Archived seminar
15 October 2014: Inheritance 'Families of Choice': Enduring Intimacies? (CISC Seminar Series)
Dr. Daniel Monk from Department of Law, Birkbeck
At 13:00 in 6.345.
Abstract:
How people negotiate death and dying is a key aspect of kinship in all cultures. But since the arrival of effective treatment for HIV (and arguably even before then) scholarship about death has been curiously absent from the burgeoning LGBT and queer scholarship about kinship and intimacy. This paper first explores possible reasons and the ‘conditions of possibility’ for this relative silence. It then discusses a number of research projects that reveal the shifting ways in which inheritance practices have provided and continue to offer spaces for queer and subversive expressions of intimacy and the ‘doing’ of alternative kinships.Biographical note:
Daniel Monk is Reader in Law at Birkbeck, University of London and Director of Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality (BiGS). Adopting a variety of socio-legal methods his research has focused on families and childhood and, in particular, sex education, homophobic bullying, home education, children’s rights and, most recently, inheritance.
This event is open to the general public.