CEUTS Gender Equity Series: Phillip Ayoub
February 20, 2025
The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights: How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities.
February 20th, 2025: 3:30 pm EST.
In the past three decades, remarkable progress has been made in numerous countries for the rights of individuals marginalized due to their sexual orientation and gender identity. The advancements in LGBTI rights in a variety of diverse countries can largely be attributed to the tireless efforts of the transnational LGBTI-rights movement, forward-thinking governments in pioneering nations, and the evolving human rights frameworks of international organizations. However, this journey towards equality has been met with formidable opposition.
In this lecture, Phillip M. Ayoub, Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at University College London, draws on his new book with Kristina Stöckl to investigate this complex landscape, drawing from over a decade of in-depth fieldwork with LGBTI activists, anti-LGBTI proponents, and various state and international organization actors.
This event is part of the Gender Equity in EU Series, a collaboration between the Center for European & Transatlantic Studies (CEUTS) A Jean Monnet Center of Excellence and Global Initiatives and Engagement in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech.
CoSponsor(s): UC Berkeley: Political Science Department, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence for Populism and Political Economy, University of Wisconsin Madison.
This event is open to the public, but you must register.
Contact Farida Jalalzai (fjalalzai@vt.edu) with questions.