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The fifth seminar in the new Queer Human Rights Seminar Series at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, on 'Queering AI: the effects of artificial intelligence on the LGBTQ+ community' by guest speaker Masuma Shahid, will take place on Thursday, 20th April 2023 at 12.30pm in the Seminar Room, Irish Centre for Human Rights. Lunch and tea/coffee will be provided.

Masuma Shahid is a lecturer in European Union law, a PhD candidate in the field of LGBTQ+ rights and one of the co-coordinators of the LGBTQI Working Group of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law. Her PhD research focuses on Queer Legal Theory and how various courts approach the topic of equal marriage rights, specifically same-sex marriage. Besides publishing in various journals, Shahid is the co-author of the bookseries 'Cases and Materials' (on European Union law, Public International Law, International and European Union Law) at Eleven Publishing and the author of 'Europees recht begrepen' at Boom Juridische Uitgevers. Her latest research can be found in the chapter 'Artificial Intelligence and LGBTQ+ rights' in A. Quintavalla & J.D. Temperman, Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Oxford University Press (forthcoming in June 2023).