Yürütücüler/Organizers

Berna Zengin Arslan, Evangelia Chordaki, Eleni Tsatsaroni

Dil/Language

Türkçe/English

İçerik/Content

The course examines interdisciplinary approaches on digitality and posthumanism from the perspective of the feminist theory. Following a historical and anthropological framework, the cohort will be introduced in some critical bibliography relevant to those issues, while expected to actively engage in mini projects. The scope of the course will examine digitality and posthumanism as social and historical conditions that transform different aspects of everyday life, and shape critical concepts reflected on contemporary societies and human bodies. The course will be supported by Prof. Berna Zengin who will help students to discuss the challenging theoretical concepts in Turkish.

Kontenjan/Quota
20

Ek Hazırlık/Prerequisite
Students are expected to write, read and discuss fluently in English.
Students are expected to have read the provided readings for the afternoon mini projects.

Ücret/Fee
2950 TL. The participants are offered tents for accomodation. The fee includes accommodation (at tent) and 4 meals a day for 7 days.

Detaylı İçerik/Detailed Content
The course will be structured in two parts:
During the morning sessions, the students will be introduced to the relevant bibliography and they will have the opportunity to discuss the main subjects of the overall course.
During the afternoon sessions we will work on mini projects, implementing our theoretical framework in a more creative way. Students will produce projects that can be expressed in various forms, such as digital feminist banners, a YouTube video, a podcast, a manifesto, a review paper, or design of a feminist video game character. The output of the project will be an opensource webpage designed by the students.

1st Day
Morning session: Introduction. Theoretical discussion about gender theory and the waves of feminism.
Afternoon session: Introduction. Overview of the feminist sci-fi book upon which the mini project will be focused. General discussion and details of the instructions that should be followed: main subjects of the book, structure of the projects, division of students in groups according to their special interests. By the end of this session, groups are expected to be formed and the general subjects of each group will be formed.

2nd Day
Morning session: Theoretical discussion about queer theory, gender abolition and anti-gender movements
Afternoon session: During the first half of the session, the students will have the time to discuss with their group, specify their questions, name their group after their subject, and write an abstract presenting their general idea. During the second half of the session, each group will share with the cohort their abstracts, we will discuss them as a team, make suggestions.

3rd Day
Morning session: Theoretical discussion based on Donna Haraway’s work.
Afternoon session: In this session students will work on finding bibliography to support their point of view. By the end of this session, each group should come up with at least three relevant bibliographical sources that they will share with the cohort. An abstract for each one of their texts should be provided.

4th Day    BREAK

5th Day
Morning session: Theoretical discussion based on Rosi Braidotti’s work.
Afternoon session:  In this session we will start discussing our final project, which is the website. We will discuss our page’s layout, which special skills of each member of our team we could use etc. (ex. Someone might be able to create a short video from the lectures, other could design a poster, we could create a soundtrack and so on). For the purpose of the website, we will be on need of some texts (short bios of the students, a text from each team to describe their work, the abstracts from our sources). The teams should work during these last sessions to create/ modify/ finalize their content.

6th Day
Morning session: Women and Technology from Cyberfeminism to Xenofeminism
Afternoon session: During this session, each team will work on their given tasks, as discussed during the 5th session. We should work on the final details for our website to be presentable by the end of the course.

7th Day
Morning session: Women and Technology from Cyberfeminism to Xenofeminism.
Afternoon Session: Final Presentations. Feedback. Farewell.

Yürütücüler/Organizers

Berna Zengin Arslan, Evangelia Chordaki, Eleni Tsatsaroni

Dil/Language

Türkçe/English

İçerik/Content

The course examines interdisciplinary approaches on digitality and posthumanism from the perspective of the feminist theory. Following a historical and anthropological framework, the cohort will be introduced in some critical bibliography relevant to those issues, while expected to actively engage in mini projects. The scope of the course will examine digitality and posthumanism as social and historical conditions that transform different aspects of everyday life, and shape critical concepts reflected on contemporary societies and human bodies. The course will be supported by Prof. Berna Zengin who will help students to discuss the challenging theoretical concepts in Turkish.

Kontenjan/Quota
20

Ek Hazırlık/Prerequisite
Students are expected to write, read and discuss fluently in English.
Students are expected to have read the provided readings for the afternoon mini projects.

Ücret/Fee
2950 TL. The participants are offered tents for accomodation. The fee includes accommodation (at tent) and 4 meals a day for 7 days.

Detaylı İçerik/Detailed Content
The course will be structured in two parts:
During the morning sessions, the students will be introduced to the relevant bibliography and they will have the opportunity to discuss the main subjects of the overall course.
During the afternoon sessions we will work on mini projects, implementing our theoretical framework in a more creative way. Students will produce projects that can be expressed in various forms, such as digital feminist banners, a YouTube video, a podcast, a manifesto, a review paper, or design of a feminist video game character. The output of the project will be an opensource webpage designed by the students.

1st Day
Morning session: Introduction. Theoretical discussion about gender theory and the waves of feminism.
Afternoon session: Introduction. Overview of the feminist sci-fi book upon which the mini project will be focused. General discussion and details of the instructions that should be followed: main subjects of the book, structure of the projects, division of students in groups according to their special interests. By the end of this session, groups are expected to be formed and the general subjects of each group will be formed.

2nd Day
Morning session: Theoretical discussion about queer theory, gender abolition and anti-gender movements
Afternoon session: During the first half of the session, the students will have the time to discuss with their group, specify their questions, name their group after their subject, and write an abstract presenting their general idea. During the second half of the session, each group will share with the cohort their abstracts, we will discuss them as a team, make suggestions.

3rd Day
Morning session: Theoretical discussion based on Donna Haraway’s work.
Afternoon session: In this session students will work on finding bibliography to support their point of view. By the end of this session, each group should come up with at least three relevant bibliographical sources that they will share with the cohort. An abstract for each one of their texts should be provided.

4th Day    BREAK

5th Day
Morning session: Theoretical discussion based on Rosi Braidotti’s work.
Afternoon session:  In this session we will start discussing our final project, which is the website. We will discuss our page’s layout, which special skills of each member of our team we could use etc. (ex. Someone might be able to create a short video from the lectures, other could design a poster, we could create a soundtrack and so on). For the purpose of the website, we will be on need of some texts (short bios of the students, a text from each team to describe their work, the abstracts from our sources). The teams should work during these last sessions to create/ modify/ finalize their content.

6th Day
Morning session: Women and Technology from Cyberfeminism to Xenofeminism
Afternoon session: During this session, each team will work on their given tasks, as discussed during the 5th session. We should work on the final details for our website to be presentable by the end of the course.

7th Day
Morning session: Women and Technology from Cyberfeminism to Xenofeminism.
Afternoon Session: Final Presentations. Feedback. Farewell.