Poslijediplomski seminar Feminist Critical Analysis: Gender And Nation, Tradition And Transition održan je pri Interuniverzitetskom centru u Dubrovniku od 20.-25. svibnja 2002.

Seminar su organizirale Lada Čale Feldman i Renata Jambrešić Kirin, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku i Centar za ženske studije, Zagreb, Žarana Papić, Centar za ženske studije, Beograda i Joanna Regulska, Odsjek za ženske i rodne studije, Rutgers University, New Jersey.

The primary objective of the course was to examine how nation and gender are presented across borders through parallel perspectives of ethno-anthropology, performance studies, history and gender studies. The course introduced new perceptions into capitalist reproductions of gender stereotypes versus cultural traditions as sources of (re)producing feminisation and masculinisation of social spaces, institutions and practices, alternative cultural activities and movements as types of resistance to discrimination, prejudices and intolerance. Through an analysis of the role of traditional heritage and ethnic cultures in the new modes of (re)production of gender stereotypes and gendered modes of resistance, the course also emphasised the role of gendered memories in acquiring new skills and abilities to face political and social changes.

Course presentations:

  • “Gender and Nation”- Nira Yuval Davis (Greenwich University, London – UK)
  • “Imagining Cultural Reproduction in Political Transitions: Catalonia’s Oedipal Problem” -Dorothy Noyes (Ohio State University, Columbus – USA)
  • “One Man, Two Bodies, One State: Tito’s Yugoslavia- Maja Brkljači
  • (CEU, Budapest – Hungary)
  • “Constructing the Media Image of the Soldier During the War in Croatia 1991–1995”- Reana Senjković (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb – Croatia)
  • joint presentation Samira Kawash and Mary Gossy (Rutgers University, New Brunswick – USA)
  • “Placing Women in Indian Film“ Valsala Kumari (Rutgers University, New Brunswick – USA)
  • “Transformative Resistance: Creating Space to Effect Change”- Elizabeth Spohr (Rutgers University, New Brunswick – USA)
  • “Three Examples of Gender-Construct in Balkan Literatures: David Pijhade, Kostas Tahtsis and Dragoslav Mihajlović” – Svetlana Slapšak (Institutum Studiourum Humanitatis, Ljubljana – Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  • “Nation as Actress, European Tradition and Croatian Transition”- Lada Čale Feldman (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb – Croatia)
  • “Gender, Political Identities and Citizenship in a Nation-State”- Daša Duhaček (Centre for Women’s Studies – Belgrade, Serbia)
  • “The Politics of Performativity and Public Private Space: Theoretical Puzzles and the case of B&H”) – Jasminka Babić-Avdispahi
  • (Sarajevo University – Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • The Course also included presentations of the participants: Madeline Greene (UK), Mihaela Frunza (Romania) and Kristina Hadzi-Vasileva (Macedonia)

Excerpts from evaluations:

  • The presentations seemed to me to be of a universally high quality. I appreciated the different methods and performances of the various sessions and papers
  • Good general interpretation of the topic, provided valuable insight into and analysis of the ‘nation’ and what it means to provide a gendered interpretation.
  • For me everything worked perfectly: the presentation had fine dynamics, the standing point was clear, included lots of examples. Great! With the sense of humor that re-focused our attention.
  • Rigorous, synthesized, quality presentation, which fed my thinking throughout the following days. It will continue to feed my thinking beyond this course.
  • Fantastic! Not a lecture but a performance, and a performance with content. It opened my eyes to a lot of things I have never thought about.