November 17, 2021 – 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
National Women’s Studies Association
TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST ABOLITIONIST POLITICS PLENARY
Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 11AM EST | Register Now!
| Join us at the 2021 NWSA virtual conference on November 20th at 11AM EST for a plenary discussion! Unprecedented levels of global hardship and suffering in 2020 were accompanied by stunning eruptions of people gathering on the streets and in public venues protesting systemic oppressions and renewing calls for abolition. From authoritarian regimes to white supremacy, police brutality to military occupation, caste discrimination to gendered and sexualized violence, economic inequality to policy failures, labor exploitation to health disparities, voluminous and vociferous protests have peppered our visual landscape and living experience of the pandemic and illuminated the increasing urgency to co-imagine a different future. In 2020, from Australia to Hong Kong, USA to UK, Brazil to Bangladesh people were marching – masked, undeterred and resistant- demanding attention and justice with bold messages like “Silence is Violence”, “I Can’t Breathe”, and “No Justice No Peace.” The organizing continues into 2021. These messages and movements lay bare the asymmetries of privilege and oppression, the unevenness of growth and wellbeing, and simultaneously encourage a social transformation that takes seriously interdependencies of life, humanity, and ecology. Panelists will provide commentary and conversation on the lessons of their research and political/community organizing to shed light on how they are thinking about the paradoxes and power of abolitionist politics in the current political moment as well as possibilities in the near and distant future. The discussion will be from Bina D’Costa, Dana Olwan, Pascha Bueno-Hansen, and M. Adams. Moderated by Elora Chowdhury. |
International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
LGBTQ+ AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
A Webinar
Thursday, June 17th at 10 am EDT (New York time)
- Registration via: https://tinyurl.com/LGBTQandTransitionalJustice
While LGBTQIA+ groups and individuals across the globe are especially impacted by violence during periods of repression and armed conflict, as well as before and after, their experiences are largely overlooked and undocumented. Several regions, including Asia and Africa, continue to outright criminalize homosexuality, and patriarchal norms make LGBTQIA+ communities in Latin America especially vulnerable to gender-based violence, including sexual violence, despite a trend toward decriminalization in the region.
This webinar will aim to center the needs and demands of this marginalized population and propose approaches for addressing LGBTQIA+ claims through transitional justice policy and practice in a range of global settings, ranging from prosecutions and truth commissions to reparations and institutional reforms, as well as traditional and community-based mechanisms – reforms that can be viewed as part of broader attempts to address gender-based discrimination and violence and to transform gender norms in transitional societies.
Moderator:
- Dr. Amber Johnson, Associate Professor of Communication at St. Louis University and Founder of The Justice Fleet
Panelists:
- Dr. Pascha Bueno-Hansen, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware, USA.
- Fatou Baldeh, Founder and CEO of Women in Liberation and Leadership – WILL, The Gambia
- Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, Executive Director, Equal Ground, Sri Lanka
- Thokozani Mbwana, Policy, Research and Advocacy Officer, Pan Africa ILGA, South Africa
Join Us for an Exciting Panel Discussion:
Reproduction and Sexuality in Latin America
This discussion will center themes of reproduction and sexuality in order to understand how they have animated recent political debates and transitions (Briggs 2017) in Latin America. Looking at the pre-post conflict state (Theidon 2007) in Colombia and Peru, the participants in this round table will reflect on the conflicting implications of reproduction and sexuality in transitional justice, the functioning of the law, and violence.
Date: Wed 12 May 2021
Time: 17.00 – 18.30 UK
Registration: Tickets required via Eventbrite
Disyuntivas del posacuerdo en Colombia
The Spiral Path of the LGBTI Movement:
From Peace Processes to Legal and Judicial Achievements, and Back Again
Written by Pascha Bueno-Hansen (University of Delaware) and published by the ASTRAEA Foundation
Thursday, February 25, 2021 | 5:00pm | Bogotá-Colombia
The Astraea Foundation sponsored the preparation of this report on the LGBTI movement in Colombia. The report offers a holistic reflection of the movement’s progress and challenges, outlines the movement’s priorities, and provides a summary of LGBTI activists’ recommendations for researchers and international cooperation. This report is relevant to this historic moment because of the extensive participation of the LGBTI movement in peacebuilding. The presentation of the report is made in partnership between the University of the Andes and its Master’s in Cultural Studies, Astraea and the University of Delaware.
PRESENTACION DE LIBRO
DERECHOS FEMINISTAS Y HUMANOS EN EL PERÚ: DECOLONIZANDO LA JUSTICIA TRANSICIONAL
Presentation of the book, “Feminist and Human Rights in Peru. Decolonizing Transitional Justice′′ from Pascha Bueno-Hansen. Featuring Maruja Barrig and Patricia Ruiz Bravo.
WEBINAR
Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes: Transitional Justice Otherwise
- Webinar recording of Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes: Transitional Justice Otherwise
- November 19 from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm|Virtual Event
- Co-presented with The Humanities Institute, Dr. Pascha Bueno-Hansen will provide a lunch time webinar lecture on the modalities of resistance of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarian regimes in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Dr. Bueno-Hansen is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware and earned her PhD in Politics at UC Santa Cruz. This event is co-sponsored with the Institute for Social Transformation and the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
- The event is free and open to the public; advance registration is required to access the Zoom link. Closed captioning and an ASL interpreter will be provided.
- Pascha Bueno-Hansen is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware. Her first book, Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice (University of Illinois Press, 2015) was just published in Spanish by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos: Derechos Feministas y Humanos en el Perú: Decolonizando la Justicia Transicional. She has various articles and book chapters on gender-based violence, sexuality, race, human rights, transitional justice, and social movements. Her current book project Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes examines the modalities of resistance of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarian regimes in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.