PUBLIC LECTURE ON ANTI-RIGHTS ACTIVISM IN THE US

’Of Sex and Citizenship: Reading the Iconography of Special Rights’

Prof. Jon Goldberg-Hiller, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai‘i

When: Thursday 14 December, 4-6pm
Where: Room 214, Business Bld H69, Butlin Avenue, University of Sydney
Free entry.
Info: 9514 2714

Jon Goldberg-Hiller researches the ways changing forms of identity, nationalism, political authority and political economy have modulated the mobilization of rights in various contexts. By starting with these dimensions of social life rather than with rights discourses themselves, he examines how rights are resisted and how they retain
relevancy. In this vein he has researched such contemporary phenomena as opposition to the political recognition of indigenous peoples, efforts by labor unions to boycott legal regulatory machinery, and, the topic of this presentation, the conservative reaction against same-sex marriage.

The seminar is jointly hosted by the Research Initiative on International Activism, Transforming Cultures Research Centre at UTS and the Department of Government University of Sydney.