Seminar: #Metoo in the EU

Since the #MeToo social media campaign on sexual harassment began in Hollywood in October, 2017, it has spread throughout the world and into other areas of the workplace, including politics. It has reopened national and international public debate about sexual harassment, violence against women and sexism in public life more generally, and the implications of these problems for women’s full enjoyment of substantive equality and citizenship. This talk will look at how the #Metoo debate has played out in the EU, where it
has become imbricated with ongoing or new local issues, prompting a range of civil society, legislative and policy responses.

Information about the speaker:
Bronwyn Winter is Deputy Director of European Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, where she also contributes to the International and Global Studies program. The various themes of her research lies at the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, the state, religion, violence, militarism and globalisation.

Her publications include

• Feminist Perspectives (Hawthorne and Winter eds, Spinifex 2002),
• Hijab and the Republic: Uncovering the French Headscarf Debate (Syracuse University Press
  2008),
• Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies (2016, contributing
  advisory editor),
• Women, Insecurity and Violence in a Post-9/11 World (Syracuse 2017), and
  Global Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage: A Neo-Institutional Approach (Winter, Forest
  and Sénac eds, Palgrave 2018),
• Reform, Revolution, and Crisis in Europe: Landmarks in History, Memory, and Thought (Winter & Moir eds, Routledge 2019).

She is currently working on a new book: The Political Economy ofSame-Sex Marriage: A Feminist Critique (also to be published by Routledge). She also occasionally publishes in the area of cultural studies, such as a chapter on Australia and the Eurovision song contest in a new anthology to be published later in 2019 by Palgrave.