Video Blog 14: Involvement Patterns
Can you have a favourite human right? Why can we perceive some human rights as more important than others? In the following video blog, Marta Bucholc argues for looking at human rights not as a monolith but as a rich and differentiated set of rules and concepts.
Open PhD positions – Trinity College Ireland
An exciting opportunity for prospective PhD students to get their doctoral diploma and work at the Trinity College (Ireland) and KU Leuven (Belgium) as a part of the Healthy Adaptation to Pregnancy, Postpartum and Parenthood (HAP3) project. Call for two positions is now open. For more info, see here: https://www.tcd.ie/nursing-midwifery/news/2024/phd-opportunities-with-the-hap3-project-/.
Video Blog 13: Reproductive Rights in Honduras
The Central-American country of Honduras is known for the strict prohibition of abortion in all cases. How did this come to be? What were the arguments for introducing such laws? What legal reasoning was behind it? These are the questions Marta Bucholc answers in the next installment of the Abortion Figurations video blog.
Video Blog 12: Grand Narrations
In this installment of the Abortion Figurations video blog series, Marta Bucholc talks about the idea of grand narratives. Why do we need grand stories? Why are we not satisfied with short and obvious answers? Watch to find out!
Video Blog 11: Evolution of Abortion in Chile
In the newest installment of the Abortion Figurations project video blog, our team member Carolina Mosquera Vera will talk about abortion rights in Chile. She explains how the current, 2017 law, was a significant liberalization in relation to the Pinochet-era liberalization, and the role of the feminist movement in these changes. Currently, the debate is […]
14 May 2024: Gender Wars Network Seminar
Join us on Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 for an online discussion of the Gender Wars network. Marta Bucholc, Lourdes Peroni, Iskra de Vries, Carolina Mosquera Vera, and Marta Gospodarczyk will talk about the Abortion Figurations project, which will be followed by comments from Prof. Flávia Biroli (University of Brasília, member of Gender Wars network) and […]
Publication Alert – Law and (De) Civilization, HSR Special Issue
Marta Bucholc, the Project’s PI, Robert Van Krieken, and CFR’s fellows: Florence Delmotte and Hugo Canihac, have edited a special issue of Historical Social Research focusing on the processes of (de)civilization in studying law. Check it out here: https://www.gesis.org/en/hsr/current-issues/2024/492-law-and-decivilization. The introduction to the special issue authored by the editors (Law and (De)Civilization: An Introduction, DOI: https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.49.2024.11) is […]
Video Blog 10: A Global Human Community?
In this installment of the Abortion Figurations video blog series, Marta Bucholc talks about the idea of a global human community. When and how did the idea of unity and communion between all citizens of the world emerge? What are the connections between this idea and the idea of human rights? Watch to find out!
Video Blog 9: M.L. v Poland
On 14 December 2023, the European Court of Human Rights issued a judgment in the case of M.L. v Poland. The court has ruled, that the 2020 ruling of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, prohibiting abortion on grounds of foetal abnormality, has resulted in the plaintiff’s human rights being violated. In this installment of the project’s […]
21-22 March 2024: Gendered Autocratization Conference
From March 21st to 22nd, members of the Abortion Figurations team were accepted to the Gendered Autocratization Conference at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation in Bergen, Norway. The main discussions centered on the use of anti-gender rhetoric in different countries, collaboration among junior scholars in gender research, and exploring specificities at regional and […]
