Time: Dec 10-12, 2012

DEAD LINE FOR APPLICATIONS: October 10, 2012
Applications should be sent to InterGender Managing Director Dr Pia Laskar (Email: Pia.Laskar@liu.se)

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 20

ORGANIZED BY
Centre For Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, in collaboration with InterGender (Swedish-International Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies), Linköping University, Sweden.

COURSE COORDINATORS:
Professor Lann Hornscheidt, Centre For Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany,
together with Senior lecturer Pia Laskar, InterGender Managing Director and Professor Nina Lykke, Director of InterGender, Linköping University.

MORE INFORMATION ON THE COURSE:

TEACHERS:
Grada Kilomba, professor in gender studies/critical race studies, Humboldt-University Berlin.
Michelle M. Wright; Associate Professor of Black European and African Diaspora Studies, Dept of African American Studies Northwestern University Evanston IL.
Lann Hornscheidt, professor in gender studies and linguistic analysis, Humboldt-University Berlin.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
This three-day course will discuss and apply anti-sexist and anti-racist perspectives on graduates’ research projects: which different models for interdependent analysis can be used? How can they be combined and which effects does this have on the graduates’ concrete research projects? We will work with concrete mutual analysis of social locations and critical positioning as well as with the graduates’ own projects and apply different approaches, methodologies and methods with regard to the interdependencies on racism and sexism onto their projects.

BIO NOTE:

Lann Hornscheidt, Professor in gender studies and linguistic analysis, Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt-University Berlin, Guest Professor in cultural language studies at the department of communication and language, Södertörns University College, Stockholm, Sweden.

Grada Kilomba, professor in gender studies/critical race studies, Humboldt-University Berlin.
Among others, she is the co-editor of the book 'Mythen, Masken and Subjekte'(Unrast 2005) and the author of 'Plantation Memories' (Unrast 2008).

Michelle M. Wright, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Northwestern University, USA. Among others, she is the author of the book Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004, and editor of Blackness and Sexualities. FORECAAST (Forum for European Contributions in African American Studies). Edited by Michelle M Wright and Antje Schuhmann. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2007.

READING LIST:

carby, hazel (1982) "white women listen! Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood". In: mirza, heidi safia (ed.), Black british feminism. a reader. london/new york, routledge, 45-53.
collins, patricia hill (2000) Black feminist thought. knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. new york, routledge (introduction).
combahee river collective (1982): a Black feminist statement. in: hull, gloria t.; scott, patricia bell; smith, barbara (eds): but some of us are brave. Black women's studies. old westbury, 13-22.
el-tayeb, fatima (2011) european others. queering ethnicity in postnational europe. minneapolis, university of minnesota press.
kilomba, grada (2008) plantation memories. episodes of everyday racism. münster, unrast.
lorde, audre (2007 [1984]) “the transformation of silence into language and action”. in: lorde, audre, sister outsider. essays and speeches. berkeley/toronto, crossing press, 40-44.
lorde, audre (2007 [1984]) “age, race, class, and sex: women redefining difference”. in: lorde, audre, sister outsider. essays and speeches. berkeley/toronto, crossing press, 114-123.
lorde, audre (2007 [1984]) "the uses of anger: women responding to racism". in: lorde, audre, sister outsider. essays and speeches. berkeley/toronto, crossing press,124-133.
wright, michelle m. (2004) becoming Black. creating identity in the african diaspora. duke, duke university press.

ACCREDITATION AND EXAMINATION:
a) 7,5 ECTS Credits is given for active participation and a short paper, maximum 5 pages.
b) 15 ECTS Credits is given for active participation, + essay (evaluated as pass/fail). An essay should be of 10-15 pages. The selected topic shall be related to the course content and readings.
The essay is to be sent to the teacher as well as to the academic coordinator no later than 3 months after the final day of the course.

Info on admission and grants can be found here

Applications should be sent to InterGender Managing Director Dr Pia Laskar (Email: Pia.Laskar@liu.se) no later than October 10th, 2012.

InterGender: Swedish-International Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
The School is funded by The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). It is organized as a joint venture between Gender Studies Units and doctoral programmes at Linköping University (host university) and at eight other Swedish Universities: Blekinge Institute of Technology, Göteborg University, Lund University, Luleå Technical University, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, Umeå University, Örebro University and at three international partner institutions: Graduate Gender Program at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), The Finnish National Doctoral School of Women's and Gender Studies (Helsinki University, Finland) and Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany).