Event overview
A masterclass with Professor Joan Scott for postgraduate students
Joan Scott received her PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has taught at the University of Illinois, Chicago; Northwestern University; the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Brown University, where she was the founding director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Since 1985, she has been a professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Joan Scott's work has challenged the foundations of conventional historical practice, including the nature of historical evidence and historical experience. Drawing on a range of philosophical thought, as well as on a rethinking of her own training as a labor historian, she has contributed to the formulation of a field of critical history. Written more than twenty years ago, her now classic article, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," continues to inspire innovative research on women and gender. In her latest work she has been concerned with the ways in which difference poses problems for democratic practice. She has taken up this question in her recent books: Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (1996); Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (2005); and The Politics of the Veil (2007). She has extended her work on the veil to examine the relationship between secularism and gender equality. She has also prepared a collection of her essays that deals with the uses of psychoanalysis, particularly fantasy, for historical interpretation, The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011). Scott is a founding editor of History of the Present, a journal of theoretically-informed history.
Students who would like to attend will need to come prepared to speak about their work.
There will be a maximum of 15 spaces available for the masterclass. Please email Kiran Grewal via k.grewal (@gold.ac.uk) if you have any enquiries or would like to take part.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Dec 2018 | 10:00am - 12:00pm |
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