Ivana Isailovic
@IsailovicIvana
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Assistant prof @AdamLawSchool , @SGEL_UvA . Gender, law & inequalities, political economy. Previously: @LawMcGill , @northeastern , @nyulaw , @MIT
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My paper on EU work-life balance & neoliberalism has been finally published 🎉
I argue that these measures are central to & legitimize neoliberalism while reproducing gender inequalities along class, racial and citizenship lines.
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A senior scholar who heavily draws on her PhD student’s research, while never citing her.
Up-and-coming scholars who draw on, but don't cite the work by scholars from marginalised backgrounds who have written about the same topic before them.
A paper citing no or very few women
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Hey 👋 so I have some news..
SO HAPPY to join
@ACELG_UvA
at the University of Amsterdam as assistant prof in EU law!! 🥳
Incredibly grateful for all the help & support that I’ve received from so many mentors & comrades!
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I immigrated to France from Serbia when I was 9, and I got my French citizenship at age 24, 10 years ago.
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It’s really simple: if you organize an academic event related to the war in Ukraine, invite scholars from Central and Eastern Europe.
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Critical legal thinking is an exercise in truth telling, a daily practice of intellectual humility.
I wrote a short post for
@TPL_Blog
on why critical legal approaches are so marginalized in EU law.
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Original and innovative legal scholarship is rare.
Partly, that’s because.. it’s hard!
But academics are also incentivized to churn out as many publications as possible, often revisiting a same topic over & over, repackaging ideas & drawing on similar materials
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If you work in academia, there are very high chances that you have worked with survivors of sexual harassment, have witnessed it, or have worked & collaborated with perpetrators or enablers
🧵
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Job alert ⚡️
⚡️
A one-year postdoctoral position
@UvA_Amsterdam
, on colonial legacies & decolonial futures, within a great interdisciplinary research group bringing together sociologists, political scientists, historians… and even some lawyers!
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Another reading group on race & gender in law & global political economy! 🪐
We will unpack the concept of property in law, in connection to race & colonialism by reading:
- Brenna Bhandar
- Cheryl L. Harris
facilitated by the wonderful
@pmenon
!
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For many years, by striving so hard to be perceived as the “good immigrant,” I ended up enabling this division myself.
This is how racism works through us.
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Yes, there are many summer schools out there — but truly critical, inclusive spaces?A bit more rare..
Join us in Amsterdam at the
@SGEL_UvA
Summer School for conversations on law, political economy, environmental & social justice, and to work on collective non-reformist reforms!
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POLITICAL ECONOMY // RACE // GENDER // LABOR // LAW // PROPERTY // VALUE // MARXISM // QUEER STUDIES // ECOLOGY // EUROPEAN LEGACIES
In two weeks, an amazing group of scholars is coming together in Amsterdam to discuss law & political economy. Join us.
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Exactly 25 years ago, my brother & I immigrated from Belgrade to Paris. I was 9, he was 7, and we took a plane to Paris to join my mum who had immigrated there several months before. She was 34, my age now.
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What should a sustainable global economic law look like?
Join
@SGEL_UvA
& a stellar group of speakers for conversations on global economic law and environmental and social justice!
🗓 Dec 16-17
Register here! 🥳.
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These stories are about the ways in which knowledge gets produced in academia, how it is transmitted, and how power relations are (re)produced within these processes.
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Something new.. 🪐
On March 27th, we’re hosting an online reading group on social reproduction & law.
We start by reading
- Silvia Federici
-
@pkotiswaran
#LPE
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I’m working on my EU law syllabus and it seems to me that most EU law scholarship tends to be very doctrinal.
There seems to be very little engagement with political economy, gender studies, postcolonial studies? Am I missing something? 🤓🤔
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I’ve been organizing academic events for the past 10 years or so. Creating supportive & inclusive spaces for open conversations has always been an essential part of my work.
Here’s a few things I learned (sometimes the hard way!)- might be useful for some of you! 🤓
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It's not just about individuals, their biases and ethical standards: there are structural dynamics which reward and encourage these dynamics.
We work in individualistic and hierarchical academic environments, with a strong pressure to ‘produce’ research and compete for resources
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“To what extent can law as a discourse, a formation of power, a set of state institutions, help rather than hurt radical social transformation?”
A brilliant essay by Angela Harris in an excellent special issue on law & the critique of capitalism edited by
@corinneblalock
☄️
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Some scholars often rush to “own” legal topics as they come under the spotlight.
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I wrote a (working) paper on abortion in EU law that shows how EU law contributes to undermining gender and reproductive justice and equality.
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An entire collection of articles with no or very few female academics.
Conference organisers who rarely invite speakers from under-represented backgrounds.
I could go on.
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But erasing those voices doesn’t only perpetuate marginalisation in academia and entrenches hierarchies.
It also produces bad scholarship.
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Sexual harassment in academia is a plague. It’s everywhere.
Most people tend to agree that this is a bad thing & yet, over the past 10 years, I barely saw any public conversation about this phenomenon in academia, and what it does to people who experience it.
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Just taught my 1st class
@MIT
!!
It’s on migrations & identity in France. It’s quite moving to teach that class, as I’m myself a 1st generation immigrant to 🇫🇷
This is the future of French studies: 1st/2nd gen. immigrants transmitting and shaping knowledge about French culture!
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We just wrapped up the
@SGEL_UvA
Summer school+ the SGEL conference. In the same, very intense week 😅
A full week of open & frank conversations on law and its role in society with amazing scholars, exploring complex issues without the urge to reach for easy answers and fixes
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Doing good research is hard, and everyone can, of course, make mistakes and omissions.
But as researchers, building on existing literature and paying attention to how knowledge is transmitted is a core part of our job.
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I have some news!
This year I’ll be the academic coordinator of two fabulous projets!
✨Sustainable Global Economic Law
@AdamLawSchool
✨Law & Globalisation project involving 🇳🇱 universities
@glawnet
@TilburgLaw
@OU_Nederland
It’s gonna get interdisciplinary in here 🌀
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I wrote something about the right to abortion in the EU.
Besides the highly publicized case of Poland, the right to abortion is threatened in other countries too.
Thank you to
@Verfassungsblog
editors for the thoughtful comments
"Rather than seeing Dobbs as an ‘American phenomenon’, (...) it should serve as a reminder that the right to abortion remains fragile in the European Union, too."
@IsailovicIvana
argues that the EU needs a structural response to anti-abortion laws.
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Getting ready for my class on the law & political economy approach to the EU green transition 🍄
We'll be reading:
- E. Tendayi Achiume’s report on the ecological crisis & racial justice
- Angela Harris' paper on law & political economy approach to environmental justice
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Really enjoyed discussing my paper on gender, political economy & law in the EU at the gender, sexuality & law seminar
@soasLAW
!
Thank you for having me and for a great conversation! 💜
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Me, in class: “so EU anti-discrimination law enables labor market deregulation and creates more precariousness”
My law students: 😳
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Transnational legal writing can be fun!
A fantastic writing workshop with these brilliant scholars!
with
@DebadattaBose
,
@NickyTouw
,
@MariePetersmann
,
@philpaiement
, Laura Mai, Eve Darian-Smith &
@PZumbansen
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Some academic news! This Fall, I'll be a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comp & Int'l Private Law in Hamburg 🤗
Can't wait to make a ruckus with
@MichaelsRalf
💥
@MPIPRIV
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What a day!
So grateful to the generous scholars who gave their insights and energy to create a very unique intellectual space 💙
And we’re just getting started!
Message if you’d like to get involved
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The home and the market are a continuum, rather than differentiated spaces: feminists have been saying this for a long time
I wrote on
@LPEblog
about how the COVID-19 global pandemic has shown this, and how it could also further entrench neoliberalism at the detriment of workers
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Who were the witches?
Women who think alone. Women who act in the world. Women who claim their body as their own.
"The witch is a politicized figure, a feminist and queer heroin."
Let us all be witches.
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Why did critical legal thinking never quite take root in EU legal scholarship – as it did for instance in international public law? 🤓
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Want to work at the intersection of EU law, political economy & inequalities?
@GiacomoTag
& I are recruiting a fully-funded PhD researcher to be part of the wonderful
@SGEL_UvA
&
@ACELG_UvA
communities
@AdamLawSchool
!
Apply by July 23rd
More info here
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In Torino to teach a mini-seminar on Law & Political Economy at
@unito
with PhD students within their Law Faculty’s “dipartimento di eccellenza” 🧐☕️
We are reading G. Bhambra, K. Pistor,
@d_ashiagbor
@pkotiswaran
@dexpatia
A. Harris
@corinneblalock
& so many others!
#LPE
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Day 1 of
@SGEL_UvA
conference is over!
Such a privilege to hear from some of my favorite scholars (& friends) about the politics of the economic/non-economic divide, and what law can do to destabilise power relations in capitalism
Thank you so much ❤️
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Full house for
@edajones16
lecture on (posthuman) feminist theory & international law!
Thank you Emily, Hilary Charlesworth &
@mwewerinke
for this fabulous conversation on feminist epistemologies, law and practices of resistance!
Thank you
@LaraTalsma
for hosting the event!
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What could a sustainable global economic law look like?
Here is my introduction to a series of amazing posts following the
@SGEL_UvA
conference organized last December.
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A four hour marathon on gender & political economy, feminist legal methods, intersectionality, racial capitalism, EU integration and so much more at Panthéon-Assas!
Thank you for having me and for these conversations!
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For over a year now,
@MichaelsRalf
& I have been working on attempting to build a field sitting at the intersection of gender studies & private int’l law
The workshop for this project will be taking place on May 6-7
@MPIPRIV
(Cont’d 👇)
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20 years ago, NATO started bombing Serbia, where my dad and the rest of my family lived.
I had emigrated to Paris by then, and through those 78 days of bombing, I couldn't stop thinking about my family in Belgrade.
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The next reading group on gender and race in law & global political economy will explore the concept of property in relation to ecology and empire.
We will be reading Debjani Bhattacharyya
facilitated by the amazing
@Tilley101
!
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So thrilled to welcome Prachi Agarwal to
@SGEL_UvA
&
@ACELG
🤩
She will be working on a PhD on law, political economy & inequalities with myself,
@GiacomoTag
& Annette Schrauwen
Keep an eye on the new exciting research on law & pol economy!
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I just finished teaching my first EU law class
@AdamLawSchool
. What a group of bright & curious students!
Moving to a new city, starting a job during the pandemic & adjusting to the ‘new normal’ was stressful—so grateful that my colleagues
@ACELG_UvA
were so supportive💫
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What a wonderful event on Women & International law! Glad to have been part of so many inspiring conversations!
Thanks so much to the organizers
@LN_Ruiz
,
@nienkegrossman
, J. Jarpa Dawuni, Jaya Ramji-Nogales &
@MPI_Luxembourg
for a fabulous event!
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Their stories get lost, while states portray them as “problems” to be managed, as a “threat” to their way of life, or as a "flow" that has to be contained.
We were part of that flow.
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So
@MichaelsRalf
and I are working on a project on Gender & Private International Law (PIL)
@MPIPRIV
.
This is an urgent and important project, and here is why:
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Can’t believe I waited sooo long to read this phenomenal book! 🤗🤓
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I *finally* finished my article on how EU 'work-life balance" measures are central to & legitimize neoliberalism!
My paper is posted here:
Some of my main points:
👇🏽
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Critical scholars have showed time and again that race and gender co-constitute markets, and yet, these insights have never been fully and systematically integrated in European legal thinking on the economy.
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More importantly, I realized how artificial and unstable this dividing line between “the good immigrant” and the “dangerous, unwelcome immigrant”
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This is my first big project
@ACELG_UvA
- kept me busy for the past several months! 😅
The goal: creating more space for critical legal inquiries in EU law.
We will be discussing migrations, economic governance, teaching & so much more
Join us! Register at a link below💫
💥Announcing the
@ACELG_UvA
Annual Conference
What’s the role of EU law in enabling social-economic-ecological crises? What can it do about it?
👇Nov 18/19 Full programme below👇
@AdamLawSchool
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Any feminist project exclusively concerned with sexual discrimination and failing to place the ‘feminization of poverty’ in the context of the advance of capitalist relations, is condemned to irrelevance and co-optation
(Re)reading Silvia Federici
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How to teach about the EU ‘green’ transition amidst ecological & social collapse?
In class, we talked about Carmen Gonzalez & Angela Harris’ work on law & political economy, racial capitalism, degrowth & social and political conflicts over what a ‘just transition’ means
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Teaching is hard. It’s a skill that requires a lot of time, effort and often true commitment to challenge one’s ways of thinking about knowledge transmission. It requires both being vulnerable and confident.
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In my twenties, I stopped trying to fit it. I stopped trying to justify why I was here, not there.
I would talk openly about what it is to be an immigrant, to wait in endless lines to get one’s visas approved, to be vulnerable, to be asked to justify oneself constantly.
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7 years late to the party but...🎉
...this phenomenal book should be mandatory reading in law schools to illustrate —among many other things— how global markets are constructed!
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Super excited to be presenting my work on the right to abortion in the EU at the American University Washington College of Law
@AUWCL
next Thursday in DC
Thank you Fernanda Nicola for the invitation✨
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But as scholars, we always have a choice.
No matter what the dominant academic culture is rewarding, and how precarious material conditions are for researchers, we can choose what kind of scholar we want to be and develop awareness to identify these types of harmful practices.
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This academic year I'll be joining the equality, diversity & inclusion commission
@AdamLawSchool
Deep inequalities continue to persist in academia, and I'm looking forward to be working with a group of committed colleagues towards creating truly inclusive spaces!
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Took my gender & political economy talk to …. Pittsburgh
Great talks by my co-panelists Iyiola Solanke,
@Tom_Pavone
, Jan Komárek, William Phelan & our fantastic discussants Fernanda Nicola & Daniela Caruso!
#EUSA23
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So great to be back at NYU Jean Monnet Center & learn about the great projects current fellows are working on!
The 2 years I spent here were so important for me, and I’m grateful for all the support I’ve received ❤️
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First time in Maastricht! Lot of snow, and a great conversation on gender, EU law & neoliberalism!
Thank you Mark Kawakami,
@v_golunova
&
@M_Eliantonio
&
@glawnetwork
!
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So looking forward to hosting this event with so many wonderful & generous scholars tomorrow here at
@UvA_Amsterdam
@AdamLawSchool
In-person registration is closed now (no room left, sorry!), but you can join us online - see details below
POLITICAL ECONOMY // RACE // GENDER // LABOR // LAW // PROPERTY // VALUE // MARXISM // QUEER STUDIES // ECOLOGY // EUROPEAN LEGACIES
In two weeks, an amazing group of scholars is coming together in Amsterdam to discuss law & political economy. Join us.
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Honored that
@MPIPRIV
has included my interview in their gazette 🤩
Printed on real paper! 🗞
And in German! 🥨
I talk about how I became interested in gender studies, how doctrinal legal training makes us blind to power relations, and what interdisciplinary work implies
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I came down with covid. There’s nothing ‘mild’ about this. everything hurts, my face hurts.
Somehow yesterday, I managed to power through a completely new lecture for a new class, before closing my computer.
This pandemic is not over & I’m lucky to be able to take time off.
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Is it possible to fix the deeply unequal international investment legal regime?
with
@BJVerbeek
, we have gathered a ✨stellar✨ group of scholars to answer this & many other questions!
w/
@ArcuriAa
,
@andrea_leiter
,
@LiseJohnson1
,
@nicolasmperrone
,
@howserob
& Laurens Ankersmit
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So delighted to see my research on same-sex marriage published in the American Journal of Comparative Law!
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We just wrapped up our interdisciplinary workshop on Gender & Private International Law
@MPIPRIV
!
Cheers to stepping outside of disciplinary boundaries and comfort zones 🤩
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Work-life balance measures are often seen as progressive/leftist policies promoting gender equality.
In
@form_legal
I argue that in the
#EuropeanUnion
they actually tend to promote neoliberalism.
Is the EU's approach to questions of "work-life balance" fundamentally neoliberal? And if so, what might be done about it?
@IsailovicIvana
tackles the question, offering a glimpse into the political economy of labour and employment in the contemporary EU.
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Looking forward to welcoming an amazing group of emerging scholars🤩
Also with ⭐️💫 Usha Natarajan,
@corinneblalock
,
@AleriaJohanna
@GiacomoTag
,
@andrea_leiter
,
@Candida_Leone
,
@bogoeskiv
,
@nairita_rc
,
@NickyTouw
@DebadattaBose
&
@YannickBerg
From 18-20 July,
@SGEL_UvA
is hosting a summerschool ☀️ on global economic law and sustainability, in the context of climate change 🌱 and socio-economic inequalities. Including
@MarijaBartl
,
@c_eckes
,
@IsailovicIvana
,
@VidigalGeraldo
&
@KlaasEller
.
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Entertaining each other for the past 20 years through thick and thin! 🥐✨💞
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👋 hey law & political economy twitter
I'm looking for research exploring how colonialism impacted/s the evolutions of the welfare state in continental Europe
Any suggestions, besides Gurminder K. Bhambra's work?
🙏
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3 things I (re)learned from Full Surrogacy Now by
@reproutopia
- the legal definition of motherhood is never self-evident: it’s defined by class/race
- childbirth is never ‘natural’ it has always been 'technologically' assisted
- the Handmaid’s Tale is not an emancipatory show
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Sick day, art day 🤒
I can’t think but I can still paint
Inspired by Bonnard
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I still hear people telling me “you *do* have a slight accent in French (i.e. it seems that you don’t belong) but there is no doubt that you are culturally French” (i.e. whether I belong depends on my interlocutor’s appreciation of my “Frenchness”)
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The most needed conversations are often some of the most complex ones.
Thank you everyone for creating this space for thinking together about and sharing what feminist practices actually mean in academia
- at the Comparative Law & Feminist Legal Theory in Novara
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An important piece to understand the many (in)visible obstacles (im)migrant women face in academia
Thank you
@ezgiyyildiz
@basakbc
@EtkinBasak
@GamzeErdmTrklli
@anil_yv
Aysel Kucuksu!
Symposium on Systemic Racism and Sexism in Legal Academia: (Im)migrant Women’s Informal Networks of Solidarity
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I've been reading Carmen Gonzalez's sharp analyzes on racial capitalism, law & climate justice for several years. They offer a much needed take on the political economy of the 'green' transition
Excited to be hosting a conversation with her on March 18!
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Should the left propose solutions that would harness neoliberalism & sustain human rights, or should it be skeptical of global institutions?
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French legal academia CAN be critical!
This Thursday (from 5-7pm) and Friday (10-12pm) I’ll be presenting my research on gender & political economy in EU law at the Institut de droit comparé de Paris at the University Panthéon-Assas
Dm me if you'd like to join!
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📣 online workshop for emerging female EU law scholars
@ACELG_UvA
!
This is a great opportunity designed specifically to support female scholars (especially those working on critical legal approaches & from minority backgrounds)
Apply by Jan 20th! 👉
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What are you doing this summer?🐞🌊
Looking for a critical, fun & supportive environment to develop your research?
Join me and my fabulous colleagues from
@AdamLawSchool
,
@gln_maastricht
&
@TilburgLaw
at the
@SGEL
summer school for early career scholars (June 19-21)
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On “good” migrants and “dangerous” refugees
Amazing essay by Yugoslawomen+ Collective
@dzenetakarabeg
@SladjaLazic
@VjosaMusliu
@JulijaSardelic
@EBStavrevska
@J_Obradovic_W
#Yugosplaining
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The European Green Deal was heralded as a groundbreaking model for a fair & inclusive green transition, but it has become increasingly clear that it perpetuates a neoliberal logic tied to inequalities & colonial dynamics
My contribution to the
@SGEL_UvA
/
@afronomicslaw
symposium
‘While EU's officials [emphasizes] that the EGD is the ‘compass’ … at the legal and policy level the EU may be missing the tight window of opportunity for truly addressing the multi-faceted root causes of the ecological breakdown.’ -
@IsailovicIvana
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Who knew roundtables on international investment law could be so much fun!🥳
Thank you to everyone who tuned in, and a massive thank you to our fabulous speakers for such an engaging event!
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Organizing events: so much work, so many emails, meetings, followups….but now so much JOY seeing a conference like this come together, with such phenomenal speakers & compelling panels!
Join us for the event on Law's Role in Sustainable Globalization on June 22/23!
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Possibly one of the events I’m proudest of
In very bleak times, a small attempt at collective re-imagination of our world at
@mediamatic
, co-organized with Laura Burgers
Thank you
@TWAILReview
for publishing these essays and to everyone who contributed ideas, art & energy 🫶🍄
⚡️ new on TWAILR: Extra ⚡️
🚨 How can we radically imagine the features & futures of a green and just world? 🌏
Words by
✍️Ivana Isailovic
@IsailovicIvana
✍️Usha Natarajan
✍️Pippi van Ommen
✍️Margarita Teresa Nieves Zárate
Drawings by
🎨Kyra Sacks
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