Thematic Workshop: The Praxis of Antiracist, Transnational Feminisms
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, Syracuse University, USA

When: May 19-21, 2010
Location: Centre for Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden
Room 225, Allhelgona Kyrkogata 14, hus M
Deadline for application: March 22, 2010
Maximum numbers of participants: 10

Course Coordinators:
Prof. Tiina Rosenberg, Lund University, in collaboration with InterGender Research School Director Nina Lykke, Linköping University.

Organization: The course is organized by InterGender (Swedish-International Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies) and Centre for Gender Studies, Lund University.

Course Description:
Over the last three decades antiracist, comparative feminist studies and transnational feminist movements have had a significant impact on academic and activist projects in the Global North and South. Feminists everywhere have variously and successfully transformed lives, communities and institutions of rule. Nevertheless, questions of economic and social justice, identity and self determination, psychic and social decolonization, and solidarity and alliance building across class, race, national, and sexual borders remain at the heart of feminist knowledge projects. This course develops transnational feminist frameworks that challenge the legacies of Eurocentric feminist theory to address questions of old/new racisms, postcolonial/subaltern studies, and capitalist/nationalist projects. The politics of knowledge and questions of voice, agency, and representation anchored in multiple histories of struggle provide the conceptual anchor for the course.

Texts:

Angela Davis, Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, 2005

Fatima Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass, Tales of a Harem Girlhood, 1994

Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism Without Borders, Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, Duke University Press, 2003

Sangtin Writers & Richa Nagar, Playing With Fire, Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India, University of Minnesota Press, 2006

Robin Riley, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, and Minnie Bruce Pratt, eds., Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism, Zed Press, 2008

Programme:

Day 1 (08.00 - 12.00 and 14.00 - 17.00, incl. 30 mn. coffee break morning and afternoon)
Decolonizing Knowledge: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Selections from Feminism Without Borders
Abolition Democracy (entire book)

Day 2 (08.00 - 12.00 and 14.00 - 17.00, incl. 30 mn. coffee break morning and afternoon)
Subjectivity, Agency and the Politics of Solidarity
Selections from Feminism Without Borders
Playing with Fire (entire book)
Dreams of Trespass (entire book)

Day 3 (08.00 - 12.00; 13.30 - 15.00; 15.00 - 16.00 Evaluation; 16 Departure; incl . 30 mn. coffee break morning)
Capitalist Projects and Imperial Wars: Envisioning Feminist Futures
Selections from Feminism and War and Feminism Without Borders

Hotel rooms (double rooms) have been booked at Hotell Ahlström, Skomakaregatan 3, Lund.