[oberlist] Fwd: Summer Institute for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics - Ohrid, Macedonia, August 12th-30th 2012

[Stanimir Panayotov]

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From: Research Center in Gender Studies Skopje <genderstudiesskopje at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:20 PM
Subject: Summer Institute for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics - Ohrid, Macedonia, August 12th-30th 2012
To: Stanimir Panayotov <spanayotov at gmail.com>, slavco <slavco.euba at gmail.com>



FYI

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY


The Department of Gender Studies at the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research "Euro-Balkan" (Skopje, Macedonia) 

in cooperation with the Faculty of Media and Communications at Singidunum University (Belgrade, Serbia)

is pleased to announce:



15th OHRID SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2012

SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR SEXUALITIES, CULTURES AND POLITICS

August 12th-30th, Ohrid, Macedonia


(Full info here)


SUMMER INSTITUTE DESCRIPTION

The Summer Institute for Sexuality, Culture and Politics is a new permanent project initiated
by the Department for Gender Studies at the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities
“Euro-Balkan”, Skopje, Macedonia.

The general aim of the Institute is to gather young post-graduate students, activists,
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. In this way, the Institute’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.

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.


Please find enclosed as attachment in this email the full description and information about the Summer Institute.   

We would also kindly ask you to forward and publicize this information to other interested institutions and individuals.


For any further questions and information, please contact the Summer Institute coordinators:

Slavco Dimitrov, slavco.euba at gmail.com
Stanimir Panayotov, spanayotov at gmail.com



Kind regards
-- 
Department of Gender Studies
"Euro-Balkan" Institute
No. 63, "Partizanski odredi" Blvd
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
tel/fax: +389 2 3075570
e-mail: genderstudiesskopje at gmail.com
www.euba.org.mk
www.identities.org.mk
www.gendersee.org.mk



-- 
Stanimir Panayotov
Department of Gender Studies

Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities "Euro-Balkan"
63 Partizanski odredi, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia 
www.euba.edu.mk / www.identities.org.mk; 
+389 2 3075 570; fax +389 2 3091 033 
+389-71-985473 (mobile in Macedonia)
+359-88-6419533 (mobile in Bulgaria)
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