Marta Bucholc (Warsaw) and Lourdes Peroni (Warsaw)

Historicum Room K201, Schellingstr. 12, Munich

Colloquium "Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism"

The KFG colloquium continues with its next session on Wednesday, July 17th, with a lecture by Distinguished Fellow Marta Bucholc and our esteemed guest Lourdes Peroni.

Marta Bucholc is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Warsaw and Chercheuse Associée at the Centre de recherche en science politique, University of Saint-Louis, Brussels. Between 2015 and 2020 she was research professor at Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg „Recht als Kultur“ of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Her research focus is historical sociology, history of social theory, sociology of law, sociology of economy and sociology of knowledge. She is a distinguished fellow at the KFG in Munich and will researcho n a project titled Religious Family Values: Nationalism and Universalism Reconsidered.

Lourdes Peroni is a human rights law scholar whose areas of research include equality and non-discrimination, gender-based violence, intersectionality and vulnerability, particularly within the contexts of the United Nations, Organization of American States and Council of Europe. She has published in several journals such as Feminist Legal Studies, Human Rights Law Review and International Journal of Constitutional Law. Before joining the University of Warsaw, she worked as a fellow at Yale Law School, as a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent Law Faculty and as a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Lourdes was also a fellow at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and was involved in various submissions and third-party interventions before the CEDAW Committee and the European Court of Human Rights. She was a visiting scholar at Emory Law School, Melbourne Law School and, most recently, CEU Democracy Institute.

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