Announcement and Syllabus of the second semester of the Žarana Papić School of Feminism
The second semester of the Feminist School Žarana Papić begins on 5 September. Students will follow lectures in the Module 3 named Culture and ideology that will be taught by the Doctor of Gender studies – Nebojša Jovanović and by the Professor at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Banja Luka – Danijela Majstorović, and Module 4 named Feminist ethics and political theory that will be taught by M.A. in Philosophy and Assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo – Tijana Okić and by M.A. in Social sciences and Senior Assistant at the Faculty of Law at the University of Sarajevo – Amila Ždralović. Students will also participate in the Activist-Advocacy Seminar named Feminist intervention that will be lead by Saša Gavrić and Tijana Cvjetićanin who have a lot of experience in advocacy and public activism.
Module Culture and ideology will provide an introduction to the complex relationship between forms of power, knowledge and modern criticism. The heterogeneous and eclectic field of cultural studies combines theoretical courses such as Marxism, feminism, post-structuralism etc. When it comes to concepts of culture, ideology, globalization, politics, knowledge and meaning, as well as to deals with the personality or identity, and issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, nation, sexuality etc., module Feminist ethics and political theory will take into account the international history and debates within feminist theory and feminist movements, and will present them in relation to the problems and challenges facing BiH society. The aim of the module is to underscore the importance of feminist practices, and show why some of the feminisms are not necessarily emancipatory. The goal will be to point out the different political concepts (and the practical consequences) of different feminisms and feminist theory. Activist-advocacy seminar will be implemented during late November 2015.
Here is the Syllabus:
| Date | Lecturer | Topic |
| 5 September 2015* 12.00 – 13.30
* 14.00 – 15.30 | Danijela Majstorović (M3)
Danijela Majstorović (M3) | Key terms in cultural studies: discourse, power and everyday life. Culture, designating practices, representation. The three pillars of cultural studies: political economy, text, audience(s).The intellectual inheritance of cultural studies: culturalism and structuralism. Raymond Williams (“Culture is ordinary”) and cultural materialism. Erasure of differences between “high“ and “low“ culture. Contemporary cultural analysis. (Anti)essentialism and social constructivism. |
| 19 September 2015* 12.00 – 13.30
* 14.00 – 15.30 | Danijela Majstorović (M3)
Danijela Majstorović (M3) | Marxist and the centralism of class/class identities. Culture and social formation. Frankfurt school (Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Benjamin, Habermas).Althusser, subjective interpellation and ideological state apparatus. Gramsci: hegemony and contrahegemony. The role of the “organic intellectual“. |
| 20 September 2015Sunday, 10-11.30 | Danijela Majstorović (M3) | The liguistic reversal in cultural studies: de Saussure and Barthes. Semiology, signal, myth. |
| 26 September 2015* 12.00 – 13.30 | Tijana Okić (M4) | Introduction to Module 4 |
| 3 October 2015* 12.00 – 13.30
* 14.00 – 15.30 | Amila Ždralović (M4)
Tijana Okić (M4) | Feminism, poststructuralism and critical theory: problem of the (political) subject.Feminism/feminisms. Political left and feminism – marxist, socialist, materialist. State feminism vs. left feminism. |
| 10 October 2015* 12.00 – 13.30
* 14.00 – 15.30 | Amila Ždralović (M4)
Tijana Okić (M4) | Feministička critique of the (neo)liberal. Theory of Justice.Feminist critique of political economy. Productive i reproductive work. Nationalism and political economy – feminist perspectives. |
| 17 October 2015* 12.00 – 13.30 * 14.00 – 15.30 | Tijana Okić (M4) Nebojša Jovanović (M3) | Feminist critique of austerity measures. What’s wrong in mainsteam feminism? Feminism and public (state) politics. What and whom does the state support?The main conceptualisations of “ideology“ |
| 24 October 2015* 12.00 – 13.30 * 14.00 – 15.30 | Amila Ždralović (M4)Nebojša Jovanović (M3) | Feminist critique of Heberams’ ethicsBackbone marxsist meanders |
| 7 November 2015* 12.00 – 13.30 * 14.00 – 15.30 | Damir Banović (M4) Nebojša Jovanović (M3) | Gender, identity, sexuality Foucault’s intervention |
| 14 November 2015* 12.00 – 13.30 * 14.00 – 15.30 | Ajla Demiragić (M4) Nebojša Jovanović (M3) | Feminism/s i nationalism. Text and context. Bourdieu’s intervention |
| 21 November 2015* 12.00 – 13.30 * 14.00 – 15.30 | Amila Ždralović (M4) Nebojša Jovanović (M3) | Feminism and liability ethics Psychoanalytical contribution to the theory of ideology |