Master Class with Nirmal Puwar

Friday, December 4th, 2015
9.30 am – 1 pm, Campus Etterbeek

The Machteld de Metsenaere lecture is followed by a master class, which offers interested graduate students the opportunity to explore the notion of carrying more in depth together with Nirmal Puwar.

The master class is open to doctoral students and advanced MA students. Participation is free of charge, but conditional upon application (see below). Participation to the master class requires attending the public lecture, reading the assigned readings, and preparing a brief (10 minutes) presentation of one’s research project. This presentation should focus on (feminist) methodological issues and embodiment, and might reflect on how an understanding of “carrying” plays out in one’s own research.

PhD students from any Flemish university receive one credit (1 ECTS) upon completion of the master class. Other PhD students receive, on completion, a ‘proof of successful participation’, which can be recognized by their home PhD programme. MA students can apply for registration on an individual basis and receive ‘proof of successful participation’.

How to apply?
Send us a brief statement of interest by October 31, 2015.

The statement should include a presentation of your research, with special emphasis on methodological and epistemological issues, as well as present questions that you would like to see addressed during the master class. The statement should not exceed 1000 words, and should be sent to sarah.bracke@vub.ac.be

You will be notified by November 10 about your participation to the master class. A brief reading list will be available from that date onwards.

The public lecture and master class are sponsored by: Doctoral School for Human Sciences,  Expertisecentrum Gender, Diversiteit & Intersectionaliteit

Zie verder via deze links voor informatie en het programma.

KEYNOTE LECTURE – Ghent Centre for Global Studies, Research Day – October 29, 2015
Gendering globalization: processes and resistances.

Some examples from Latin America regarding trade, labour and migration.

Edmé Dominguez, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)

There are many ways to observe the gendered processes of globalization. When we speak about gender most mean women but what we try to visualize is how different globalization processes are affecting both men and women and the relations between each other. This presentation will take as point of departure the most obvious entrance to globalization: free trade and from here we are to explore how this process affects different sectors of the economy and the people working there in a gendered, differentiated way.  This lecture will try to show what diverse treaties have meant (and can mean) for labour, migration and women’s general situation (as producers, consumers, carers) and how these processes have triggered different kinds of reactions, of resistance, in which women’s agency has advanced but still has a long way to go.

Edmé Dominguez is Associate Professor in the area of Peace and Development Studies and affiliated with the School of Global Studies of the University of Gothenburg. She is interested in issues of economic globalization, regionalism, trade and labour with a particular focus on issues of gender and citizenship. Her previous research concentrated on Soviet perceptions of Latin American socio-economic problems and Soviet policy towards Latin America. In her current research she focuses on the social implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement for Mexico and El Salvador, with a particular interest in the strategies of labour organizing of women workers at maquiladora industries through the case of several NGOs and some trade unions situated mostly in the North Eastern part of the Mexican border. She has published in various high profile journals, both in English and Spanish. She teaches courses on gender, development and international relations.

Thursday October 29, 13:00-14:00

Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent – Room Vermeylen

Attendance is free, but registration is required before October 26.

Mail to: Julie Carlier (Julie.Carlier@ugent.be)

More information on GCGS: www.globalstudies.ugent.be

Sophia, het Belgisch netwerk voor genderstudies, nodigt je van harte uit op UNRULY BODIES. GENDER \ NORMEN \ VERZET. Een conferentie waarop lichamen die buiten de normen vallen en de (de)constructie van lichaamsidealen centraal staan. We willen een stem geven aan personen met “unruly” lichamen, vooroordelen in vraag stellen, subversief potentieel exploreren en feministisch verzet in kaart brengen.

Unruly Bodies biedt een meertalige ruimte voor uitwisseling en exploratie tussen personen met academische, artistieke, activistische, autodidactische en interdisciplinaire achtergronden.

Op 29 oktober kan je in de KVS terecht voor lezingen, performances en films rond het de/koloniseren van lichamen en het creëren van nieuwe representaties voor ziekte, ouderdom en handicap. De avond wordt afgesloten met een keynote door Noortje van Amsterdam getiteld “Eigen schuld, dikke bult? Kritische vragen en culturele mythes over zwaarlijvigheid”.
Op 30 oktober vinden gedurende de hele dag papersessies in Amazone plaats, maar ook praktische workshops, tentoonstellingen en een afsluitende lezing door Sam/Marie-Hélène Bourcier.

Info, programma, inschrijvingen: www.sophia.be/index.php/events/view/2317
Facebook evenement: https://www.facebook.com/events/1650624448519804/
Gelieve online in te schrijven voor 15 oktober.

29/10: KVS, Rue de Laekenstraat 146, 1000 Brussel, 2pm-9.30pm, 5€/3€
30/10: Amazone, rue du Méridien/Middaglijnstraat 10, 1210 Brussel, 8.45am-9.30pm – 25€/15€

Voor alle vragen met betrekking tot de conferentie: unrulybodies2015@sophia.be

Op 31 oktober 2015 organiseren Moeders voor Vrede, Stad Ieper, de Vrouwenraad, Universiteit Gent vakgroep geschiedenis en IGVM de conferentie ‘Vrouwenkracht is vredesmacht’. Daarin focussen we op de rol van vrouwen in conflictsituaties. Specifiek komen voor deze conferentie heel wat sterke vrouwen uit binnen- en buitenland naar Ieper. Mis dit niet en schrijf je snel in via de website!

With a response by Frank Furedi

12 November 2015 – 14.30 -16.15 – Raadzaal UFO – Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 33, 9000 Gent – collaboration with the UGent Policy Unit Gender & Diversity.

In 2013 Oxford Dicitionary announced selfie as “the international Word of the Year”. Since then, it seems we are witnessing a selfie-pandemic. According to the Russian Ministry of the Interior at least 10 Russians have been killed and 100 more injured while taking selfies this year alone. Social networks and new technologies, from Facebook to Instagram, only enforce these trends that are correlated with narcissism and self-commodification. If Christopher Lasch warned about the normalization of pathological narcissism in late 20^th century, what we should do today is not only to investigate various new modes of narcissism, but pose the really crucial question:  what about love in the “Culture of Narcissism”? How did love or falling in love change due to new technological developments from the late 70s, when Lasch’s book was originally published up until today? And above all questions: is there falling in love without narcissism? That are some of the questions that the lecture will try to raise.

Srećko Horvat  (1983) is a philosopher born in Croatia. He is author of “What Does Europe Want?” (Columbia University Press, 2014) co-authored with Slavoj Žižek, “Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia” (Verso, 2014) with Igor Štiks, and most recently “The Radicality of Love” (Polity Press, 2015). He regularly publishes for The Guardian, Al Jazeera and New York Times.This is a boxed text block. You can use it to draw attention to important content. Frank Furedi is Emeritus professor of Sociology, University of Kent and Visiting Professor, Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London. He has published widely about controversies relating to issues such as health, parenting children, food and new technology. His books include Authority, A Sociological History (2013), Invitation To Terror; Expanding the Empire of the Unknown(2007), The Culture of Fear (2003) and Paranoid Parenting (2001).

Please, register for this lecture at the UGent Policy Unit Gender & Diversity