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The NOISE Summerschool is again coming up this summer!
Stillness and Movement of Images:
New Perspectives on Temporality, Technology and the Senses in Feminist Theory
27 - 31 August 2012, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Organised by the Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies
This year’s (the 20th) edition of NOI♀SE will introduce you to cutting edge scholarship at the crossroads of images, temporality, movement, technology and the senses. We will take a closer look at the interplay between images, sounds, environments and affects in a range of different media such as film, photography, art, medicine, biotechnology, neurology, music and new media cultures. We will investigate the role of images in national (print media, televised political debates, news, science broadcasting) and transnational (films, blogs, youtube clips, social media) contexts, and attend to the complex interrelations arising at their meeting points. These will include strategies of representation and popularization of and societal debates about the developments in medical and biotechnological research, as well as artistic and cultural practices. These developments and practices will be reviewed from an intersectional perspective, paying particular attention to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, class and dis/ability.
The Summer School aims to familiarize students with the epistemological, methodological and thematic issues central to the interdisciplinary and transnational field of visual studies, broadly understood. We will explore how various categories of social differentiation structure both the content of as well as the encounter with images. As a starting point, we will explore concepts such as movement vs. stillness, moment vs. duration, immersion vs. critical distance, multi-sensorial engagement vs. visuality, ‘the gaze’ vs. ‘the look’, voyeurism and scopophilia vs. ethical encounter, ‘nature’ vs. ‘technology’. Consequently, we will aim at the dissolution of these dichotomies.
For more information on registration and deadline, click here.
New Perspectives on Temporality, Technology and the Senses in Feminist Theory
27 - 31 August 2012, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Organised by the Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies
This year’s (the 20th) edition of NOI♀SE will introduce you to cutting edge scholarship at the crossroads of images, temporality, movement, technology and the senses. We will take a closer look at the interplay between images, sounds, environments and affects in a range of different media such as film, photography, art, medicine, biotechnology, neurology, music and new media cultures. We will investigate the role of images in national (print media, televised political debates, news, science broadcasting) and transnational (films, blogs, youtube clips, social media) contexts, and attend to the complex interrelations arising at their meeting points. These will include strategies of representation and popularization of and societal debates about the developments in medical and biotechnological research, as well as artistic and cultural practices. These developments and practices will be reviewed from an intersectional perspective, paying particular attention to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, class and dis/ability.
The Summer School aims to familiarize students with the epistemological, methodological and thematic issues central to the interdisciplinary and transnational field of visual studies, broadly understood. We will explore how various categories of social differentiation structure both the content of as well as the encounter with images. As a starting point, we will explore concepts such as movement vs. stillness, moment vs. duration, immersion vs. critical distance, multi-sensorial engagement vs. visuality, ‘the gaze’ vs. ‘the look’, voyeurism and scopophilia vs. ethical encounter, ‘nature’ vs. ‘technology’. Consequently, we will aim at the dissolution of these dichotomies.
For more information on registration and deadline, click here.
Postcolonial Cinema Studies Conference
7 June, 2012 Utrecht University
Organised by Sandra Ponzanesi
In collaboration with: Postcolonial Studies Initiative, Centre for the Humanities, Culture & Identities and the Gender Studies Programme
What is, or what might constitute, ‘Postcolonial cinema studies?’ This one-day conference does not propose ‘postcolonial cinema’ as a genre or wish to essentialise it by fitting it into a taxonomy. It envisions instead ‘postcolonial cinema’ in relation to dynamic departures from colonial paradigms of knowledge and power. The participants in this conference focus on the elaboration and deployment of a postcolonial lens and on the nature of cinematic engagement with audiences through that lens. It explores ‘postcolonial cinema’ as constituted by and within a conceptual space in which making connection and drawing inferences, specifically those that are occluded by national and colonial frames, is encouraged. The conference is organized to celebrate the publication of Postcolonial Cinema Studies edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller (London and New York, Routledge, 2011).
"Postcolonial Cinema Studies is an essential book that orchestrates an enriching dialogue between postcolonial studies and cinema studies, in ways that mutually illuminate both fields. Interdisciplinary and transnational, the volume goes beyond the usual Anglo-phone boundaries. Not only does it stretch the corpus of films to be studied, it also productively counterpoints theories, methodologies, and regions." Ella Shohat, New York University, USA and Robert Stam, Tisch School of the Arts, USA
For more information on the programme see www.postcolonialstudies.nl
7 June, 2012 Utrecht University
Organised by Sandra Ponzanesi
In collaboration with: Postcolonial Studies Initiative, Centre for the Humanities, Culture & Identities and the Gender Studies Programme
What is, or what might constitute, ‘Postcolonial cinema studies?’ This one-day conference does not propose ‘postcolonial cinema’ as a genre or wish to essentialise it by fitting it into a taxonomy. It envisions instead ‘postcolonial cinema’ in relation to dynamic departures from colonial paradigms of knowledge and power. The participants in this conference focus on the elaboration and deployment of a postcolonial lens and on the nature of cinematic engagement with audiences through that lens. It explores ‘postcolonial cinema’ as constituted by and within a conceptual space in which making connection and drawing inferences, specifically those that are occluded by national and colonial frames, is encouraged. The conference is organized to celebrate the publication of Postcolonial Cinema Studies edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller (London and New York, Routledge, 2011).
"Postcolonial Cinema Studies is an essential book that orchestrates an enriching dialogue between postcolonial studies and cinema studies, in ways that mutually illuminate both fields. Interdisciplinary and transnational, the volume goes beyond the usual Anglo-phone boundaries. Not only does it stretch the corpus of films to be studied, it also productively counterpoints theories, methodologies, and regions." Ella Shohat, New York University, USA and Robert Stam, Tisch School of the Arts, USA
For more information on the programme see www.postcolonialstudies.nl
International Conference 'Book Presence in a Digital Age'
May 28-30, Janskerkhof (May 28: start 09.30),
Drift 21 (May 29-30 start 09.00) Utrecht University
May 28-30, Janskerkhof (May 28: start 09.30),
Drift 21 (May 29-30 start 09.00) Utrecht University
This conference is devoted to books and paper as bodies of literature and self-writing in a digital age. If books have been marginalized by screens, pads, and other book imitators,what is happening to literature as a paper art? How have books and paper been re-imagined in the last decades in their creative contrast to electronic screens? How can we thus compare the interactions between "old" and "new" media in the present to media ecologies of the past?
John Hamilton (Harvard), Peter Lunenfeld (UCLA), Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard), Susan Bielstein (Chicago UP), Helen Tartar (Fordham UP), George Landow (Brown), Leah Price (Harvard), Garrett Stewart (Illinois), Lisa Gitelman (NYU), Jessica Pressman (Yale), Harald Hendrix (Utrecht), Rosemarie Buikema (Utrecht), Doug Beube (book artist), Kiene Brillenburg Wurth (Utrecht), Inge van de Ven (Utrecht), Sara Rosa Espi (Utrecht), Anna Poletti (Monash), Thomas Ledru (zine maker), Jacob Edmond (Otago), Yra van Dijk (Amsterdam), Martijn Brugman (zine maker), Wiljan van den Akker (Utrecht), Simon Morris (book artist), Brian Dettmer (book artist)
Registration
bookpresenceutr@gmail.com
(seating availability is limited on Monday May 28)
You can find more information about this event on http://backbooks.wordpress.com/events/.
All those interested are cordially invited to attend!
Graduate Gender Programme and Centre for the Humanities coordinate initiative for Gender Research Centre in Cairo
The
Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) and the Centre for the Humanities
(CFH) have been awarded a €900.000,- grant from the Netherlands
Initiative for Capacity development in Higher Education (NICHE) for
establishing a Gender Studies and Research Centre at Cairo University.
The aim of this initiative is to provide a meaningful contribution to
gender equality in Egypt.
In the project, Utrecht University cooperates with SPAN Consultants
and E-Quality (Dutch information and research centre for gender, family
and diversity issues). Apart from the principal investigators provided
by the Graduate Gender Programme and the Centre for the Humanities. the
UU consortium consists of leading members of the Centre for Conflict
Studies, the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights and the Utrecht
School of Economics.
The new Gender Studies and Research Centre at Cairo University will
be able to effectively link gender knowledge and research to the
current developments in Egypt, which are characterised by all aspects
related to a shift from an autocratic to a democratic governance. Such
shifts are associated with significant conflict, discourse and confusion
and uncertainty. It blends ambition and hope with expectations and
conflicts.
Graduate Gender Programme part of the consortium on Capacity building and promotion of gender equity in Colombia’s higher education programmes
The Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP, Faculty of Humanities UU) became part of the consortium in the context of the Netherlands Initiative for Capacity development in Higher Education (NICHE) on Capacity building and promotion of gender equity in Colombia’s higher education programmes (2011-2014; €1.500.000,-). The aim of this initiative is to provide a meaningful contribution to gender equity in the teaching environment of Colombia. The objectives of the project are related to training (teachers and administrative staff), academic programmes (including curriculum development), research (theory and methods) and communication and organizational culture.
The consortium is chaired by the Cultural Anthropology Department (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences) of Utrecht University and consists of the Utrecht Faculty of Law, Graduate Gender Programme (Faculty of Humanities) and MDF Training and Consultancy. The partners in Colombia are the Central University Bogotá, Nacional University Bogotá, Autonomous University Bogotá and the Industrial University of Santander (Bucaramanga).
This project is an opportunity to cultivate knowledge and set up methods for researching gender issues within higher education and organizational culture in Colombia, in order for this experience to become a model for other projects running at regional and national level. The expectation is that the key institutions in Colombia have a strategic role in achieving gender equity and the recognition of women as full citizens in Colombia.
Testimonial UCLA-UU exchange by Evelien Geerts
Our Research Master student in Gender and Ethnicity Evelien Geerts participated in the exchange programme between the University of California, Los Angeles and Utrecht University in 2011-2012. You can read her experiences in the monthly newsletter of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
Fragilizing the Self, Resisting the System - A four part event with Bracha L. Ettinger
(in cooperation with OSL, CfH and Casco Utrecht) ~ 12 - 20 April 2012
(in cooperation with OSL, CfH and Casco Utrecht) ~ 12 - 20 April 2012
From April 12 to 20, 2012, Professor and artist Bracha L. Ettinger visited the Graduate Gender Programme. Various events have been succesfully organised during her stay. For more information and a detailed overview of the programme, please click here.
We're looking back at a most inspiring event!
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.
May 22, 2012: Visiting Professor Femke Halsema (Utrecht, 16.00-17.30 hrs): Women & Digital Democracy
In this Doing Gender Lecture, Treaty of Utrecht Professor Femke Halsema looks back at her career as a politician.
In this Doing Gender Lecture, Treaty of Utrecht Professor Femke Halsema looks back at her career as a politician.
After deciding to quit Dutch politics in January 2011, Treaty of Utrecht, Professor Femke Halsema has started to build a new, politically independent career in the Academia, in writing and making programs for television and in consultancy in the private and the public sector.
In this Doing Gender Lecture, Treaty of Utrecht Professor Femke Halsema looks back at her career as a politician while focusing on how she used her gender capital in the development of her professional skills. She will situate her critical thoughts and experiences as a leader and a public persona in the context of the performances and political styles of female politicians like Margaret Thatcher, Madeleine Albright and others.
There will be ample opportunity to formulate questions and exchange thoughts and ideas with the speaker after her talk. The discussion will be moderated by Rosemarie Buikema.
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.
June 8, 2012: Professor Ella Shohat & Professor Robert Stam (Utrecht, 14.00-16.00 hrs): Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the postcolonial Atlantic
The lecture will be on the jointly written book by Robert Stam / Ella Shohat, which will come out in May 2012: Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic. The book covers many debates in three different languages/nations/cultures--Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone. The book is at once a report from various fronts in the culture wars, a discussion of the relevant literature in three languages/spaces, and a polemic advancing our own views arguing with figures such as Bourdieu/Wacquant, Zizek, and many others attacking such fields of studies as multicultural/postcolonial studies and to a lesser extent feminist studies.
The lecture will be on the jointly written book by Robert Stam / Ella Shohat, which will come out in May 2012: Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic. The book covers many debates in three different languages/nations/cultures--Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone. The book is at once a report from various fronts in the culture wars, a discussion of the relevant literature in three languages/spaces, and a polemic advancing our own views arguing with figures such as Bourdieu/Wacquant, Zizek, and many others attacking such fields of studies as multicultural/postcolonial studies and to a lesser extent feminist studies.
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.
Professor Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. Among his many publications are Literature through Film: Realism, Magic, and the Art of Adaptation (2004); Film Theory: An Introduction (2000) and Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (1997).
On March 15 Professor Inderpal Grewal (Yale University, USA) gave a lecture and on April 18 Professor Griselda Pollock and Professor and artist Bracha L. Ettinger.
PhD Defense Koen Leurs: "Digital Passages. Moroccan-Dutch youths performing diaspora, gender and youth cultural identies across digital space"
Date: Wednesday June 27, 2012 at 12.45 hrs
Location: Academiegebouw Universiteit Utrecht (Domplein 29)
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Rosemarie Buikema and Dr. Sandra Ponzanesi
Registration: no registration; free entrance
Location: Academiegebouw Universiteit Utrecht (Domplein 29)
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Rosemarie Buikema and Dr. Sandra Ponzanesi
Registration: no registration; free entrance
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 is the first Erasmus Mundus Master on Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe. Gender Studies at Utrecht University is one of the partners in this project.
GEMMA 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 is another application round for students (start of the programme September 2012; however scholarships are not available anymore). The deadline is Monday April 30, 2012. Check the GEMMA website for the details.
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.
More information: http://digitalcrossroads.nl/
New book publication: Deconstructing Europe. Postcolonial Perspectives
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.
To receive a 20% discount, order on http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415888813 and use this code: ERJ66.
Professor Gloria Wekker on sabbatical in 2011-2012
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 nog@uu.nl.
WomenSpeak!
WomenSpeak! is een eigenzinnige en inspirerende debatreeks, waarin kunst, politiek, wetenschap en maatschappelijke organisaties met elkaar in contact komen en nieuwe allianties aangaan. Actuele thema’s zoals eerwraak, pornografie en radicalisering, worden vanuit een gender en interculturele invalshoek besproken. Laat je verrassen door WomenSpeak!
WomenSpeak! is een project van Kosmopolis Utrecht is samenwerking met het Graduate Gender Programme en het Centre for Humanities van de Universiteit Utrecht. Partners: Women Inc en Lover. Mede mogelijk gemaakt door Mama Cash en het Oranjefonds.
WomenSpeak! is een project van Kosmopolis Utrecht is samenwerking met het Graduate Gender Programme en het Centre for Humanities van de Universiteit Utrecht. Partners: Women Inc en Lover. Mede mogelijk gemaakt door Mama Cash en het Oranjefonds.
Kijk voor meer informatie en aankomende debatavonden op http://www.womenspeak.nl/
What's up with Gender? - video's finally online
You can now see the What's up with Gender? video's made by MC Bad Brya and director Claudia Tellegen online! These video's were made to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Gender Studies programme at Utrecht University (June 2009).
Below, the first video of What's up with Gender. Sequels gender 2 and gender 3 you can find by clicking on the links. Have fun!
Below, the first video of What's up with Gender. Sequels gender 2 and gender 3 you can find by clicking on the links. Have fun!
The inaugural lecture of Prof. Marlene van Niekerk (January 2008 at Utrecht University) - The Fellow Traveler (A True Story) - can be ordered for free from the Graduate Gender Programme (as long as stock lasts). Send an email with your address to: nog@uu.nl
Especially for PhD students: a quick link to the PhD courses of the Graduate Gender Programme!
Attention students: Ask Annabel is the students’ organisation of the department of gender studies at Utrecht university. Since her emergence in 2004 she organises film screenings, debates, excursions, benefit performances and workshops. Check it out!
...and test your cyberfeminist abilities, play this Summa Cum Laude game! 
