Today Brussels has hosted final conference of the project REACT: “The rise of online hate speech as a new alarming global social phenomenon: reasons and remedies” (PROGRAMME): The conference has reunited European experts on hate speech to “animate a wide European debate on the most effective cultural and educational strategies and policies […] to raise […]

We are pleased to announce that the ESRU has received funding from the European Commission’s Justice Programme for the project Let’s Go By Talking: Protecting and defending the rights of victims of anti-LGBT hate crimes: Innovative paths trough restorative justice. The project aims to increase understanding about the perspectives of victims and key professionals about […]

On the 4th of July, Olga Jubany will be presenting at the COMPAS seminar in Oxford with a talk titled Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief: The Hidden Legacy: In their relation with the State, hard borders have gained relevance due to the increasing politicisation and criminalisation of migration, and securitisation discourse and policies. Both […]

This week Droit et Cultures has published its latest issue, a compilation of contributions related to Divercity project. The journal has an Open Access Licence, access full texts through the links below: Contents:  Olga Jubany et Isabelle Carles Présentation [Texte intégral] Une approche expérientielle, intersectionnelle et située de la diversité sexuelle et de genre Erica Howard Protection des personnes LGBT+ […]

  Tonight, the Human Rights Festival of San Sebastian will host a projection of the short films made by the young participatns of the REACT project in order to combat hate speech online. The videos, of 5 minutes of less, tackle, from the young creators point of view, the strategies that hate speech uses to […]

  XI International AFIN Conference Towards Reproductive (In)Justice: Mobilities, Technologies, Labourings & Decisions 4-6 September, 2019 Granada, Spain For this conference, we invite researchers, professionals and end-users to think about reproduction in terms of stratifications, hierarchies and reproductive justice. We believe reproductive justice to be an increasingly necessary perspective in a world of growing inequalities […]

In November took place the seminar Gender and Prison with the participation of Olga Jubany and Jordi Mas, where they presented: “Relacions de gènere i quotidianitat. Una aproximació antropològica a la violència simbòlica” (Gender relations in daily life. An anthropological approach to symbolic violence). You can now watch their full talk here:  

Today we hosted the event: “Los arreglos matrimoniales en Cataluña ayer y hoy: (dis)continuidad en una sociedad crecientemente diversa” organised by GENI and CER Migracions The seminar has travelled in time through the changing but ever present reality of arranged marriages looking at the phenomenon of marriages among kin in the 19th century and arranged […]