Upcoming events 2015

This is the first newsletter of the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender (Department of Languages and Cultures; Ghent University). The centre supports research and scholarly exchange on questions of identity, difference and diversity in a globalized world from the perspective of critical inquiry and qualitative research methodology. In this newsletter, we inform you about our upcoming events, activities and recent publications.

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Public Lecture by Ruth Behar: "Vulnerability: In Fieldwork, in Life, and on the Page"

Ruth Behar (University of Michigan) is a writer and a cultural anthropologist. Known for her writing about the search for home in our global era, her books include The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village; Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s Story, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart.

17 September 2015
17:00-18:30
Aud. B, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
This lecture is part of the Critical Ethnography Seminar

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Public Lecture by Srećko Horvat:
"Love in the Age of Selfie"
Response by Frank Furedi (University of Kent)

Srećko Horvat is a philosopher and author of “What Does Europe Want?” (Columbia University Press, 2014) co-authored with Slavoj Žižek, “Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia” (Verso, 2014) with Igor Štiks, and most recently “The Radicality of Love” (Polity Press, 2015). He regularly publishes for The Guardian, Al Jazeera and New York Times.

12 November 2015
14:30-17:15
Raadzaal UFO - Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 33, 9000 Gent
(In cooperation with the Ghent University Policy Unit Diversity and Gender)

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Critical Ethnography Seminar

With public lectures by: Rozita Dimova (Ghent University), David Berliner (ULB), Ruth Behar (University of Michigan), Karel Arnaut & Sean O'Dubhghaill (Leuven University), Katariina Mäkinen (University of Helsinki), Lisa Dikomitis (University of Hull), An van.Dienderen (KASK)

In coorperation with the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (Leuven University) & the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (University of Antwerp)

17-18 September 2015
Aud. B, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent

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Inter-University Degree Programme: Master in Gender en Diversity

One-year master; 60 credits; in Dutch
UGent - VUB - KU Leuven - UAntwerpen - UHasselt

Register before 18 September 2015

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Brown Bag Seminars

The format of the seminars can vary but they will all be informal and discussion-oriented. Open to PhD-students, postdocs and senior researchers.

24 September 2015; 12:00-14:00: Sabine Grenz (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen): 'How Talking about one’s Meaning of Life Makes Sense: a Discourse Analytic Approach to Related Qualitative Interviews'
28 October 2015; 12.00-14.00: Lisa Dikomitis (University of Hull): 'The Culture of Doing a PhD, a PhD in Cultural Research'
16 November 2015; 12:00-14:00: Ute Hüsken (University of Oslo): 'Gender and Relgion' (TBC)

Room 100.038, Rozier 44, 9000 Gent

Register by sending an email to katrien.degraeve@ugent.be

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Interdisciplinary U4 Summer School in Gender Studies for PhD and Advanced MA students

15-20 August 2016 at University of Göttingen
Organised by the U4 Network (Ghent University, University of Göttingen, University of Groningen & Uppsala University)

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Call for Papers: Special Issue Journal ‘Religion and Gender’: Religion, Gender and Body Politics

Deadline for abstract (maximum 1000 words): 1 October 2015. For submitting abstract and more information, contact the editorial team: projectreligionandgender@gmail.com.

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New Publications

Recent publications by CRCG staff members. For information on how to access the articles or books, click the book or journal link.

Books

- Longman, Chia & Tamsin Bradley (2015) Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices. Gender, Culture and Coersion, Surrey: Ashgate.

Articles

- De Graeve, Katrien (2015) Landscapes of Care and Belonging: Guardianships of Unaccompanied Minors, Journal of Refugee Studies (published online 11 August 2015).

- De Graeve, Katrien (2015) Geographies of Migration and Relatedness: Transmigrancy in Open Transnational Adoptive Parenting, Social and Cultural Geography, 16(5)522-535.

- De Graeve, Katrien (2015) 'They have our culture'. Negotiating Migration in Belgian-Ethiopian Adoption, Ethnos, 80(1)71-90.

- Van den Brandt, Nella; Rahil Roodsaz & Klaartje Van Kerckem (2015), Emancipatie op het Kruispunt van Seksuele en Etnisch-Culturele Diversiteit: In Gesprek met Merhaba en Respect2Love, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 18(2)197-216.

- Van den Brandt, Nella (2015), Feminist Practice and Solidarity in Secular Societies: Case Studies on Feminists Crossing Religious-Secular Divides in Politics and Practice in Antwerp, Belgium, Journal for Social Movement Studies (published online 09 January 2015).

Book Chapters

- De Graeve, Katrien (2015), Theorising Identities in Early Childhood, in A. Farrell, S.L. Kagan, & K.M. Tisdall (eds.), Sage Handbook of Early Childhood Research, London: Sage Press, p.103-117.

- De Graeve, Katrien (2015), Children's Rights from a Gender Studies Perspective: Gender, Intersectionality and Ethics of Care, in W. Vandenhole, E. Desmet, D. Reynaert, K. Vlieghe & S. Lembrechts (eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights Studies, London: Routledge, p.147-163.

- Malmström, Maria & An Van Raemdonck (2015) 'The clitoris is in the head!' Female Circumcision and the Making of a Harmful Cultural Practice in Egypt, in Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices. Gender, Culture and Coercion, Surrey: Ashgate, p.121 - 137.

- Van Raemdonck, An (2015), Challenging Global Gender Politics: Egypt's Islamist Experience, in: Yulia Gradskova & Sara Sanders (eds.) Institutionalizing Gender Equality. Historical and Global Perspectives, Lexington Books, 243 - 272.

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