PhD Defense Domitilla Olivieri (Utrecht University)
On February 10 Domitilla Olivieri will defend her PhD thesis Haunted by Reality. Toward a Feminist Study of Documentary Film: Indexicality, Vision and the Artifice.
Date: Friday February 10, 2012 at 12.45 hrs
Location: Academiegebouw Universiteit Utrecht (Domplein 29)
PhD Thesis: Through the lenses of cultural studies, semiotics, gender studies, film theory and visual anthropology, this dissertation contributes to bringing back documentary film into the arena of feminist intervention. Documentary films are here considered as an exemplary site that allows tackling issues of reality and representation, subjectivity and power, the specificities of audio-visual technologies and their implications in the construction of the Other. Exploring the interconnections between the politics and the aesthetics of documentary, this study emphasises what these films can do, highlights the links between documentary practices and the processes of knowledge production and, finally, points the attention to the critical and transformative promise that resides in the encounters between feminism and documentary.
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Rosemarie Buikema and Prof. dr. Rosi Braidotti
Registration: no registration; free entrance
DOING GENDER lecture series Spring 2012
In 2012 the Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies (NOG) in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme of Utrecht University will organize the Doing Gender Lecture series.
March 15, 2012: Professor Inderpal Grewal
Professor Inderpal Grewal is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She is the author of among others Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel (1996) and has written and edited (with Caren Kaplan) Gender in a Transnational World: Introduction to Women’s Studies (2001, 2005) and Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational: Feminist Practices (1994). Currently she is working on a book length project on the relation between feminist practices and security discourses.
April 18, 2012: Professor Bracha Ettinger
Professor Bracha Ettinger is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Art at the European Graduate School EGS, artist, senior clinical psychologist, practising psychoanalyst, and groundbreaking theoretician working at the intersection of feminine sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics. Her approach significantly extends the work of contemporary philosophers and psychoanalysts such as Levinas, Lyotard, Deleuze, Guattari, Lacan, and challenges the works of Kristeva and Irigaray.
May 2012: Visiting Professor Femke Halsema
From January to June 2012, Femke Halsema will hold the Treaty of Utrecht (Vrede van Utrecht) Visiting Chair at Utrecht University Centre for the Humanities. In her role as visiting professor, she will conduct research on the meaning of communication technology and social media for human rights and democracy. On March 8, she will participate with Professor Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University Professor and director of the Centre for the Humanities) in a special International Women’s Day programme.
June 8, 2012: Professor Ella Shohat
Professor Ella Shohat teaches at the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at New York University. She has lectured and written extensively on issues having to do with Post/colonial and transnational approaches to Cultural studies.
In Memoriam: Saskia Poldervaart (1945-2011)
Op 17 november 2011 is overleden onze collega, NOG-lid en vriendin Saskia Poldervaart. Saskia is een van de grondlegsters van genderstudies in Nederland. Zij was een alom gerespecteerd en gewaardeerd collega met een benijdenswaardig goed ontwikkeld gevoel voor solidariteit en rechtvaardigheid. Mede om die redenen werd zij bij haar afscheid van de UvA benoemd als erelid van de Nederlandse Onderzoekschool Genderstudies. Wij bewaren dierbare en pregnante herinneringen aan haar en zij zal zeer worden gemist.
Collega Frances Gouda heeft een In Memoriam geschreven dat
hier te lezen is.
Rosemarie Buikema ~ Directeur NOG
GEMMA Call for Applicants: Scholarships available for European and Third Country students and scholars
GEMMA: Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Women's and Gender Studies is a two-year postgraduate interdisciplinary study programme that provides high quality education and professional competencies for personnel working or intending to work in the areas of Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Equal Opportunities across Europe and beyond. Find out more about the programme (detailed description of the scholarships, information on eligibility for scholarships, application procedures, required documents, available mobility routes, courses, etc.) on the website: http://masteres.ugr.es/gemma/pages/index. Partner Universities: University of Granada, Spain; University of Bologna, Italy; Central European University of Budapest, Hungary; University of Hull, United Kingdom; University of Łodź, Poland; University of Oviedo, Spain; University of Utrecht, the Netherlands; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA.
The deadline for applying for scholarships was December 31, 2011 (start of the programme September 2012).
In Spring 2012 there will be another application round for students (start of the programme September 2012; however scholarships are not available anymore). Keep a look on the website for the deadline.
Conference: Digital Crossroads: Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective (Utrecht ~ June 28-30, 2012)
The rapid development of digital technologies has radically transformed ways of keeping in touch with home cultures and diasporic networks. Moreover, the notion of migration has undergone significant shifts, coming to signify imaginaries on the move which are not necessarily linked to geographical displacement. The aim of this conference is to address the relationship between migration and digital technologies across national contexts and ethnic belonging. Migrancy embeds many of the local and global paradoxes that also pertain to digital media with their compression of space and time. However, the link between the two fields is still under-theorized and in need of more situated and comparative analysis. Drawing from approaches from the humanities and social sciences (media theory, communication studies, learning sciences, gender studies, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, migration and transnational studies, among others), the primary aim of this conference is to explore how the study of digitalization and migration challenges existing notions of diaspora, identity, nation, family, learning, literacy, social networks, youth, body, gender and ethnicity, asking for new approaches and a rethinking of traditional social and cultural categories. The conference will explore three inter-related strands of the relationships between media and migration: Identity and diaspora (Strand 1); Migrant networks (Strand 2); Learning in a globalized world (Strand 3)
Organizers: Sandra Ponzanesi and Fadi Hirzalla.
This book engages with the question of what makes Europe postcolonial and how memory, whiteness and religion figure in representations and manifestations of European ‘identity’ and self-perception. To deconstruct Europe is necessary as its definition is now contested more than ever, both internally (through the proliferation of ethnic, religious, regional differences) and externally (Europe expanding its boundaries but closing its borders).This edited volume explores a number of theoretical discussions on the meaning of Europe and proposes analyzing some of the deeds committed, both today and in the past, in the name of Europe by foregrounding a postcolonial approach. To deconstruct Europe as a postcolonial place does not imply that Europe’s imperial past is over, but on the contrary that Europe’s idea of self, and of its polity, is still struggling with the continuing hold of colonialist and imperialist attitudes. The objective of this volume is to account for historical legacies which have been denied, forgotten or silenced, such as the histories of minor and peripheral colonialisms (Nordic colonialisms or Austrian, Spanish and Italian colonialism) and to account for the realities of geographical margins within Europe, such as the Mediterranean and the Eastern border while tracing alternative models for solidarity and conviviality. The chapters deal with social and political formations as well as cultural and artistic practices drawing from different disciplinary backgrounds and methodological traditions. As such it creates an innovative space for comparative and cross-disciplinary exchanges. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Social Identities.
Editors:
Sandra Ponzanesi is Associate Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Critique in the Department of Media and Culture Studies/Gender Programme at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Among her publications are Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture (2004), Migrant Cartographies (2005) and Postcolonial Cinema Studies (2011).
Bolette B. Blaagaard is Research fellow at the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City University London, UK. She has published articles and contributed to edited volumes on issues of Nordic colonialism and whiteness in the Nordic region as well as the ethics of journalistic practices, objectivity and freedom of speech.
New book publication: Theories and Methodologies in Post-Graduate Feminist Research: Researching Differently
In May 2011 a new book in the series ‘Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality’, was published: 'Theories and Methodologies in Post-Graduate Feminist Research: Researching Differently', edited by Rosemarie Buikema, Gabriele Griffin and Nina Lykke.
This volume centers on theories and methodologies for postgraduate feminist researchers engaged in interdisciplinary research, in a context of increasing globalisation, giving special attention to cutting-edge approaches at the borders between humanities and social sciences and specific discipline-transgressing fields such as feminist techno science studies.
Professor Gloria Wekker on sabbatical
Professor Gloria Wekker is the academic year 2011-2012 on sabbatical leave. She stays at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) to work on her book Innocence Unlt. Intersections of Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Dutch Cultural Archive.
Gender Studies Annual Report 2005-2010
The Utrecht University’s Graduate Gender Programme has published her
annual report over the years 2005-2010. It gives a detailed update of the past performance of the programme. If you wish to receive a copy please send an e-mail to
C.H.W.Meijer@uu.nl
