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Call for Applications Theme: Decolonizing Feminism Type: Intensive 2-Week Postgraduate Seminar Institution: Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University Location: Sydney, NSW (Australia) Date: 22.8.–2.9.2016 __________________________________________________ What are the possibilities for an inclusive transnational feminist politics in the 21st century? How can feminists respond to continuing regimes of colonization, racialization, and imperialism, and resist the assumption that western culture provides the model of gender justice? This two-week seminar will explore new approaches to questions of gender justice and gender theory, including Indigenous and Islamic feminisms, postwestern perspectives, and postsecular, postcolonial, and transnational feminisms. We will discuss and analyze links between gender orders and colonial conquest and settlement, changing patterns of violence against women, and racializing discourses and knowledge regimes, to challenge dominant understandings of knowledge and law, agency and politics. We will also discuss new strategies for solidarity and resistance, including alliances between secular and spiritual feminisms, Indigenous and settler feminisms, and local and transnational movements, to consider ways to build solidarities across differences, and to create genuinely democratic theories and politics of transformation. Seminar themes include: - Colonial and Decolonial Understandings of Gender - Intersectionalities - Indigenous feminisms - Islamic feminisms - Sexual and Gender-based Violence - Co-option: the Uses and Misuses of Feminism - Transnational Feminisms: Possibilities Instructors: Linda Martín Alcoff, Kiran Grewal, Allison Weir There is no registration deadline or fee. For more information and to register, please contact [email protected] or visit our website: http://isj.acu.edu.au/events/postgraduate-seminar-decolonizing-feminism/ Contact: Lisa Tarantino Institute for Social Justice Australian Catholic University Level 2, 7 Mount Street North Sydney, NSW 2060 Australia Phone: +61 2 9739-2789 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.isj.acu.edu.au __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
