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SUMMARY:Summer School | Summer Institute on Sexuality\, Culture and Society
DESCRIPTION:The Summer Institute on Sexuality\, Culture and Society\, founded in 1997\, is an unforgettable learning experience to be shared with a group of international students and taught by a multidisciplinary faculty. Participants benefit from an exceptional networking opportunity through the sharing of experiences\, research plans and diverse perspectives with both professors and fellow students from a range of social and cultural backgrounds. The Summer Institute is a unique opportunity to study sexuality in all its diversities and is the only one of its kind in the world. The institute consists of three courses that can be taken separately or combined and stretched over seven weeks. \nNote: This programme is divided into three parts. Applicants have the opportunity to apply for the Summer Institute in its entirety or one of the three parts. Please state clearly at the top of your motivation letter which part you are applying for. Please read the information in each foldout section carefully to determine your eligibility for this programme.
URL:https://research.ihlia.nl/event/summer-school-summer-institute-on-sexuality-culture-and-society-3/
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SUMMARY:Conference | Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt : roles\, norms and transgressions
DESCRIPTION:The aim of the ‘Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: Roles\, norms and transgressions’ conference\, to be held in Paris on 12 and 13 June 2025\, is\, through the various communications which will be proposed\, to establish an overview of the issues surrounding gender roles and sex relations in Ancient Egypt. \nThis approach is in keeping with the work of gender studies carried out over the last sixty years in the fields of anthropology\, sociology and history of sex and gender\, from the founding work of the so-called “French school” (N. Claude-Mathieu\, C. Guillaumin\, Fr. Héritier\, M. Perrot) to the work of the Anglo-Saxon school of the 1990s and 2000s (A. Oakley\, J.W. Scott\, G. Rubin\, J. Butler and R. Connell). \nSince the late 1980s and early 1990s\, Egyptologists have used the framework of gender studies to study the gendered differences between women and men in art\, literature\, society and language. This work has also sought to shed light on the mechanisms of the social relationship between men and women in ancient Egypt\, based on a discourse of valence différentielle between the sexes. In addition\, in certain contexts\, this work has made it possible to identify the real capacity for action (or agentivity) of women in Egyptian society\, according to other criteria such as social status or age. \nFollowing on from this initial movement\, other researchers have also taken an interest in questions of sexuality\, in particular sexualities outside the spectrum of (hetero)sexual norms\, thus inaugurating the field of queer studies in Egyptology. A number of studies on gender relations from the perspective of Egyptian masculinities have also emerged. In parallel with these case studies\, a number of works and review publications have been published with the aim of establishing the potential contribution of gender archaeology or gender history to Egyptology. Since then\, this field of study has been constantly renewed in Egyptology\, thanks to in-depth work on the subject\, ranging from monographs to articles and doctoral dissertations. \nThis conference is also in line with the recent conferences devoted to women and their roles in ancient Egypt (Cairo\, October 31 to November 2 2019)\, to provide a complementary synthetic position on the contribution of gender studies to this discipline. \nThe conference will address topics as diverse as the construction of masculinities and femininities; the relations between gender and language; the gendered conceptions of the divine; the role of women in religion and in productive spaces; gender at the origins of Egypt; and gendered representations in art and literature. The submitted contributions may come from fields as varied as history\, art history\, archaeology or linguistics\, from the perspective of gender\, sexuality and queer studies. \nPresentations should be given in English or French\, each lasting 20 minutes\, with 10 minutes for questions. As the conference will take place on site\, face-to-face presentations will be privileged.
URL:https://research.ihlia.nl/event/conference-sex-and-gender-in-ancient-egypt-roles-norms-and-transgressions/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250521
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SUMMARY:Conference | Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History?
DESCRIPTION:The international conference Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History aims to discuss and critically explore the “queer” in queer and trans history. \nWe invite dialogues about and engagement with methodologies\, temporalities\, theories and analytical approaches that interpret\, imagine and preserve queer and trans history as queer. \nThe conference will be held with in-person attendance.
URL:https://research.ihlia.nl/event/conference-queer-pasts-whats-queer-in-queer-history-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250524
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SUMMARY:Conference | Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History?
DESCRIPTION:Queer history commonly refers to the study and documentation of the lives\, experiences\, cultures\, and struggles and joys of LGBTQ+ people in the past. It covers a wide range of topics\, including how gender and sexual diversity has been expressed\, understood\, and regulated in different societies\, as well as how political\, social\, and cultural movements have sought to challenge discrimination and promote LGBTQ+ rights. In this sense\, queer history is about carving out the contours of queer and trans lives\, communities and cultures of the past. \nQueer history is about challenging traditional ideas about archives and representation. Much of queer history has been erased\, suppressed\, silenced\, or ignored by mainstream historical narratives. Queer historians have had to work creatively to uncover queer histories\, using letters\, diaries\, court records\, photographs\, and oral histories to reconstruct the lives of LGBTQ+ people. \nQueer history often challenges proper objects of study. While queer history aims to understand and shed light on LGBTQ+ pasts\, we do not always know beforehand how these sexual and gendered categories emerge and assemble in distinct historical or contemporary situations. Therefore\, queer history increasingly investigates the intersection of LGBTQ+ identity with other marginalized identities\, including race\, class\, and disability. It can be argued that modern categories of gender and sexuality cannot be understood outside the violent historical and cultural fabrication of racial difference during slavery\, colonialism\, and imperialism. In this way\, queer history often intersects with other critical approaches\, such as feminism\, postcolonialism\, and critical race theory\, to understand how gender and sexuality are shaped by other social factors like race\, class and disability\, as well as mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. \nQueer history is also about queering history. To question and challenge History’s research traditions as well as contest binary categorizations such as male/female\, heterosexual/homosexual\, and normal/deviant. To deconstruct and rethink how these categories have been created and used in different societies over time\, and how they have aBected people’s lives\, identities\, and behaviors. \nQueer history might question whether modern categories like “trans”\, “gay” or “lesbian” can be applied to people in the past\, or whether doing so erases the specific contemporaneous\, historical and cultural meanings of their sexual or gender practices. It seeks to uncover new ways of thinking about sexual and gender diversity that are not limited by present-day definitions and imaginaries. \nAligned with this\, queer history might explore temporalities that allow us to think about history in fluid and nonlinear ways\, and question ideas of progression narratives from a “repressed” past to a “liberated” present. In doing so\, queer history is often more interested in moments of rupture\, discontinuity\, and contradiction\, showing how past and present understandings of sexuality and gender intersect in complex ways. \nThe conference Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History aims to discuss and critically explore the “queer” in queer and trans history. We invite dialogues about and engagement with methodologies\, temporalities\, theories and analytical approaches that interpret\, imagine and preserve queer and trans history as queer. \nWe invite individual papers and panels including but not limited to explore the following: – What makes history “queer” beyond the documentation of LGBTQ+ figures and events? \n– How can we locate and study queer in historical times\, where same-sex relationships and same-sex sexual practices did not have particular names nor carried particular associations with them? How can we locate and study trans in historical times\, where trans identities\, practices and communities had other names and forms? How can we talk about LGBTQ+ history when historical subjects and societies did not use modern LGBTQ+ identities or terms? \n– How can queer historians use archives that reflect oppressive or discriminatory structures (such as medical and criminal records) to tell the stories of queer and trans people? How do we methodologically engage with such archives and how do we tell queer stories of the past without reiterating the violence\, inherited in the archive and historical sources? \n– How do queer and trans histories intersect with other axes of identity\, such as race\, class\, and disability? How have histories of slavery\, colonialism\, and imperialism shaped modern understandings of gender and sexuality? \n– How can queer history disrupt linear historical narratives that portray progress from repression to liberation? How can we work with queer temporalities in history research? \n– How do queer historians address the erasure\, silence\, and suppression of LGBTQ+ people and communities in archives? How do we provide voice to silenced individuals and groups? What does a ‘queering’ of contemporary historical studies and history research entail\, for example\, queering histories of the welfare state\, transnational connections\, or popular culture? \n– What new historiographical methods and approaches are needed to uncover and accurately represent queer histories? Relatedly\, which types of empirical sources can be fruitful to uncover new queer histories? E.g.\, photographs\, fiction literature\, folk tales\, etc.
URL:https://research.ihlia.nl/event/conference-queer-pasts-whats-queer-in-queer-history/
LOCATION:South Campus and Roskilde University
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SUMMARY:Deadline | Call for Papers and Submission: On our own terms? On the contestations of feminist knowledges and minoritarian politics in current times
DESCRIPTION:We are at a time when critical knowledges and minoritarian politics are contested by a variety of actors\, ranging from social movements to political parties and institutions. Think of the – by now (in)famous – anti-gender and anti-feminist discourses that pervade the global landscape\, casting sexual and gender education as well as reproductive and LGBTQIA+ rights as a threat for children\, the ‘natural order’ of society\, and the national community at large. At the same time\, supra-national institutions like the EU\, the UN\, or the IMF operationalize reproductive and LGBTQIA+ rights or environmental discourses as developmental benchmarks that the peripheries need to catch up to. Not coincidentally\, we are witnessing in many countries of the Global South\, such as India\, Uganda\, and Colombia\, not just the rise of anti-feminist and anti-gender discourses\, but the articulation between them and new nationalist narratives featuring the critique of colonialism and of Western imperialism. All this is happening while imperialist Russia conducts political and ideological wars under the banner of fighting Western hegemony and defending the ‘traditional family’. Adding to such a complex landscape\, postcolonial perspectives and expressions of solidarity with Palestine after October 2023 have been harshly condemned in most of Europe as well as the United States. In universities particularly\, concerns have been related to questions of ‘safety’ and ‘antisemitism’\, thus raising questions about the meaning – as well as the current status – of academic freedom. Highlighted here are but a few conspicuous cases operating in a vast and differentiated landscape that is underpinned by the workings of global capitalism. \nWhat we see in all these instances is that many of the political signifiers that ‘we’ as critical scholars and politically engaged actors deploy reappear in sexist\, racist\, homophobic\, transphobic\, Islamophobic\, antisemitic and other discourses for exclusionary\, oppressive\, and ideological purposes. ‘Safety’ and ‘anti-semitism’ themselves are cast against those same minority groups in which these signifiers are habitually mobilized. ‘Gender’ – the analytical tool at the core of Gender Studies and other critical fields – is mystified as a specter aimed at destroying and perverting children\, families\, and society at large. Anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles and practices enter nationalist rhetoric and function as tools\, not just for further marginalizing gender\, sexual\, or indigenous minorities\, but for denying the responsibilities of (neo)colonial entities. Similar reversals happen with many other (more or less dubious) signifiers\, such as ‘critical race theory’\, ‘social justice’\, and ‘woke’\, to name a few. While attempting to trace these discursive developments on a global scale\, it is also crucial to consider the specificity and thus the complexity of this type of politics across geopolitical contexts. \nIn this conference\, we aim at exploring these processes of (re-)appropriation\, resignification\, thwarting\, cooptation\, and hijacking of critical knowledges and minority claims. Our concerns are not with mere semantics\, but with discursive practices and politics. In doing this\, we seek to better understand the current historical conjuncture\, also in order to be able to conceive of political alternatives and strategies for resistance and change. We also highlight the importance of and invite reflections on transnational collaborations in countering oppressive narratives. Aside from 20-minute paper presentations\, we encourage a variety of other presentation formats in the conference\, including roundtable discussions\, conversations\, interviews\, visuals\, multi-media and performance. \nWe invite contributors to reflect on questions related to the conference topic\, including: \n• How do we understand and define these processes of ‘(re-)appropriation\, resignification\, thwarting\, cooptation and hijacking’ by (far-)right populists\, religious conservatives\, authoritarian populists\, (neo-)fascists\, liberals\, conspiracists\, and other political and institutional actors? \n• Is there something in ‘our’ (feminist\, queer\, antiracist\, anticolonial) discourses that makes signifiers such as ‘gender’\, ‘colonialism’\, ‘safety’\, and others vulnerable to such processes? \n• What are the genealogies and (longer) histories of these processes\, and how do we trace and narrate them in connection to the current political moment across the globe? \n• What are the strategies implemented by critical scholars and feminist\, queer\, antiracist\, and anticolonial political actors to ‘speak back’ to their detractors and conceive of political alternatives? \n• What practices of solidarity are possible\, especially in light of the current mediascape that invisibilizes and erases those conflicts that are happening in such locations as Sudan\, Congo\, or India? \n• All too often we focus on how the attacks on critical knowledges and minority politics unfold in Northern American and European settings\, but what about similar discourses and practices that play out beyond the Global North and the European West? \n• How do digital and social media platforms transmit both the spread and suppression of (appropriated) feminist and minoritarian discourses? \n• How does environmetal justice inform (the appropriation of) feminist and minoritarian discourses? \n• How do institutional policies affect academic freedom\, and how might these be challenged? \nAbstracts (400 words max.) must be sent to ringsutrecht@uu.nl\, before May 1\, 2025. At the end of the abstract\, in the same document\, please add a short bio (100 words max.).
URL:https://research.ihlia.nl/event/deadline-call-for-papers-and-submission-on-our-own-terms-on-the-contestations-of-feminist-knowledges-and-minoritarian-politics-in-current-times/
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers | Gender and sexuality in museum collections exhibitions (deadline: 31 March)
DESCRIPTION:While the history of the LGBTQIA (Lesbienne-Bi-Trans-Queer-Intersex-Asexual-Asexual-Asexual-Asexual) communities is included in sections of board museums\, there are few that are devoted exclusively to them\, such as the Schwules Museum in Berlin (1985)\, the Unstraight Museum in Stockholm (2011)\, the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco (2011). In the more particular field of art\, specialized agencies are under international development (the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York acquired museum status in 2011\, and QUEERCIRCLE opened in June 2022 in London)\, but hardly exist in France. While many museums and French scientific projects (the Summer University of the Kandinsky Library “Drederate” the museum and its sources: the queerness in the or the research project Queering the Exhibition – Queering the Archive conducted at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges) have begun reflections on gender and sexual relations in artistic creation\, there are only rare practices on the field. As LGBTQIA people are a minority facing structural discrimination\, this project seeks to understand the role that museum collection exhibitions around the world play in representing society and marginalized groups. \nThis issue uses the concept of “gender\,” but also “queer\,” as tools for analyzing gender norms and sexuality\, in the verbal sense of “queering” to capture strategies and devices presenting objects in a way that challenges heteronormative discourse irrigating the institutional narrative. If the art historian Patrik Steorn claims\, in an article translated for the number 30 of Culture and Museums dedicated to the Museums with the prism of the genre in 2017 (under the direction of Charlotte Foucher-Carmanian and Arnaud Bertinet)\, that applying the concept of queer to the museum is an oxymoron\, in that it escapes all that is enclosing everything that is attached to it and everything that has the power to be. However\, the museum could serve as a space for change of society (Sanders III\, 2007)\, through work on exposed biographical data and artistic practices (some of them such as performance and textile practices have been historically appropriate by marginalized groups)\, as well as work to develop conservation practices\, such as the development of artists’ sexuality and the use of queer as an analytical tool (Barendreg\, 2017). Thus\, the theme of issue No. 45 of the Journal of Museum Education of 2020 focuses on the educational function of the museum and the work of its mediators in the US context: “Quereizing” the museum would be much more than discussing LGBTQIA stories and would aim to deconstruct the standards that govern visibility and inclusion (Prottas\, 2020). In the same year\, Nikki Sullivan and Craig Middleton invited people to move away from traditional museology through an open and located process that\, in expography\, knowledge production and public engagement\, provides an understanding of objects preserved as tools to depart from assigned standards (Middleton and Sullivan\, 2020). This issue thus seeks to understand how the mechanisms for mediation and valorizing collections that can be described as “quer”\, that is to say\, that is to say\, that criticize relations of gender and sexuality\, modify the discourse present within the exhibitions of museum collections. \nProposals may be submitted to Quentin Petit Dit Duhal\, Director of this issue until 31 March at the following address: quentinpetitdd-hotmail.fr. These texts will take the form of a summary of up to 3 000 signs\, containing a title – even provisional – and a specific issue. Proposals may be sent in French or English (translation is possible if the finalised texts are accepted). \nIn the event of a positive opinion (circumvention April 2025)\, the author will undertake to submit its fully drafted article (maximum 30\,000 signs\, including spaces and notes) by ensuring that the magazine’s standards are complied with by 30 June 2025. \nOnce received\, the text will be anonymous and submitted to a double-blind assessment by the members of the drafting committee and the external experts who form the peer-reviewed committee specific to each issue. At the end of the evaluation process\, the author will receive the reasoned opinions of its two proofreaders\, as well as that of the director of the number. Its text may be accepted\, subject to minor or major corrections\, or refused.
URL:https://research.ihlia.nl/event/call-for-papers-gender-and-sexuality-in-museum-collections-exhibitions-deadline-31-march/
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SUMMARY:Symposium | Alle stemmen horen - Afscheidssymposium Saskia Keuzenkamp\, wetenschappelijk directeur van Movisie
DESCRIPTION:Aan wie denken we als het gaat over mensen die niet gehoord of gezien worden? Wat zit er in de weg en hoe kunnen die barrières worden overwonnen? En als we zelf wel gehoord worden\, wat kunnen we dan doen om ook de niet gehoorde stem te laten klinken? \n\nIn dit symposium verkennen we in een actieve werkvorm de antwoorden op deze vragen. De aftrap wordt verzorgd door Daan de Bruijn. \nWetenschappelijk directeur Saskia Keuzenkamp\, inspirator van dit symposium\, sluit af met een reflectie. Na het symposium vindt er ter ere van haar afscheid een borrel plaats.
URL:https://research.ihlia.nl/event/symposium-alle-stemmen-horen-afscheidssymposium-saskia-keuzenkamp-wetenschappelijk-directeur-van-movisie/
LOCATION:Social Impact Factory\, Utrecht
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