[NextGenderation] Fwd: NOISE Summer School 2008 In
Between Understanding and Practicing Gender:
Intersectionality and Interdisciplinarity
FYI
http://www.genderstudies.nl/summerschool2008/index.php
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NOI?SE 2008 Summer School: In Between Understanding
and
Practicing Gender: Intersectionality and
Interdisciplinarity.
18 August ? 29 August, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Have you always wanted to know what cutting-edge
feminist thinking is
about and how you yourself can learn how to practice
it? Are you
dreaming of writing work ?that matters??
Do you want to develop your ideas about transnational
feminism,
identities and power? Do you want to reflect upon the
ways in which
identities are being negotiated in different settings?
Do you want to explore what interdisciplinarity is in
terms of
knowledge production, feminist responsibility and
academic practices?
Are you curious about doing Women's Studies in Europe?
These questions will be dealt with in the 15th edition
of the Noise
Summer School!
In this first interdisciplinary cluster Intersecting
Identities:
Transnationalism, Gender and Power, we will explore
how transnational
and intersectional feminist theory can help us to make
sense of
current developments with regard to identities,
subjectivities,
gender, power and knowledge. ?Identities? will be
central to our
concern. For a long time, ?identity? was a concept
that referred to a
stable inner core of the true self, some real,
authentic self, inside
there, hiding inside the false selves that we present
to the rest of
the world. This discourse of identity, with its strong
representations
of inside-outside, true-false, self-other,
subject-object,
individual-society has, despite its lingering and
persistent traces,
run its course. We need new ways of thinking about
identity. We will
begin by looking at traditional ways of thinking and
talking about
identity and the ways in which feminism has helped us
to go beyond
such binaries as outlined above. We will explore
identity as a way of
understanding the interplay between our subjective
experience of the
world and the cultural and historical settings in
which shifting
subjectivities are formed. Identity is never fixed or
completed, but
instead always in formation. We will analyze identity
then as a
process, multiplicitous, contradictory and unstable,
lacking coherence
even. In addition, we have become aware that identity
is always in
part a narrative, always in part a representation.
Lecturers from a
variety of backgrounds will utilize approaches from
the Humanities,
the Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, focusing on
representations
and identity - formations in various bodies of texts
like women?s own
narratives, versions of feminist theory, gendered and
ethnicized
bodies, religion, the law and state policy
regulations.
In the second cluster Interdisciplinarity in Gender
Studies: Poetics
and Ethics, we will attempt to understand the
potential and
problematics of interdisciplinarity in terms of
knowledge production,
academic practices and feminist ethics. The starting
point of the
cluster is the understanding that interdisciplinarity
is a problematic
concept, which nevertheless offers great potential,
particularly for
feminist researchers. While it has become the current
standard in
historical and literary studies, it raises specific
epistemological
and ethical questions regarding knowledge production
and academic
practices. This begs the question of whether
interdisciplinarity is
merely a matter of research skills and the
accumulation of knowledge,
or if there is more at stake. With regards to feminist
research,
interdisciplinarity offers distinctive discursive and
ideological
potential, especially insofar as it reveals itself as
anti-colonial
and counter-hegemonic. In this cluster we will explore
this potential
of interdisciplinary approaches in feminist research
by attempting to
deconstruct stereotypes of research practices and the
over-evaluation
of acquired skills. We will also rethink humanist
research ethics in
terms of contemporary feminist theory, as well as
address the notion
of pleasure as it relates to research practices. The
aim of the
cluster is to explore the possibilities of
interdisciplinarity, to
construct a toolbox for feminist interdisciplinary
research, and to
reappropriate the pleasures at the center of feminist
knowledge
production and research practices.
Aims
This advanced training course offers a diversified,
but coherent
programme of study from an interdisciplinary
perspective. It is meant
for MA students and PhD students and it will provide
special and
separate seminars to these two groups.
Please check
http://www.genderstudies.nl/summerschool
for the
programmes of the last years to get an idea how the
programme is
structured. The basic formula is always the same; the
themes and
clusters vary.
Please check
http://www.genderstudies.nl/summerschool2008 for
regular
updates!
Formula:
Two lectures in the morning
Separate MA- and PhD-specific seminars in the
afternoon
Social programme
Students prepare during the summer by reading and
collecting material
for assignments (approximately 70 hours of work).
After fulfilment of
all requirements (preparation of assignments and
reading, active
participation and final essay of 10 - 15 pages),
participants receive
the NOISE Certificate for 240 hours of work, equalling
9 ECTS
All participants are expected to participate in the
entire programme
during the two weeks
Accommodation for students
The accommodation will be arranged by the organising
university in
Utrecht and can be reserved and paid to the central
co-ordination in
Utrecht. Participants can also arrange their own
accommodation;
however, we advise you to ?stick together? at the same
accommodation!
Tuition Fees
The tuition fee is ?550,- This includes reading
materials, but is
exclusive of accommodation, subsistence costs (i.e.
evening meals,
drinks etc) and possible excursions.
Teachers in the course
The first week of the Summer School is coordinated by
Prof. Gloria
Wekker and Dr. Sarah Bracke (Utrecht University); week
two is
coordinated by Prof. Svetlana Slap?ack (Ljubljana
Graduate School of
Humanities), Sanne Koevoets MA and Domitilla Olivieri
MA (Utrecht
University). Several renowned professors and scholars
from various
disciplines will be teaching at the Summer School.
These will be
announced on the website.
The NOISE Summer School is made possible by a grant of
the Erasmus
Programme of the DG Education and Culture.
For more Information:
NOI?SE Central Coordination
Graduate Gender Programme
Utrecht University
Prof. Rosemarie Buikema
Kromme Nieuwegracht 29
3512 HD Utrecht
The Netherlands
E-mail: noise@???
Tel: +31-30-2536001
Fax: +31-30-2536134
Registration:
Please note that you can only register online (before
April 25) at
this address:
http://www.genderstudies.nl/summerschool2008
COME TO THE NOISE SUMMERSCHOOL
AND BE CHALLENGED!
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