Webcourse “Introduction to Gender Studies” gives basic introductory knowledge about gender studies. The course begins with introduction to concept of gender and gender studies and continues with seven themes: feminist knowledge, men and masculinities, equality policy, family, intersectionality, gendered practices of working life, and body and sexuality. The course is for exchange students and everyone interested in gender studies. Previous studies in gender studies are not required.

The course will be organized 2.10.-24.11.2017. Each week the students will read text and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.

Application to course in September 2017. There can be max 30 students in the course. For further information and enrolment, please see: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/hilma-verkosto/

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies.

The students become familiar with current discussions in gender, sexuality and body research. The course provides knowledge of the ways, in which gender, sexuality and society are interconnected with each other, and the ways, in which the interconnections may change. The course deals with a variety of the theoretically informed empirical research on social inequalities and the research of the gendered and sexualized social divisions and practices.

Programme

6.9 Introduction - Katariina Mäkinen & Marja Vehviläinen

12.9 Meyda Yegenoglu: Headscarf debate in Europe 

19.9 Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania: Gender, Care, and Economy 

26.9 Luca Tainio: Transgender in Cisnormative Society

3.10 Tuula Juvonen: How lesbians queered the Finnish society 

10.10 Rebecca Lund: Gender, Class and Knowledge Production

17.10 Johanna Kantola: Gendered effects of the economic crisis in Europe

The course work includes active participation in the lectures; weekly readings and tasks in the moodle; and a learning diary or an essay.

Internet has been described by Anette Markham (1998) through three metaphors: as a tool, as a place and as a way of being. These three do not exclude each other, but help us understand computer mediated communication. In this course we will focus on blogs. Throughout the course we will discuss and analyze blogs through discourse analysis. We will study how blogs are perceived and gendered and gendering, resistance and activism, different themes and niches in blogs, methodological and ethical issues connected to blog research and blogs as spaces.

Learning outcomes:

– basic knowledge to analyze blogs through concepts such as resistance, space/place and gender

– get acquainted with ethical and methodological questions concerning blog research

Examination:

active participation, individual assignments and group discussions

The enrolment link is valid from August 24th to September 10th.

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies.

If you will selected to the course, please contact the course contact person in Tampere University (Hanna Ojala, Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) for agreeing on the registration of the course.

Webcourse “Introduction to Gender Studies” gives basic introductory knowledge about gender studies. The course begins with introduction to concept of gender and gender studies and continues with seven themes: feminist knowledge, men and masculinities, equality policy, family, intersectionality, gendered practices of working life, and body and sexuality. The course is for exchange students and everyone interested in gender studies. Previous studies in gender studies are not required.

The course will be organized 2.10.-24.11.2017. Each week the students will read text and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.

Application to course in September 2017. There can be max 30 students in the course. For further information and enrolment, please see: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/hilma-verkosto/

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies.

Internet has been described by Anette Markham (1998) through three metaphors: as a tool, as a place and as a way of being. These three do not exclude each other, but help us understand computer mediated communication. In this course we will focus on blogs. Throughout the course we will discuss and analyze blogs through discourse analysis. We will study how blogs are perceived and gendered and gendering, resistance and activism, different themes and niches in blogs, methodological and ethical issues connected to blog research and blogs as spaces.

Learning outcomes:

– basic knowledge to analyze blogs through concepts such as resistance, space/place and gender

– get acquainted with ethical and methodological questions concerning blog research

Examination:

active participation, individual assignments and group discussions

The enrolment link is valid from August 24th to September 10th.

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies.

If you will selected to the course, please contact the course contact person in Tampere University (Hanna Ojala, Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) for agreeing on the registration of the course.

The course focuses on feminist approaches to knowledge production, both earlier and current, and with different areas of feminist philosophy. Special focus is on contemporary discussions of differences and similarities between various feminist strands and theories.

Preliminary program with themes for lectures:

24.10. Marianne Liljeström: Identity knowledges

31.10. Marianne Liljeström: Gender and sexuality

07.11. Sade Kondelin: Trans issues

14.11. Katariina Kyrölä: Embodiment

21.11. Salla Tuori: Postcoloniality and intersectionality

28.11. Marianne Liljeström: Affects

05.12. Taru Leppänen: Discourses and representations

12.12. Taru Leppänen: Materialisms

The course is meant for Master's students and other students who have preliminary knowledge in Gender Studies, and it can be done either as a 5 credit course (lectures, articles and weekly assignments) or a 10 credit course (available for master's students, includes also study group work, Tuesdays 12.30-14, L4026, and a book exam).

The lectures will be broadcasted from the University of Turku, Gender Studies on Tuesdays at 10-12. Tampere students gather together to listen to the lectures, ask questions and discuss in Pinni B3107, and their assignments will be evaluated by the Tampere teacher.

Assignment: Learning diaries of assigned articles before each lecture   

Webcourse “Introduction to Gender Studies” gives basic introductory knowledge about gender studies. The course begins with introduction to concept of gender and gender studies and continues with seven themes: feminist knowledge, men and masculinities, equality policy, family, intersectionality, gendered practices of working life, and body and sexuality. The course is for exchange students and everyone interested in gender studies. Previous studies in gender studies are not required.

The course will be 12.2- 6.4.2018. Each week the students will read text and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies. Application to the course 8.1.-1.2.2018. There can be max 30 students in the course. For further information and enrolment, please see:

Why do some images and some tales affect us so deeply? Why do we see them all around and inside us? In this course we will explore some recurrent symbols (both visual and poetic) and find their footprints in popular culture today. We will sample symbols ranging from Greek to Nordic mythology and beyond, and will discover their traces in iconic figures of folklore like the Finnish Kalevala, fiction such as the Hobbit, and modern movies like Matrix and the Avengers. We will explore transnational cultural flows circulating these mediated symbols. At each step, we will unpack the work that these symbols do in transforming the self, and in how people relate to the world around and inside them. From heroic journeys to uncanny images to ambiguous women, we will investigate the metaphoric power of symbols to dismantle literalism and disturb our view of the world. Our journey will work through popular images to unpack the “deep culture” that nourishes human perception. We will also see how deep culture can help make sense of contemporary societal issues.

Max. 20 students

Social Anthropology degree students will be given preference.

The course focuses on methodological questions in feminist research. It comprises an overview of some of the most influential research approaches, which include intersectionality, standpoint theories, affectivities, postcoloniality, gendered practices and new materialisms. Furthermore, the course explores the relationships between different methods (such as discourse analysis, ethnography, close reading, historical research) to questions of knowledge production.

1. Lectures, related readings and independent work (5 ECTS) 9.1.-13.3. Tuesdays at 13-15 Linna K103

9.1. Salla Tuori: Feminist methodology and research process
16.1. Marianne Liljeström: Is all feminist research autoethnographical?
23.1. Gabriele Griffin: Interviewing as feminist research practice
30.1. Katariina Kyrölä: Working with affect and representation
6.2. Lotta Palmgren: Creative writing in feminist research
13.2. Magdalena Kmak: Knowledge production and research methods in human rights
20.2. Kaisa Ilmonen: What is intersectionality?
27.2. Faith Mkwesha: Decolonial research methodology
6.3. Katve-Kaisa Kontturi: Feminist new materialisms

2. Seminars, readings and independent work (5 ECTS), only for master level students, first meeting on Tue 9.1. at 15-16 Linna 5038

1. The Lectures will be broadcasted from Åbo Akademi on Tuesdays at 13-15, from 9.1.2018 to March 13 Linna K103.

--Electronic enrollment, max 25 students from Tampere; Background in Gender Studies required (ie. the basic course and one intermediary level course)

2. The seminar starts on Jan the 9th at 15-16. Other times upon agreement. Teacher: Hanna Ojala

-- Seminars only for Master level students.

The course includes lectures and seminars, 4 hours on Tuesdays: 6-20.3.2018 and 10-24.4.2018

Programme

6.3.2018 Lecture at 12-14: Introduction to Gender Studies (Jaana Kuusipalo). Seminar at 14-16 : ‘Who we are’ –round and instructions for the small group work for student presentations on 20th of March.

13.3.2018 Lecture at 12-14: Postcolonial Feminism (Meyda Yegenoglu). Seminar with readings at 14-16.

20.3.2018 Seminar at 12-16: Student presentations (in pairs or small groups): Gender relations in my country/ies (Jaana Kuusipalo).

27.3. – 3.4.2018 (from 27th of March to 3rd of April) Easter break; no teaching.

10.4.2018 Lecture at 12-14: Gender and Politics in Finland (Jaana Kuusipalo). Seminar with readings at 14-16.

17.4.2018 Lecture at 12-14: Gender and Intersectionality in Working Life (Rebecca Lund). Seminar with readings at 14-16.

24.4.2018 Lecture at 12-14: Transgender (Luca Tainio). Seminar with readings at 14-16.

Webcourse “Introduction to Gender Studies” gives basic introductory knowledge about gender studies. The course begins with introduction to concept of gender and gender studies and continues with seven themes: feminist knowledge, men and masculinities, equality policy, family, intersectionality, gendered practices of working life, and body and sexuality. The course is for exchange students and everyone interested in gender studies. Previous studies in gender studies are not required.

The course will be 12.2- 6.4.2018. Each week the students will read text and/or other material available in the internet and discuss them in small groups in the Moodle learning environment.

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies. Application to the course 8.1.-1.2.2018. There can be max 30 students in the course. For further information and enrolment, please see:

The course focuses on methodological questions in feminist research. It comprises an overview of some of the most influential research approaches, which include intersectionality, standpoint theories, affectivities, postcoloniality, gendered practices and new materialisms. Furthermore, the course explores the relationships between different methods (such as discourse analysis, ethnography, close reading, historical research) to questions of knowledge production.

1. Lectures, related readings and independent work (5 ECTS) 9.1.-13.3. Tuesdays at 13-15 Linna K103

9.1. Salla Tuori: Feminist methodology and research process
16.1. Marianne Liljeström: Is all feminist research autoethnographical?
23.1. Gabriele Griffin: Interviewing as feminist research practice
30.1. Katariina Kyrölä: Working with affect and representation
6.2. Lotta Palmgren: Creative writing in feminist research
13.2. Magdalena Kmak: Knowledge production and research methods in human rights
20.2. Kaisa Ilmonen: What is intersectionality?
27.2. Faith Mkwesha: Decolonial research methodology
6.3. Katve-Kaisa Kontturi: Feminist new materialisms

2. Seminars, readings and independent work (5 ECTS), only for master level students, first meeting on Tue 9.1. at 15-16 Linna 5038

1. The Lectures will be broadcasted from Åbo Akademi on Tuesdays at 13-15, from 9.1.2018 to March 13 Linna K103.

--Electronic enrollment, max 25 students from Tampere; Background in Gender Studies required (ie. the basic course and one intermediary level course)

2. The seminar starts on Jan the 9th at 15-16. Other times upon agreement. Teacher: Hanna Ojala

-- Seminars only for Master level students.

During the course we examine food production and eating from different feminist research perspectives. Food is considered a constitutive part of everyday life and politics and is therefore linked to the various intersecting differences central to feminist studies: gender, race, class, and sexuality. Also the question of non-human others as and in relation to food is examined in the course. The course deals with, for example, animal production through feminist and animal ethics, food from posthumanist and new materialist perspectives, food and racialization, postcolonial perspectives on food, everyday gendered practices around food production, preparation and eating, global and local food systems, and social movements related to food.

During the course, the student will learn how to think of food from the perspective of different feminist theories. The student will also learn how food is part of feminist politics and what kinds of tools feminist research provides to tackle food-related social and environmental issues.

Critical thinking, understanding of interlinked complexities, writing and handling texts, argumentation skills, writing and communication in English language online is required from the participants. Learning methods & assignments: Reading articles, watching/listening to online material, online discussions in small groups, practice-oriented assignments, final essay and self-assessment.

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies. Application to the course 29.1-24.2.2018. For further information and enrolment, please see:

If you are selected to the course, please contact the course contact person in Tampere University (Hanna Ojala, Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) for agreeing on the registration of the course.

This course will familiarize students with fashion as a gendered and embodied phenomenon. The students are especially familiarized to concepts of class, body, gender, sexuality, identity, and ethnicity, and to the intersections of these concepts from the perspective of fashion and dress. After having completed the course the students are capable of explaining how understanding of gender has been shaped through fashion since the emergency of the fashion industries at the late-19th century. Texts range from early writers on fashion (e.g. Georg Simmel and Thorstein Veblen) to more contemporary scholarship published in e.g. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, which defines fashion as “the cultural construction of the embodied identity.

The course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies. Application to the course 5.2-2.3.2018. For further information and enrolment, please see:

If you are selected to the course, please contact the course contact person in Tampere University (Hanna Ojala, Hanna.L.Ojala@uta.fi) for agreeing on the registration of the course.