Gender and Sexuality (HEC-AS-GENSEX-22)

HEC-AS-GENSEX-22

Description

Histories of gender, of sexuality and of queerness are crucial, fascinating, and multifaceted. In ten sessions we will encounter and investigate a range of approaches to these fields. Our discussions will highlight transdisciplinary and intersectional perspectives. Based on selected seminar readings we will discuss: persecution and emancipation, the feminist sex wars, issues around reproduction, questions of affect, pornography, trans* histories, and the post-human predicament. Along the way we examine approaches from history, cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology. Narrating histories of gender, sexuality and queerness is a challenging task. One needs to come to terms with varied identifications, with what appear to be minute differences, with stark injustices and above all, with complex dynamics. The first two sessions will discuss conceptual questions about the history of gender and of sexuality respectively. Sessions three through eight discuss more specific topics. In session nine we will discuss a topic and readings that the seminar group will chose collectively. And in our last session participants will share sources from their own research that can be used to write histories of gender and sexuality