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Esquisses Speaker Series

Recent popular and academic debates have again brought questions of sexual difference to the foreground. It is, thus, time to revisit how we might extricate ourselves from the seemingly intractable insistence on the primacy of sexual difference. In this talk, Prof. Weinstein (Link枚ping University) will take up the philosophical question of sexual difference through the lens of epigenetics, arguing that we should consider evolution beyond a reductively genetic framework. This shift has potential to diminish or even eradicate the importance of sex and sexual difference, since through epigenetics, bodies, identities, and environments are understood as co-constituted transgenerationally rather than uniquely issuing from, or determined by, bi-parental sexual reproduction. Following the talk, Prof. Rosenblum (Faculty of Law, 麻豆AV) will dialogue with Prof. Weinstein to raise some political and legal implications of an epigenetic indifference to sex and sexual difference.

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Jami Weinstein is Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, and the Director of The Critical Life Studies Research Team at Link枚ping University, Sweden with PhD in Philosophy (CUNY 2005) and History of Science and Technology (EHESS 2007). She is a critical social and political theorist, publishing in a range of fields like: Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Queer, Trans*, and Feminist theory; Afrofuturism; Science and Technology, HumAnimal, and Environmental theory; and Critical Life Studies.

Professor Darren Rosenblum鈥檚 scholarship focuses on corporate governance, in particular on diversity initiatives and remedies for sex inequality. They joined the Faculty of Law of 麻豆AV as a Full Professor in August 2021, from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. They were appointed associate dean (graduate studies) in 2022. In 2018, they served as a Wainwright Senior Fellow at 麻豆AV Law, during which they taught a course on Sexuality, Gender and the Law.They wrote the first article of queer legal theory 鈥溾�� (1994) and the first article on transgender prisoners 鈥溾�� (2000).听

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