WOMHER Seminar Series: Surviving Rape in Public – Public Survivors and the Quest for Justice

On Tuesday, 16 December, from 12:15 to 12:45, Professor Tanya Serisier, University of London, will present a seminar as part of WOMHER’s seminar series Interdisciplinary ambitions with a focus on women’s health. The seminar will be followed by 15 minutes of questions and discussion from 12:45 to 13:00. Professor Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed will moderate the seminar.

Zoom link to the seminar: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/63363094913

Please note that the seminars are held in English and are recorded.

We look forward to your participation!

About the speaker

Tanya Serisier is a professor of Feminist Theory in the School of Social Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research examines the cultural politics of sexuality, consent, and sexual violence from feminist and queer perspectives, with particular attention to survivor politics, sexual danger under neoliberalism, and sex in prisons. She was a Leverhulme Research Fellow and formerly Vice President of the Australasian Women’s and Gender Studies Association.

Abstract

Over the past decade, increasing numbers of survivors of sexual violence have spoken publicly about their experiences and advocated for justice. She asks why public survivors have become so prominent in this time period. She also considers what their interventions can tell us about the politics of sexual violence today.