EUGendering

A conversation about Markus Thiel's latest book “The European Union's International Promotion of LGBTI Rights: Promises and Pitfalls”
2023-04-28 12:30 - 14:00 (Europe/Paris) | P30 (Préfecture) Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, 119 rue du marais, Bruxelles, Belgium
Organisation: Sophie Jacquot (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles)
Chair and mediator: Serena D’Agostino (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Discussion: David Paternotte (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Markus Thiel is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University, Miami. He also directs FIU’s EU-Jean Monnet Center of Excellence. His research interests are the political sociology of the EU and European Politics more generally, Identity Politics and LGBTI Politics.

Book Description
“This book critically analyzes the European Union’s promotion of LGBTI rights in the international arena. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex rights are heavily contested across the globe, with over 70 countries criminalizing same-sex relations and at least 10 imposing the death penalty.
The book details how the EU, based on different member state positions, attempts to jointly formulate and implement guidelines for the external promotion of LGBTI rights. It also problematizes the various normative and policy-based Eurocentric prescriptions to further these rights. Drawing on an international political sociology framework infused with queer theoretical thought, the author investigates the apparent normative tensions emerging from Europe’s promotion of LGBTI rights as liberal human rights and the ensuing pushback by culturally and politically conservative states. He examines the compatibility of EU institutional and member states’ conceptions of LGBTI rights and the more general question of the EU’s normative agenda-setting power on the world stage. He then explores the external policy areas in which LGBTI rights promotion is formulated and diffused – namely in development and foreign aid, in enlargement and neighbourhood policies, and in other international organizations. In conclusion, the author suggests viewing the contention surrounding LGBTI rights within broader governance contexts, and thus reimagining rights promotion in a more holistic manner.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of LGBTI and Human Rights, European Politics, and International Relations.”

Que faut-il attendre de la proposition de directive sur la transparence salariale entre les femmes et les hommes ?
2023-02-15 12:00 - 15:30 | P30 (Préfecture) Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, 119 rue du marais, Bruxelles, Belgium
Nicolas Moizard est professeur à l’Université de Strasbourg (Institut du travail). Spécialiste de droit social français et européen, il travaille notamment sur les discriminations et sur la relation individuelle et collective du travail. Sur le sujet en lien avec le séminaire, il a notamment publié « La proposition de directive sur la transparence salariale entre les femmes et les hommes, avancées et incertitudes », Revue de droit du travail, 2021, p. 431-440.

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The Conference on the Future of Europe and Gender: What's Next?
2023-01-25 17:30 - 19:00 | Online (Teams)
From the Conference on the Future of Europe to a Feminist Europe.
Starting with the presentation of the new Gender Five Plus report on Gender Equality and the Future of Europe, this webinar will be an opportunity to discuss the results of the Conference on the Future of Europe from a gender perspective, but also the policy recommendations needed to move towards a feminist Europe.

Panellists:

Jéromine Andolfatto (European Women’s Lobby)
Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield (MEP, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Victoire Olczak (Gender Five Plus)
Alvaro Oleart (ULB)
Gaëtane Ricard-Nihoul (European Commission, DG Communication, responsible for Citizens’ Dialogue)

L’avortement dans l’Union européenne aujourd'hui : état des lieux et obstacles
2022-11-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Online (Teams)
Bérengère Marques-Pereira (ULB) est sociologue. Elle est notamment spécialiste de la citoyenneté sociale et politique des femmes en Europe et en Amérique latine, et des processus de politisation et de décision sur le droit à l’avortement. Elle a créé le groupe « Genre et politique » de l’ABSP.
A l’occasion de ce séminaire elle présentera son ouvrage paru en 2021, intitulé L’avortement dans l’Union européenne : acteurs, enjeux et discours.

Ce séminaire est organisé conjointement par la Chaire Jean Monnet EUGENDERING et le Groupe « Genre et politique » de l’ABSP.
