800704 AG Study Group: Trans Studies - Introduction in historical, linguistic and activist aspects of a young and critical research field
summer semester 2018 | Last update: 10.10.2018 | Place course on memo list- Get to know Trans Studies, their crucial terms, history/ies, and current research questions
- Deepening examination of specific aspects of Trans Studies
- Critical research
This course provides an insight into the activist research field Trans Studies, their origin and development until today. We discuss crucial research questions and look at the intersections with other research fields - established as well as activist ones. Together with the students specific topic areas of Trans Studies are chosen and in the second session critically examined. We focus on a critical and political form of research.
Close Reading; discussions; exercises in small groups as well as in the large group.
Attendance, Collaboration, Preparation to the learning sessions, Acquiring a research question independently and realize it in a small research project.
Baumgartinger, 2017, Trans Studies. Historische, begriffliche und aktivistische Aspekte. Zaglossus, Wien.
Bibliographical reference in the first session.
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If there are any questions please contact perry.baumgartinger@univie.ac.at or gender-studies@uibk.ac.at
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