UNE 全球人文中心 presents “Religious Freedom, 性ual Freedom”

As astute observers of American politics know, many of our political battles concern what goes on in the privacy of our own bedrooms. 性, 看起来, represents an unbridgeable fault line between Christian conservatives and secular liberals. But what if the principles of religious freedom and sexual freedom didn’t have to be perpetually opposed? What if religious freedom and sexual freedom were actually entwined values in which the realization of one is necessary for the realization of the other?

This is the topic scholar Janet R. Jakobsen will explore when she visits the University of New England 全球人文中心 to present a lecture titled “Religious Freedom, 性ual Freedom” on Monday, Oct. 下午6点30分.m. 在 Westbrook College of 健康的职业 Lecture Hall in Parker Pavilion on the UNE Portland Campus for 健康 科学s.

Jakobsen is the Claire Tow Professor of Women’s, 性别, 性uality Studies and co-director of the Center for 研究 on Women at Barnard College, 哥伦比亚大学. 她最近的一本书, 的 性 Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics, was a 2021 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies. She was the founding editor of the web journal Scholar & Feminist 在线 and has taught as a visiting professor at Wesleyan University and Harvard University. Before entering academia, she was a policy analyst and organizer in Washington, D.C.

Jakobsen’s lecture at UNE will examine our current US political and cultural frameworks that position the right to exercise religious freedom in opposition to the rights associated with gender and sexual freedom -- whether those of bodily autonomy, 获得医疗服务, or participation in public life. 的n she will explain how we might adopt a new way of seeing and discussing these inter-related rights to move beyond the discord and toward a more productive form of discourse.

This lecture will be the third of five events this fall 在 全球人文中心, where lectures are always free, open to the public, streamed live online.

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