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N.O.I.S.E SUMMER SCHOOL 1997

 

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