This course is part of HF's PhD Week.
Course content
Doing feminism as a humanities scholar can no doubt be immensely rewarding. How to make proper scholarship equipped with an -ism? Which are the pitfalls – and how to avoid them? The focus will be on different applications of feminism in humanities research, the plural versions and variants of feminist scholarship, and their political entanglements. There is not one way of making humanities scholarship ‘feminist’, and no ready-made blueprints to apply.
- What are the challenges of doing feminist research in the humanities and being a feminist?
- Are all feminist scholars, feminists?
- How to maneuver in the complex and rapidly changing landscape of feminist concepts, theorizing, and politics?
- How to develop feminist approaches that enlighten and enrich the more particular methodological and theoretical traditions of the humanities?
- What do you find rewarding about doing feminism as a humanities scholar, and how do you navigate the conundrums and dilemmas that follows?
- How do you go about, and which are your options, intervening from feminist perspectives in archaeology, linguistics, philosophy, history, or any of the other humanities disciplines?
Students are asked to share examples of feminist scholarship from their own field with others in writings, in group and plenary discussions.
This is a 1 ECTS course
Course preparations
Course participants will read about 100 pages of required readings and supplement this with about 100 pages of their own choice. Participants will write a brief (1 page) response-paper where you critically engage with a proposition in one or several of these texts. You will also write a 2-page essay relating themes from the workshop to your own field or research project. The two texts, with references and bibliography, should be uploaded to the digital course site in Canvas by November 25.
In class
Your reflections will be the starting point for our discussions - in groups and plenary. Everyone is expected to read all essays submitted by the other course participants. Expect an interactive and problem-driven day. We start with discussing issues arising from your response-papers to the common readings. After lunch we move on to your reflections centering on your own field or research project.
Language
The course language is English, including reading responses and essays. We may switch to Norwegian in discussions, if everyone is able to follow what is being said.
Curriculum
Click here to see the list of compulsory and optional readings.
Registration
Courses are open for PhD fellows, completion grant holders, and post-doctoral fellows at the Faculty of Humanities, other UiO faculties and external PhD fellows. Candidates admitted to the PhD programme at HF are given priority.
Registration opens on October 1 at noon.
Course convenors
Contact persons:
- Cathrine Holst, IFIKK
- Eirinn Larsen, IAKH