RLC public panel discussion on LGBTI Rights in the Development Discourse

June 13, 2016 | 17:00 h - 18:00 h

The <link www.rlc-bonn.de/>Right Livelihood College (RLC)</link> at ZEF invites you to a panel discussion with Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, Laureate of the "Alternative Nobel Prize" from Uganda, and Dr. Christine M. Klapeer, senior researcher in Politics and Queer Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, and the University of Bayreuth, Germany. They will talk about the role of gender identity and diversity of sexuality in the development discourse in Africa.

Ms. <link www.rightlivelihood.org/nabagesera.html>Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera</link> is the Founder of Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG), an organization which advocates and lobbies for policy change of discriminatory laws against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in Uganda and Africa. She received the "Alternative Nobel Prize" (Right Livelihood Award) in 2015 "for her courage and persistence, despite violence and intimidation, in working for the right of LGBTI people to a life free from prejudice and persecution".

Dr. <link ie.univie.ac.at/en/staff/christine-klapeer/>Christine M. Klapeer</link> is currently working on her habilitation project on "Rainbow Aid: Development Cooperation as a new arena for transnational LGBTIQ-politics". Dr. Klapeer is an expert on decolonial, feminist and queer perspectives on gender identity and post-humanist concepts of society and subjectivity at the Universities of Vienna and Bayreuth.

The discussion will be facilitated by Dr. <link 2232,0,&tx_zefportal_staff%5bref%5d=2252&tx_zefportal_staff%5buid%5d=1597&no_cache=1>Epifania Amoo-Adare</link>, Senior Researcher of Gender and International Development at the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn (ZEF).

Venue:
RLC Campus Bonn
Center for Development Research (ZEF)
Right Conference Room
Walter-Flex-Str. 3
53113 Bonn

Please confirm your attendance via e-mail to <link presse.zef@uni-bonn.de>presse.zef@uni-bonn.de.</link>

<link youtu.be/DCP8roF1sWs - external-link-new-window "Opens external link in new window">Watch the video podcast here.</link>