Centar za
ženske studije
Zagreb

01.06.06

Feminist Critical Analysis: Differences, Sexualities and Con/text

Poslijediplomski seminar Feminist Critical Analysis: Differences, Sexualities and Con/text održan je pri Interuniverzitetskom centru u Dubrovniku od 22.-27. svibnja 2006.

Seminar su organizirale Rada Borić, Centar za ženske studije, Zagreb, Daša Duhaček, Centar za ženske studije, Beograda i Joanna Regulska, Odsjek za ženske i rodne studije, Rutgers University, New Jersey.

This seminar will explore differences in their full array; to examine differences means to call into question some pivotal theoretical and consequently practico-political concepts such as the mechanisms of inclusion/exclusion, binary paradigms, concept of the subject (political, sexual, other). Contemporary debates on differences and identities especially address the implications that theses debates raise around the issues of fluid and complex identity formations (sexual and other). Differences invoke the notion of the other, which will be understood, besides referring to the other as the other human being, as a notion which also refers to the other species, to the other nations, to the other times, spaces, to the otherlanguages, to the other sex, – or to put it differently, the notion that could refer to any other in its otherness.

However, some differences -such as the concept of sexual differences – may vertically cut across other differences and then lead to the questioning the western model of thinking and/or knowing which in turn calls for a production of new discourses and knowledge, new and different approaches to concept of the body, the political, new forms and practices of representation that are beyond totalitarian, exclusionary, patriarchal, subject – object frameworks.

Question of sexuality within this ‘open’ framework points to the perspective that sexuality may be a decisive issue for its analytic and strategic reasons. It represents a litmus test upon which many significant questions are presented; it is the concept that is within itself different and is consequently always already con/text sensitive. Sexuality, with its multiple meanings as body, desire, identity, can be understood only from a multiple and complex positions, and a variety of different and contextual perspectives, historical, cross-cultural, gender sensitive, biological, artistic, literary, etc.

Con/text sensitive theory, and politics, recognizes (sexual) differences as temporally, spatially, geo-politically constructed. Questioning sexualities from a variety of disciplinary and topical perspectives represents an attempt to challenge what is “proper to human”, “the essence” as well as the future of sciences, economics, ethics, politics. Moreover, question of sexuality recalls inter/multi disciplinary approaches since sex and sexuality are interwoven with other social categories such as gender, race, class, and nationality, as they are constitutive of all power relation formations.

This seminar will therefore while discussing politics of differences – as differing from identity politics – address many questions, such as: how can democracy accommodate differences, what are different ways of bonding, do we have any visions of different communities.

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The radicalities of which we would like to discuss, elaborate and experience in our togetherness, might imply: the origin of transnational feminisms; the tracing of feminist genealogies different from the modernist enlightenment ones; the critique of universalism; the critical engagement in postcolonial and decolonial theories and praxes; the intergenerational dialogue; the reconfiguration of power in social struggle; the investigation of the techne of writing, literature and art; the radicalization of aesthetics; the repositioning of language otherwise; the discussion of what might open instance of justice for indigenous, migrant, LGBT, non-white populations; the emergence of praxis of survival, resistance, and invention; the experimentation with translation, transposition and transformation of entangled forces; the feminist ongoing practices of care. Eligibility: IUC courses are conducted at the postgraduate level. 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Limited financial support is available for participants from parts of Eastern Europe and some non-European countries (please see http://www.iuc.hr/iuc-support.php). The IUC requires a payment of 55 EUR for the Course Fee. The working language of the course is English. Application Procedure: Please submit a proposal consisting of your CV and a short narrative describing your interest in the topic or a 250-words abstract if you would like to make a presention at the course. Place all current contact information at the top of your CV. Send submissions by e-mail to Mirela Dakić (mireladakic1@gmail.com). Use the subject: IUC Dubrovnik 2024. The proposal deadline is 1 February, 2024.   17th Postgraduate course Feminisms in a transnational perspective_Cfp [post_title] => 17th Postgraduate course Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective. 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