RUDESA 2021 will take place online from March 8-12, 2021.
The topic will be: "Urban Intersections: Race and Gender in the American/Dutch/German City."
The metaphor of intersections here refers to both the foundational work on intersectionality by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Patricia Hill Collins, Ange-Marie Hancock, Jennifer C. Nash, and others, as well as to the urban intersection that one has to look both ways at to cross.
To use intersections to think about the city, hence, means to look both ways and always consider how cities, our imagination of them, and the lives of urban dwellers are impacted by race and gender. Such aspects have traditionally not been given the same importance as class-related problems in urban studies and have only in recent years come to be regarded in connection with class-based approaches to the city.
This topic combines the research interest in urban memory culture of the American Studies department at Radboud University Nijmegen as well as the work of the research group City Scripts (www.cityscripts.de [1]) at the University Duisburg-Essen. In these turbulent times, it also allows for a very different kind of "grounding" experience of RUDESA 2021, since all of the speakers, staff, and students will bring their own intersectional experiences of the city and city life during a global pandemic and urban protests such as the Black Lives Matter movement to the online spaces in which RUDESA 2021 will take place.
RUDESA 2021 will feature talks by Dr. Marguerite van den Berg (University of Amsterdam), Courtney Moffett-Bateau (Fulbright Berlin), Zohra Hassan-Pieper (University of Duisburg-Essen), and Sage Gerson (University of California, Santa Barbara).
If you are interested in participating in RUDESA 2021, send an email to Dr. Maria Sulimma (maria.sulimma@uni-due.de). |
