{"podcast":{"title":"Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Podcast","slug":"cambridge-centre-for-european-legal-studies-cels-podcast-7108287","podcast_index_feed_id":7108287,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/cels-seminars/","website_url":"http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/de738fe6-d8ed-4d7d-804e-963726c6ef94/y2pdterK_MzMTys80kk9twd-.png","author":"Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge","episode_count":178,"summary":"The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, runs a series of lunchtime seminars during the Michaelmas and Lent Terms. These seminars provide a platform for the presentation of new ideas by leading scholars from inside and outside the University. The lunchtime seminars address topical issues of European Union Law and Comparative Law, with a view to using collective debate as a forum for developing and disseminating ideas, and producing high quality research publications which contribute to an understanding of major issues in the European Union. There is a close link between the CELS Lunchtime Seminar series and the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (CYELS). Papers generated from most of these seminars are published as articles in the CYELS. Video recordings of the seminars are made available via podcast, and videos on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy4oXRK6xgzGUiTnOrTDiD0SfIbGj2W-x). For more information see the CELS website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T04:18:44.659212+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cambridge-centre-for-european-legal-studies-cels-podcast-7108287"},"episode":{"title":"EU Anti-Discrimination Law through the Lens of Critical Theory: CELS Lunchtime Seminar","slug":"eu-anti-discrimination-law-through-the-lens-of-critical-theory-cels-lunchtime-seminar","published_at":"2025-11-12T14:14:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cambridge-centre-for-european-legal-studies-cels-podcast-7108287/eu-anti-discrimination-law-through-the-lens-of-critical-theory-cels-lunchtime-seminar","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cambridge-centre-for-european-legal-studies-cels-podcast-7108287","url":"https://cels-seminars.captivate.fm/episode/eu-anti-discrimination-law-through-the-lens-of-critical-theory-cels-lunchtime-seminar","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/72f31f2a-79e3-4081-8338-ae5f541ce322.mp3","summary":"Speaker : Dr Raphaële Xenidis, Sciences Po Law School, France Abstract :  EU anti-discrimination law has been a subject of choice for critiques from various disciplines. One influential motif that has durably structured the critical analysis of EU anti-discrimination law is the distinction between formal and substantive equality. Substantive approaches seek to diagnose and remedy the disjunctions between formal equality frameworks and social realities. Yet, such critiques often remain implicit in their engagement with social theory, leaving the very notion and construction of ’social realities’ largely unexamined. This paper thus asks: How does the principle of non-discrimination mediate and produce specific forms of individual subjectivity, interpersonal relationships, institutional arrangements, material and spatial organisation and ultimately social order? How does it authorise the existence of certain subjects and groups while excluding and rendering others invisible? What 'forms of life' does EU anti-discrimination and its jurisprudential construction by the Court enable or preclude? For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series","meta_description":"Speaker : Dr Raphaële Xenidis, Sciences Po Law School, France Abstract : EU anti-discrimination law has been a subject of choice for critiques…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2733,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cambridge-centre-for-european-legal-studies-cels-podcast-7108287/episodes/eu-anti-discrimination-law-through-the-lens-of-critical-theory-cels-lunchtime-seminar/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cambridge-centre-for-european-legal-studies-cels-podcast-7108287/eu-anti-discrimination-law-through-the-lens-of-critical-theory-cels-lunchtime-seminar.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}