The 'Current Issues in Human Rights Research' Lecture Series
The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights invites leading academics from across the globe to give presentations on their cutting edge research within the field of human rights. The aim of the lecture series is to explore human rights research from several viewpoints and disciplines.
About the Lecture
In the past three decades, remarkable progress has been made in numerous countries for the rights of individuals marginalized due to their sexual orientation and gender identity.
The advancements in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, and Queer (LGBTIQ) rights in many countries can largely be attributed to the tireless efforts of the transnational LGBTIQ-rights movement, forward-thinking governments in pioneering nations, and the evolving human rights frameworks of international organizations.
However, this journey towards equality has been met with formidable opposition. An increasingly interconnected and globally networked resistance, backed by religious-nationalist elements and conservative governments, has emerged to challenge LGBTIQ and women's rights, even seeking to reinterpret and co-opt international human rights law.
In this lecture, Phillip Ayoub investigate this complex landscape, drawing from over a decade of in-depth fieldwork with LGBTIQ activists, anti-LGBTIQ proponents, and various state and international organization actors.
Moral conservative networks have employed many of the same transnational tools that gained LGBTIQ people their widespread recognition. As the double-helix metaphor suggests, rival networks have a reciprocal relationship, having to navigate each other’s presence in an interactive space and thus using related strategies and instruments for mutually exclusive ends.
About the Lecturer
Phillip M. Ayoub is a professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at University College London. He is the author of four books and volumes, including When States Come Out: Europe’s Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and his articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Social Forces, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, the European Journal of International Relations, the European Journal of Political Research, the Review of International Studies, Mobilization, the European Political Science Review, the Journal of Human Rights, Social Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Social Movement Studies, among others. Further information can be found under phillipayoub.com.
Practical Information
Moderator: Prof. Nina Reiners (NCHR)
The lecture will be in English. Due to limited space, participants will have to register prior to the lecture.