summer school

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NOISE EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
FROM MULTICULTURAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES


`Di at aporic Identities and Mediated Cultures', a two-week advanced
introductory post-graduate Summer School offers a varied and
integrated programme in Women's Studies from multicultural and
interdisciplinary perspectives with special emphasis on the
humanities. The notion of `identity' stands central in this course. It
is defined as a dynamic and contested notion, which will be approached
from a number of comparative European multicultural angles. Issues
related to ethnocentrism and the critique of racism will be raised
within gender and women's studies. The very idea of `European
identity' will be discussed from a historical, and cultural studies
framework. Issues of inclusion, exclusion and therefore of access and
participation in the making of European identities will be addressed
in a gender perspective. The  Summer School deals with these issues in
the context of the global media phenomenon, from telecommunication to
the internet and the electronic frontier. The displacement of
identities is therefore the central concern of the Summer School, as
is the reflection on the various forms of cultural mediation that are
available within gender and women's studies today.

When?
* 14 - 30 August 1999 , Utrecht University, The Netherlands
* August 2000, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Target Group
The European Summer School aims at advanced final-year undergraduate
students, as well as postgraduate and PhD students. Applicants should
have a background in the field of Women's Studies.

Number of Participants
max. 55

Credits
9 ECTS

Tuition fees
Tuition fees for the course are 1200 Dutch guilders including reading
materials.




`Cybernoise' is an intensive Open and Distance Learning course that
uses new media and Information and Communication Technologies. The
introduction of new modes of `open' learning through the use of
interactive technologies allows for interaction between learners and
tutors. The project builds on the experiences gained in organising the
yearly NOISE Summer School since 1994. The ODL course is closely
linked to the NOISE Summer School. The theme of the course `Di at aporic
Identities and Mediated Cultures' will be explored from the
perspective of giving meanig to and theorize about `living in a
digital society'. This ODL course mainly focuses on digitalized and
visualized teaching materials, at the same time using ICT as a tool in
teaching Women's Studies to virtual students, as well as reflecting on
the process and the meaning of this use of new information and
communication technologies for teaching and learning, and for
contemporary society as such.

When?
* 15 August - 15 September 1999
* August - September 2000

Number of Participants
max. 25

Credits
6 ECTS

Tuition fees
Tuition fees for the course are 300 Dutch guilders including reading
materials.


For more information, application forms and registration:

Prof. Rosi Braidotti
Esther Vonk
International Office Women's Studies
Utrecht University
Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands
e-mail: noise at let.uu.nl
tel: +31-30-2536013
fax: +31-30-2536695
http://www.let.uu.nl/womens_studies/summerschool99.htm