Date: September 30 – October 2, 2008
Venue: Roskilde University, Denmark

Teachers
Prof. Meyda Yegenoglu, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and Columbia University, New York, USA
Dr. Diana Mulinari, Lund University, Sweden
Assoc. Prof. Signe Arnfred, The Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden, and Roskilde University, Denmark
Assoc. Prof. Bodil Folke Frederiksen, Roskilde University, Denmark

Coordinators
Ass. prof. Signe Arnfred – in collaboration with Director of the Research School, Prof. Nina Lykke, Linkoeping University, Sweden

Course description
Over the last few decades postcolonial feminist theorizing has contributed decisively to feminist thinking, critically pointing to the implicit and invisible whiteness of Western feminisms. Postcolonial feminists have illuminated the complex and fractured ways in which the doings of gender and sexuality are at the core of nationalisms, colonialisms and racisms, and central to politics of war and militarization. Read More

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