U4 Summerschool

U4 Interdisciplinary Summer School in Gender Studies
15.-20.08.16 | Göttingen

This interdisciplinary U4 Summer School in Gender Studies for PhD and Advanced MA students is the first to be organized by the working group on Gender within the U4 network. Staff members in education and research in Gender Studies from the four institutions, together with other invited scholars, will interact with 20 students from the U4 universities. The Summer School will be organized as an intensive 6-days program taking place at 15th - 20th August 2016 at University of Göttingen, Germany. The summer school aims to attract a limited number of students (5 from each partner institution) in order to maximise in-depth discussions, scholarly exchange and networking within the context of contemporary Gender Studies in Europe. Each day is structured around a particular theme, including a key-note lecture, group discussion, PhD project presentations and master classes. We encourage applications from students working in the field of Gender Studies and more broadly cultural and critical theory. The Summer School will offer the opportunity to exchange and stimulate collaboration among peers and teachers in an international setting, and across traditional disciplinary divides. The four research centres have been connected for some time already. In October 2014, they met to celebrate the launch of the new Centre for Gender Studies in Göttingen and had a workshop the next day discussing options for cooperation in research and teaching. They decided to organize an MA/PhD Summer School in Göttingen. On the 11th and 12th of June 2015 the four research centres met at Uppsala University to conceptualize the event.








Public lectures and talks

Monday August 15 | 17.30 - 19:00 | Historical Observatory | Opening
Keynote lecture + Plenary Talk: Jack Halberstam (Los Angeles)
TRANS*: A QUICK AND QUIRKY ACCOUNT OF GENDER VARIABILITY IN THE 21th CENTURY AND BEYOND
Moderation Barbara Schaff (Göttingen)




Friday August 19 | 19.00 | Alte Mensa
The history of my shoes and the Evolution of Darwin?s Theory
Reading and talk with the author Kenny Fries (Berlin) and Ute Kalender (Berlin)
Moderation: Konstanze Hanitzsch (Göttingen)