“Transdisciplinary Approaches of Gender in MENA region”
The online part of the BIP will consist of 13 weekly sessions of 2 hours each that will depart from a theoretical and historical approach in order to eventually focus on specific thematic issues related to gender and feminist studies in the Ottoman and Post-ottoman spaces, that is, Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa: 16.02.2024: “Gender as a Concept” 23.02.2024: “Feminism as a Theory and Social Practice” 01.03.2024: “Gender and Ottoman Social History” 08.03.2024 : “Gender Approaches of Turkish History” 15.03.2024: “Gendering the History of the Middle East” Thematic sessions will follow focusing on the upcoming issues: 22.03.2024 : “Languages with grammatical gender and genderless languages: Greek and Turkish as examples” 05.04.2024 : “Space (public and private)” 12.04.2024: “Institutional power and micro-power” 19.04.2024: “Politics and women’s mobilizations” 26.04.2024: “Gender and migration” 03.05.2024: “Gender and media” 10.05.2024: "Art, gender and nation building" 17.05.2025: "Islam and Feminism in Turkey and the Middle East" This course offers a transdisciplinary approach to gender issues in the Middle East and North Africa, through history, history of art, political science, sociology and linguistics from the late Ottoman Empire to the present time
Application Deadline
Virtual Part starting date
2024-02-16
Virtual Part closing date
2024-05-17
Total student workload
75
Specific field of studies
Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Area Studies, Mediterranean Region
Pre-requisite for selection
CV
Motivation Letter
Academic pre-requisites for applicants
Students from all fields of Social Sciences and Humanities are welcome.
Bachelor students must be at least in their 3rd or 4th year of their academic programme.
Physical Part starting date
2024-06-03
Physical Part Description
The in-person component will include 20 hours of working sessions with the students in order to elaborate the last work submitted for evaluation, which consists of a short-video (docutube) in which they will introduce to the audience their selection and analysis of primary sources of feminist and gender studies.
There will be also two afternoon activities: a visit to Prado Museum with a gender outlook and the organization of a round table on the addressed topics with the Institute for Women´s Studies at UAM
Physical Part closing date
2024-06-07
Language level required
B2
Field of studies related to the course
Social Science and Humanities
Course location
Madrid, Spain
Course language
English