[ecrea] NOISE Summer School 2014: Political Aesthetics and Feminist Theory: Media, Art and Affect

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22nd Advanced European Summer School in Women’s Studies from 
Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

 NOI?SE 2014 Summer School
 Political Aesthetics and Feminist Theory:
Media, Art and Affect

25 - 29 August 2014, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Organized by the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies

·       Have you ever thought about the difference between affect, 
emotion, and feeling?
·       Are you curious about the use of these concepts in feminist theory?
·       Would you like to study how certain aesthetic strategies in the 
mass media are employed to influence and control spectators, users, 
consumers, and citizens?
·       Do you want to know more about how affect is put to work in 
media, artistic and activist interventions?
 Then join the 2014 Summer School!

This year’s (the 22nd) edition of NOI?SE will introduce you to cutting 
edge scholarship at the intersection of media and cultural studies, 
gender studies, and the arts. The relation between rhetoric strategies 
and their effects on global and local audiences will be explored. We 
will focus on how feeling, affect and emotion are mobilized to achieve 
both aesthetic and political ends. We will also attend to the affective 
strategies used in artistic and activist interventions through media 
such as documentary film, photography, installation art, video, and 
performance art.

Concepts & content
Affects, emotions and feelings have become tangible commodities in 
neoliberalism and late capitalism. The cultural politics of emotion 
(such as anger, hatred, love and compassion, among others), employed by 
political forces, frequently maintain homophobia, xenophobia, gender 
inequality, and engender fear of terrorism, but also act as a means of 
contesting these. Contemporary media are said to make affect 
“contagious,” examples ranging from global marketing to revolutionary 
movements such as the Arab revolutions. The NOI?SE summer school will 
focus on recent feminist scholarship pertaining to media and visual 
studies to emphasize that emotions, profoundly shaping the experience of 
community and collectivity, can also serve as strategies of resistance.

Additionally, we will explore the role of the visual in generating and 
sustaining affect, feeling and emotion, as well as in embedding these in 
the collective consciousness and public memory. We will engage with how 
artistic practices reveal a potential to engender affective encounters 
that propose critical engagement facilitating socially and politically 
transformative action. Drawing on these lines of scholarship, we will 
not limit our understanding to emotions and feelings, but we will also 
engage with the reign of affects that we are barely conscious of, i. e. 
movement and stillness, rhythm, color, and intensity.

Focusing on cultural, artistic and media practices, this Summer School 
addresses the following questions: In what ways can these practices 
participate in the distribution of affects and feelings as a strategy of 
resistance and subversion? How can emotions, once shared, facilitate 
political action, recognition, and dialogue, and bring about social change?


Aims
This advanced training course offers a diversified yet coherent 
programme of study from an interdisciplinary perspective. The Summer 
School is meant for PhD and MA students. Separate seminars for these two 
groups will be provided in the afternoons.


Formula
· Two lectures in the morning
· Separate PhD and MA-seminars in the afternoon
· Social programme
· Students prepare before NOI?SE by reading and collecting material for 
assignments (approximately 40 hours of work). After the school has 
ended, participants who fulfilled all requirements (preparation of 
assignments and reading, active participation, and final essay of 10-15 
pages) receive a NOI?SE Certificate (5 ECTS).
·   All students are expected to participate in the entire programme for 
the duration of five days.

Please check the website for more information, registration and regular 
updates:
http://www.graduategenderstudies.nl/ -> Education -> NOI?SE 2014


Venue
The NOI?SE Summer School 2014 will be hosted by Utrecht University, the 
Netherlands.


Tuition Fees
The tuition fee is €425,-. This includes digital reading materials, but 
excludes accommodation and subsistence costs (i.e. food, meals, drinks, 
etc).


Teachers in the course
The NOI?SE Summer School is organized by the Netherlands Research School 
of Gender Studies (NOG, Utrecht University). The 2014 edition is 
coordinated by dr. Marta Zarzycka and by dr. Domitilla Olivieri. Several 
renowned international scholars and artists from various disciplines 
will be teaching at the Summer School. Their names will be announced on 
the website in April.


Registration and Deadline:
Last chance to apply: May 16, 2014. You can find the application form on 
the website:
http://www.graduategenderstudies.nl/ -> Education -> NOI?SE 2014

For more information
NOI?SE Central Coordination
Utrecht University
Muntstraat 2a
3512 EV Utrecht
The Netherlands
E-mail: (noise /at/ uu.nl)

COME TO THE NOI?SE SUMMER SCHOOL AND BE CHALLENGED!







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