[SydPhil] EAC Public Panel on Regulating Equality and Difference, February 19, 6-7:15PM

[Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre]

Dear colleagues,

The Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre is organising a public panel on "Regulating Equality and Difference" on Wednesday, February 19, 6-7:15 pm at Macquarie University City Campus (level 24/123 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000).

Abstract

Differences based on for example gender, race, or disability continue to underpin inequality and discrimination. Yet, in addressing inequality and discrimination, law and policy makers face a difficult choice. Both ignoring and recognising differences, such as gender, race, or disability, risk perpetuating inequalities. On the one hand, ignoring differences through neutral law and policies can sideline the particular needs of certain groups, and thereby reproduce inequality. Recognising differences as a basis for special treatment, on the other hand, can lead to stigma and reinforce ideas of difference, such as in the use of quotas. Moreover, in allocating certain rights and privileges based on categories of identity, the state needs to define those categories and generate criteria of who belongs and who does not, potentially disregarding minorities within minorities and the fluidity and intersectionality of identities.

The panel will engage these questions to consider how we regulate equality and difference, including innovative approaches to law and policy reform.

The panel will commence with a keynote presentation by Professor Davina Cooper, King’s College London who led the Future of Legal Gender Project in the United Kingdom. The research project controversially addressed the value, viability, and implications of abolishing legal sex and gender status (decertification).
Speakers:
Professor Davina Cooper
Research Professor in Law and Political Theory
The Dickson Poon School of Law
King’s College London

Professor Kate Henne
Director
School of Regulation and Global Governance
The Australian National University

Dr Paul-Mikhail Catapang Podosky
Lecturer in Philosophy
School of Humanities
Macquarie University
Chair:
Dr Mareike Riedel
Senior Lecturer
Macquarie Law School
Interested members of the public from Sydney and surrounding areas are warmly invited join and to share their perspectives. This panel will be followed by a catered reception. All are welcome to join.

Please also note that this panel will be followed by a catered reception. All are welcome to join.

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Best,
Siavosh
Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre
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