On 28 April 2022, SHaME presented the official book launch of Associate Prof Sameena Mulla and Associate Prof Heather Hlavka's Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication (New York University Press). Heather and Sameena were joined in conversation by host Professor Joanna Bourke (Principal Investigator at SHaME) and guests Assistant Prof April Petillo (Northern Arizona University), Dr Gethin Rees (Newcastle University), and Prof M Gabriela Torres (Wheaton College).

The official book launch for Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication featured introductory comments from the authors, reflections from Assistant Prof April Petillo, Dr Gethin Rees, and Prof M Gabriela Torres (Wheaton College, and an open panel discussion chaired by Prof Joanna Bourke, including questions from a globally diverse audience of criminal justice practitioners, academics, survivor-activists and interested members of the public. The discussion covered a wide range of topics including statecraft and carcerality, gender-based violence in US asylum courts, forensic medical evidence and broader cultural ideas about sexual violence survivors, and much more.

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