace.
17.11.2023
09.00-10.30 Strategies Against Inequalities: Forms of Participation and Activism
10.30-11.00 Migration, Displacement and Related In/equalities
13.30-14.30 Trans/national debates: In/equalities related to religion and gender