Events Calendar

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25 November 26
  1. 4:00pm 2018-11-26T18:00-06:00
    The Regulation of Sex Work

    Rapoport Center Colloquium: Law and the Production of Inequality - Hila Shamir presents "Feminist Approaches to the Regulation of Sex Work: Patterns in Transnational Governance Feminist Law Making," with a response from Christine Williams

    Our public debates are increasingly centered on the question of socio-economic inequality – its increase, its economic and political consequences, its importance to the present and its likely future. Inequality may well be at the root of many of the human rights violations in the world today. Our Fall 2018 speaker series will explore the role of law (including, perhaps, human rights law) in the production of inequality, and the role of law (including, of course, human rights law) in responding to inequality. The Colloquium presents an interdisciplinary group of scholars who focus their investigations on the ways in which various legal regimes create, reinforce, and/or ameliorate patterns of structural inequality, locally and globally.

    Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/11/26/38488/

27 28 29 November 30
  1. 12:30pm 2018-11-30T20:30-06:00
    Puerto Rico in the Wake of Crisis

    This symposium will focus on Puerto Rico one year after Hurricane Maria and will bring together scholars, activists, and artists from the island and the diaspora to reflect on how Maria and its aftermath have affected their work. Discussions will center around questions of equitable recovery, environmental and climate change related issues in the post-Maria landscape; the nexus of debt and colonialism and how that has been shaping the post-Maria moment; the mental health and mortality epidemics; energy and food sovereignty; and tourism. There will be a featured event with activist Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE and prominent climate justice activist, who has been visible in the post Maria recovery efforts on the island. Yeampierre is also the 2018 Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights.

    A reception will follow. Please register!

    Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/11/30/42146/

December 1
  1. 9:00am 2018-12-01T13:00-06:00
    Puerto Rico in the Wake of Crisis

    This symposium will focus on Puerto Rico one year after Hurricane Maria and will bring together scholars, activists, and artists from the island and the diaspora to reflect on how Maria and its aftermath have affected their work. Discussions will center around questions of equitable recovery, environmental and climate change related issues in the post-Maria landscape; the nexus of debt and colonialism and how that has been shaping the post-Maria moment; the mental health and mortality epidemics; energy and food sovereignty; and tourism. Participants include Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE and prominent climate justice activist, who has been visible in the post Maria recovery efforts on the island. Yeampierre is also the 2018 Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecture in Peace, Social Justice and Human Rights.

    Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2018/12/01/42147/