BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Berlin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8@vi2023.seu-events.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230626T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230626T193000 DTSTAMP:20230704T142457Z URL:https://vi2023.seu-events.org/events/master-class-session-1/ SUMMARY:Master Class 1.1: Research DESCRIPTION:Feminist Approaches to Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Unset tling Research\, Methods\, and Theory\nThis masterclass will tackle issues relating to questioning and unsettling dominant frameworks regarding know ledge production\, with keen attention to equity . It will start by asking : what is considered “good” and “rigorous” research? What do domin ant framings erase and/or make possible? Pushing against what I call “em pir[e]cal research\,” or how some research reproduces certain forms of k nowing that center empire\, this class will address how we make choices ab out what topics\, theories\, and methods we use in the course of our resea rch and which works gets circulated and why.\n\nTaking the cue from women of color feminisms\, Black feminist thought\, postcolonial\, and decolonia l feminisms\, the course will help us move towards more equitable and ethi cal research practices by addressing three main tensions that arise from W EIRD.\n\n First\, we interrogate the questions of: what counts as theory? Who gets to “theorize”? Who decides which populations are studied? Wh ich communities are erased and considered “unimportant”? \n Second\, what does it mean to employ postcolonial and decolonial theories to unpack categories of analysis? More specifically\, what do feminist postcolonial and decolonial theories teach us? What is our role as researchers? How do our positionalities (race\, class\, gender\, sexuality\, physical ability \, to name a few…) shape our approach to research\, choice of methodolog ies\, and who we cite? \n Three\, how can we uncover unnamed centers of a nalysis and how can we rethink what counts as “canonical” work? How do we refuse standard practices of research that take theory produced in WEI RD and apply them to the global south and to disenfranchised communities o f color (Black\, Indigenous\, People of Color) in the global north? What w ould it mean to shift\, instead\, to embracing new modes of inquiry and me thodologies\, including: embodied methods\, emotions\, oral histories\, la nguage and translations\, among others? \n\nFinally\, this masterclass end s with a call for solidarity\, providing tools on how to align our researc h practices with feminist commitments to unsettling standard knowledge pro duction and what it looks like in practice to center marginalized knowledg es. \n\n \;\n\nSpeaker:\nGhassan Moussawi is Associate Professor of G ender and Women's Studies and Sociology with affiliate faculty appointment s in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory\, Anthropology\, Women &\; Gender in Global Perspectives\, and Global Studies at the Universi ty of Illinois- Urbana Champaign. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Rutgers University. His research and teaching lie at the intersections of gender and sexuality studies\, race and racisms\, everyday life precarity and vio lence\, urban studies\, queer theory\, and transnational and postcolonial feminisms- with keen attention to nation and empire.\n\nHis award-winning book Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Be irut (Temple University Press\, 2020)\, examines queer strategies of survi val amidst everyday life violence and disruptions. His work has appeared i n Gender\, Place\, and Culture\, Sexualities\, Feminist Formations\, mobil ities\, The Sociological Review\, Sociological Forum\, Departures in Criti cal Qualitative Research\, among others. In addition\, he has served on th e editorial boards of Gender &\; Society\, The Sociological Review\, Cr itical Ethnic Studies\, Sexuality Research and Social Policy\, the book se ries: Critiquing Islam and Gender: Transnational\, Intersectional and Quee r Perspectives (Edinburgh University Press) and currently as a deputy edit or for Humanity &\; Society and Gender &\; Society. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://vi2023.seu-events.org/wp-content/uploads /2021/05/Ghassan-Moussawi.jpg CATEGORIES:Master Class 1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR