SM seated between Prof Sylvia Tamale and Dr Emrah Karakus and Dr Sharmila Parmanand for LSE Gender Studies 30th Anniversary Symposium

 

 
 

 

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June 14: Future Legacies: Afro-normalism at the End of the World, with Jade Bentil and Jacob von Joyce. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, U.K.

May 16: Criminology and Criminal Justice through the Lens of Queer Theory, with Sharon Cowan and Aube Tollu. University of Cambridge. Faculty of Law and the Justice and Society Research Centre. Register or find more information here: https://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/criminology-and-criminal-justice-through-lens-queer-theory-roundtable-discussion

April 1: Recoding Enforcement: The Imperative of Studying Invisibilised (Extra)Legal Harms, LSE Research Showcase, UK: Recording available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y8nkKlxvzE

March 5: "Abolition Now!" SM in conversation with S Lamble, LSE Gender

February 13: Trans Lives, Histories and Activisms, SM in conversation with Susan Stryker and Onni Gust, LSE Gender and LSE International History, UK

February 5: Arrested Analysis: The Unseen Reach of Sodomy Laws in Uganda, Mannheim Research Centre for Criminology, LSE, UK 

December 2: “Women’s Rights and Human Rights: Carceral Genealogies from CEDAW to Istanbul” Warwick Law, UK

May 22: "Finding Black Inspiration: Renewing our Commitment to Antiracist and Decolonial Scholarship" Black Professors Pipeline, London, UK

April 23: "Connecting Against Carceralism" Invited Lecture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

February 6: "Abolition and the Black Feminist Imagination" Abolitionist Imaginaries and Praxis Group, University of Oxford, UK

January 30: "The Question of Enforcement: Anti-Homosexuality Legislation in Uganda and the Problem of Panoptic Policing" Public Seminar Series at the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, UK

December 7: Pedagogies of the Scholar-Activist, “Interrogating ‘Activist-Scholarship’ in Socio-legal Studies” Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

November 1: "Revisiting a Methodology of Connection: on Scholar-Activist Methods" Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, London, UK

October 30: "Black Feminism in Europe: Celebrating our Sisters, Saluting our Sisters, and Honouring Matriarchs of Movements" The European Institute and LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, London School of Economics (RSVP)

October 16: "Rethinking Radicality in Queer Theory" (Symposium), University of Sussex

June 26: "Africanizing Queerness" A conversation with S.N. Nyeck and Nathalie Etoke, The Philosopher

June 2: "Politics of the Personal: Academia, Art and Activism" Plenary,
Gender Studies Now (Conference),
University of Stavanger, Norway

May 26: "Circuits of Queer/Capital" Plenary,
What's Left of Sexual Democracy (Conference), Newcastle University, UK

March 17: "Gender, Race, Disability and In/Vulnerability: Protectionist Politics and Lawful Punishment in the United States" Keynote Address, University of Warwick Law School, UK

February 4: "Lesbian, Queer and Trans-feminist resistance against sexual violence" We Are the Feminisms, SOAS University of London, UK

January 25: "Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place" by J.T. Roane, Book Launch Chaired by SM, LSE 4:00-5:30PM

September 22: "Reconsidering Anti-Homosexuality and Anti-Gender Politics in Uganda" Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA

September 21: "African Feminisms for Abolitionist Futures" LSE Gender Studies Welcome Address, London, UK 3:30pm-5pm BST

August 9: The Movement to End Abortion and LGBTQI+ Rights: Insights from Ireland, Brazil, El Salvador, Uganda, and the United States, American Sociological Association Presidential Panel, Los Angeles, CA 10am-11:30am PST

August 9: "Sexual Displacements" SM and Elena Shih (Brown University) as discussants, American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA 12pm-1:30pm PST

August 5: "Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition" by Liat Ben-Moshe, Author-Meets-Critic Session (SM as critic), Society for the Study of Social Problems, Los Angeles, CA

April 1: "Africanist, Anti Carceral Feminisms for Decolonial Futures” Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) Winter Meeting Opening Plenary, entitled Feminist Mobilizing for a Better Future: A Transnational Perspective. Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, USA 10-11:30am MST

April 1: "racialization.spectacle.liberation: feminist ruminations on place-making, memory, and the non-human" Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) Winter Meeting panel (SM moderating with Chriss Sneed) Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, USA 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm MST