[Reader-list] [Announcements] RETHINKING GENDERS, SEXUALITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS

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RETHINKING GENDERS, SEXUALITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS: 

CONTESTING RIGHTS CLAIMS
A ten-day seminar course
 

Open Space invites you to sign up for an introductory course on human rights, gender and sexuality run by human rights lawyer and researcher Oishik Sircar.

The course will run for 10 days in mid May (dates and time to be determined according to response preferences). The course fee is Rs.500 for individuals and Rs.700 for institutions.

 

The course seeks to establish and study the linkages between human rights, feminist jurisprudence and Queer Theory and activism. It will discuss problematic issues within human rights discourse and practice. The course will be built around discussions of selected readings, case studies, films and group work/ activities. 

 

The course is divided into the following modules:

 

�         Understanding, recognising and declaring human rights

�         Sexual Pleasure and Danger

�         Sexual Hierarchies

�         Moral Panics and the Legal Regulation of Sexuality

�         The Violence against Women Campaign in India and the campaign against Section 377 of the Indian Constitution

�         Claiming Sexual Rights Internationally: Cultural Relativism vs. Universalism, Agency vs. Victimhood

�         Sex work and Trafficking

�         Representation and Free Speech: Pornography and Censorship

�         Effective Strategies for Law Reform

 

This course is aimed at graduate students, activists and practitioners who have basic knowledge of issues concerning human rights, social justice or development. The course will give participants an opportunity to understand and question theories of struggle, and enable them to challenge their own models of activist interventions.

 

FACULTY (tentative)

Meena Seshu, Founder & General Secretary-SANGRAM, Sangli
Dr. Jaya Sagade, Vice-Principal-ILS Law College, Pune
Dr. Nirmala Pandit, Managing Trustee-NAVAM, Pune
Manisha Gupte, Convenor-MASUM, Pune 
Bindumadhav Khire, Samapathik Trust, Pune
Oishik Sircar, Human Rights Lawyer and Researcher

 

PARTICIPATION IS LIMITED TO 20 INDIVIDUALS. MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION IS ENGLISH.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE COURSE PLEASE GET BACK TO US BEFORE APRIL 12th.  CONTACT US AT arshia at openspaceindia.org OR oishiksircar at gmail.com

 

MENTION YOUR NAME, AREA OF INTEREST, ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE AND PREFERRED MEETING TIME (2:00 TO 6:00PM OR 5:00 TO 9:00PM).

 

WE WILL GET BACK TO YOU WITH A CONFIRMED SCHEDULE AND COURSE OUTLINE BY THE END OF APRIL.


		
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