Comparative Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe is a multi-country program. Students attend lectures and visit sites in the following locations:

Utrecht/Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Berlin, Germany

Istanbul, Turkey

Prague, the Czech Republic

Krakow, Poland

Program Sites and Lectures On Location

The following are examples of program lectures and site visits from recent years. (Visit the WGSE Curriculum page for more details on the academic program.) The lectures are subject to change each year according to students’ research topics and availability.

UTRECHT/ AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands

-   Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University
Configuring European Women’s Studies

-   Rebekka Gomperts, Women on Waves
Activism for Women’s Reproductive Rights

-   International Women’s Archives, IIAV

-   Juul van Hoof,
LGBTQ Policy Making in the Netherlands

-   Prostitution Information Center, PIC Amsterdam

-   Eva Midden, Utrecht University
Feminism in Multicultural Societies: Towards the Post-Secular

 

BERLIN, Germany

-     Ulrike Unga, Humboldt University
On the Hierarchical Gender Order in East Germany and post-Wende Disputes

-     Laura Meritt
Sexuality and Sex Work in Germany

-     Nivedita Prassad, BanYing
Trafficking in Europe: the Case of Germany

-     Julia Ehrt, European Trans Network
Trans- in Germany

-     Koray Yilmatz-Gunay, GLADT
LGBT and History of Immigration, Multiculturalism and Racism in Germany

PRAGUE, the Czech Republic

-   Michaela Marksova-Tominova
Czech Women and Issues of Social Security before and after 1989

-   Jirina Siklova, Charles University
Women in Dissent, Beginnings of Czech Gender Studies

-   Irena Konecna, LaStrada
Prostitution and Trafficking Women in the Czech Republic

-   Martin Martinek,, Interministerial Commission for Roma Community Affairs
The Czech Roma Community

 

ISTANBUL, Turkey

-     MorCati, Women’s Shelter in Istanbul

-     LAMBDA Istanbul

-     Gokkusagi, Kurdish Mothers for Peace

-     Filmmor, Turkish Women’s Film Collective

 

KRAKOW, Poland

-     Beata Kozak, Efka
Post-1989 History of Polish Feminism

-     Site visit: Auschwitz and Birkenau former concentration camps

-     Dr. Bozena Jawien
Reproductive Rights, Contraception and Health Care in Poland

-     Marta Raczek, Jagellonski University
Women and Gender in Contemporary Polish Art

 

NOISE Summer School

Students participate in a one-week, intensive Network of Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies in Europe (NOISE) Summer School program with students and faculty from the European Thematic Network of Women’s Studies (ATHENA). The  NOISE  Summer School is held at a different European university each year, so the program may include one additional location. Visit the WGSE Curriculum page for more information on NOISE.

 

Visit the program’s Flickr Photo Gallery for past participants’ pictures from Europe.