The Zagreb Centre for Women’s Studies in collaboration with Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Udine, Italy; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia; Department of Gender Studies, CEU Budapest, Hungary; Center for the Study of Gender and Culture, Lahore, Pakistan

Date: 23-27 May 2011
Venue: Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia
Proposal deadline: 20 January 2011
Call for papers and details as PDF

This year’s theme is „Women narrating their lives and action“. The intellectual impulse for the fifth feminist course in the seminar on Feminisms in transnational perspective comes from Hannah Arendt’s statement that “lives without words and action are dead for the world”. Extensive scholarship has established links between gender and genre in women’s (auto)biographical discourses, while feminist theorizing has offered political and activist perspectives on the wider socio-cultural frame of positing, producing, communicating, and manipulating women’s selfrepresentations. The exploration of autobiographical ethics and „first-person plural subjectivities“ involved in national identity formation in turbulent times and politically charged contexts has been particularly fruitful. Now we may ask, how do the contexts and communitarian vocabularies of selfhood intervene in pervasive  eoliberal structures of power/knowledge and capitalist reification in the transnational negotiation of feminisms?