Part of the Winter School programme ‘Sex between legal knowledges and powers: ethics, aesthetics, politics, and science as mediations of meaning’, this roundtable is dedicated to the place(s) of sex in canon law. It aims to promote reflection on how canonical legal reasoning represents the person as a sexual subject and accesses its meaning through conceptual tools such as conscience, conduct, bond, body, temptation, expectation or responsibility.

Having left traces of its long influence but operating on the margins of secular law, the richness of Christian theological thought underlying the exercise of Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction lies, among other things, in the history of its diversity, its debates, divergences and setbacks, the points of convergence and divergence it has experienced, as well as the religious communities that give it meaning or discover meaning in it. The aim of this roundtable is for the discussion among participants to develop around the problems or concerns that, directly or indirectly, are of greatest interest to them and that open broader avenues of research for the cultural study of the normative imagination of sex.

The event is open to the public.

Speakers

Eugénia Abrantes (Institute for Advanced Studies in Catholicism and Globalisation)
Fernanda Henriques (Department of Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, University of Évora / Centre for Philosophy and Gender, Portuguese Society of Philosophy)
Jorge Teixeira da Cunha (Faculty of Theology, Portuguese Catholic University)
José Manuel Pureza (Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra / Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra)
Paula Marinho (Marinho Advogados)
Tiago Cavaco (Evangelical Baptist Church of Lapa)

Moderators: Ana Oliveira (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra) and Tiago Ribeiro (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra / School of Education and Social Sciences, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria)

The Winter School ‘Sex between legal knowledges and powers: ethics, aesthetics, politics, and science as mediations of meaning’ is organised by Ana Oliveira and Tiago Ribeiro, and is held within the scope of the LAWCUS project – reference 2023.12608.PEX, funded by national funds through the Foundation for Science and Technology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54499/2023.12608.PEX