Nordic Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (Funded by NorFA/NordForsk: Nordic Academy for Advanced Study). The School is a joint venture between NIKK (Nordic Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, Oslo) and Dept. of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and 36 Gender Studies units at universities in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and North-West Russia.
PhD course FEMINIST METHODOLOGIES: SITUATED KNOWLEDGE PRACTICES
Date: December 8-10, 2009
Deadline for application: October 23, 2009
Venue: University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden
Teachers:

• Dr. Katie King, Associate professor of women’s studies, University of Maryland, USA,
• Dr. Ulrika Dahl, Assistant professor of gender studies, Södertörn University College, Sweden
• Dr. Malin Rönnblom, assistent professor of gender studies, Umeå University, Sweden.

Course description:
Feminist methodologies are all about critical, reflexive and visionary ideas about knowledges being made, shared, used, demonstrated, patterned and organized. This course attends to some themes related to how, in a global era, feminists/gender scholars labor to participate in a universe in which we are only some of the objects, devices, things, processes and trial and error reassemblages in self-organizing „learning“.
We begin by considering some methodological dilemmas connected to understanding global academic restructuring, networking knowledge economies, and transdisciplinarity. Next we hone in on reconsiderations of two „classic“ methods: ethnography and policy analysis. Continue reading →