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Central European University

Central European University. Department of Gender Studies. What is “Gender Studies”?. Multidisciplinary, social science oriented field of study Goal: to understand how gender and gender difference are constructed in social life, gendered practices and their consequences

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Central European University

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  1. Central European University Department of Gender Studies

  2. What is “Gender Studies”? • Multidisciplinary, social science oriented field of study • Goal: to understand how gender and gender difference are constructed in social life, gendered practices and their consequences • offers a new perspective on social analysis • allows for a creative, less discipline-bound look at society, literature, culture, etc.

  3. About us • Interdisciplinary • Global perspective: analyze the relationship between local/regional/global processes • Comparative • Critical perspective of dominant patterns of knowledge construction

  4. Our research interests • Bibliographical Dictionary of the Women’s Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe (De Haan and Daskalova) • Jasmina Lukic’s “Sherezade in Exile”, a monograph on Dubravka Ugresic • Maryland Summer Institute • Student research on immigrant labor

  5. postgraduate programs organizational base for research and other activities Master’s Program Doctoral Program PhD specialization in Gender Studies under the PhD in Comparative History Doctoral Support Program for non-CEU Students The Department of Gender Studies

  6. Degrees offered • Master of Arts in Gender Studies • Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Gender Studies • Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative History of Central, South Eastern and Eastern Europe (specialization in Gender Studies)

  7. The Master’s Program Entry requirements (special for Gender Studies) • statement of purpose (500 words) which describe: • relevant experience, significance of their studies for future carrier goals • research interests

  8. The Master’s Program • 10 months • 40 credit hours: • 32 course credits • 4 research colloquium • 4 thesis-writing credits - • two mandatory courses: • - Women’s Movements Worldwide. Debates, (Power) Differences, and Developments in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries • - Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies • elective courses in three fields • cultural/symbolic order • social order/ society • theory

  9. Examples of courses we offer • The Sexuality/Gender Intersection - Erzsebet Barat • From Visual Pleasure to Passionate Detachment: Feminist Film Theory and/in the Cinema - Andrea Braidt • Gender Theory and Feminist Thought: Issues and Perspectives - Linda Fisher • The Work of Gender, the Gender of Work - Eva Fodor • Gender and Migration - Francisca de Haan • Contemporary Literary Theory and its Feminisms - Sophia Howlett • Women and Politics in Europe - Andrea Peto • Judaism and Gender - Andrea Peto • Universalism Ungendered: Enlightenment Political Philosophy - Tamas Gaspar Miklos

  10. The Doctoral Program Ph.D. in Comparative Gender Studies • first year - course work; comprehensive examination • second year - research • final year - thesis writing, teaching duties. • 58 credits, write and defend a PhD dissertation.

  11. Examples of Ph.D. dissertations • What Might Women Artists Want? The Conditions of Feminist Engaged Art • The State and Women’s Legal Rights: A Comparison of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia 1991-2002 • A War of Words and Words for War: Nationalism and Masculinity in Serbian Literature • Gender in the Making of the Brazilian Social Contract: Freemasonry and Feminism in Brazil, 1880-1890

  12. Two of our favorite external programs • Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) • Regional Seminar in Gender and Culture (RSGC)

  13. Facts and Figures • 43 MA students and 6 first year Ph.D. students • from 20 countries and 4 continents • faculty from 8 countries

  14. Alumni Profile • 50% continuing studies • 30% works in education and research institutions • 10% works in international organizations, public interest and advocacy groups • 5% works for the public sector

  15. For more information Please visit our website: www.ceu.hu/gend/gendir.html

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