CfA: Seminar in Feminist Critical Analysis, Dubrovnik, 17-21.5.2010

Feminist Critical Analysis: (Re)Mapping the Everyday through Visual

Culture

INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTER
Dubrovnik, Croatia
May 17th- 21st, 2010

The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, the State
University of New Jersey, the Belgrade Women’s Studies and Gender
Research Center and the Department of Gender Studies of the Central
European University in Budapest are pleased to announce the 11th annual
postgraduate course in “Feminist Critical Analysis: (Re)Mapping the
Everyday through Visual Culture.” The course will be held at the
Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik (www.hr/iuc) on May 17th-21st, 2010.
The course will be co-directed by Dasa Duhacek of the Women´s Studies,
Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, Allaine Cerwonka of the
Gender Studies Department, Central European University, and Ethel Brooks
of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Rutgers University.

TOPIC:
This course will explore the engagements of feminism with visual culture
and everyday life. It takes up the premise that visuality and visual
culture can be grounded firmly in feminist theory, cultural studies and
critique, that it is always already part of gendered practice and thus
central to engendering the contours of everyday life, from
quintessential visual practices such as going to the movies and watching
television to mapping our worlds, seeing everyday objects and producing
meaning through visual tropes. How do we understand the everyday
through visual practice, theories of visuality and other myriad
engagements with the visual? By bringing the visual together in
conversation with the everyday, we hope to think through connections
between the production of visual culture –from film to photography,
painting and drawing to advertisements, computer-generated animation and
media design, to visual conceptions of everyday objects such as
furniture, cooking and eating implements, architecture and urban
planning. We will engage the gendered production and consumption of,
engagements with and mappings of visuality through a feminism that
focuses on everyday life and its (re)production. The course is built
upon the assumption that intellectual dialogue among a diverse body of
scholars from different geographical locations will result in a better
understanding of the ways in which our particular locations are
influencing our own theoretical and political choices. The number of
participants is limited to 25-30 students from different countries. The
participating faculty are drawn from several different European and US
universities. Daily seminars take place in two 3-4 hours sessions a day.
All meetings are conducted in English.

ELIGIBILITY:
IUC courses are conducted at a postgraduate level. All postgraduate
students interested in the topic may apply for participation.
Participants should seek funds from their own institutions to cover
travel and accommodation costs. Limited financial support is available
for participants from Central and Eastern Europe.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
A short narrative explaining your interest in the topic and your C.V.
with your current contact information should be submitted by e-mail by
February 20, 2010 for first priority consideration. Applications will be
accepted until the seminar is full however. Submissions will be reviewed
by the Feminist Critical Analysis Selection Committee. Admission
notification will be sent to applicants in early March.

Please submit applications to Judit Zotter zotterj@ceu.hu with Dubrovnik
2010 in
the subject heading.