Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics 2018

The Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics is permanent project, originally initiated by the Department for Gender Studies at the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities “Euro-Balkan”, Skopje, Macedonia and the Faculty of Media and Communications - Singidunum, Belgrade, Serbia. In 2014, the the School has moved to and was taken up organizationally by IPAK Center.

The general aim of the School is to gather young post-graduate students, scholars and teaching staff from both Eastern and Western Europe and promote a shared platform for research and trans-disciplinary theoretical reflection on the complex modes of interweaving sexuality, culture and politics, and consequently of exchanging and questioning geopolitically determined discourses in the research of sexualities, gender studies, and queer theory. Our idea is to provide students, scholars and teachers with the opportunity to question, decenter and democratize these areas by way of deferring the notion of theoretical and geopolitical privilege which is often implied by these research areas, and thus to introduce new models of rethinking context-specific phenomena related to sexualities and, vice versa, to enrich theoretical paradigms with context specific phenomena and research.

Our endeavor is not to relativize the embeddedness and situatedness of knowledges about sexualities, but to recognize and disrupt the existing invisible borders that obstruct the free dissemination of ideas as they are being determined by various hegemonic forces – political, educational, economic - in both Eastern and Western contexts of doing academic and artistic work related with our desires, bodies, and sexualities.


APPLICATION 

• All applicants should fill in the Application Form: available online at http://www.ipakcentar.org/application-form-2018
• Paper abstract is optional. If you wish to deliver a presentation, post your abstract in the Application form (appr. 300 words max.) for a presentation not exceeding 15 mins.
• Maximum number of participants: 65. While all students will participate in the first course (20-21 Aug), they will be evenly distributed over the two courses offered (22-24 Aug) according to the course chosen in their applications.
• Maximum number of students delivering presentation: 36 (maximum 3 presentations per afternoon session). Please indicate in the application form whether you wish to deliver a presentation or not by simply posting your abstract or ignore if not applicable. 

APPLICATION DEADLINES

¬ Deadline 1 (early applications, 15% discount):
⎫ April 10th / selection results by April 20th / payment due May 5th
¬ Deadline 2 (regular applications, 5 % discount):
⎫ May 10 th / selection results by May 20th / payment due June 5th
¬ Deadline 3 (late applications, No discount):
⎫ June 10 th / selection results by June 20th / payment due July 5th

Course leader

CONFIRMED LECTURERS AND COURSES OFFERED       

• Patricia Ticineto Clough (City University of New York, USA): Post-Phenomenological Subjectivity and the Other than Human
• Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University, Netherlands): The Generative Curriculum

Target group

ELIGIBILITY
¬ Applicants should be postgraduate students (preferably MA or PhD students or younger researchers) interested in exploring the issues of gender, queer, cultural studies, political studies, visual arts and humanities and related areas. However, outstanding BA students are also considered and have the chance to enroll.
¬ We especially welcome applications from independent scholars, cultural workers and artists.
¬ Applicants from all countries are eligible to apply.

Course aim

The School’s long-term goal is to

(1) strategically stimulate the particularization and application of key ideas and theories in sexuality research locally, and to
(2) universalize and popularize crucial and underprivileged positions and ideas on the European level, regardless of the East/West divide which is still central to the development of queer theory and sexuality research.

Credits info

4 EC
ECTS
¬ Students who deliver presentations will receive 4 ECTS, applicable on MA or PhD level at participants’ home universities.
¬ Students who choose not to deliver a presentation will receive 2 ECTS, applicable on MA or PhD level at participants’ home universities.
¬ ECTS are given according to FULL attendance of the school’s programme (open lectures included).

Fee info

EUR 300: Applicants from Europe and worldwide: 300 Euro (discount applicable).

⎫ The fee covers tuition, lunch, study materials during the school, and certificate.
⎫ Free internet.
⎫ Coffee breaks and refreshments included.
⎫ Arrangements for accommodation, transportation, visa (if needed) and other expenses should be arranged by applicants on themselves. Recommendations for accommodation in Belgrade will be provided to admitted participants on a later stage. The organizers are ready to assist with visa arrangements in special circumstances.
EUR 250: Appplicants from Central and East-european countries: 250 Euro (discount applicable).

Singidunum University students: 50 Euro (no discount applicable).

Former SSSCP students are offered 15% tuition fee discount (origin notwithstanding).
⎫ Note that we offer 15% discount if the participant applies in the first application deadline.

⎫ The fee covers tuition, lunch, study materials during the school, and certificate.
⎫ Free internet.
⎫ Coffee breaks and refreshments included.
⎫ Arrangements for accommodation, transportation, visa (if needed) and other expenses should be arranged by applicants on themselves. Recommendations for accommodation in Belgrade will be provided to admitted participants on a later stage. The organizers are ready to assist with visa arrangements in special circumstances.