Race and Gender - YMGS631

• Title: Race and Gender
• Guaranteed by: Programme Gender Studies (24-KGS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 25 / unknown (25)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Dagmar Regine Lorenz-Meyer, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Dagmar Regine Lorenz-Meyer, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses available to incoming students
• Co-requisite : {The course under this code is intended for MA level students. If a course is shared, BA students may register for the bachelor’s version of the course, identified by a course code beginning with “YB".}
• Incompatibility : YBLS033
• Is incompatible with: YBAJ226, YBLS033

Annotation

English

This course introduces students to critical studies of race, racism and racial politics, their rich genealogies in feminist theory and activism, and their continued urgency, particularly in Europe. What exactly does it mean to say that race is ‘socially constructed’? Is race 'fluid'? How do race and gender inevitably intersect in historically specific ways? What are apparatuses (including research methodologies) through which race gets reiteratively produced and made absent? And how are ‘we’ implicated in such racial productions? How can racialised legacies become the ground for racial utopias and future imaginings? Through engaging case studies and feminist debates, the course examines the ruptures and continuities of racial formations, anticiganism, post/colonialisms, and racialized embodiments. The aim is to develop critical thinking, reading and research strategies for addressing processes of racialisation in a geopolitical context where the importance of race is routinely denied. We will also look at feminist and anti- racist organising, new imaginings and utopias, and debates about bio- and necropolitics.

Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (08.09.2025)

Czech

This course introduces students to critical studies of race, racism and racial politics, their rich genealogies in feminist theory and activism, and their continued urgency, particularly in Europe. What exactly does it mean to say that race is ‘socially constructed’? Is race 'fluid'? How do race and gender inevitably intersect in historically specific ways? What are apparatuses (including research methodologies) through which race gets reiteratively produced and made absent? And how are ‘we’ implicated in such racial productions? How can racialised legacies become the ground for racial utopias and future imaginings? Through engaging case studies and feminist debates, the course examines the ruptures and continuities of racial formations, anticiganism, post/colonialisms, and racialized embodiments. The aim is to develop critical thinking, reading and research strategies for addressing processes of racialisation in a geopolitical context where the importance of race is routinely denied. We will also look at feminist and anti- racist organising, new imaginings and utopias, and debates about bio- and necropolitics.

Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (05.09.2025)

Course completion requirements

Assessment

·       Active participation in class (discussion question, class exercises): 20%

·       Concept paper (700 words): discuss one important analytical concept from the (required or further) readings. Explain what the concept refers to and what allows one to do by putting it into conversation with an empirical situation (an observational fieldnote; interview extract; film or novel extract; image etc. show what the concept can do to examine and illuminate the situation: 20% 

·       Session leader: Jointly (with 1-2 other students) prepare discussion questions for one session and produce a 500-word synopsis of the main reading, and select a tune, or piece of music,: 20%

·       Abstract for final paper 

·       Final paper (1800 words words, without references or 3500, without references co-written with another student): analyses a (surprising) vignette from a fieldnote, an interview, text, photograph, film extract from one of the perspectives discussed in the course (must cite at least 3 sources from the course): 35%

Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (05.09.2025)

Syllabus

The full course syllabus will be available at the beginning of the semester. 

Last update: Lorenz-Meyer Dagmar Regine, M.A., Ph.D. (05.09.2025)