Prof. Nitasha Kaul, director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, London, will visit the University of Baltimore School of Law from noon to 2 on Wednesday, April 10 to speak on “How Misogyny Unravels Democracy.” The talk, co-sponsored by the UBalt Law Center on Applied Feminism and Center for International and Comparative Law, will be in the 12th Floor Reading Room of the Angelos Law Center. Registration is required, and lunch will be served.
Kaul, who holds a chair in Politics, International Relations and Critical Interdisciplinary Studies at Westminster, will explore the intersection of misogyny with political legitimacy and point to the strategic uses of misogyny for the purposes of democratic erosion by authoritarian leaders of right-wing political projects in numerous contemporary democracies.
She also will highlight recent empirical findings on the attitudes of so-called MAGA Republicans towards gender, authoritarianism and climate change in the United States. She has published widely on themes related to democracy, political economy, identity, and rise of right-wing nationalism, feminist and postcolonial critiques, and small states in geopolitics.
She has appeared on major international news outlets, including BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, France 24, The Guardian, and The Independent. She has delivered invited lectures and keynotes at institutions around the world, addressing diverse audiences, including U.S. Congress, United Nations, and European Parliament.
The event is co-sponsored by Baltimore Law’s International Law Society (lunch sponsor), Women’s Bar Association, Students Supporting the Women’s Law Center, and If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice.
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