Dear colleague,
We would like to invite your students to participate in an important
educational and research institute on sexuality studies, which is annually
held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Institute on Sexuality, Culture,
and Society, organized by the University of Amsterdam, was begun in 1995,
and has enjoyed three years of unparalleled success. The Institute is an
academic summer program open to students from around the world.
This year's Amsterdam Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society,
promises to be the best learning experience of all. We are encouraging
advanced students, primarily PhD and MA students in the socio-cultural
sciences with a serious interest in sexuality study, to apply for
participation in the Fourth Annual Institute, July 12 - August 6, 1999.
The Summer Institute in 1998 featured 31 students of American, European and
Third World background, all of whom took courses in a variety of areas
dealing with the anthropology of sexual cultures, the social history of
sexuality, the history of erotic art, the social theory of sexuality, and a
number of additional areas germane to human sexuality. From all reports
these students had a wonderful learning experience, and we are gratified
not only by their responses to us, but also by their recommendations that
their peers apply for admission to this Summer's Institute. We try to limit
the size of the seminars to small discussion groups of 15 or less, to
enable close and detailed discussion with our visiting professor and with
fellow students.
We expect the 1999 class to be in the range of approximately 35 students,
which is a small but dynamic size for intellectual and social activities.
The classes of the Institute are taught in the intensive manner of small
seminars, with group discussions, lecturers and guest lecturers by
prominent people in the field. We will offer significant lectures by
sociologist John Gagnon, historian Jeffrey weeks, and anthropologists
Carole Vance, Michael Tan, and others.
This year's intensive research seminar will be co-taught by Gilbert Herdt
and Mieke Aerts (a Dutch woman historian who specializes in gender) and
will survey a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to
sexuality study in the socio-cultural sciences. Seminar discussion will
focus on the integration of cultural and historical theory in understanding
human sexuality through 'sexual storie', 'sexual culture', and 'historical
representations'.
Please have your students apply directly to the Universiteit van Amsterdam,
at the below address, or visit our web-site with the latest information at:
http://www.pscw.uva.nl/InternationalSchool/SummerInstitute
Please feel free to redistribute this announcement.
With all best wishes and thanks,
Gilbert Herdt
Professor and Director
Human Sexuality Studies
San Francisco State University
By way of
Mariette Blokhuis, MA
Program manager
University of Amsterdam
Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture & Society
International School for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Herengracht 514
1017 CC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
phone: +31 20 525.3776
fax: +31 20 525.3778
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.pscw.uva.nl/InternationalSchool/SummerInstitute
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