Date:

The Virtual Queer Workshop is a collection of events spread out over the week of 𝟮𝟳 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 - 𝟭 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 (time slots are indicated in UTC).

IMPORTANT NOTICE: the 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 "𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲" 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱, the event will take place on 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟴 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝟭𝟭:𝟬𝟬 𝗮𝗺 𝗨𝗧𝗖.

Please note:𝗗𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱. 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝘄@𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲.𝗰𝗵

Venue:

The Workshop will be carried out online on the 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿.𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺.

Description:

The Virtual Queer Workshop aims at providing a platform to take stocks of and ponder on the workings of 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗮𝘄. It shall constitute a space for introspection and retrospection on this emerging research approach and to invent a dis/orienting (Ahmed 2006) future for international law through its conceptual queering. By welcoming (un-)conventional contributions, the event series aims at exposing the multiplicity of ways in which to produce knowledge and practice relative to the process of queering international law.

Through dynamic and transversal conversations among participants, the goal of the workshop is to explore whether and how queering international law is possible. While being heterogenous by definition, queer approaches to international law are generally concerned with gender, sexuality, power, normativities, boundaries and/or exclusions. They draw on a variety of anti-normative projects, including critical philosophy, feminist, post-colonial and decolonial, Marxist and ableist-critical perspectives.

The Virtual Queer Workshop conceptualises this plurality of approaches by thinking of queering international law as an endless and non-linear journey with different stops and stations. In this journey, subjects and concepts travel over borders and boundaries, go back and forth. Sometimes, subjects and concepts reside in the same place for a long time and make the space around them their home, before they move on and become ‘out of place’ somewhere else. Sometimes, their journey is stopped by border controls and visa restrictions. Thus, the Virtual Workshop also seeks to analyse the realities of (im)mobility, exclusions and inclusions created in and through queer methods and methodologies in international law.