CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Summer School on Gender Studies
Transforming the Academy: Women's Studies in Post-Soviet Countries
20 August - 9 September, 2000
Kharkov Center for Gender Studies
Kharkhov, Ukraine
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English
Course Director: Irina Zherebkina, Kharkov Center for Gender Studies
The educational objectives of the summer school are to develop women's
studies programs at regional universities; improve the qualifications
of those teaching women's and gender studies at university;
develop new courses and research projects on women's and gender
issues.
Participants: Young university teachers and researches from
NIS and CEE countries developing or already teaching courses on
gender\women's issues.
The program of the Summer School will consist of the following
courses:
- Critical Linguistics as Feminist Method / Dr. Susan Ehrlich
(York University, Toronto, Canada)
- From masculinity to masculinities. Methodology of men's
studies / Dr. Igor Kon (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology,
Moscow, Russia)
- Women and Nation / Dr. Zarana Papic (University of
Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
- Herstory: Gender Methodology in History / Dr. Natalia
Poushkareva (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology,
Moscow, Russia)
- Women's Studies, women's literature, women's writing / Dr.
Svetlana Slapsak (Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Ljubljana,
Slovenia)
- Women's Studies in Post-Classical Social Theory / Dr. Anna
Tiomkina (European University, St.-Petersburg, Russia)
- Women and Politics in Russia / Dr. Valentina Uspenskaya
(Tver State University, Tver, Russia)
- Transforming the Academy: Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis,
and Feminism in Contemporary Thought / Dr. Irina Zherebkina
(Kharkov National University, Kharkov, Ukraine)
There will also be guest lectures on related topics.
We provide accommodation and meals for all applicants
accepted, i.e. participants. By now we also have limited funds to
cover participants' travel expenses. Organizing Committee
encourages applicant consider additional possibilities for
covering this kind of expenses in advance.
To apply please send us (preferably by e-mail as attachment) your CV
(resume) and a curriculum of your teaching course on
gender\women's issues or short description of your research
project on the topic in Russian, Ukraine or English. Deadline
for applying is June 1, 2000.
Please do NOT fax your applications.
Please do not hesitate contact us if you have any questions at:
Zaven Babloyan, coordinator
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Natalia Soboleva, program assistant
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tel.\fax 38 (0572) 14-09-29
Kharkov Center for Gender Studies
P\O Box 4687
Kharkov-22
61022 Ukraine
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