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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Gender and Sustainability – Introducing Feminist Environmental Humanities PhD course (FAD3115)

This electable course in the doctoral program, Art, Technology and Design (7,5 credits) is an educational effort, supported by the KTH Equality Office for the integration of knowledge on gender equity in sustainable development research, provided by the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment and the multi-university platform The Posthumanities Hub, with Tema Genus, Linköping University.

Gender and Sustainability: Introducing Feminist Environmental Humanities and Posthumanities

The PhD course will be held online, and combines critical and creative perspectives on gender and sustainability from the emerging field of environmental humanities as it overlaps with science, technology, humanities, art and feminist theory-practices. It explores postdisciplinary directions in sustainability from a set of positions in environmental humanities and feminist posthumanities.

The course provides an introduction into the conceptual landscape of feminist environmental humanities, and an orientation into its methodological trajectories across the fields of science, technology, art and design. Notions of different scientific traditions in the past and present, and of inter- and transdisciplinary research are presented and framed in ways that are particularly useful for PhD researchers pursuing environmental humanities/postdisciplinary studies and practice-oriented research in art and arts (humanities), technology and design. PhD researchers are provided with an understanding of key concepts – and the relationship between research questions, methods, objectives and outcomes – through lectures, literature seminars, workshops and collaborative project work. The course introduces participants to thinking on situated knowledge practices and ethics amidst a plethora of critical methodologies, qualitative and innovative methods, and performative research practices. This course is an invaluable introduction to the ecologies of multispecies, techno-, citizen- and other forms of posthumanities. On completion of the course, PhD researchers will be provided with tools to critically reflect over the epistemological and ethical challenges inherent to their own research practices and doctoral work, but also in relationship to gender, sustainability and to other actors involved in the very social business of scholarship.


Participants

To be eligible for the course, PhD researchers must have completed a masters’ degree or have an equivalent level of education in STS, history of science, technology and environment studies, gender studies, technology, art or design (such as architecture, planning, civil engineering, arts, crafts, and design) or affiliated subjects within the humanities and social sciences.

Preliminary dates (ONLINE)

Module 1 – Re-inventing nature, re-inventing methodology: 5-6 December 2022
Module 2 – Doing gender and sustainability: Practice-oriented research: 16-17 January 2023
Module 3 – Ethics in thinking practice: 20-21 February 2023
Module 4 – Gender and sustainability in new registersKnowledge communication: 27-28 March 2023.

Coordinators and Guest Lecturers

The course will be coordinated and taught by a unique team of teachers, combining gender, sustainability, environmental humanities, feminist posthumanities and practice-oriented research:  

  • Meike Schalk, Associate Professor, KTH School of Architecture, architectural environmental humanities
  • Cecilia Åsberg, Professor, Gender, nature, culture, The Posthumanities Hub, Linköping University (guest/professor at KTH and Oslo MET)
  • Marietta Radomska, Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities, Gender Studies, Linköping University, biophilosophy, eco/bio-art
  • Janna Holmstedt, PhD, Swedish Historical Museums, Artistic Researcher
  • Jesse Peterson, Postdoc, The Posthumanities Hub, Gender Studies, Linköping University

And guest lecturers (TBA).

The course is an open collaboration with the KTH gender network, The Posthumanities Hub, a multi-university research group and platform for feminist posthumanities www.posthumanitieshub.net and Gender Studies, Linköping University.

Application for this Doctoral Course

Deadline for application is 7th November 2022. (If accepted you receive a notice of acceptance and the course readings by 11th November.)

Please apply FORMALLY to the PhD course Gender & Sustainability by submitting an APPLICATION to meike.schalk@arch.kth.se

Include the following documents:

  • CV (short bio), one page
  • Letter of motivation, half a page (why you would benefit from this course in your PhD-work)
  • SHORT description of PhD project, one page maximum, with aim and research question, material and practice-oriented/methodological approaches and challenges

WARMLY WELCOME!

InterGender PhD course “Researching Differently: Transdisciplinary challenges and postconventional methodologies in feminist inquiry”

Here comes an announcement from InterGender – International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Feminist Research Training:

InterGender – International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Feminist Research
Training

For this course PhD students, but also advanced Master’s students are eligible to apply.

Title of the Course: Researching Differently: Transdisciplinary challenges and postconventional methodologies in feminist inquiry

Time: 7-8-9 December 2022
Location: Zoom
Deadline for applications: 30 October 2022

Applications should be sent to:
InterGender Consortium Coordinator Edyta Just (edyta.just[at]liu.se)

Maximum number of participants: 30

Organised by:
Local InterGender Course Organizer: Linköping University
InterGender, International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Feminist Research Training

Course coordinator:
InterGender Consortium Coordinator: Edyta Just (edyta.just[at]liu.se)

Teachers:
Madina Tlostanova, Professor, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.
Katja Aglert, Professor, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.
Marietta Radomska, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.

Course description:
In the present condition of planetary environmental disruption, rising global inequalities, technologies intervening in ‘life itself’, differentially distributed human and more-thanhuman vulnerabilities, as well as social and environmental violence, critical and creative thinking becomes more urgent than ever. Conventional humanities and social science frames, grounded in the traditional idea of the autonomous human subject, distinct disciplines, and a firm boundary between nature and culture, are no longer tenable. Challenges of today require innovative approaches and transdisciplinary skill sets. This InterGender PhD course introduces the students to the cutting-edge methodological developments in contemporary feminist and critical studies, while focusing on some of the most promising postconventional approaches to feminist research.

Learn more:

InterGender PhD/advanced MA course on “Debunking the method-centrism: trans/post/anti-disciplinarity and intermediation in feminist inquiry”

Check out and apply for this new exciting InterGender Consortium and Research School PhD (and advanced MA) course on “Debunking the method-centrism: trans/post/anti-disciplinarity and intermediation in feminist inquiry“!

Dates: : 8-9-10 November 2021

Location: Zoom

Application deadline: 3 October 2021

For the full course info click here (opens in a new tab)

Applications should be sent to: InterGender Consortium Coordinator Dr Edyta Just (edyta.just[at]liu.se)

Maximum number of participants: 30

For this course PhD candidates, but also advanced Master’s students are eligible to apply.

Teachers:

Madina Tlostanova, Professor, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.

Katja Aglert, Professor, Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.

Evelien Geerts, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

InterGender PhD course “Technocultural assemblages: Methods and methodologies in focus”

InterGender – International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Feminist Research Training
For this course PhD candidates, but also advanced Master’s students are eligible to apply.

Title of the Course: Technocultural assemblages: Methods and methodologies in focus

Time: 6-8 April 2021

Location: Online
Deadline for applications: 7 March 2021
Applications should be sent to:
InterGender Consortium Coordinator Edyta Just (edyta.just[at]liu.se)
Maximum number of participants: 30
Organized by:
Local InterGender Course Organizer: Gothenburg University, Sweden
InterGender, International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Feminist Research Training
Course coordinators:
Local InterGender Course Coordinator: Lena Martinsson
InterGender Consortium Coordinator: Edyta Just (edyta.just[at]liu.se)
Teachers:
Mia Liinason, Professor of Gender Studies, University of Gothenburg
Naila Sahar, Assistant Professor in English at Forman University College, Lahore
Cathy Urquhart, Professor of Digital Business at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
Course description:
This course shines a light on methods and methodologies of studying connections between the digital, the social and the cultural – what we call ’technocultural assemblages’. Diverse phenomena, from video games and dating apps to political activisms, are examples of technocultural assemblages. In focus of the course are the methodological challenges connected to study such assemblages in research on eg. political activisms, community building, intimacies and friendships, and other ephemeral material at the borderlands between ‘the digital’ and ‘the real’.
This course argues that digital technologies also are political. As such, digital technologies are always entangled with transnational and local formations of genders and sexualities. Digital technologies have a capacity to both reiterate and transform colonial, gendered and racial regimes. Simultaneously, they offer tremendous possibilities for various communities, such as feminist, queer or antigender networks, to emerge and connect across geographical distances. This course offers in-depth and case based lectures from the teacher’s ongoing research. Case based lectures will cover challenges and ways of working with qualitative data analysis in research on social media, postcolonial approaches to women’s digital activism in and beyond South Asia, and methodologies for researching offline/online entanglements in transnational feminist and LGBTI+ activism.

Lectures:
Mia Liinason, Professor of Gender Studies, University of Gothenburg. Lecture: “Researching offline/online entanglements in transnational feminist and LGBTI+ activism”

Cathy Urquhart, Professor of Digital Business at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. Lecture: “Qualitative Data Analysis in Social Media: Challenges and Approaches”

Naila Sahar, Assistant Professor in English at Forman University College, Lahore.
Lecture: “Postcolonial feminism: Women’s digital activism in South Asia with focus on Pakistan”

Schedule of the course:
Day 1
10.15-10.30 Introduction
Lena Martinsson with all teachers
10.30-12.30 Lecture
Lecture 1: Mia Liinason
Each zoom lecture is structured along the following:
10.30-11.15 45 min lecture
15 min break
11.30-11.45 Breakout rooms, 15 min discussion in small groups around readings and concepts
11.45-12.30 Re-assembling: We go around and listen to the discussions of each group, Q & A
12.30-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-15.30 Workshop with 15 minutes break
Workshop with feedback on course participants’ papers. Three groups, each teacher is chair of one group.
15.30-16.00 Wrap up
We re-assemble in the main zoom room. Reflections, questions.

Day 2
10.30-12.30 Lecture
Lecture 2: Cathy Urquhart
12.30-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-15.30 Workshop with 15 minutes break
Workshop with feedback on course participants’ papers. Three groups, each teacher is chair of one group.
15.30-16.00 Wrap up
We re-assemble in the main zoom room. Reflections, questions.

Day 3
10.30-12.30 Lecture
Lecture 3: Naila Sahar
12.30-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-14.00 Evaluation
Final session with evaluation
Course readings: Will be provided after the acceptance to the course

Obligatory Preparations after the acceptance to the course:
– Course readings
– Paper (2–5 pages describing research problem related to the participant’s PhD thesis project or MA thesis project) to be sent to the InterGender Consortium Coordinator Edyta Just (edyta.just[at]liu.se) AT THE LATEST TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE COURSE STARTS. Remember to mark it with your name and the course name.
– All participants are expected to read the paper of their fellow group members before the course and be prepared to offer constructive comments in the group sessions and workshops. The papers will be made available online.

Optional Essay after the end of the course:
– An essay of 6000-7000 words to be handed in no later than 3 months after the course. One copy should be sent to the teacher, who chaired the group in which the candidate/student presented her/his/their paper at the course and who is going to evaluate it, and one to the InterGender Consortium Coordinator Edyta Just (edyta.just[at]liu.se). The teacher has 3 months to evaluate the essay.
– The essay should strike a balance between addressing a theme that has been part of course (lectures, discussions, reading material), and be relevant for participant’s own research.
– The essay should, moreover, be considered as an exercise in doing a written presentation aimed at an academic readership not familiar with the author’s research. The essay should constitute a whole and explain relevant contexts.

Accreditation and examination:

  • 7,5 ECTS credits are given for active participation and a short paper, 2-5 pages (graded pass/fail) for 3 days course.
  • 10 ECTS credits are given for active participation plus an essay (graded pass/fail) for 3 days course.
  • An essay of 6000-7000 words to be handed in no later than 3 months after the course. One copy should be sent to the teacher, who chaired the group in which the candidate/student presented her/his/their paper at the course and who is going to evaluate it, and one to the InterGender Consortium Coordinator Edyta Just (edyta.just[at]liu.se). The teacher has 3 months to evaluate the essay.

Course Certificate:
In order to request the certificate, please send an e-mail to Edyta Just(edyta.just[at]liu.se).
The Consortium Coordinator issues, upon request, a certificate indicating to how many ECTS credits course participation is considered equal. It is the candidate/student’s own responsibility to ask her/his/their home institution about its accreditation rules and to obtain appropriate credit for participation in InterGender course within the enrolled curriculum.

Applications should be written in English and include:

name, affiliation, full address, e-mail, phone * name and affiliation of PhD supervisor or MA supervisor * brief CV * description of PhD project or MA project (1-2 pages) * motivation: why do you want to participate in the course (1-2 pages) * please, indicate if you are in the first/middle/last phase of your PhD research or if you are advanced MA student.

Information on Admission:

1.Participants have to be registered as PhD candidates or advanced MA students.

2. The InterGender courses are open for PhD and advance MA students from all disciplines and countries.

3. Participants will be selected on the basis of an evaluation of their CV, project description and a letter of motivation.

4. If there are more applicants who qualify for participation, than there are places, the places will be distributed along the following criteria:
a) Applicants registered as PhD candidates or advanced MA students at a Partner Unit will be prioritized for a maximum of 90% of places with approximately 25 % of the 90% open to MA-students. When the places are distributed among the Partner Units, a good spread between these units will also be ensured.
b) Applicants registered as PhD candidates in another unit at the Partner Higher Education Establishments will be prioritized for 10 % of the places. When the places are distributed among the Partner Higher Education Establishments, a good spread between these establishments will also be ensured. If places remain of the 90 % prioritized for PhD candidates and advanced MA students registered at a Partner Unit, these places will instead be prioritized for PhD candidates registered at a Partner Higher Education Establishments.
c) If the applicants according to a) and b) do not fill all the places, remaining places will be open for competition between all eligible and qualifying applicants from any higher education establishment.

5. If there are more eligible and qualified applicants for the available places, a selection process will take place, which, in addition to academic quality and motivation/relevance, will use non-discriminatory selection criteria, which will ensure a spread of nationalities, regions, institutions and disciplines.

6. An additional lot drawing procedure will be used, if several eligible and in all respects equally qualified applicants are competing for the limited number of places in the different categories.

7. In case of too many eligible and qualifying applicants, a waiting list will also be organized, and places will be offered to applicants on this list, should some of the selected participants cancels her/his/their participation.

8. The consortium coordinator (5.3) selects participants under the auspice of the Board, and is required to report to the Board how selection is distributed between the Consortium Partners. If the Board finds that the distribution is uneven, the Consortium Coordinator shall compensate for this in future selections.

9. Upon request of a Partner/Partner Unit/Partner Higher Education Establishment, the Consortium Coordinator (5.3) issues a certificate indicating how many ECTS credits should be awarded for the participation in a particular course. It is the candidate/student’s own responsibility to ask her/his/their home institution about its accreditation rules and to obtain appropriate credit for participation in InterGender course within the enrolled curriculum.

InterGender Partner Units and Higher Education Establishments

  • Higher Education Establishment: Linköping University, Partner Units: Unit of Gender Studies, Department of Thematic Studies, Coordinating Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: Göteborg University, Partner Unit: Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Research, Full Partner 3. Higher Education Establishment: Karlstad University, Partner Unit: Centre for Gender Studies, Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: Luleå University of Technology, Partner Unit: Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Science, Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: Lund University, Partner Unit: Department of Gender Studies, Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: Mid Sweden University, Partner Unit: Research Subject Sociology and Forum for Gender Studies, Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: The Norwegian National Research School in Gender Studies, Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: Södertörn University, Partner Unit: Gender Studies, Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: Umeå University, Partner Unit: Umeå Centre for Gender Studies, Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: Goethe University Frankfurt, Partner Unit: Cornelia Goethe Center/GRADE Center Gender, Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: University of Granada, Partner Unit: Grupo Investigación PAI Hum592 Recepcion, Modos y Géneros de la Literatura en Lengua Inglesa, Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Partner Unit: Center for transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: University of Innsbruck, Partner Unit: Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck (CGI), Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: University of Lodz, Partner Unit: Women’s Studies Centre, Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: University of Oviedo, Partner Unit: Gender and Diversity PhD and MA Programmes, Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: Utrecht University, Partner Unit: Graduate Gender Programme/Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies, Full Partner
  • Higher Education Establishment: University of Vienna, Partner Unit: Gender Research Office, Full Partner

Apply NOW for the PhD course Gender and Sustainability: Introducing Feminist Environmental Humanities, deadline 2nd November 2020.

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About the course Gender and Sustainability: Introducing Feminist Environmental Humanities

This online PhD course combines critical and creative perspectives on gender and sustainability from the emerging field of environmental humanities as it overlaps with science, technology, humanities, art and feminist theory-practices. It explores postdisciplinary directions in sustainability from a set of positions in environmental humanities and feminist posthumanities.

The course provides an introduction into the conceptual landscape of feminist environmental humanities, and an orientation into its methodological trajectories across the fields of science, technology, art and design. Notions of different scientific traditions in the past and present, and of inter- and transdisciplinary research are presented and framed in ways that are particularly useful for PhD researchers pursuing environmental humanities/postdisciplinary studies and practice-oriented research in art, technology and design. PhD researchers are provided with an understanding of key concepts – and the relationship between research questions, methods, objectives and outcomes – through lectures, literature seminars, workshops and collaborative project work. The course introduces participants to thinking on situated knowledge practices and ethics amidst a plethora of critical methodologies, qualitative and innovative methods, and performative research practices. On completion of the course, PhD researchers will be provided with tools to critically reflect over the epistemological and ethical challenges inherent to their own research practices and doctoral work, but also in relationship to other actors involved in the very social business of scholarship.

This new electable course (FAD3115) at KTH Royal Institute of Tecnology, in the doctoral program, Art, Technology and Design (7,5 credits), is an educational effort, supported by the KTH Equality Office for the integration of knowledge on gender equity in sustainable development research, provided by the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment.

Participants

To be eligible for the course, PhD researchers must have completed a masters’ degree or have an equivalent level of education in STS, history of science, technology and environment studies, gender studies, technology, art or design (such as architecture, planning, civil engineering, arts, crafts, and design) or affiliated subjects within the humanities and social sciences.

Preliminary dates (online)

Module 1 – Re-inventing nature, re-inventing methodology, November 30 + December 1
Module 2 – Doing gender and sustainability: Practice-oriented research, December 14-15
Module 3 – Speculative ethics, 4-5 February
Module 4 – Gender and sustainability in new registers: Knowledge communication, Suggested for March 2021

Coordinators

The course will be coordinated and taught by prof. Cecilia Åsberg, dr Janna Holmstedt, Dept. of History of Science, Technology and Environment, associate prof. Meike Schalk, School of Architecture, at KTH, and dr Marietta Radomska, Gender Studies, Linköping University.

Guest teachers are associate prof. Charlotte Holgersson, Organisation and Management at the Department of Industrial Economics and Management, associate prof. Jennifer Mack and dr Tijana Stevanovic, School of Architecture, at KTH, associate prof. Christina Fredengren, Stockholm University, prof. Isabelle Doucet, Chalmers Technical University, Dr Heidi Kajita Svenningsen, Copenhagen University and prof. Elke Krasny, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

The course is an open collaboration with the InterGender University Consortium and Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies www.intergender.net and The Posthumanities Hub, a nonconventional research group and platform for feminist posthumanities www.posthumanities.net

Application for this Doctoral Course

Deadline for application is 2nd November 2020.

We are grateful to have received a lot of interest for this course, so we ask PhD students to formally register for this course to be accepted in the following manner:

Please apply FORMALLY to the PhD course Gender & Sustainability by submitting an APPLICATION to dr Janna Holmstedt, jannaho[at]kth.se.

Include this application in your email:

  • CV (short bio), one page
  • Letter of motivation, half a page (why you would benefit from this course in your PhD-work)
  • Description of PhD project, one page, with aim and research question, material and practice-oriented/methodological approaches and challenges


We look forward to your application!

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