Session Leaders: Catherine Smale (KCL) and Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela (KCL)
This training session will explore some of the methodologies that can be used to explore questions of gender in Languages, Cultures and Societies research. In the session, we will consider how certain theorists have defined gender from an intersectional, cross-cultural framework and offer space for participants to reflect on what this might mean for their own academic practice. We will also explore how historicising and translating (presumed) universals around gender can allow us to assess the erasure of non-Western perspectives from scholarship and activism.
In advance of the session, participants are asked to prepare the following:
-Watch up to 6:14 of Judith Butler’s lecture ‘Gender in Translation: Beyond Monolingualism’, available here. There is a transcript available here.
-Read Chandra Mohanty, ‘Under Western Eyes Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles’, Signs, 28:2 (2003), 499–535. Available here.
Please note this session will involve small- and large-group discussions and those who register should be able to attend the full session and be prepared to interact with the session leader and the other participants. The initial presentation will be made available as a recording after the session.