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NOISE is
an Erasmus Network in which the Women's Studies Departments or groups
of the Universities of
- Abo/Turku, Finland
- Anwerp, Belgium
- Bielefeld, Germany
- Bologna, Italy
- UC Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- Complutense Madrid, Spain
- Odense, Denmark
- Paris VII, France
- Thessaloniki, Greece
- Utrecht, The Netherlands
- York, Great Britain
cooperate.It is coordinated in Utrecht.
NOISE organizes an Advaced Introductory Post-Graduate
Summer School in European Women's Studies.
August 18 - September 6, 1997 Dortmund/Bielefeld, Germany
EUROPEAN WOMEN’S
STUDIES FROM MULTICULTURAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
Mapping new spaces - fighting old boundaries? Feminist
interventions in contemporary culture and society
An Advanced Introductory Post-graduate Summer School in Feminist Theory
State and (In)Equality Feminist Cultural Studies
- Target group
Advanced final-year under-graduates and post-graduate students, as
well as PhD students in the area of Women’s Studies. Students from NOISE
partner universites as well as other interested candidates (especially
from Central and Eastern Europe and Development Countries) are welcome
to apply.
- Preparation
Participants should be committed to prepare all assignments and to
do the reading of all the materials before the Summer School. This preparatory
work is the condition for participation in the programme. Participants
will receive the material at the end of May.
- Number of Participants
Max. 60
- Credits
9 ECTS credits
- Certificate
After fulfilment of all requirements (preparation of assignments and
reading, attendance and final essay of 8-10 pages), participants will receive
the NOISE Certificate. At the partner universities of NOISE, this certificate
can be used to receive an equivalence of credits of the home university.
- Fees
DM 700,- ($ 450,-; ecu 350,- including readers)
- Accomodation Costs
Costs fur a furnished student room+/- DM 250,- ($ 150,-; ecu 125,-
no food included).
- Grants
A limited number of Erasmus grants are specifically available for students
form NOISE partner universities. Grants and possibilites for reductions
are also available for other interested candidates.
- Advanced payment
Registration of participants selected for the course will only be considered
official after their advanced payment of DM 350 ($ 235,-; ecu 175,-) of
the total costs of +/- DM 950,- ($ 635,-; ecu 475,-). Otherwise admission
will not be guaranteed.
Deadline: March 1st, 1997 (Arrival date of application forms in Dortmund)
This three-week intensive Summer School aims to offer an advanced introduction
to Women’s Studies in Europe from multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives
on a post-graduate level. In this course, multiculturalism is defined as
a comparative inter - European approach based on an anti-racist perspective.
Moreover, the programme aims to challenge the North-American agenda in
Women’s Studies and to develop cross-cultural teaching methodologies in
the European context.
This year’s programme consists of the following three clusters: State
and (In)Equality, Feminist Theory and Feminist Cultural Studies. The central
themes of the course (multi-culturalism and interdisciplinarity) are addressed
in each cluster by means of concepts and theories developed in these three
different areas of Women’s Studies.
Structure:
The morning sessions consist of lectures followed by discussions. In
the afternoon participants split up in small groups each accompanied by
tutors and teachers. These working groups discuss the assignments and the
prepared material. Each cluster closes with a panel discussion. An extra
evaluation/discussion day between and after the cluster teaching days will
provide the opportunity to deepen the analysis of the problems treated.
The Summer School will be held at Dortmund University, including some working-sessions
at Bielefeld University and cultural/social activities in the area. Next
to the cluster teaching, a communication and computer training day is offered,
so that the multicultural encounter is addressed on more than a pure academic
level. Body and singing exercises are an integral part of the programme.
Cyberspace:
For those students who are not able to attend the Summer School, we
offer the possibility to participate in an experiment on the Internet and
study part of the Summer School programme long distance. Several lectures
will be offered through Internet - for a specific period of time - with
hypertext elaboration of the major links to other relevant sites. Every
lecture is accompanied by a printed article which will be sent to you in
advance. There is also the possibility of a virtual classroom discussion
with teachers and summer school students in a computer-room in Germany.
Furthermore, teachers are available (electronically) for supervision and
feedback to the virtual students. A written essay of 8-10 pages is requested
in order to get a certificate for this cyberspace programme. There are
no fees involved. Interested candidates should apply for this cyberspace
summer school to the organisers and respect the deadline for applications.
The cyberspace-program is coordinated by Magda Michielsens in Antwerp,
Belgium. M.Michielsens@ped.kun.nl
The aim of the Feminist Theory cluster is to present a variety of
positions in feminist philosophies with regard to the issue of subjectivity,
citizenship and multicultural locations in a European perspective. Special
emphasis will be placed on a comparison of critical theories from the French,
the German, the postcolonial and the semiotic perspectives. Although the
aim of this cluster is theoretical, attempts will be made to embed these
theories in very concrete examples and situations, such as for instance
the notion of ‘European Citizenship’. Cross-references will also be made
to the other clusters, for instance to the ways in which contemporary popular
culture both relays and produces significant theoretical frameworks that
bear on issues of citizenship and power. This cluster is coordinated by
Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
The Feminist Cultural Studies cluster will examine visual culture
and its role in communication from a feminist perspective. A visual culture
is associated with a particular way of seeing and rendering the world.
The ability to construct visualization is ‘knowledge-in-practice’, and
is open to diverse levels of interpretation and understanding. The cluster
will make use of a broad range of examples of visualizations across (professional)
cultures (e.g. from areas such as design, education, engineering, software
development) for discussing issues of practice, knowledge, context and
identity. The cluster is coordinated by Ina Wagner (Vienna, Austria).
The State and In(Equality) cluster discusses how inequality between
men and women is (re)produced by State Policies. A central question will
be how these policies position women as members of social classes, ethnic
communities and families in different ways. The aim of the cluster is to
provide and discuss various analytical approaches towards the in- and exclusion
of women in European Nation- States and to address differences and similarities
through exchange. It is coordinated by Ursula Müller and Birgit Riegraf
(Bielefeld, Germany).
Organisation
University of Bielefeld, IFF (Center for Women’s Studies/University
of Bielefeld); University Dortmund/Center for Higher Education Research
and Instructional Development, DFG- PhD-programme ‘Gender-relations and
Social Change’; Network Women’s Studies Northrhine- Westfalia; Ministry
of Science Northrhine-Westfalia; Network of Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies
in Europe (NOISE), Utrecht University.
Prof. Dr. Sigrid Metz-Göckel
Prof. Dr. Ursula Müller |