Call for Papers | Summer School in Gender Studies: 'Disturbances and Interventions'

The 3rd Interdisciplinary Summer School in Gender Studies (Groningen, 24-28 August 2020) takes its point of departure in Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chtulucene (2016) and Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990).

The areas teachers and students will work with during this summer school, are related to the key words disturbance and intervention inspired by these path-breaking scholars. We will end the summer school with joy and engagement in the writing process.

• Affect. In this session, we will discuss ways of researching the diversity of affects in empirical and grounded ways which investigates their imbrication in socio-political structures and ideologies.
• Post-migration, cultural hybridity/translation, transmission. Studying gender from a transnational perspective includes examining post-migrant voices operating at a cultural border zone. In this session, we will analyse the dynamics of these post-migrant voices.
• Relationality. For both Simone de Beauvoir and Adriana Cavarero, the notion of encounter has provided a conceptual frame for defining our being in the world. In this seminar, we aim at staging an encounter between these thinkers and the students’ research.
• Identities, politics, movement, narrations. In this session, we will explore current political contestations, narrations and articulations of "identity" with regard to "gender", "race" and "sexuality" and work with different theoretical and methodological approaches from the field of postcolonial, queer and intersectional theories.
• Writing in stuck places. This session aims to offer hands on tips as well as to inspire PhD students in the process of writing by reflecting on the various kinds of writing we do and with the aim of enhancing a sense of joy and engagement in the writing process.

Deadline for application: February 15th 2020

How to apply: Apply through the application form (to be downloaded from https://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-schools/disturbances-and-interventions/). Please read the requirements carefully. Send your application in on the assigned date with mathilde.van.dijk rug.nl.

For whom : Gender research oriented PhD-students from the participant universities, preferably halfway through their contracts. If there are vacancies, (Research) Master students can also be accepted.

Venue: Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Courtroom, Oude Boteringestraat 38, 9712 GK Groningen

Information: Prof. dr. Petra Broomans, p.broomans rug.nl / Pieternella.Broomans UGent.be and Dr. Mathilde van Dijk, mathilde.van.dijk rug.nl