Event overview
Dr Suzanne Clisby and Dr Mark Johnson will talk about their project GRACE, which looks to systematically investigate the cultural production of gender equality within Europe.
Continuing on with our Athena SWAN journey, we are holding a talk open to students, staff and guests at Goldsmiths, University of London. For more information about Athena SWAN and our bid please visit our Athena SWAN Goldmine Page (https://goldmine.gold.ac.uk/Working/Pages/Athena-SWAN-at-Goldsmiths.aspx) or watch this short film (https://vimeo.com/199991896).
Dr Suzanne Clisby (University of Hull) and Dr Mark Johnson (Goldsmiths, University of London) set out the background to and provide an overview of the EU Horizon 2010 – Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research and Training Programme Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe (GRACE). The aim of the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project is to systematically investigate the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe. By ‘gender’ they mean both ideologies and embodied practices through which femininities, masculinities, transgender and Queer subjectivities are produced and the relations between people who occupy differently gendered subject positions: subjectivities and subject positions that are mutually shaped by the intersections of sexuality, race/ethnicity, nationality, class, disability and age. Previous scholarly work focuses largely on European gender equality policies and legislative frameworks in a cross-European comparative perspective. GRACE draws on innovative and interdisciplinary methodologies to investigate an under-examined and under-theorized aspect of those processes, namely the production of cultures of equality that underpin, enable and constrain those changing policy and legislative frameworks.
Their research asks questions such as:
1. How have cultures of equality been produced, embodied, objectified and visualised in art, media, material and popular culture, as well as ‘official’ discourse in Europe?
2. How might cultures of equality in Europe be produced and performed differently?
3. In what ways do changing and contested cultural productions shape and constrain people’s awareness about, perceptions of, responses to and deployments of equality discourses within specific social contexts?
Please contact us at athenaswansat (@gold.ac.uk) if you have any questions about the talk or if you are conducting research related to gender or gender equality, and would be interested in speaking at any future talks.
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Dates & times
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9 Feb 2017 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
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