Leverhulme Lecture: 'Visibility or impact? International efforts to defend LGBTQI+ rights in the Global South'

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Description:	The Centre for Gender Studies hosted the Leverhulme Visiting Professorship Lecture on 'Visibility or impact? International efforts to defend LGBTQI+ rights in the Global South' on Monday 14 March 2022 in the Quarry White House Auditorium, Selwyn College, Cambridge. Professor Stephen Brown, Professor of Political Science, University of Ottawa examined when and how international actors should become involved in defending LGBTQI+ rights in countries in the Global South and explored the problematic motives and means that often underpin Northern/Western countries’ interventions. The lecture outlined a more fruitful approach, centred on local rights defenders’ perspectives, priorities and initiatives, while recognizing the obstacles to the proposed alternative. Professor Stephen Brown is the UCCGS Leverhulme Visiting Professor for 2021-22, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.

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The Centre for Gender Studies hosted the Leverhulme Visiting Professorship Lecture on 'Visibility or impact? International efforts to defend LGBTQI+ rights in the Global South' on Monday 14 March 2022 in the Quarry White House Auditorium, Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Professor Stephen Brown, Professor of Political Science, University of Ottawa examined when and how international actors should become involved in defending LGBTQI+ rights in countries in the Global South and explored the problematic motives and means that often underpin Northern/Western countries’ interventions. The lecture outlined a more fruitful approach, centred on local rights defenders’ perspectives, priorities and initiatives, while recognizing the obstacles to the proposed alternative.

Professor Stephen Brown is the UCCGS Leverhulme Visiting Professor for 2021-22, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.


Created:	2022-03-18 15:56
Collection:	University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
Publisher:	University of Cambridge
Copyright:	Joanna Bush
Language:	eng (English)
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Keywords:	Gender; Leverhulme; LGBTQI+;
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