Theory and Critical Research II

Course goals

Content

This core research seminar delves more deeply into cutting-edge theory and critical research in feminist, queer, critical race, and/or postcolonial studies. While the topics covered in this seminar will change each year according to the instructor's area of expertise, the course will consistently pose questions that are of particular relevance to social-justice issues at this historical moment. The course will take as its point of departure an intersectional approach to gender, sexuality, race, nation, class, and ability, as well as to relations between subject matter, discipline, time, place, and theory. This research seminar will also trace the development of historical and theoretical understandings in the field of cultural analysis, examining the ways in which texts and images perform cultural hierarchies. The course's theoretical and conceptual frameworks will be illustrated by close readings and textual analyses. In addressing theory and critical research as an ongoing, future-oriented cultural endeavor, this course grapples with academic and ethical questions that are relevant to current politics with transnational relevance.

Additional information

Priority rules
This course has priority rules and a waiting list. Your enrolment is guaranteed if you
- are a student in the RMA Gender Studies 
- are a student in the GEMMA programme
In all other situations, you will be placed on a waiting list if you enrol in this course. For any remaining slots in the course, lots are drawn among the students on the waiting list.


Please note: the time slot shown here is not yet final, and may still be modified until the third Wednesday in September.

Career orientation:
This course trains students in foundational knowledge in the field of Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Critical Race Theory and Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies and emphasizes their socio-political embedding and relevance. It thereby teaches students in foundational manners to contribute to a societally relevant understanding of higher education in the humanities.