[Oberlist] HR* smnr/woman: Feminist Critical Analysis, IUC Dubrovnik, deadline: 21/01/2011

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Subject: [balkans] Last Call for Papers: Feminist Critical Analysis, IUC
Dubrovnik 30 May - 3 June 2011
From:    "Katarina Loncarevic" <katarina.loncarevic at gmail.com>
Date:    Thu, January 13, 2011 11:21 pm
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*Feminist** Critical Analysis*

Inter-University Center (IUC), Dubrovnik
May 30th to June 3rd, 2011

 The Center for Gender and Politics of the Belgrade University (Political
Science Department), Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers of the State
University of New Jersey, and the Department of Gender Studies of the
Central European University (CEU) in Budapest are pleased to announce the
next annual postgraduate *course in “Feminist Critical Analysis: Witnessing
the Past, Remembering the Future”.* The course will be held at the
Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik (www.iuc.hr) from May 30 to June 3 2011.



The course is co-directed by Dasa Duhacek, Center for Gender and Politics,
University of Belgrade, Ethel Brooks, Women’s and Gender Studies Department,
Rutgers University and Allaine Cerwonka, Gender Studies Department, Central
European University (CEU).



The course is built on the intellectual dialogue among a diverse body of
scholars from different geographical locations and the participating faculty
is drawn from different universities.





*TOPIC*

After more than a decade of our *Feminist** Critical Analysis* courses,
organized on a wide range of major themes, that resonated not only
regionally, but also with a broader international academic community, in the
year 2011 the course *Feminist** Critical Analysis: Witnessing the Past,
Remembering the Future *will address a number of issues that will both take
us into the past - while critically assessing it - but will also allow us to
look toward the future.



By addressing time, highlighting *women’s time*, and exploring the myriad,
seductive and sobering ways that temporality plays out we will follow
complex paths of discussion: we will continue to insert our concerns into
the current debates of memory and witness studies; and, in the process, we
hope to add yet more elements to the diverse and growing ‘feminist memoir
projects.’



Memory has on the one hand been a part of the philosophical inquiry since
its beginnings, but, on the other hand it has forcefully been placed on the
agenda of contemporary theory by the unbearable weight of trauma, urgency of
testimony and the necessity of witnessing – all brought about by the
unimaginable horrors of genocides, feminocides, slavery... Since it is a
truism that the history of memory has been male, despite the female figure
of Mnemosyne (and Clio), attention will also be given to Lemosyne and the
history of forgetting. The history of memory has introduced countless forms,
figures and tropes: from a wax tablet to a blank paper, from an
inscriptional mode to its designations through spatial metaphors, from *loci
memoriae* to sites of commemoration. Memory has been a pathway to the inner
self but has especially in the histories of the present introduced the
complexities of collective memories; it has alerted us to “estranged
conceptual prisms
” that painfully point to our failures “to contain and
account for what has happened in contemporary history.”



Contemporary theory has through feminist theoretical contributions and other
entry points, such as the issues of the body, space, and many others,
highlighted the irreplaceability of the gender perspective; and, has, within
this framework, appended memories of the past to the understanding of the
future.





*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. All meetings are conducted in English.


*APPLICATION PROCEDURE*

A short narrative (up to 250 words) explaining your interest in the topic
and your C.V. with your current complete contact information should be
submitted by e-mail; deadline for application is *Friday, January 21st 2011*.
Submissions will be reviewed by the selection committee and results will be
announced by mid February. The number of participants is limited to 15
students from different countries.



Please send your applications to Center for Gender and Politics, University
of Belgrade at <*studijeroda at fpn.bg.ac.rs*> with *Dubrovnik 2011* in the
subject heading.


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