Université libre de Bruxelles
Salle Henri Janne (15ème étage), Institut de Sociologie
Avenue Jeanne, 44 – 1050 Bruxelles
Programme du second semestre 2011 – 2012 :
. Lundi 30 janvier, 18h
Miriam Pillar Grossi (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brésil)
« Les femmes dans l’histoire de l’anthropologie au XXème siècle »
Résumé
Ignorées dans les manuels classiques d’histoire de l’anthropologie, beaucoup de femmes ont pourtant participé activement à la constitution de la discipline depuis la fin du XIXème siecle. Pionnières sur le terrain, leur participation à la théorie anthropologique a été reléguée au second plan pendant une grande partie du XXème siècle. Nous présenterons notre recherche sur la place et la contribution des femmes à l’anthropologie en France, aux Etats-Unis, en Angleterre et en Amérique Latine.
. Jeudi 9 février, 18h
Wim Peumans (FWO/Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
« Sex and stigma across borders : gay identity in a migration context »
Discutant : Joël Le Déroff (ILGA-Europe)
Abstract
Within migration studies, (homo)sexuality has rarely been a topic of analysis, especially in European research. Through an intersectional approach, this talk tries to question the heteronormativity of migration studies. In an ethnographic way, it describes the lived experiences of gay and lesbian migrants to Belgium. It looks at the role played by the participants’ sexuality in their migration decision. It also examines the place of Belgium and more generally Europe within gay imagination, and how sexual identity is changing throughout the migration process.
. Jeudi 23 février, 18h
Mini symposium about the book Queer in Europe (Ashgate 2011) with :
Lisa Downing (University of Exeter)
Robert Gillett (Queen Mary, University of London)
Bart Eeckhout (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Lukasz Szulc (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Abstract :
The book Queer in Europe takes stock of the intellectual and social status and treatment of queer in the New Europe of the twenty-first century, addressing the ways in which the Anglo-American term and concept ’queer’ is adapted in different national contexts, where it takes on subtly different overtones, determined by local political specificities and intellectual traditions. Bringing together contributions by carefully chosen experts, this book explores key aspects of queer in a range of European national contexts, namely : Belgium, Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Nordic Region, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Spain. Rather than prescribing a universalizing definition, the book engages with a wide spectrum of what is meant by ’queer’, as each chapter negotiates the contested border between direct queer activist action based on identity categories, and more plural queer strategies that call these categories into question. The first volume in English devoted to the exploration of queer in Europe, this book makes an important intervention in contemporary queer studies.
This event will discuss the research project organised by Lisa Downing (University of Exeter, UK) and Robert Gillett (Queen Mary University of London, UK) that resulted in the publication of a 2011 book in the Ashgate ’Queer Interventions’ series entitled Queer in Europe : Contemporary Case Studies. The co-editors and two of the contributors, Bart Eeckhout and Lukasz Szulc will present aspects of the book followed by a discussion about the origins and potential futures of the broader project.
. Jeudi 8 mars, 18h
Daniel Borrillo (CNRS/Université Paris Ouest)
« Pour une théorie queer du droit des personnes et des familles »
Discutante : Nicole Gallus (Unité de droit familial du centre de droit privé, ULB)
Résumé
L’assignation obligatoire au genre (homme/femme) dans les actes de naissance renforce et institutionnalise l’idée d’une humanité naturellement divisée en deux sexes. La théorie queer propose une critique radicale de cette catégorisation et déconstruit les mécanismes de subjectivation sexuée des individus. Ignorée par les juristes, elle constitue pourtant un apport fondamental à la théorie du droit, en particulier au droit des personnes et de la famille. À partir d’une critique radicale du genre et en considérant le processus de démocratisation de la vie privée, cet exposé suggère d’abolir cette catégorie des documents d’identité et de refonder les liens familiaux (au niveau du mariage et de la filiation) exclusivement à partir de la théorie contractuelle.
. Jeudi 26 avril, 18h
Christine Machiels (Centre d’Animation et de Recherche en Histoire Ouvrière/Université catholique de Louvain)
Titre et résumé bientôt disponibles.
. Mercredi 23 mai, 18h
Ken Plummer (emeritus professor, University of Essex)
« Generations, Time And Sexualities »
Abstract
“We find that each generation has a different history, that it is a part of the apparatus of each generation to reconstruct its history. A different Caesar crosses the Rubicon not only with each author but with each generation. That is, as we look back over the past, it is a different past. The experience is something like that of a person climbing a mountain. As he looks back over the terrain he has covered, it presents a continually different picture. So the past is continually changing as we look at it from the point of view of different authors, different generations. It is not simply the future [and present] which is novel, then ; the past is also novel” (George Herbert Mead : Movements of Thought in the Nineteenth Century 116-117).
In this session, I will consider the relevance of time and generation to the study of sexualities and introduce a number of concepts to help us develop our ideas & research. I will have a dual focus : the changing (generational) nature of academic research on sexualities and the changing (generational) nature of sexual experience itself. My theoretical position is that of a queer symbolic interactionist who has become a critical humanist. If you are interested you can look in advance at : “Generational Sexualities, Subterranean Traditions, and the Hauntings of the Sexual World : Some Preliminary Remarks”. Symbolic Interaction. Vol. 33 nº2 (2010), p.163-191.
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