Lezing
Phillip M. Ayoub: The Politics of Visibility and the Diffusion of Sexual Minority Rights in Europe

Amsterdam German Studies Lectures

do 12–12–2019
20:00 uur Doelenzaal/UvA-Bibliotheek

De Amsterdam German Studies Lectures zijn gewijd aan actueel onderzoek naar de nieuwste geschiedenis van Duitsland en Europa. De initiatiefnemers nodigen enkele malen per jaar een gerenommeerde buitenlandse academicus uit, om zijn onderzoek in een openbare lezing aan een Nederlands publiek te presenteren.
In deze editie spreekt Phillip M. Ayoub, Associate Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs aan het Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Aanmelden Germany was home to the first gay rights movement in the late 1800s and was well-known as a bastion of sexual liberalism during the Weimar Republic. But since World War II, it has been slower than many other European countries to recognize LGBT-rights. In the last two decades, the LGBT movement has gained momentum that is arguably unprecedented in speed and suddenness when compared to other human rights movements. But its impact is not consistent across Europe. How can the differences in LGBT-rights and recognition be explained?

In his lecture, Phillip M. Ayoub investigates the recent history of this transnational movement in Europe, as well as backlashes to it. Focusing on the diffusion of the norms the movement champions, he examines the overarching question of why the trajectories of socio-legal recognition for LGBT minorities are so different across states. He uses the German case to show how activists mobilize horizontally and vertically to leverage change in the European polity.
 

 

About the speaker:

Phillip M. Ayoub is Associate Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is the author of When States Come Out – Europe's Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and his articles have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of International Relations, Political Research Quarterly, Mobilization, the European Political Science Review, the Journal of Human Rights, Social Politics and Social Movement Studies, among others.

For more information, please contact Anne Louise Schotel (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam) or Krijn Thijs (Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam).

On friday, December 13th, Phillip M. Ayoub will give an impulse statement in the early career workshop Studying Sexuality, Politics and Activism. 

I.s.m. het Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam, het Amsterdam Center for European Studies en het Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality.