Inaugural Professorial Lecture: 'Pushing Feminism off the Map? International Law in Times of Crisis'

Wed 20/05/2009

Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Speaker:

Professor Dianne Otto

Description:

 Moving against the grain of conventional thinking, this lecture explores the spaces that emergencies create for critical or progressive engagement with law. There is little doubt that crises are a particularly dangerous time for feminism, as for other projects of social justice. International law has proved to be particularly amenable to the service of crisis, presenting many challenges for feminist legal theory and activism. But do emergencies necessarily displace law’s emancipatory potential (assuming it exists) and, if not, what opportunities does a time of crisis present for advancing feminist goals?

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Dianne Otto is Chair of Law at the Melbourne Law School and Director of the International Human Rights Law Program of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH). Professor Otto’s research and publications are in the area of public international law, human rights law and critical legal theory. Her research interests include utilizing feminist, postcolonial and queer theory to reveal the voices and interests that are marginalized or silenced by mainstream international legal discourse. Recent publications include: ‘The Security Council’s alliance of “gender legitimacy”: The symbolic capital of Resolution 1325’ in Faultlines of International Legitimacy (Cambridge 2009); ‘Making sense of zero tolerance policies in peacekeeping sexual economies’ in Sexuality and the Law: Feminist Engagements (Routledge, 2007); and Lost in translation: re-scripting the sexed subject of international human rights law’ in International Law and Its Others (Cambridge 2006). She has edited Special Editions of Third World Legal Studies (1998-99) on ‘Postcolonialism and Law’; and of the Australian Journal of Human Rights (2004) on ‘Housing, Homelessness and Human Rights’ (with Phil Lynch).

Before coming to law, Professor Otto worked as a community development worker in Melbourne with homeless young people, survivors of domestic violence, and people with psychiatric disabilities. In her research, writing and teaching she brings together her practical experience in social justice community work and her scholarly engagement with critical theories and practises of international law.
 

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Venue:

Melbourne Law School

Address:

185 Pelham Street Carlton

Admission:

Free public lecture, registration is essential via registration form below

Contact Person:

Dianne Costello

Contact Details:

(03) 8344 1153

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