The participants are offered a program organized in 8 modules, in addition to the events (keynotes, roundtables, workshops, paper sessions, etc.), taking place during the 6th Francophone Feminist Research Conference.

Key-note speakers & Master class experts

For the 2012 edition of the Summer School, we are delighted to announce the participation of the following key-note speakers:

• Prof. Elsa Dorlin, Professor of political and social philosophy, University of Paris VIII, France: “Who’s speaking? Analysis and phenomenology of domination”
• Prof. Dr. Sabine Hark, Professor of sociology, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Technical University Berlin, Germany: (Title to be confirmed)
• Prof. Dr. Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished University Professor of Sociology, Maryland University, USA: (Title to be confirmed)
• Prof. Dr. Véronique Mottier, Professor of sociology, Labso-ISS, University of Lausanne, Switzerland & Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge University, UK: “Gender, Power and the State: Poststructuralism and Beyond”

Each of the international experts will deliver a keynote speech outlining their own approach to the question of gender within multiple power relations and will provide a Master Class, where Summer School participants will have the opportunity to discuss their own research with the international experts.

In addition to these sessions, participants will take part in three workshops, based on common reading materials, and in at least six sessions at the 6th Francophone Feminist Research Conference.

Workshops

A: Women's agency and power relations within institutions (states, international organisations, local governance, etc.) (Isabelle Giraud)
B: Visual Gender Power Relations (Laurence Bachmann)
C: Who’s right, who’s legitimate? Reflecting on agency and empowerment (Iulia Hasdeu)

Conference sessions

To be determined according to the conference programme and participant’s individual interests.

Paper presentations at the 6th Francophone Feminist Research Conference

Summer School participants who wish to present a paper at the 6th Francophone Feminist Research Conference should submit their abstract directly via the conference web site, before January 31st 2012: http://www.unil.ch/rff2012