Date / Heure
Date(s) - 22/06/2015 - 24/06/2015
14:00 - 12:15
Emplacement
Scuola di Procida per l'Alta Formazione - “Conservatorio delle Orfane”
Catégories
Atelier doctoral à Naples (Procida)
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The Department of Social Sciences of the Università di Napoli Federico II, the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Università di Napoli L’Orientale together with the International collaborative doctoral network in Women’s and Gender History jointly run the Graduate Conference, which seeks to bring together history graduate students whose original research deal with gender and crisis.
Whilst the category of ‘gender’ has a well-established epistemological status, how relational systems have changed historically still poses questions for research. The social sciences suggest that there are diverse fields in which – in a given context – gender identities are constructed and identification processes occur. These are interrelated yet distinct fields: they range from cultural systems of meaning to economic-productive relations; from the intimate personal sphere to the legal and institutional dimension in the broad sense.
Historical research shows that the change takes place at different times and assumes different forms in these diverse spheres, and that it is not possible to identify ‘a transformative event’ in, or a ‘crisis’ of, gender relations as a whole. Nor do interpretations of modernity in terms of ‘permanent crisis’ avoid tautology in this regard.
Hence, around a plural and strongly localized notion of ‘crisis’, the aim of the Conference is to gather current streams of research on different periods and geographical contexts, and to encourage discussion among them.
