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Friday, Febary 8 Room 101 Kenan Instute for Ethics Co-sponsored by: The De Human Rights Center at the Kenan Instute of Ethics The Center for Internatnal and Comparative Law at De Law School The Program the Study of Sexuali and Women's Studi Program The Center for LGBT Life at De All De Universy faculty, stunts and staff are wele to attend this workshop. Please RSVP to Kelly Lipford at the Kenan Instute for Ethics. For a tailed agenda, please click here. 1. Participants. The nfirmed participants for the workshop, alphabetil orr, are: Clifford Bob, Raymond J. Kelley Endowed Chair Internatnal Relatns, Duqune Universy, Ptsburgh, PA Julie Dorf, Senr Advisor, The Council for Global Equaly, Washgton, DC Stephen Engel, Assistant Profsor of Polics, Bat College, Lewiston, Mae Lrence Helfer, Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Profsor of Law, De Universy Cymene Howe, Assistant Profsor of Anthropology, Rice Universy, Hoton, TX Allison Jernow, Senr Legal Adviser, Sexual Orientatn and Genr Inty, Internatnal Commissn of Jurists, Geneva, Swzerland Pl Johnson, Anniversary Rear, Department of Soclogy, Universy of York, UK Holng L, Assistant Profsor of Law, UNC Law School, Chapel Hill, NC Col Robson, Executive Director of CAISO and Secretariat of the Caribbean Fom for Liberatn and Acceptance of Genrs and Sexuali (CariFLAGS), Tridad & Tobago Suzanne Shanahan, Actg Director of the Kenan Instute for Ethics and Associate Rearch Profsor Soclogy, De Universy Amy Stone, Assistant Profsor of Soclogy and Anthropology, Try Universy, San Anton, TX Ke Waaldijk, Profsor of Comparative Sexual Orientatn Law, Universy of Lein, The Netherlands Robert Wtemute, Profsor of Human Rights Law, Kgs College London, UK 2. Objectiv. The workshop will provi an opportuny to brg together a small group of scholars and practners whose work foc on LGBT advocy ternatnally, paratively, and different regns of the world. We hope that participants will share the fdgs of their rearch and profsnal activi, exchange sights about strategi for achievg legal and policy reforms, and engage a dialogue that is enriched by sights om law, social science, and var typ of advocy and practice. 3. Lotn and format. The workshop will beg on Friday morng Febary 8, 2013 Room 101 at the Kenan Instute for Ethics and n through mid-afternoon. There will be no paper prentatns at the workshop. Instead, we will anize a seri of panels focg on different them or topics such as: Comparison recent LGBT advocy mpaigns such as those anti-"homosexual propaganda" laws Eastern Europe and challeng to crimalizatn Ai and the Caribbean Evaluatg the modali of advocy—domtic and ternatnal ligatn, lobbyg, and other forms of social mobilizatn Analyzg the opportuni and challeng of buildg relatnships between transnatnal NGOs and lol LGBT activists Consirg the ways which relign unrps both a ristance to and the advancement of legal rights, cludg a discsn of the European Court of Human Rights' recent judgment Lale and Mcfarlane v. Uned Kgdom Anticipatg and rpondg to backlash by ernments and nonstate actors Developg bt practic for LGBT future advocy 4. Highlightg recently-published books. The workshop will also provi an opportuny to highlight, both as part of the panel discsns and more broadly, several recently-published books by the participants, cludg: Clifford Bob, The Global Right Wg and the Clash of World Polics (Cambridge 2012) Cymene Howe, Mediatg Sexualy: Activism and the Polics of Sexual Rights Niragua (De 2013) Allison Jernow, Sexual Orientatn, Genr Inty, and Jtice: A Comparative Law Casebook (Internatnal Commissn of Jurists 2012) Pl Johnson, Homosexualy and the European Court of Human Rights (Routledge 2012) Amy Stone, Gay Rights at the Ballot Box (Mnota 2012) * duke university lgbt *