The Department of Gender Studies
and
ATGENDER, the european association for gender research, education and documentation
And
Feminist Section of the Hungarian Sociological Association
cordially invite you to a public round table on
“GENDER STUDIES IN TIMES OF CHANGE”
European Gender Studies are at the forefront of thinking through societal developments. In the second decade of the 21st Century, these developments move fast, and are sometimes contradictory. We are faced with the aftermath of 9/11, economic crises on national and European levels, and revolutionary upheavals in neighbouring regions (the so-called ‘Arab Spring’). How are we to interpret these developments, which in all their complexity also reshape our scholarly toolbox? This public round table features the perspectives of an international set of Gender Studies scholars in order to further our thinking through of the world in which we are living.
Beatriz Revelles Benavente, (Granada University, Spain) will talk about “How the Economic Crisis Affects the Humanities in Spain, with an Emphasis on Gender Studies”.
Cornelia Moeser (Université de Lausanne UNIL) will discuss “How Feminist Reactions to the Arab Spring Ally with Governmental Post-colonialist Politics in France”.
Mia Liinason (Lund University, Sweden) will talk about “Neoliberal Restructuring Educational Space and the Role of Gender Studies: The Case of Sweden”.
Kerstin Alnebratt (Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, Gothenburg) will talk about “Possibilities of Institutionalization of Gender Studies”
Harriet Silius (Abo Academi University, Finland) former co president of AtGender will discuss “Challenges for Gender Studies in Times of European Turbulence: Extremism and Feminism and the Recent Norwegian killings”
Afterwards, a discussion will be held, chaired by Andrea Peto (CEU, Hungary) and Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), co-presidents of AtGender
14 October, 2011, 5.30 pm, CEU Popper Room (1051. Nador u. 9.)
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