Kiran Grewal

Room 165, RC Mills building, A26 +612 9351 2964

Kiran Grewal holds a BA (International Studies)/LLB (1st class Hons) from the University of Technology, Sydney. She has recently completed her PhD thesis on the topic of ethnicised gang rape and the relationship between constructions of national, gender and sexual identity. Her areas of research interest include gender, nationalism, immigration, diaspora and postcolonial theory, with a particular focus on Australia and France. She also has research expertise in the area of sexual violence in the context of inter-ethnic and international conflicts and in international human rights law. Most recently, Kiran has worked on issues associated with the Rule of Law and peace-building in post-conflict societies.

Kiran teaches in the areas of human rights, socio-legal studies, political and social theory, gender and contemporary society. She is currently coordinating SCLG2605 “Social Justice, Law and Society”.

Prior to starting her thesis, Kiran worked as a solicitor in private practice in Sydney specialising in immigration law and commercial litigation. She has also worked as Assistant Gender Legal Adviser to the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London, a senior researcher with the University of California, Berkeley’s War Crimes Studies Center and a trial monitor at the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

• K. Grewal (2009) “’Va t’faire intégrer!’: The Appel des féministes indigènes and the challenge to ‘Republican values’ in Postcolonial France” Contemporary French Civilization, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp105-133
• K. Grewal (2007) “Representations of the Young Muslim Man in Australian Public Discourse” Transforming Cultures e-journal, Vol. 2, No.1

Book Chapters

• K. Grewal (2007) “‘The Threat from Within’: Representations of the Banlieue in French Popular Discourse” in Europe: New Voices, New Perspectives, Contemporary Europe Research Centre, University of Melbourne, e-book

Reports

• Amnesty International (2008) “Serbia (Kosovo): The Challenge to Fix a Failed UN Justice Mission” Doc. Ref. EUR70/001/2008, 29 January 2008
• K. Grewal and R. Richman Cohen (2006) Gender Competency Training Manual, Defence Office of the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone

Conference Papers/ Presentations/Public Forums

• K. Grewal (2009) “Using criminal prosecutions to further women’s human rights: some observations from the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone” presented at the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Sydney, December 2009
• K. Grewal (2008) “International Criminal Law and the Establishment of World Order” presented at the Annual New South Wales Legal Studies Association Conference, Sydney, March 2008.
• J. Arvanitakis, K. Grewal and D. Wadiwel (2007) “Racists Like Us” presented at the Annual Australasian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Conference, Sydney, December 2007.
• K. Grewal (2007) “The ‘Natives strike Back’: The appel des féministes indigènes and the Death of ‘Republican Values’ in Postcolonial France” presented at the Annual Australian French Studies Conference, Sydney, July 2007.
• K. Grewal (2006) “The Young Muslim Man in Australian Public Discourse” presented at the University of Melbourne Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam Annual Conference, Melbourne, December 2006.
• K. Grewal (2006) “Towards a Non-Racist Recognition of Women’s Human Rights” presented at the UN Dialogue Amongst Civilisations Conference, Leura NSW, November 2006.