Colloquium
"Transdiscipliarity Revisited"
Convened by
Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (CtG) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
in Cooperation with the network Genderact - academic cultures and transformation in European Gender Studies
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308
Interdisciplinarity has been an prominent axiom of feminist research. As
a result, Gender Studies in Germany have been institutionalised in
inter-/transdisciplinary centres and professorships are usually
specialisations within more established disciplines. Other European
countries such as Sweden and the Netherlands took a different path and
Gender Studies have been institutionalised as a field in ist own right,
whereas in some countries such as Greece and Portugal the
institutionalisation is marginal. However, all in all, Gender Studies in
Europe increasingly fulfill disciplinary criteria. For instance, in
Germany, several generations of students graduated in
Gender Studies and recently the Gender Studies Association was founded.
These institutional developments go along with developments of content
and coincide with structural changes within academia that are virulent
all over Europe.
In this workshop we will discuss questions on all levels, on the
institutionalisation as well as content of Gender Studies: What kind of
disciplinary mechanisms, hierarchies and boundaries are created within
Gender Studies? What impact do current institutional developments have
on the project of inter/transdisciplinarity? And: How threatening are
structural changes within academia for Gender Studies?
Friday, 13. May 2011
9:30 Welcome
Sabine Grenz, Gabriele Jähnert (HU-Berlin)
9:45-11:15
Angeliki Alvanoudi (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki):
Transgressing disciplinary and institutional borders: the challenge of interdisciplinarity in European Women’s/Gender Studies
Maria Pereira
(London School of Economics and Political Science):
My (Inter)Discipline Produces Better Knowledge Than Yours: (Inter)Disciplinarity and the Demarcation of Epistemic Status within Gender Studies
11:15 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00
Iris
van der Tuin (Utrecht University):
Disciplinary
Cartesian Cuts, Interdisciplinary Agential Cuts: Reading Fieldwork Notes
through Barad's Agential Realism
Mia Liinason (Lund University):
Feminist critique as
a disciplinary practice
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch
14:30
- 15:15
Kerstin Alnebratt (Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research):
The danger of
becoming invisible again. Gender Studies in Sweden within new mega-departments
15:15-17:00
Post-Disciplinarity
Lann Hornscheidt (HU Berlin):De-disciplining feminist academic knowledge production