Short Report MATILDA 2012 IP
In 2012, the yearly Intensive Program (IP) or summer school of the MATILDA European Master Program in Women’s and Gender History took place at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, from July 2 to 14. The IP, entitled “Gender and Migration 19th -21st Centuries: Economic, Regional and Methodological Perspectives,” was hosted by the Gender Studies Department, and organized jointly by professors Francisca de Haan (Gender Studies Department) and Susan Zimmermann (Gender Studies and History Department). The IP’s coordinator was Eszter Varsa.
Twenty-two students from twelve countries attended the summer school. They came from the five partner universities of the MATILDA MA program (University Lumière Lyon 2, Vienna University, St Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia, University of Nottingham, and CEU). Twelve invited professors, both from within the MATILDA consortium and from other universities, gave lectures and seminars on a wide range of migration-related topics and approaches, ranging from quantitative migration history to cultural studies. Fact and fiction around women’s ratio in international migration since the nineteenth century was a recurrent subject.
The daily program of the course included lectures in the mornings, where students could familiarize themselves with some of the basic names and themes in gender and migration; and afternoon workshops where students presented their own research in progress, and received detailed feedback from both fellow students and lecturers.
Besides an intensive 10-day work program the course also offered students an opportunity to get to know Budapest through a feminist bus tour of the city and a number of informal gatherings. A farewell party concluded the two-week program.
Pictures
Lecture-seminar: Jasmina Lukic’s workshop “Integrated Research Methods in Gender and Migration Studies,” taking place on 12 July, 2012. On the picture are students from CEU, Sofia, Lyon, and Nottingham, as well as, on the far right side, professors Anelia Kassabova and Daniela Koleva (affiliated with the Institute of Ethnography of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and with St. Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia, respectively).
Student discussion during one of the morning seminars (with students from CEU, Sofia and Lyon).
Break-time: well-deserved tea and coffee.
Feminist bus tour: On Sunday, 8 July, 2012, tour guide Anna Lenart led us to sites in Budapest related to the lives and work of women of enduring importance, who are often forgotten in Hungarian history. This picture was taken during a break.*
Extra curricular activities*
* Thanks to Birgit Friedrich for sharing these two photos.
