Transnational und transdisciplinary perspectives on religion and gender - Einzelansicht

In case you still would like to join please write me an email. 

The students are encouraged to conduct independant work in accordance with their background and needs. Exact schedule for attendance in person/blocks in combination with own group work/ indepenent reseach/self study is to be decided with the students in the first meeting. 

This seminar deals with the interdependencies of religion and gender from transdisciplinary, transnational, and decolonial perspectives on migration.

The classes will consist of  modules that deal with transnational regimes of knowledge production and power dynamics around discourses of racialization and migration, the new anti-Semitism, as well as sexualization of race in the german local context and global contexts. 

The students' own situatedness will be considered as part of critically reading texts. In this manner, students will learn to engage critically with knowledge production on a global scale from their own positionality. 

Bakshi, Sandeep, Suhraiya Jivraj, and Silvia Posocco, eds. Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions. Oxford: Counterpress, 2016.

Haritaworn, Jin; Kuntsman, Adi; Posocco, Silvia. Queer Necropolitics. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge; 2014.

No prior knowledge is needed. Motivation for critical engagement with religion, gender and migration is a plus. 

There is a possibility to conclude the course with an oral exam or written work.

Course plan (still subjected to changes)

Introduction Module: migration and transnational study of gender and religion-introduction to the modules

Module 1: sexualization of race 

Module 2: racialization of Migration/citizenship/belonging 

Module3: "New Antisemitism" discourse and racialization of religion