Workshop: Who is welcome where? Figures of otherness

Workshop

Who is welcome where? Figures of otherness
Workshop with professor Trinh T. Minh-Ha

"The translator transform while being transformed, imperfection thus leads to a new realm of exploration, and travelling as a practice of bold omission and minute depiction allows one to become samelessly hybridized as one shuttles back and forth between critical blindness and critical insight. I - the seer is bound to mis-see so as to unlearn the privilege of seeing." (Trinh T. Minh-ha, elsewhere, within here, 2011::42)

The postcolonial thinker, filmmaker and feminist Trinh T. Minh-ha (trinhminh-ha.com) will hold a workshop in at the University of Gothenburg April 26-27, 2013.

The themes of the workshop are issues such as transnationalism, displacement and translation. The vantagepoint for the participants papers should be their own research in relation to Trinh's book Elsewhere Within Here (2011). A pre-seminar on the book will be planned in April for the workshop group.

The interdisciplinary workshop "Who is welcome where?" is open for approximately 10 researchers and Ph.D. students at the University of Gothenburg who apply gender and postcolonial theories into their work. Workshop applications should be sent to GIG (Gothenburg Interdisciplinary Gender Research Network) together with an abstract of the paper, and a resumé (CV). The workshop will be held in English.

Application deadline: March 8. Notice on participation: March 15

Workshop: Friday April 26, 10 am - 2 pm and Saturday April 27, 10 am - 2 pm.

The applications should be sent to gig@gu.se (Please, write "Who is welcome where" in the subject line).

For questions contact Lena Martinsson or Annica Karlsson Rixon.

The lecture and workshop are a collaboration between GIG, The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts/Valand Academy and The Department for Cultural Sciences/Gender Studies.