This course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies. For further information, please see:

http://www.hilmaverkosto.fi/kurssikalenteri/introduction-to-finnish-womens-studies

Preliminary program:

1.  Practicalities & introduction to the course / Aart-Jan Riekhoff (17.9.2014)

2. Nordic welfare model and universalism / Anneli Anttonen (24.9.2014)

3. The Nordic healthcare system from a comparative perspective / Katri Sieberg (1.10.2014)

4. Nordic child care policies / Katja Repo (8.10.2014)

5. Labour markets and employment in the Nordic countries / Aart-Jan Riekhoff (15.10.2014)

Period break, no lecture (22.10.2014)

6. Care of older people / Lina Van Aerschot (29.10.2014)

7. Income inequality in Nordic countries / Elina Tuominen (5.11.2014)

8. The idea of universal basic income in the context of the Nordic welfare state / Johanna Perkiö (12.11.2014)

9. Wrap up, instructions for essays / Aart-Jan Riekhoff (19.11.2014)

On Wednesdays at 14-16 o'clock, Pinni B1097
except on 8.10. Päätalo A1.

SOS6.4.1 / SOSM6.4 Feminist Methodology, 5 ECTS
Monday 8-Sep-2014 - 10-Nov-2014 weekly at 12-14

Places:

8.9.2014 – 13.10.2014 Main building, A4

20.10.2014 – 3.11.2014 Main building, A3

10.11.2014 Pinni B 3116

Objectives: The course will deepen the students´ knowledge about feminist epistemology and methodology. The students will understand the central discussions of situating knowledge and the meaning of experience and commitment in relation to knowledge. The students can relate the readings of empirical research to larger debates on knowing and apply this to their own studies.

Modes of study: Active participation in the lectures and a lecture diary. The teaching material will be available in Moodle.

Programme:

8.9. Sari Irni: Introduction to the theme & guidelines

15.9. Kalpana Wilson: Race/Gender and Embodiment

22.9. Kalpana Wilson: Transnational Solidarity and Feminist Research

29.9. Jaana Kuusipalo: Equality Policies and Intersectionality: Methodologial Perspectives

6.10. Sari Irni: Sex, Sports, and the Differences that Matter

13.10. Tuula Juvonen: Queer Feminist Methodology

20.10. A period break/no lecture

27.10. Sanna Rikala: Researching Gender and Mental Health. Methodological challenges

3.11. Riikka Homanen: Ethnography and researching difference

10.11. Marjo Kolehmainen: Intersectionality and Social Class

No enrolment required. The key for entering Moodle will be given at the first lecture.

Lectures

Monday 8-Sep-2014 - 10-Nov-2014 weekly at 12-14

Places:

8.9.2014 – 13.10.2014 Main building, A4

20.10.2014 – 3.11.2014 Main building, A3

10.11.2014 Pinni B 3116

This course is organized by HILMA Network for Gender Studies. For further information, please see:

http://www.hilmaverkosto.fi/kurssikalenteri/introduction-to-finnish-womens-studies

Preliminary program:

1.  Practicalities & introduction to the course / Aart-Jan Riekhoff (17.9.2014)

2. Nordic welfare model and universalism / Anneli Anttonen (24.9.2014)

3. The Nordic healthcare system from a comparative perspective / Katri Sieberg (1.10.2014)

4. Nordic child care policies / Katja Repo (8.10.2014)

5. Labour markets and employment in the Nordic countries / Aart-Jan Riekhoff (15.10.2014)

Period break, no lecture (22.10.2014)

6. Care of older people / Lina Van Aerschot (29.10.2014)

7. Income inequality in Nordic countries / Elina Tuominen (5.11.2014)

8. The idea of universal basic income in the context of the Nordic welfare state / Johanna Perkiö (12.11.2014)

9. Wrap up, instructions for essays / Aart-Jan Riekhoff (19.11.2014)

On Wednesdays at 14-16 o'clock, Pinni B1097
except on 8.10. Päätalo A1.

SOS6.4.1 / SOSM6.4 Feminist Methodology, 5 ECTS
Monday 8-Sep-2014 - 10-Nov-2014 weekly at 12-14

Places:

8.9.2014 – 13.10.2014 Main building, A4

20.10.2014 – 3.11.2014 Main building, A3

10.11.2014 Pinni B 3116

Objectives: The course will deepen the students´ knowledge about feminist epistemology and methodology. The students will understand the central discussions of situating knowledge and the meaning of experience and commitment in relation to knowledge. The students can relate the readings of empirical research to larger debates on knowing and apply this to their own studies.

Modes of study: Active participation in the lectures and a lecture diary. The teaching material will be available in Moodle.

Programme:

8.9. Sari Irni: Introduction to the theme & guidelines

15.9. Kalpana Wilson: Race/Gender and Embodiment

22.9. Kalpana Wilson: Transnational Solidarity and Feminist Research

29.9. Jaana Kuusipalo: Equality Policies and Intersectionality: Methodologial Perspectives

6.10. Sari Irni: Sex, Sports, and the Differences that Matter

13.10. Tuula Juvonen: Queer Feminist Methodology

20.10. A period break/no lecture

27.10. Sanna Rikala: Researching Gender and Mental Health. Methodological challenges

3.11. Riikka Homanen: Ethnography and researching difference

10.11. Marjo Kolehmainen: Intersectionality and Social Class

No enrolment required. The key for entering Moodle will be given at the first lecture.

Lectures

Monday 8-Sep-2014 - 10-Nov-2014 weekly at 12-14

Places:

8.9.2014 – 13.10.2014 Main building, A4

20.10.2014 – 3.11.2014 Main building, A3

10.11.2014 Pinni B 3116

Organizer: Hilma Network

The course explores connections between social change, empowerment and theory. What is grassroots? The course aspires to develop the students’ understanding of concepts central to feminist and postcolonial theory within the context of different social movements. Examples include women’s social movements, gay-, lesbian- and queer activism and feminist self defence groups.

The students will be expected to read the course material and actively take part in online discussions in small groups. There will be video lectures and a final assignment in which the students will do an analysis of a chosen area as well as make suggestions for improvement/change alternatively a comparison of two organizations. Participation throughout the course in obligatory. The course will be made in weekly cycles.

Applications at 12.1-30.1.2015

Tue 12am-4pm

Teaching is based on lectures (10 hours) and seminars (14 hours). Lectures provide theoretical knowledge on particular themes related to gender in society. In seminars, the same themes are explored more thoroughly on the basis of readings, group discussions and exercises. The teaching material will be available in Moodle.

17.3 Course guidelines; basic concepts of Gender Studies

24.3 Gendered care in globalised societies (Tiina Vaittinen)

31.3 Seminar presentations

7.4 Easter break: no lectures

14.4 Gender and Politics in Finland  (Jaana Kuusipalo)

21.4 Gender in Work (Päivi Korvajärvi)

28.4 Gender, Nature and Society

For students of 1st-3rd grades and for exchange students

Transnational Islam in the West

Globalization of Islam and the growth of transnational Muslim communities in the West have become heated political issues with consequences that challenge in multiple ways Western societies. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and the Western states feel increasing challenges as they attempt to monitor and direct the construction of Islam in the transnational minority contexts.

The course is constructed around the following questions: what kinds of social and political developments explain the increasing public debate on Islam in the West? What kinds of perceptions on Islam dominate this debate? What can be said of the historical developments that explain Islam’s increasing presence in the West  from the cold war to the cyber age?

Before the beginning of the course the selected students are expected to view a BBC documentary on the life of Prophet Muhammad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8kQw1gtyQQ
and answer the following question (approximately 400 words in English or Finnish)
How did the documentary shape your perception on the early history of Islam?
The assignments should be handed in via e-mail to marko.juntunen@uta.fi before the first lecture.

During the course students will go through a set of important discussions on places, homes and houses in classical and contemporary anthropological writings, both through theoretical and empirical material. The aim of the course is increasing students’ 

understanding on what are the different ways places, homes and houses are dealt with and what are the function, relevance and interrelation of those concepts in anthropological research in contemporary world. 

While the main emphasis will be on transnational and translocal aspects of belonging, students will learn to look beyond the traditional idea of home and house as sites of dwelling, fixity and security, and instead will be introduced to the idea of homes and houses as sites of ambiguity, fluidity and complexity. The course will address the political, physical, emotional and symbolic aspects of making of homes, houses and places. The central empirical learning material to the processes of belonging and home-making is the case of migrant background Russian-speakers in Estonian-Russian border-town Narva (teacher’s own research site).

Max. 25 students, both Finnish and international will be accepted to the course. The preference will be given to those who have background in social anthropology or other related social sciences.

The course will include lectures, seminars, readings, web-based learning, home assignments, final individual or team project.

Key Contents: classical and contemporary theories of place, space, home and house; home-making; housing; house societies; homelessness; memory and nostalgia in home-making; transnational and translocal, postcolonial, Soviet and postsocialist subjectivities in home-making; emotional/symbolic/material/political aspects of home-making and belonging

Organizer: Hilma Network

The course explores connections between social change, empowerment and theory. What is grassroots? The course aspires to develop the students’ understanding of concepts central to feminist and postcolonial theory within the context of different social movements. Examples include women’s social movements, gay-, lesbian- and queer activism and feminist self defence groups.

The students will be expected to read the course material and actively take part in online discussions in small groups. There will be video lectures and a final assignment in which the students will do an analysis of a chosen area as well as make suggestions for improvement/change alternatively a comparison of two organizations. Participation throughout the course in obligatory. The course will be made in weekly cycles.

Applications at 12.1-30.1.2015