British Journal of Sociology 2007 public lecture
SEXUAL POLITICS: THE LIMITS OF SECULARISM, THE TIME OF
COALITION
Date: Tuesday 30 October 2007
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building [London School of
Economics]
Speaker: Professor Judith Butler
Discussant: Professor Chetan Bhatt
Chair: Dr Suki Ali
This lecture considers the conditions for
coalition that might exist between religious and
sexual minorities through focusing on
differential forms of state coercion. Several
arguments have emerged in Europe and elsewhere,
claiming that feminism and progressive sexual
politics are threatened by new religious
communities and the effects of Islam in
particular and base their views on libertarian
principles (feminism and progressive sexual
politics rely on increasingly robust conceptions
of personal liberty) and on criticisms of
multiculturalism (cast as a relativist enterprise
that is unable to ground strong normative
claims). Such arguments tend to rely on
conceptions of sexual or gender freedom which
presume certain conceptions of secular progress
and to forget or dismiss conceptions of sexual
politics that are bound to anti-racist struggle.
Without denying that clear tensions exist between
religious traditions that condemn and forbid
homosexuality and progressive sexual movements
that tend to promote exclusionary conceptions of
the secular, the lecture focuses on the
importance of conceptions of cultural
translation, antagonism, and the critique of
state coercion to consider what 'critical
coalition' might mean for religious and sexual
minorities
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor at the
University of California, Berkeley. Chetan Bhatt
is a professor in the Department of Sociology at
Goldsmiths.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket
required. Entry is on a first come, first served
basis. For more information, email
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 020 7955 6043.
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