About the event
Since the early modern period LGBTQ+ epistemologies in the West have traversed several epistemological models: notably, theological, scientific, and social constructionist. Each of these models emerges at identifiable moments in history, yet they should be construed as cumulative and not strictly successive.
LGBTQ+ epistemology can no longer rely upon a unifying model consolidating it in opposition to an external and equally unified hegemonic power. We no longer have yet another model to toss into competition with those which have preceded. The very character of LGBTQ+ epistemology needs to change accordingly.
The lecture will last for 40 minutes and will be followed by a discussion by Professor Lisa Downing.
Juris North 2024 Roundtables: Queer Theory, Leadership and Inclusion
Hosted by Westminster Law School
Organising Team: Dr Anna Chronopoulou, Senior Lecturer in Law, WLS, Chair of Law and Popular Culture, Juris North, Dr Harriet Samuels, Reader in Law, WLS
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Eric Heinze, QMUL
Discussant: Prof. Lisa Downing, University of Birmingham
Contact: [email protected]
Location
4-12 Little Titchfield Street, London, W1W 7BY
Professor Eric Heinze
Eric Heinze is Professor of Law and Humanities at QMUL. His most recent book, The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech is Everything (2022, The MIT Press) has been nominated for: ‘The Next Big Idea’. His articles have appeared in a number of esteemed law journals such as the: Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Harvard Human Rights Journal, International Theory, Modern Law Review, International Journal of Human Rights, The Journal of Comparative Law, Constitutional Commentary, the International Journal of Law in Context, Ratio Juris, Legal Studies, the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, Michigan Journal of International Law, National Black Law Journal, Journal of Social & Legal Studies, Law & Critique, and several other journals.
Professor Lisa Downing
Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is a specialist in interdisciplinary sexuality and feminist studies, critical theory, and the history of cultural concepts, focusing especially on questions of exceptionality, difficulty, and (ab)normality. Her most recent book-length projects are authored book, Selfish Women (Routledge, 2019) and edited collection, Critical Freedoms (Paragraph and Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Her new monograph-manifesto Against Affect, will appear in University of Nebraska Press’s ‘Provocations’ series in 2025.
