Dissertation Workshop

This year, the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture presents FRICTION: Writing Sexuality, an interdisciplinary dissertation workshop, Dec. 6, 2009.

Periodically, the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture and the Center for Race and Gender sponsors a Dissertation Workshop Retreat. The 3-day retreat is designed to encourage dialogue among doctoral students whose dissertation projects focus on the interactions of sexuality, race and gender. Intended to encourage and assist doctoral students who are just beginning work on their dissertations, as well as those who are farther along, the Workshop features intensive discussion of individual projects as well as the larger theoretical and methodological issues that they raise. Possibilities for continuing networks among interested students and faculty will also be explored.

Applicants must be advanced to candidacy. We welcome historical and comparative projects as well as projects that focus on particular representational practices (e.g., a genre or an author) or cultural formations. Projects from the arts are also welcome. Approximately twelve students will be chosen and joined by several faculty members from a variety of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields.

Workshop participants are selected on the content of the submitted projects, the potential for useful exchanges among them, and the benefits of including a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, intellectual traditions, historical periods, and world areas or cultures. The costs of the workshop, including meals and accommodations will be covered by the sponsoring Centers. Participants are responsible for their transportation to the workshop.

To apply, please submit the following to the address below:

3 copies of current curriculum vitae
3 copies of dissertation proposal (or if the work is well underway, a statement - no more than 10 double-spaced pages - of the specific issues being addressed, the intellectual approach, and the materials being studied)

     Dissertation Workshop Retreat
     Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
     632 Barrows Hall
     University of California
     Berkeley, CA 94720-2050