Advanced European Summer School in Women's Studies from
Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives / 4 - 19
September 2004, Ljubljana, Slovenia
(University of Ljubljana - Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis)/
Deadline for application: 1 May 2004 /
For more information, please contact:
NOISE central coordination
International Office Women's Studies
Prof.dr Rosi Braidotti
Utrecht University
Muntstraat 2-A
3512 EV Utrecht
The Netherlands
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +31-30-2536013
Fax: +31-30-2536695
http://www.let.uu.nl/womens_studies/summerschool2004
"New European Identities and Mediated Cultures: Revisiting the
Politics
of Location"
The notion of the politics of locations is one of the
epistemological
foundations of feminist theory and gender knowledge. It has
developed over
the last twenty years from a political slogan into a fully-
fledged
methodological framework, which encompasses several theoretical
variations. One of the most relevant aspects of this notion is
that it
explores the parameters for the kinds of subject positions that
have
become available as a result of changing gender roles in society.
The
politics of location, however, also works at the macro-level as a
tool
by which global power relations can be assessed in the light of
feminist
politics and gender concerns. This has led, among others, to
discussions about the transnational nature of feminist
subjectivity and to
intersectional methods of analysis, which account simultaneously
for a
variety of axes of marginalisation: gender, class, race,
ethnicity,
age, and sexuality.
This two-week course will present a cartography of these new
subject
positions within a European perspective, with special emphasis on
the
power relations that construct them. Very inter-disciplinary in
orientation, it presents approaches from the humanities (history,
literature, the arts), the social sciences (sociology, political
theory, anthropology) and philosophy. Great emphasis will be
placed on the
construction of locations at the micro as well as the macro-
levels, and thus
on memories, genealogies and the impact of cultural products in
both
institutionalising and propagating certain forms of remembrance.
Equal weight
will be given, however, to the material and social context within
which
identities and locations are negotiated. Empirical data on Equal
Opportunities will be provided and discussed within the context
of the
European welfare states and their re-structuring. Throughout this
debate,
cross-references will be made to the new technologies, and their
overwhelming
impact upon issued related to gender identity and to the status
of women and
other minorities in contemporary societies.
This advanced training course offers a diversified, but coherent
Programme of study form an inter-disciplinary perspective. It is
meant for
M.A students and starting PhD students and it will provide
special and
separate tuition seminars to these two groups.
Location: Slovenia
Deadline: May 1, 2004
Website: http://www.let.uu.nl/womens_studies/summerschool2004
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