Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia
May ,19th- 23rd 2008
Deadline: December 10, 2007
Call for Applications
Rutgers (State University of New Jersey) Womens and Gender Studies Department and Belgrade Womens Studies and Gender Research Center and the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University (Budapest) are pleased to announce the 9th annual postgraduate course in Feminist Critical Analysis: Re/Producing, Consuming, Engendering.The course will be held at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik on May 19th 23rd, 2008. The course will be co-directed by Dasa Duhacek of the Women´s Studies Belgrade, Serbia and Ethel Brooks of the Womens and Gender Studies Department, Rutgers University and Allaine Cerwonka of the Gender Studies Department, Central European University.
Topic
This course will explore the re/production and consumption of not only gender but also of nations, bodies, sexualities and dominant socio-cultural forms. It takes up the premise that re/production and consumption are inherently gendered and thus central to engendering the boundaries of everyday life, from working, shopping, cooking, eating, to farming and ecology, and formations of race class and ethnicity. What are the gender dynamics of re/production and consumption? By bringing these terms together we refer, on the one hand to economic practices of re/production and consumption, but also to how gender itself is re/produced, how gender is consumed as it also takes up consumption as both practice and discourse. We will interrogate the centrality of gendered bodies to re/producing, consuming and potentially disrupting the transnational capitalist order. The course is built upon the assumption that intellectual dialogue among a diverse body of scholars from different geographical locations will result in a better understanding of the ways in which our particular locations are influencing our own theoretical and political choices. The number of participants is limited to25-30 students from different countries. The participating faculty are drawn from several different European and US universities. Daily seminars take place in two 3-4 hours sessions a day. All meetings are conducted in English.
ELIGIBILITY
IUC courses are conducted at a postgraduate level. All postgraduate students interested in the topic may apply for participation. Participants should seek funds from their own institutions to cover travel and accommodation costs. Limited financial support is available for participants from Central and Eastern Europe.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
A short narrative explaining your interest in the topic and your C.V. with your current contact information should be submitted by e-mail by December 10, 2007. Submissions will be reviewed by the Feminist Critical Analysis Selection Committee. Awards will be announced in mid-February.
Please submit applications to Judit Zotter zotterj[at]ceu.hu with Dubrovnik 2008 in the subject heading.