Culture
INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTER
Dubrovnik, Croatia
May 17th- 21st, 2010
The Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, the Belgrade Women's Studies and Gender Research Center and the Department of Gender Studies of the Central European University in Budapest are pleased to announce the 11th annual postgraduate course in "Feminist Critical Analysis: (Re)Mapping the Everyday through Visual Culture." The course will be held at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik (www.hr/iuc) on May 17th-21st, 2010. The course will be co-directed by Dasa Duhacek of the Women´s Studies, Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, Allaine Cerwonka of the Gender Studies Department, Central European University, and Ethel Brooks of the Women's and Gender Studies Department, Rutgers University.
TOPIC:
This course will explore the engagements of feminism with visual culture and everyday life. It takes up the premise that visuality and visual culture can be grounded firmly in feminist theory, cultural studies and critique, that it is always already part of gendered practice and thus central to engendering the contours of everyday life, from quintessential visual practices such as going to the movies and watching
television to mapping our worlds, seeing everyday objects and producing meaning through visual tropes.
How do we understand the everyday through visual practice, theories of visuality and other myriad engagements with the visual? By bringing the visual together in conversation with the everyday, we hope to think through connections between the production of visual culture “from film to photography, painting and drawing to advertisements, computer-generated animation and media design, to visual conceptions of everyday objects such as furniture, cooking and eating implements, architecture and urban planning. We will engage the gendered production and consumption of, engagements with and mappings of visuality through a feminism that focuses on everyday life and its (re)production.
The course is built upon the assumption that intellectual dialogue among a diverse body of scholars from different geographical locations will result in a better understanding of the ways in which our particular locations are influencing our own theoretical and political choices. The number of participants is limited to 25-30 students from different countries. The participating faculty are drawn from several different European and US universities. Daily seminars take place in two 3-4 hours sessions a day. All meetings are conducted in English.
ELIGIBILITY:
IUC courses are conducted at a postgraduate level. All postgraduate students interested in the topic may apply for participation. Participants should seek funds from their own institutions to cover travel and accommodation costs. Limited financial support is available for participants from Central and Eastern Europe.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
A short narrative explaining your interest in the topic and your C.V. with your current contact information should be submitted by e-mail by February 20, 2010 for first priority consideration. Applications will be accepted until the seminar is full however. Submissions will be reviewed by the Feminist Critical Analysis Selection Committee. Admission notification will be sent to applicants in early March.
Please submit applications to Judit Zotter zotterj@ceu. hu with Dubrovnik 2010 in
the subject heading.
Please quote 10 Academic Resources Daily in your application to this opportunity!
