Feminist Research Methodologies: Free 10-Week Online Seminar, Fall 2022
Hosted on Zoom – Register for link
Mondays
October 3 – December 12, 2022
11:00am – 12:30pm Eastern Time
Co-sponsored with the Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute (GSSI) at The New School.
Description: This 10-week seminar is designed for students who want to start research with a feminist theoretical framework. While this course focuses on technique, it also hones in on the theoretical background of feminist research including, epistemology critiques and feminist standpoints. Course discussions will revolve around feminist theories, epistemologies and research methods within feminist frameworks. This seminar also provides an opportunity to present a research project that will allow for the students to express themselves and their research in different ways.
More Information:
Participants who attend at least 8 complete seminar sessions will receive a certificate of satisfactory completion from the Dean of The New School for Social Research. In order to obtain the certificate, participants must register and log in with the same email address each week.
Registration will remain open for the duration of the seminar. Registrants will receive a reminder email with the Zoom link each week.
The seminar sessions will be recorded and available to registrants on Vimeo the following week.
Seminar Leaders:
Dr. Asli Kotaman is an Associate Researcher at the University of Bonn. Her studies focus on video activism within feminist perspectives.
Dr. Pelin Yalçinoğlu Kaplan specializes in science teaching and learning and elementary education. She is one of the founders of the Eskisehir School where she is the lecturer and coordinator of the Gender Workshop.
Oct 3, 2022 11:00 AM ET
- Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Patricia Leavy, and Michelle L. Yaiser, “Feminist Approaches to Research as a Process: Reconceptualizing Epistemology, Methodology, and Method”
- Maria Mies. Towards a Methodology of Women’s Studies
- Film of the Week: On the Basis of Sex, Director: Mimi Leder
Discussion questions: Discussion Questions: What is science? How do you define feminism? What is feminist research?
Oct 10, 2022 11:00 AM ET
Guest Lecture: Deniz İbrişim Gündoğan (Sabanci University), “Feminist Literary Studies”
- Harding, Sandra. “Is There a Feminist Method?” Feminism and Methodology, Social Science Issues. Ed. Sandra Harding. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987. 1-14.
- Ahmed Sara, (2000). ‘Whose Counting?’, Feminist Theory, 1, 1: 119-125.
- Film of the Week: Hidden Figures
- Film of the Week: Suffragette
Discussion Questions: What is our understanding of objectivity? Are science and scientists objective? Should they be objective? Does the culture you grew up in have different expectations for boys and girls? At what age do distinctions between the genders start? What is the relation between epistemology and methodology?
Oct 17, 2022 11:00 AM ET
Guest Lecture: Dr. Nehir Gündoğdu (Kilis University), “Feminist Methodology in Turkey”
Discussion Questions: What are the challenges of doing feminist research? Can we talk about a specific methodology for feminist research?
Oct 31, 2022 11:00 AM ET
Guest Lecture: Zeynep Kutluata (Kadir Has University), “History of the Feminist Movement”
- Wolf, D. (1993). Introduction: Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 13(3), 1-8
- England, K. (1994). Getting personal: Reflexivity, Positionality and Feminist Research. The Professional Geographer 46(1): 80-89.
- Film of the Week: On the Basis of Sex, Director: Mimi Leder
Discussion Questions: What is science? How do you define feminism? What is feminist research?
Nov 7, 2022 11:00 AM ET
Guest Lecture: Dr. Burçe Çelik (Loughborough University), “Our Story”
Discussion Questions: What is participatory research? How to decide researcher’s roles and position in the research field? How to balance the role of researcher? What is reflexivity in the research? How do we construct validity in feminist research? How do we know what is right when doing research? What is ethical and what is not?
Nov 14, 2022 11:00 AM ET
Guest Lecture: Zeynep Gülru Göker, “Feminist Research and Methods”
Discussion Questions: How do we learn from others? What are the ways of collecting data and producing knowledge in the feminist research framework?
Nov 21, 2022 11:00 AM ET
Guest Lecture: Maria do Mar Pereira, University of Warwick
Guest Lecture: Selime Büyükgöze (Istanbul Topkapi University), “Feminist Politics in Turkey”
- Film of the Week: Persepolis
Discussion Questions: What have feminist movements achieved in your country?
Nov 28, 2022 11:00 AM ET
Guest Lecture: Aslı Polatdemir (Bremen University), “Examples of Women’s Movements”
Dec 5, 2022 11:00 AM ET
Guest Speaker: Özge Çelikaslan, “Feminist Video Activism and Digital Archive”
Discussion Questions: How do we associate feminism with activism? What is digital archiving?
Guest Speaker: Özlem Güçlü, (Mimar Sinan University), “Feminist Killjoy Film Criticism”
- Ahmed, Sara (2017) Living A Feminist Life, Durham: Duke University Press.
- Harrison, Rebecca (2018) “Fuck the canon (or, how do you solve a problem like von Trier?): Teaching, screening and writing about cinema in the age of #MeToo”, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, sayı 1(2), https://maifeminism.com/fuck-the-canon-or-how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-von-trier-teaching-screening-and-writing-about-cinema-in-the-age-of-metoo/
- Shambu, Girish (2019) “Manifesto for a new cinephilia”, Film Quarterly, https://www.academia.edu/54906772/Manifesto_for_a_New_Cinephilia
Dec 12, 2022 11:00 AM ET
- Guest Speaker: Aslı Ozgen Havekotte (Amsterdam University), “The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Women Walking in Film”
Closing statements. Future expectations and future research plans will be discussed.
Additional Reading
- Anderson, Elizabeth, “Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
- Sandra Harding. Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What is “Strong Objectivity “ The Centennial Review Vol. 36, No. 3 (FALL 1992), pp. 437-470.
- Corin Glesne “But Is it Ethical? Considering what is “Right”” (Chapter 6) in Becoming Qualitative Researchers, Pearson 2016.
- Susan Lanser “Toward a Feminist Narratology” Penn State University Press, 1986.
- Angela Carter “The Bloody Chamber”, 1979.
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949.