Bard NYC Chace Lecture
Framing Equality: The Politics of Gay Marriage Wars

This James Chace Memorial lecture is named in honor of the late director of the BGIA program and will mark the publication of Professor Omar Encarnación’s book Framing Equality: The Politics of Gay Marriage Wars (OUP 2025). It is the first cross-national comparative study of the global struggle for same-sex marriage. Drawing upon the cases of the US, Spain, and Brazil, it explains why this struggle varied with respect to the backlash and the legacy for LGBTQ equality. This event will include an in depth discussion between Professor Encarnación and Dr. Ari Shaw about the framing of a gay marriage campaign and the prominence of transnationalism in gay rights activism.

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OMAR G. ENCARNACIÓN IS THE CHARLES FLINT KELLOGG PROFESSOR OF POLITICS AT BARD COLLEGE, AND SPECIALIZES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS WITH A REGIONAL FOCUS ON SOUTH AMERICA AND SOUTHERN EUROPE. HIS RESEARCH CENTERS ON DEMOCRATIZATION, POLITICAL MEMORY, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND LGBTQ RIGHTS MOVEMENTS. HE IS THE AUTHOR OF FIVE BOOKS, INCLUDING SPANISH POLITICS: DEMOCRACY AFTER DICTATORSHIP, OUT IN THE PERIPHERY, AND FRAMING EQUALITY: THE POLITICS OF GAY MARRIAGE WARS. HE HOLDS A PH.D. IN POLITICS FROM PRINCETON UNIVERSITY AND HAS HELD FELLOWSHIPS AT YALE, GEORGETOWN, AND THE CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE. HE CURRENTLY SERVES ON THE APSA ETHICS AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM COMMITTEE AND THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS.

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ARI SHAW IS A SENIOR FELLOW AND THE DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AT THE WILLIAMS INSTITUTE, SPECIALIZING IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS, LGBTI POLITICS, AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY. HE WAS PREVIOUSLY ON THE SENIOR STAFF AT COLUMBIA WORLD PROJECTS AND HAS WORKED ON HUMAN RIGHTS, GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, AND LGBTI ISSUES FOR THE OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS, THE GILL FOUNDATION, THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, AND THE UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF THE USA, AMONG OTHERS. DR. ARI SHAW WAS A FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR AT THE UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES IN BOGOTÁ AND A MULTIRIGHTS FELLOW AT THE NORWEGIAN CENTRE ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN OSLO. HE HOLDS A PH.D. IN POLITICAL SCIENCE FROM NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, AN M.SC. IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FROM THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, AND A B.A. IN GOVERNMENT FROM HARVARD COLLEGE.

For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Time: 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Bard NYC - First Floor, 292 N 8th St, Brooklyn, NY

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