Sarah Pettit Doctoral Workshop for LGBT Studies

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Events

Trainings & Fellowships

Provided by: Ana Filipovic

Location (s)

• United States of America

Required Language (s)

English

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Overview

Yale LGBT Studies is currently inviting applications for its Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellowship 2016 in Lesbian Studies at Yale University. The Fellowship welcome applicants from the humanities, social sciences, performing and fine arts, and beyond, within the field of lesbian studies (read broadly), to engage with the concept of freaks, conceived expansively as problem, provocation, subjectivity, ethic, and/or aesthetic.

Details

Description:

The 2016 Yale Pettit Doctoral Fellowship Workshop will take place May 16-20th, 2016 in New Haven, CT and will be organized around the theme “Freaks.”

Research Topics:

- Female masculinities, trans-femininities, and other queer subjects in freak shows, carnivals, and international exhibits;
- Lesbianized subjectivities and histories;
- “Savages” and “Freaks of Nature”;
- Disability and the cripped female body;
- Policed bodies and sexualities;
- Freaks in pop culture and media;
- Performances of the freaky and/or freak lifestyles;
- Transgender and transfeminist lesbian culture, politics and desire;
- Spectacles and the spectacular.

Opportunity is About:

Arts & Design Human Rights Politics Society Theater & Video & Photography

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Dates:

Deadline:

February 15, 2016

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Cost for a participant:

Fully Funded

Following the workshop, fellows will stay in New Haven for an additional three days to take advantage of Yale University libraries and resources.  Selected fellows will receive small stipends and travel funding in addition to room and board for the week of the workshop.  It is also envisioned a follow-up meeting in 2017 of the fellows and mentors as part of a longer-term mentoring relationship.

Read more at http://www.heysuccess.com/opportunity/Sarah-Pettit-Doctoral-Workshop-for-LGBT-Studies-12407#d7Myl5SCiMIIOZZe.99