WINTER SCHOOL

!!REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED!!

SEXUALITY STUDIES WORKSHOP

The UJ Centre for Studies in Race, Gender and Class (CRGC), sponsored by the National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), are hosting an online 2-day workshop winter school on sexualities on Thursday, 1 July and Friday, 2 July 2021! All sessions will take place via Zoom.

The workshop is led by Dr Letitia S muts, from the UJ Department of Sociology, and Mr Tshepo Maake from the Department of Sociology at UNISA.

Check out the programme here!

Each session will run for approximately 1½ hours.

DAY ONE – THURSDAY, 1 JULY 2O21

Introduction to Sexuality Studies: Unlearning What We Know
Homosexuality in South Africa: An Historical Overview
Introduction to Queer Studies

DAY TWO – FRIDAY, 2 JULY 2021

Disrupting the Norm: Interrogating Hegemonic Social Discourses on Gender, Sex and Sexuality
Heteronormativity in Context
An Introduction to Intersectionality

Applications for this workshop are now closed.

This work is based on research supported by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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