SM Rodriguez, Ph.D.

April 1: Recoding Enforcement: The Imperative of Studying Invisibilised (Extra)Legal Harms, LSE Research Showcase, UK

March 5: "Abolition Now!" SM in conversation with S Lamble, LSE Gender

February 13: Trans Lives, Histories and Activisms, SM in conversation with Susan Stryker and Onni Gust, LSE Gender and LSE International History, UK

February 5: Arrested Analysis: The Unseen Reach of Sodomy Laws in Uganda, Mannheim Research Centre for Criminology, LSE, UK 

December 2: “Women’s Rights and Human Rights: Carceral Genealogies from CEDAW to Istanbul” Warwick Law, UK

May 22: "Finding Black Inspiration: Renewing our Commitment to Antiracist and Decolonial Scholarship" Black Professors Pipeline, London, UK

April 23: "Connecting Against Carceralism" Invited Lecture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

February 6: "Abolition and the Black Feminist Imagination" Abolitionist Imaginaries and Praxis Group, University of Oxford, UK

January 30: "The Question of Enforcement: Anti-Homosexuality Legislation in Uganda and the Problem of Panoptic Policing" Public Seminar Series at the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, UK

December 7: Pedagogies of the Scholar-Activist, “Interrogating ‘Activist-Scholarship’ in Socio-legal Studies” Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

November 1: "Revisiting a Methodology of Connection: on Scholar-Activist Methods" Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, London, UK

October 30: "Black Feminism in Europe: Celebrating our Sisters, Saluting our Sisters, and Honouring Matriarchs of Movements" The European Institute and LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, London School of Economics (RSVP)

October 16: "Rethinking Radicality in Queer Theory" (Symposium), University of Sussex

June 26: "Africanizing Queerness" A conversation with S.N. Nyeck and Nathalie Etoke, The Philosopher

June 2: "Politics of the Personal: Academia, Art and Activism" Plenary,
Gender Studies Now (Conference), University of Stavanger, Norway

May 26: "Circuits of Queer/Capital" Plenary,
What's Left of Sexual Democracy (Conference), Newcastle University, UK

March 17: "Gender, Race, Disability and In/Vulnerability: Protectionist Politics and Lawful Punishment in the United States" Keynote Address, University of Warwick Law School, UK

February 4: "Lesbian, Queer and Trans-feminist resistance against sexual violence" We Are the Feminisms, SOAS University of London, UK

January 25: "Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place" by J.T. Roane, Book Launch Chaired by SM, LSE 4:00-5:30PM

September 22: "Reconsidering Anti-Homosexuality and Anti-Gender Politics in Uganda" Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA

September 21: "African Feminisms for Abolitionist Futures" LSE Gender Studies Welcome Address, London, UK 3:30pm-5pm BST

August 9: The Movement to End Abortion and LGBTQI+ Rights: Insights from Ireland, Brazil, El Salvador, Uganda, and the United States, American Sociological Association Presidential Panel, Los Angeles, CA 10am-11:30am PST

August 9: "Sexual Displacements" SM and Elena Shih (Brown University) as discussants, American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, CA 12pm-1:30pm PST

August 5: "Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition" by Liat Ben-Moshe, Author-Meets-Critic Session (SM as critic), Society for the Study of Social Problems, Los Angeles, CA

April 1: "Africanist, Anti Carceral Feminisms for Decolonial Futures” Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) Winter Meeting Opening Plenary, entitled Feminist Mobilizing for a Better Future: A Transnational Perspective. Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, USA 10-11:30am MST

April 1: "racialization.spectacle.liberation: feminist ruminations on place-making, memory, and the non-human" Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) Winter Meeting panel (SM moderating with Chriss Sneed) Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, USA 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm MST