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070022 SE MATILDA Summer Intensive Programme "Gender and Work in History" (2024S)

10.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Also non-MATILDA students are welcome to participate. If you are not a MATILDA student and interested in the summer school please send an e-mail during the registration period with a short letter of motivation to erika.stiller@univie.ac.at

  • Monday 01.07. 08:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 5, Kolingasse 14-16, EG00
  • Tuesday 02.07. 09:00 - 19:00 Seminarraum 5, Kolingasse 14-16, EG00
  • Wednesday 03.07. 09:00 - 13:00 Seminarraum 5, Kolingasse 14-16, EG00
  • Thursday 04.07. 09:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 5, Kolingasse 14-16, EG00
  • Thursday 04.07. 16:45 - 22:00 Seminarraum 2 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 3
  • Friday 05.07. 09:00 - 13:00 Seminarraum 5, Kolingasse 14-16, EG00

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Acquisition of knowledge of the methods, theories and content of gender history related to the topic "Gender and Work" in a European perspective from the Middle Ages to contemporary history.

Assessment and permitted materials

Preparation in the run-up to the summer school by means of a reader provided with compulsory literature; active participation in the summer school: attending of lectures and seminars; presentation of own research (e.g. MA-thesis) or an essay

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Active participation in the discussions of lectures and seminars (30%), and, alternatively (70%):
either presentation of own research (including a written exposé, length: in English approx. 6000 words / in German 40,000 characters) or
a written essay (length: in English approx. 3000 words / in German 20,000 characters) discussing a specific topic covered at the summer school (including additional secondary literature, i.e. 2-3 articles or a book, apart from the required reading on the selected topic).
The written assignments need to be uploaded to the submission folder on Moodle by the end of September at the latest.

Examination topics

Reading list

Agren, M. (ed.): Making a Living, Making a Difference: Gender and Work in Early Modern European Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Bellavitis, A. Martini, M., & Sarti, R. (eds.): What is Work? Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018.
Betti, E., Papastefanaki, L., & Tolomelli, M.: Women, Work, and Activism : Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022.
Çağatay, S. et al. (eds.): Through the prism of gender and work: women's labour struggles in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond, 19th and 20th centuries. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2023.

Association in the course directory

MA MATILDA: "Summer School" Intensivprogramm (10 ECTS)

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