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© Photo of David Paternotte by Jochem Brouwer Amsterdam

Political science at risk in Europe: Frailness and the study of power

  #ECPRHouseLectures

Tuesday 6 April 2021

House Lecture by:

David Paternotte Université Libre de Bruxelles 

Mieke Verloo Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

In line with our mission to bring to light the most pressing issues and challenges in political science, our House Lectures continue to explore threats to democracy and academic freedom.

In our third instalment delivered virtually on 6 April 2021, speakers David Paternotte and Mieke Verloo expose risks to political science in Europe and call for the urgent development of a strategic response.

The House Lectures in brief

  • Insightful lectures on topical issues in political science and beyond
  • Each followed by an extended Q&A session
  • Open to all, ECPR members and non-members

About the speakers

David Paternotte is Associate Professor in Sociology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Vice-Dean for International Affairs. After research on same-sex marriage advocacy and LGBT activism, he investigates anti-gender campaigns and attacks on academic freedom in Europe. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he has authored the book Revendiquer le “mariage gay”: Belgique, France, Espagne (Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2011). He has also edited numerous collected volumes, including The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State (Ashgate 2011, with Manon Tremblay and Carol Johnson), LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe: A Rainbow Europe? (Palgrave, 2014, with Phillip Ayoub), the Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism (Ashgate, 2015, with Manon Tremblay) and Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017, with Roman Kuhar). He is the co-director of the book series Global Queer Politics (Palgrave) and Genre(s) & Sexualité(s) (Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles).

Mieke Verloo is Professor of Comparative Politics and Inequality Issues at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, and Non-Residential Permanent Fellow at the IWM, Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. She is the winner of the 2015 ECPG Gender and Politics Career Achievement Award. She was scientific director of large research projects on gender equality policymaking in Europe, and has extensive consultancy and training experience on gender mainstreaming and intersectionality for several European governments and institutions. Publications from her work on opposition to feminist politics include: the edited volume on Varieties of opposition to gender equality in Europe (Routledge, 2018), and the special issue The feminist project under threat in Europe in Politics and Governance, co-edited with David Paternotte (2018). Her current work is on the complex relationship between democracy and gender+ equality, on understanding gender regimes, and on gendered body politics.

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