The course is unfortunately full - therefore unless you have already received confirmation that you have been registred for the course you cannot get a spot.

Abstract should be done no later than October 17th - email Cecilie Thorsted Flo (thorsted@ruc.dk).

Final programme and list of participants will be available November 1.

Further information about the course can be directed to: Professor Hanne Marlene Dahl, hmdahl@ruc.dk or (+45) 4674 2922 and Professor Ann-Dorte Christensen, adc@socsi.aau.dk or (+45) 4127 8048.

Keynotes:

• Professor, Dr. Helma Lutz, Göethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main

• Professor Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, University of Oslo

Collaborator and co-organizer:

• Professor Ann-Dorte Christensen, Aalborg Universitet

This PhD Course is held in collaboration with the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at Aalborg University.

Paper must be submitted to thorsted@ruc.dk no later than November 17th 2014. It will then be distributed to all the participants, organizers and keynotes.

Keynote presentations and discussion of PhD papers.

The PhD students can choose to present papers and will receive comments by keynotes organizers and by PhD students.

Wednesday, November 26th

13.00 - 14.00 Introduction and presentation

14.00 - 16.00 Prof. Dr. Helma Lutz (Frankfurt): Care Migration – A Case study for the intersection of migration-, gender- and care regimes

      By using the current debate about Care-migration in Europe (in particular 
      the  East to West and South migration), I will demonstrate how care 
      policies (and/or the absence of formal policing) are intersecting with 
      different Care regimes in the receiving states of ‘old Europe’.
      I will argue that the case of care migration illuminates the ways in 
      which migration-, gender-, labor and care regimes are intersecting 
      and interdependent at the same time on both the level of nation states 
      and the European Union.

16.00 - 16.30 Coffee/Tea

16.30 - 17.30 Paper Session (2 papers)

19.00 Dinner

Thursday, November 27th

9.00 - 11.00 Prof. Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen (Oslo): Interdisciplinary Travels and theoretical dualisms in feminist research: Concepts of subjectivity and transformation

      Feminist theory and gender studies celebrate, for good reasons, ideas 
      of interdisciplinarity and of transformative processes.
      However, what may be the blind spots in these often 
      taken-for-granted agendas? What are the possible pitfalls 
      of interdisciplinarity? Are processes of transformations by themselves always
      desirable? In this talk I will take a look at how concepts might change 
      meaning when they travel from one discipline to others and how this might 
      lead to unhelpful theoretical dualisms and universalizing theoretical claims.

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee/Tea

11.30 - 12.30 Paper Session (2 papers)

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 15.30 Paper Session (3 papers)

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee/Tea

16.00 - 18.00 Paper Session (3 papers)

Friday, November 28th

09.30 - 10.30 Paper Session (2 papers)

10.30 - 12.00 Current challenges to gender research Presentations by Prof. Ann-Dorte Christensen (Aalborg) and prof. Dr. Hanne Marlene Dahl (Roskilde)

12.00 - 12.30 Evaluation

12.00 Lunch and goodbyes

• 2 ECTS for participating in the course.

• 4 ECTS for participating with a written paper.

Any field of research has key analytical concepts, including gender studies. In this course some of the key analytical concepts are identified, their history is illustrated and their applicability discussed. Concepts often become fashionable – and salient - and turn into fast travelling concepts. However, analytical notions are also situated in space which has been shown for the concept of ‘class’ and recently ‘intersectionality’.

This PhD course addresses both PhD students unfamiliar with gender research and PhD students who are more experienced with gender studies. The first group will obtain knowledge about the key concepts and major themes in the research field. The second group will obtain new perspectives through the attentiveness to theoretical development and the relationship between analytical notions, situated knowledge as well as examples on how to apply theories and concepts in empirical analyses.

• DKK 500,- (70 Euro) for PhD students affiliated with Danish universities, which have consented to the PhD course agreement (w/o paper). The fee covers refreshments (coffee, tea, fruit and cake, lunches and a conference dinner Thursday evening. Participants must themselves pay for travel costs and accommodation.

• DKK 2.500,- (340 Euro) for PhD students from non-Danish universities if you participate without a paper.

• DKK 4.500,- (600 Euro) if you are participating with a paper.

Reading list:

• Axeli Knapp, Gudrun (2005): ‘Race, Class, Gender - Reclaiming Baggage in fast travelling theories’, European Journal of Women’s Studies 12 (3): 249-265.

• Bjerrum Nielsen, Harriet (2013): “Gender on Class Journeys”. In: Claire Maxwell & Peter Aggleton: Privilege, Agency and Affect (s.202-218). London: Palgrave.

• Butler, J. (1997). Response to Lynne Layton's: “The Doer behind the Deed Tensions and Intersections between Butler's Vision of Performativity and Relational Psychoanalysis”. Gender and Psychoanalysis, 2 (2):515-520.

• Christensen, Ann-Dorte & Jensen, Sune Qvotrup (2012) “Doing Intersectional Analysis : Methodological Implications for Qualitative Research”, NORA, 20 (2): 109-125.

• Crenshaw, Kimberle W. (1991) ‘Mapping the Margins – Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Colour’, Stanford Law Review, 43(6), pp. 1241-99.

• Layton, L. (1997). The Doer behind the Deed: Tensions and Intersections between Butler's Vision of Performativity and Relational Psychoanalysis. Gender and Psychoanalysis, 2 (?):131-155.

• Layton, L. (1997). Reply to Judith Butler. Gender and Psychoanalysis, 2 (2):521-524.

• Lutz, Helma (2014): Intersectionality?s (brilliant) career ? How to understand the attraction of the concept? http://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/51634119/Lutz_WP.pdf

• Lutz, Helma (2011). The New Maids – Transnational Women and the Care Economy. London: ZED books: pp. 18-30.

• Maria Carbin and Sara Edenheim (2013):’The Intersectional turn in feminist theory: A dream of a common language?’ European Journal of Women’s Studies, 20 (3): 233-248

• Sumi, Cho (2013). “Post-intersectionality. The Curious Reception of Intersectionality in Legal Scholarship” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 10, no. 2: 385-404.

Optional reading:

• Falmagne, Rachel Joffe (2009): Subverting Theoretical Dualisms: Discourse and Mentalism Theory Psychology,19