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>>> Iris van der Tuin <vdtuin at DDS.NL> 3/31/2008 2:44 PM >>>
Dear Madam/Sir,

Please see below the announcement of the NOISE Summer School 2008  
which will be held at Utrecht University, The Netherlands from August 

18 to 29, 2008.
More information and application forms can be found on the website:

http://www.genderstudies.nl/summerschool2008/index.php 

Please distribute this announcement as widely as possible.

With kind regards,

Pauline van Romondt Vis
Coordinator NOISE Summer School

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NOI♀SE 2008 Summer School: In Between Understanding and  
Practicing Gender: Intersectionality and Interdisciplinarity.

18 August * 29 August, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Have you always wanted to know what cutting-edge feminist thinking is 

about and how you yourself can learn how to practice it? Are you  
dreaming of writing work *that matters*?
Do you want to develop your ideas about transnational feminism,  
identities and power? Do you want to reflect upon the ways in which  
identities are being negotiated in different settings?
Do you want to explore what interdisciplinarity is in terms of  
knowledge production, feminist responsibility and academic practices?
Are you curious about doing Women's Studies in Europe?
These questions will be dealt with in the 15th edition of the Noise  
Summer School!
In this first interdisciplinary cluster Intersecting Identities:  
Transnationalism, Gender and Power, we will explore how transnational 

and intersectional feminist theory can help us to make sense of  
current developments with regard to identities, subjectivities,  
gender, power and knowledge. *Identities* will be central to our  
concern. For a long time, *identity* was a concept that referred to
a  
stable inner core of the true self, some real, authentic self, inside 

there, hiding inside the false selves that we present to the rest of  
the world. This discourse of identity, with its strong representations 

of inside-outside, true-false, self-other, subject-object,  
individual-society has, despite its lingering and persistent traces,  
run its course. We need new ways of thinking about identity. We will  
begin by looking at traditional ways of thinking and talking about  
identity and the ways in which feminism has helped us to go beyond  
such binaries as outlined above. We will explore identity as a way of 

understanding the interplay between our subjective experience of the  
world and the cultural and historical settings in which shifting  
subjectivities are formed. Identity is never fixed or completed, but  
instead always in formation. We will analyze identity then as a  
process, multiplicitous, contradictory and unstable, lacking coherence 

even. In addition, we have become aware that identity is always in  
part a narrative, always in part a representation. Lecturers from a  
variety of backgrounds will utilize approaches from the Humanities,  
the Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, focusing on representations 

and identity - formations in various bodies of texts like women*s own
 
narratives, versions of feminist theory, gendered and ethnicized  
bodies, religion, the law and state policy regulations.

In the second cluster Interdisciplinarity in Gender Studies: Poetics  
and Ethics, we will attempt to understand the potential and  
problematics of interdisciplinarity in terms of knowledge production, 

academic practices and feminist ethics. The starting point of the  
cluster is the understanding that interdisciplinarity is a problematic 

concept, which nevertheless offers great potential, particularly for  
feminist researchers. While it has become the current standard in  
historical and literary studies, it raises specific epistemological  
and ethical questions regarding knowledge production and academic  
practices. This begs the question of whether interdisciplinarity is  
merely a matter of research skills and the accumulation of knowledge, 

or if there is more at stake. With regards to feminist research,  
interdisciplinarity offers distinctive discursive and ideological  
potential, especially insofar as it reveals itself as anti-colonial  
and counter-hegemonic. In this cluster we will explore this potential 

of interdisciplinary approaches in feminist research by attempting to 

deconstruct stereotypes of research practices and the over-evaluation 

of acquired skills. We will also rethink humanist research ethics in  
terms of contemporary feminist theory, as well as address the notion  
of pleasure as it relates to research practices. The aim of the  
cluster is to explore the possibilities of interdisciplinarity, to  
construct a toolbox for feminist interdisciplinary research, and to  
reappropriate the pleasures at the center of feminist knowledge  
production and research practices.


Aims

This advanced training course offers a diversified, but coherent  
programme of study from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is meant 

for MA students and PhD students and it will provide special and  
separate seminars to these two groups.

Please check http://www.genderstudies.nl/summerschool for the  
programmes of the last years to get an idea how the programme is  
structured. The basic formula is always the same; the themes and  
clusters vary.

Please check http://www.genderstudies.nl/summerschool2008 for regular
updates!


Formula:
Two lectures in the morning
Separate MA- and PhD-specific seminars in the afternoon
Social programme
Students prepare during the summer by reading and collecting material 

for assignments (approximately 70 hours of work). After fulfilment of 

all requirements (preparation of assignments and reading, active  
participation and final essay of 10 - 15 pages), participants receive 

the NOISE Certificate for 240 hours of work, equalling 9 ECTS
All participants are expected to participate in the entire programme  
during the two weeks
Accommodation for students

The accommodation will be arranged by the organising university in  
Utrecht and can be reserved and paid to the central co-ordination in  
Utrecht. Participants can also arrange their own accommodation;  
however, we advise you to *stick together* at the same
accommodation!

Tuition Fees

The tuition fee is EUR550,- This includes reading materials, but is  
exclusive of accommodation, subsistence costs (i.e. evening meals,  
drinks etc) and possible excursions.

Teachers in the course

The first week of the Summer School is coordinated by Prof. Gloria  
Wekker and Dr. Sarah Bracke (Utrecht University); week two is  
coordinated by Prof. Svetlana Slapšack (Ljubljana Graduate School of  
Humanities), Sanne Koevoets MA and Domitilla Olivieri MA (Utrecht  
University). Several renowned professors and scholars from various  
disciplines will be teaching at the Summer School. These will be  
announced on the website.

The NOISE Summer School is made possible by a grant of the Erasmus  
Programme of the DG Education and Culture.


For more Information:

NOI♀SE Central Coordination
Graduate Gender Programme
Utrecht University
Prof. Rosemarie Buikema
Kromme Nieuwegracht 29
3512 HD Utrecht
The Netherlands
E-mail: noise at let.uu.nl 
Tel:  +31-30-2536001
Fax: +31-30-2536134


Registration:

Please note that you can only register online (before April 25) at  
this address:
http://www.genderstudies.nl/summerschool2008 


COME TO THE NOI♀SE SUMMERSCHOOL

AND BE CHALLENGED!

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