PECANS Workshop 2008
Wednesday 23 - Thursday 24 April 2008
University of Westminster
Registration Information
Registration is now closed for the 2008 PECANS workshop.
The 2008 PECANS workshop took place over two days from 23-24 April 2008 at the University of Westminster, Regent Street Campus (309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2UW).
Draft Programme
Wednesday 23 April 2008
10:00 Registration and Introductions
10:30 – 12:00 Session 1 - 'Surviving the Viva', with Donatella
Alessandrini (Kent), Shraddha
Chigateri (Keele), and Ruth
Quiney (Keele).
12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00 – 3:00pm Session 2: 'Supervision Survival
Skills', with
performances from Joanne Conaghan, Ruth Fletcher and Didi
Herman
3:00-3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30pm-5:00pm Session 3: Writing for Journals and Getting Published, with Rosemary Hunter (Kent), managing editor of Feminist Legal Studies, and Sasha Roseneil (Birkbeck), co-editor of Feminist Theory.
Thursday 24 April 2008: 'Reconfiguring Resistance'
9:30 – 11:00am: Session 1 – Resisting violence against
women
Chair: Suzanne Jenkins (Keele)
Nisrine Mansour, (LSE) ‘Women Groups as Actors of Resistance
or Negotiation: The Case of Family Laws Reforms in Post-Conflict Lebanon’
Anupma Kaushik (Banasthali University,Rajasthan, India) ‘Resisting
Domestic Violence: A Case Study of M.Phil Students of Banasthali University’
Máiréad Enright (University of Cork/Manchester Metropolitan
University) ‘Resistance and Exit’
11:00 – 11:30am: Coffee Break
11:30 – 1:00pm: Session 2 – Q&A with Bonnie
Honig, (Northwestern University)
Chair: Sarah Lamble (Kent)
‘Antigone's Anachronism: Mourning, Tragedy and Transition
in Democratic Athens’
1:00pm – 2:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm- 3:30pm Session 3 – Subverting law’s desires?
Chair: Toni Johnson (Kent)
Sarah Lamble (Kent) ‘What’s “Radical” About
Activist Knowledge? Rethinking the relationship between law, social movements
and
knowledge production’
Suzanne Jenkins (Keele) ‘Understanding Sex Workers’ Techniques
of Resistance’
Elaine Craig (Dalhousie Law School, Canada) ‘Laws
of Desire: The Political Morality of Public Sex’
3:30pm – 4:00pm: Coffee Break
4:00pm – 5:00pm: Session 4 – Agency, Silence and Resistance
in Refugee Claims
Chair: Rosie Harding (Keele)
Sarah Keenan (Kent) ‘Spatialising desire: law, space
and identity in women’s refugee claims on the basis of sexuality’
Toni Johnson (Kent) ‘On Silence, Sexuality and Skeletons: Imagining
agency, speaking the self’
5:00pm – 5:30pm: Closing Discussion and Feedback Session
Documents to Download:
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the Workshop Programme
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the Conference Abstracts
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the Registration Form in Word Format
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the Event Flyer and Call for Papers
For more information and enquiries about the event, please contact Rosie Harding (email: r.harding@law.keele.ac.uk).