Séminaire Cincinnati

Apostolos Lampropoulos et Marie De Gandt

Note: This course is taught collaboratively for graduate students enrolled in the Master études sur le genre at UBM and in both French and Francophone Studies as well as Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC. English is the primary language of instruction for this course.

Seminar Statement

This seminar explores issues related to gender and sexuality, as well as their intersections with other social locations—including race, class, nation, and religion—in Francophone contexts across the globe. In addition to examining specific social, cultural, and political expressions of gender and sexuality in their various local dimensions, this course also interrogates how theorizing on these questions critically engages (or not) with practices of knowledge production that tend to marginalize non-western perspectives. It also takes into consideration how scholars working in Francophone contexts navigate the complex debates about the cultural and scientific influence of North American and Metropolitan France on gender and sexuality. Students will engage in independent and original reflection and are encouraged to find connections to their own research. 

Course Materials

Lecture videos: Lecture videos will be posted to the course website.

Readings: Readings will be posted to the course website.

Please note that some of the sessions will be held in person (or synchronously online depending on the circumstances). Other weeks, you will spend time watching recorded lectures and reading related readings and can do according to your schedule. In person sessions will be devoted to discussing the video(s) and reading(s) that you consulted the previous week.