Art and Affects: Feminist Approaches (2026/2027: Periode 2)

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Cursusdoel

After completion of the course, the student is:
  • Familiar with the corpus of knowledge on feminist artistic and scholarly practice at the intersection of debates on art and affect.
  • Able to apply this corpus of knowledge to a wide range of cultural and artistic practices and contemporary societal debates.
  • Able to assess and analyze artistic practices from the methodological framework of feminist and affect studies.
  • Able to transfer academic knowledge to the professional field in the social, political and cultural sector.
  • Able to deploy and justify a variety of forms of knowledge production and genres, such as the short analytical essay, the collective expose, creative practice, and oral presentation.

Vakinhoudelijk

This course examines, with the support of gender, queer, critical race, and post- and de-colonial theories, different feminist approaches to the study of art and affect in relation to social transformation with the focus on concepts, such as shame, pain, hope/lesness, grief, anger, love and depression. With reference to art practices, the course explores the complex interplay between affect, emotion, and feeling. It does so through a critical interrogation of how certain affects and emotions adhere to bodies, cultures and sexualities; how they function as social power to pathologise others, and how reconfiguring the possibilities of affects and emotions is necessary for feminist, queer and anti-racist politics; how affect operates in artistic and activist practices; what affects, emotions and sensations feminist art can evoke? These are some of the questions that drive our inquiry into art and affect throughout this course. By studying a constellation of theories and artistic practices, the course thus investigates the centrality of affect for understanding social and political life.

Aanvullende informatie

The entrance requirements for Exchange Students will be checked by International Office and the Programme coordinator. You do not have to contact the Programme coordinator by yourself.

Werkvormen

Hoorcollege
Toelichting

The course consists of one weekly plenary lecture and one weekly working group. The lectures, where the entire course group convenes, aim to comprehensively introduce the topic of the week and its central concepts.

Bijdrage

Students are required to actively participate in the lectures and be prepared by reading the assigned literature.

Voorbereiding

Lecture attendance is mandatory and involves active participation and preparation by reading the assigned literature.

Werkcollege
Toelichting

The course consists of one weekly plenary lecture and one weekly working group. The working groups will be student-led, centred around students' group presentations and classroom discussion.

Bijdrage

Working groups require active participation, along with reading the course literature. As part of the working group assignment, students will be responsible for preparing and delivering one oral group presentation, as well as facilitating group discussion.

Voorbereiding

Students are required to attend class, read assigned reading material, and actively participate in class discussion.

Toetsing

Opdracht

Verplicht | Weging 30% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 1,5

This assignment will be assessed for 1) insightful perspective on the creative practice especially in terms of its approach to affect in relation to gender, sexuality, race, class, ability 2) the time, thinking process, and group collaboration put into the creation of the final product and the expose, 3) the ability to reflect, in the exposé, on the content and form of the creative practice in relation to the theories discusses in the course.

To be announced in syllabus.

Opdracht(en) 1

Verplicht

Paper

Verplicht | Weging 70% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 3,5

1) demonstration of ability to engage with case studies or examples related to the course themes, 2) critical engagement with course literature and outside sources, 3) academic writing and argumentation skills, 4) fulfilment of academic requirements for referencing.

To be announced in syllabus.

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Je moet inschreven staan voor een van de volgende opleidingen:

  • Cultuurgeschiedenis en erfgoed
  • Conflict Studies and Human Rights
  • Communicatie en Organisatie
  • Film and Television Cultures
  • International Relations in Historical Perspective
  • Interculturele communicatie
  • Kunstgeschiedenis
  • Literatuur vandaag
  • Literair vertalen
  • Meertaligheid en taalverwerving
  • Neerlandistiek
  • New Media and Digital Culture
  • Geschiedenis van Politiek en Maatschappij
  • Professioneel vertalen
  • Religie en Samenleving
  • Arts and Society
  • Applied Musicology
  • Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy
  • GEMMA: Master degree in Women's and Gender studies
  • Gender Studies
  • Gender Studies (Research)

Voorkennis

Er is geen informatie over benodigde voorkennis bekend.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de verplichte literatuur bekend


Aanbevolen materiaal

  • WNB
    To be announced.

Coördinator

dr. L. Hettinga l.hettinga@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. I.H. Hansen i.h.hansen@uu.nl
dr. L. Hettinga l.hettinga@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Deze cursus is open voor bijvakkers. Controleer wel of er aanvullende ingangseisen gelden.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 8 juni 2026 tot en met vrijdag 26 juni 2026

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