Date: November 7-8, 2010
Place: November 7: Keynote Lecture in Rapaporte Treasure Hall
November 8: Conference in Hassenfeld Conference Center
The practice of plural marriage poses ethical and legal challenges for the liberal state. Internal minorities demand the toleration of polygamous practices. Migrant groups demand recognition of polygynous marriages contracted legitimately under foreign legal regimes. Critics of monogamy ask why the state should limit recognition to dyadic relationships. Critics of marriage ask why the state should impose the terms of intimate relationships rather than allowing the parties to set these themselves. This international conference explored a range of issues related to polygamy, polygyny and polyamory in the United States and around the world.
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The lecture and conference, hosted by the HBI Project on Gender, Culture, Religion, and the Law, are generously funded by a gift from the Dan Fischel and Sylvia Neil Philanthropic Fund. Additional support and cosponsors: the Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University; the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis University, which is funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation; the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University; and the West African Research Association.
 
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