DAY ONE

date: 8 July

Morning Session

time: 8.00 – 8.30

Registration

8.30-9.00

Opening ceremony

9.00 – 10.30 – Italian language classes

Break

10.30-11.00

10.00 – 12.30 – Italian language classes

 17.30 -18.30 – sightseeing excursion in Reggio

19.30- 21.30 – opening dinner (La Luna Rebella)   

DAY TWO

date: 9 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30   Italian language classes

Break

10.30-11.00

Morning Session

time: 11.00 – 12.30   Italian language classes

DAY THREE

date: 10 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30   Italian language classes

Break

10.30-11.00

Morning Session

time: 11.00 – 12.30   Italian language classes

DAY FOUR

date: 11 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30   Italian language classes

Break

10.30-11.00

Morning Session

time: 11.00 – 12.30   Italian language classes

DAY FIVE

date: 12 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30   Italian language classes

Break

10.30-11.00

Morning Session

time: 11.00 – 12.30   Italian language classes

DAY SIX

DAY SEVEN

WEEKEND July, 13-14

Excursions (to be chosen by the participants)

DAY EIGHT

July, 15 Lector – Prof. Elena Zdravomyslova

Morning Session

09.00-10.30

Topic:

Origins of gender studies in the context of development of the feminist movement and feminist thought. Critical feminist epistemology and its methodological aftermaths.

Tasks:

To get acquainted with the basic  concepts of the feminist epistemology and intersectionality.

Format: lecture and discussion

Assignments  

 “Gender studies, feminism and agenda of public sociology” - to discuss the issue, to give examples.

Break

10.30-11.00

Morning Session

 11.00-12.30

Topic:

Basic concepts of sociology of gender relations: gender system, gender order, gender regime, gender contract. Class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race –interrelation and intersection of concepts.

Format – lecture and discussion

Assignments:

To get acquainted with the basic concepts, trace their origins, reinforce skills of gender relation analysis with the help of these concepts.

Lunch

12.30-13.30

Day Session

13.30-15.00

Topic:

Basic concepts and categories of gender theory.

Format: seminar

Assignments:

On the basis of text and video clip analysis  to reveal basic gender categories and their content.

DAY NINE

July, 16 Lector – Prof. Elena Zdravomyslova

Morning Session

09.00-10.30

Topic: Gender and Power in Soviet Russia.

The role of ideology as the substitute of religion in the process of creation of normative gender. New gender hegemony. Gender, nation, state. How it  was on different stages of the development of Russian society. Soviet model of patriarchate and its aftermaths.

Objectives:

To gain knowledge about different stages of Russian gender order. To analyze the role of communist struggle with the church in the process of formation of Soviet gender. To decode the concept of intersectionality applying it to the analysis of Russian gender order.

Format: lecture and discussion

Assignments:

.discussion of the topic “Gender mobilization, soviet type of emancipation and its aftermaths. To give examples.

Break

10.30-11.00

Morning Session

 11.00-12.30

Topic:

Politicization of gender and genderization of political in contemporary Russia. Struggle for hegemony. Conservative trend in the revival of devoutness. Discussion on sexual education, reproductive rights and gender equality. The case of Pussy Riot and conservative mobilization. Feminist response.

Format – lecture and discussion

Objective: To familiarize  the participants with the main trends of contemporary gender politics. To find out the relationships between state and church in revival of conservative traditional gender order.

Assignments:

Lunch

12.30-13.30

Day Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: State and religion in Russia.

Format: seminar

Assignments:

On the basis of several cases to analyze evolution of devoutness in Russia.

DAY TEN

July, 17 Lector – Prof. Elena Zdravomyslova

Morning Session

09.00-10.30

Topic: Atheism and Sexual Revolution in Early 1920-s.Public discussions of sexuality

Repressed Stalin Generation. 

Objectives: To familiarize with the stages of sexual revolution in Russia

Format: lecture and discussion

Assignments: To discuss and analyze the text given by the lecturer beforehand. A. Kollontai on the sex issue.

Break

10.30-11.00

Morning Session

 11.00-12.30

Topic: Modern trends and problematization of  sexual freedom in contemporary Russia.

Format – lecture and discussion

Objective: To familiarize with the stages of sexual revolution in Russia

Assignments: To discuss and analyze the text by A. Kollontai given by the lecturer beforehand.

Lunch

12.30-13.30

Day Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Seminar on case analysis.

Format: Discussion of a feature film “What If  It Is Love?”

DAY ELEVEN

date:18 July Lecturer – Prof. Teresa Toldy

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Is the discussion on feminisms inside religions important?

instructor(s) Prof. Toldy T.

format: Lecture

Objective: during this session participants will contact with the main topics of feminism inside religions, and with the topic of feminist hermeneutics in religion.

assignments: the students shall prepare questions to put to the instructor after the break

(last 15 minutes of the session)

Break

 10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Feedback on the lecture’s topic

Format: Free discussion of the topic explored in the first session

Objective: During the session participants will have the opportunity to put questions and to debate with the instructor and with each other the topic presented in the first part of the session.

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Readings on the topic of feminisms and religion

Format: Seminar

assignments: the students will present short comments on the text of Toldy sent by the instructor to prepare the summer school

DAY TWELVE

date:19 July Lecturer – Prof. Teresa Toldy

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Christian feminist theologies (Catholic and Protestant)

instructor(s) Prof. Toldy T.

format: Lecture

Objective: during this session participants will contact with the main topics of Catholic and Protestant feminist theologies

assignments: the students shall prepare questions to put to the instructor after the break

(last 15 minutes of the session)

Break

 10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Discussion of the topic explored in the first session of the day

Format: Free discussion of the topic explored in the first part of the session

Objective: During the session participants will have the opportunity to put questions and to debate with the instructor and with each other the topic presented in the first part of the session.

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon  Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Readings on the topic of Christian feminist theology

Format: Seminar

assignments: the students will present short comments on the texts of Fiorenza sent by the instructor to prepare the summer school

DAY THIRTEEN

DAY FOURTEEN

WEEKEND July, 20-21

Excursions (to be chosen by the participants)

DAY FIFTEEN

date:22 July Lecturer Teresa Toldy

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Islamic feminisms

instructor(s) Prof. Toldy T.

format: Lecture

Objective: during this session participants will contact with the main topics of Muslim feminisms

assignments: the students shall prepare questions to put to the instructor after the break

(last 15 minutes of the session)

Break

 10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Discussion of the topic explored in the first session of the day

Format: Free discussion of the topic explored in the first part of the session

Objective: During the session participants will have the opportunity to put questions and to debate with the instructor and with each other the topic presented in the first part of the session.

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Readings on the topic of Islamic feminisms:

Format: seminar

assignments: the students will present short comments on the texts of Barlas and Wadud sent by the instructor to prepare the summer school

DAY SIXTEEN

date: 23 July Lecturer Dr. Chia Longman

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Introduction to the course module

instructor(s) Dr. Ch. Longman

format: lecture introducing the module and self-presentations by participants through the ‘identity circle’ method  

Objective: during this session participants will familiarize themselves with the module and introduce themselves

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Intersectionality in the study of gender

Format: text and group discussion

Objective: participants will learn about the application of intersectional analysis in multicultural societies

Assignments: Readings and prepare questions:

·         McIntosh: White privilege

o    In what way does this model of privilege apply to your society and personal identity?

·         Intersectionality

o    In what way can intersectional analysis be applied to your own society and field of research?

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Day Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Positionality in the study of religion and gender:

format : lecture, text & group discussion

Objective: participants will learn about the importance of the identity and positionality of the researcher in gender & religion research

assignments: Read and prepare questions:

• McCutcheon: Religion and the Insider-Outsider problem
• Should the study of religion and gender take place from an insider or outsider approach; apply to your own discipline and position

DAY SEVENTEEN

date: 24 July Dr. Chia Longman

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): gender-critical research of religion

instructor(s) Dr. Ch. Longman

format: lecture and discussion

Objective: participants will gain an understanding of the diversity and challenges in gender-critical research of religion

assignments: Read:

• Hawthorne: Religion and gender
• Do what extent does this overview apply to your idea or previous knowledge of the study of gender and religion?

Break

 10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Women in minority religions: Judaism

Format: lecture with visual and video material

Objective: participants will gain understanding into gender identity and relations in a multicultural context through a presentation of a research case study in Judaism

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Day Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: continuation previous session

Format: Lecture, questions and discussion

assignments: Read:

• Longman: 'Sacrificing the Career or the Family?’

DAY EIGHTEEN

date: 25 July Lecturer Dr. Chia Longman

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): agency and oppression

instructor(s) Dr. Ch. Longman

format: Lecture & discussion texts

Objective: during this session participants will learn about theoretical frameworks in  analyzing religion as oppressive to women in multicultural societies

assignments: Read:

• Yuval-Davis: The Religious question
• Jeffreys: Multiculturalism and respect for religion
• How do the authors theorize and argue for the relationship between women’s oppression and religion?

Break

Time: 10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

topic(s): agency and oppression

format: Lecture & discussion texts

Objective: during this session participants will learn about theoretical frameworks in  analyzing religion as empowering to women

assignments: Read & prepare questions

• Mahmood: Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent
• How is the notion of agency used in this text?
• Scott: Sexularism
• How is secularism theorized in relation to women’s equality?

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Day Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Conclusions & presentations

format (lecture, discussion, other): individual presentations and group discussion; final evaluation

assignments: Prepare a short presentation based on all the readings for the module, relating the texts to your own research or perspective on the relationship between gender, religion and multiculturalism

DAY EIGHT

date:15 July Lecturer Prof. Teresa Toldy

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Is the discussion on feminisms inside religions important?

instructor(s) Prof. Toldy T.

format: Lecture

Objective: during this session participants will contact with the main topics of feminism inside religions, and with the topic of feminist hermeneutics in religion.

assignments: the students shall prepare questions to put to the instructor after the break

(last 15 minutes of the session)

Break

 10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Feedback on the lecture’s topic

Format: Free discussion of the topic explored in the first session

Objective: During the session participants will have the opportunity to put questions and to debate with the instructor and with each other the topic presented in the first part of the session.

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Readings on the topic of feminisms and religion

Format: Seminar

assignments: the students will present short comments on the text of Toldy sent by the instructor to prepare the summer school

DAY NINE

date:16 July Lecturer Prof. Teresa Toldy

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Christian feminist theologies (Catholic and Protestant)

instructor(s) Prof. Toldy T.

format: Lecture

Objective: during this session participants will contact with the main topics of Catholic and Protestant feminist theologies

assignments: the students shall prepare questions to put to the instructor after the break

(last 15 minutes of the session)

Break

 10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Discussion of the topic explored in the first session of the day

Format: Free discussion of the topic explored in the first part of the session

Objective: During the session participants will have the opportunity to put questions and to debate with the instructor and with each other the topic presented in the first part of the session.

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon  Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Readings on the topic of Christian feminist theology

Format: Seminar

assignments: the students will present short comments on the texts of Fiorenza sent by the instructor to prepare the summer school

DAY TEN

date:17 July  Lecturer - Prof. Teresa Toldy

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Islamic feminisms

instructor(s) Prof. Toldy T.

format: Lecture

Objective: during this session participants will contact with the main topics of Muslim feminisms

assignments: the students shall prepare questions to put to the instructor after the break

(last 15 minutes of the session)

Break

 10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Discussion of the topic explored in the first session of the day

Format: Free discussion of the topic explored in the first part of the session

Objective: During the session participants will have the opportunity to put questions and to debate with the instructor and with each other the topic presented in the first part of the session.

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Readings on the topic of Islamic feminisms:

Format: seminar

assignments: the students will present short comments on the texts of Barlas and Wadud sent by the instructor to prepare the summer school

DAY ELEVEN

date: 18 July Lecturer Dr. Chia Longman

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Introduction to the course module

instructor(s) Dr. Ch. Longman

format: lecture introducing the module and self-presentations by participants through the ‘identity circle’ method  

Objective: during this session participants will familiarize themselves with the module and introduce themselves

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Intersectionality in the study of gender

Format: text and group discussion

Objective: participants will learn about the application of intersectional analysis in multicultural societies

Assignments: Readings and prepare questions:

·         McIntosh: White privilege

o    In what way does this model of privilege apply to your society and personal identity?

·         Intersectionality

o    In what way can intersectional analysis be applied to your own society and field of research?

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Day Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Positionality in the study of religion and gender:

format : lecture, text & group discussion

Objective: participants will learn about the importance of the identity and positionality of the researcher in gender & religion research

assignments: Read and prepare questions:

• McCutcheon: Religion and the Insider-Outsider problem
• Should the study of religion and gender take place from an insider or outsider approach; apply to your own discipline and position

DAY TWELVE

date: 19 July Dr. Chia Longman

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): gender-critical research of religion

instructor(s) Dr. Ch. Longman

format: lecture and discussion

Objective: participants will gain an understanding of the diversity and challenges in gender-critical research of religion

assignments: Read:

• Hawthorne: Religion and gender
• Do what extent does this overview apply to your idea or previous knowledge of the study of gender and religion?

Break

 10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Women in minority religions: Judaism

Format: lecture with visual and video material

Objective: participants will gain understanding into gender identity and relations in a multicultural context through a presentation of a research case study in Judaism

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Day Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: continuation previous session

Format: Lecture, questions and discussion

assignments: Read:

• Longman: 'Sacrificing the Career or the Family?’

DAY THIRTEEN

DAY FOURTEEN

WEEKEND July, 20-21

Excursions (to be chosen by the participants)

DAY FIFTEEN

date: 22 July Lecturer Dr. Chia Longman

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): agency and oppression

instructor(s) Dr. Ch. Longman

format: Lecture & discussion texts

Objective: during this session participants will learn about theoretical frameworks in  analyzing religion as oppressive to women in multicultural societies

assignments: Read:

• Yuval-Davis: The Religious question
• Jeffreys: Multiculturalism and respect for religion
• How do the authors theorize and argue for the relationship between women’s oppression and religion?

Break

Time: 10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

topic(s): agency and oppression

format: Lecture & discussion texts

Objective: during this session participants will learn about theoretical frameworks in  analyzing religion as empowering to women

assignments: Read & prepare questions

• Mahmood: Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent
• How is the notion of agency used in this text?
• Scott: Sexularism
• How is secularism theorized in relation to women’s equality?

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Day Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Conclusions & presentations

format (lecture, discussion, other): individual presentations and group discussion; final evaluation

assignments: Prepare a short presentation based on all the readings for the module, relating the texts to your own research or perspective on the relationship between gender, religion and multiculturalism

DAY SIXTEEN

July, 23 Lector – Prof. Elena Zdravomyslova

Morning Session

09.00-10.30

Topic:

Origins of gender studies in the context of development of the feminist movement and feminist thought. Critical feminist epistemology and its methodological aftermaths.

Tasks:

To get acquainted with the basic  concepts of the feminist epistemology and intersectionality.

Format: lecture and discussion

Assignments 

 “Gender studies, feminism and agenda of public sociology” - to discuss the issue, to give examples.

Break

10.30-11.00

Morning Session

 . 11.00-12.30

Topic:

Basic concepts of sociology of gender relations: gender system, gender order, gender regime, gender contract. Class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race –interrelation and intersection of concepts.

Format – lecture and discussion

Assignments:

To get acquainted with the basic concepts, trace their origins, reinforce skills of gender relation analysis with the help of these concepts.

Lunch

12.30-13.30

Day Session

13.30-15.00

Topic:

Basic concepts and categories of gender theory.

Format: seminar

Assignments:

On the basis of text and video clip analysis  to reveal basic gender categories and their content.

DAY SEVENTEEN

July, 24 Lector – Prof. Elena Zdravomyslova

Morning Session

09.00-10.30

Topic: Gender and Power in Soviet Russia.

The role of ideology as the substitute of religion in the process of creation of normative gender. New gender hegemony. Gender, nation, state. How it  was in different stages of the development of Russian society. Soviet model of patriarchate and its aftermaths.

Objectives:

To gain knowledge about different stages of Russian gender order. To analyze the role of communist struggle with the church in the process of formation of Soviet gender. To decode the concept of intersectionality applying it to the analysis of Russian gender order.

Format: lecture and discussion

Assignments:

.discussion of the topic “Gender mobilization, soviet type of emancipation and its aftermaths. To give examples.

Break

10.30-11.00

Morning Session

 11.00-12.30

Topic:

Politicization of gender and genderization of political in contemporary Russia. Struggle for hegemony. Conservative trend in the revival of devoutness. Discussion on sexual education, reproductive rights and gender equality. The case of Pussy Riot and conservative mobilization. Feminist response.

Format – lecture and discussion

Objective: To familiarize  the participants with the main trends of contemporary gender politics. To find out the relationships between state and church in revival of conservative traditional gender order.

Assignments:

Lunch

12.30-13.30

Day Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: State and religion in Russia.

Format: seminar

Assignments:

On the basis of several cases to analyze evolution of devoutness in Russia.

DAY EIGHTEEN

July, 25 Lector – Prof. Elena Zdravomyslova

Morning Session

09.00-10.30

Topic: Atheism and Sexual Revolution in Early 1920-s.Public discussions of sexuality

Repressed Stalin Generation. 

Objectives: To familiarize with the stages of sexual revolution in Russia

Format: lecture and discussion

Assignments: To discuss and analyze the text given by the lecturer beforehand. A. Kollontai on the sex issue.

Break

10.30-11.00

Morning Session

 11.00-12.30

Topic: Modern trends and problematisation of  sexual freedom in contemporary Russia.

Format – lecture and discussion

Objective: To familiarize with the stages of sexual revolution in Russia

Assignments: To discuss and analyze the text by A. Kollontai given by the lecturer beforehand.

Lunch

12.30-13.30

Day Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Seminar on case analysis.

Format: Discussion of a feature film “What If It Is Love?”

DAY NINETEEN

date:26 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 11.00

topic(s): "Belonging, Gender and Religion in multicultural societies"

instructor(s) Prof. E. Zdravomyslova, Dr. Chia Longman

format: round table

Objective: to discuss gender aspects of religiosity in Europe and Russia

assignments: Students should be ready to discuss the shifts in the problem of interconnection gender and religious factors in political, cultural and social  life of their own countries during last decades, using the knowledge gained during the School.

Break

 11.00 -11.30

Morning Session

11.30 – 13. 00

Topic: "Belonging, Gender and Religion in multicultural societies"

Format: round table (continuation)

Objective: to discuss gender aspects of religiosity in Europe and Russia

Break

Time: 13.00-13.15

13.15-14.00 Closing Ceremony

20.00 Closing Dinner in La Luna Rebella (upon request)