CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF GENDER STUDIES

GENDER AT THE BORDER II

A Transnational and Interdisziplinary Workshop in Gender Studies
for PhD Students and faculty from Central European University,
Hungary, and Vienna University, Austria

The academic workshop “Gender at the Border II” is a research cooperation and network-
ing project between the Centre for Advanced Gender Studies University of Vienna, Austria
( www.univie.ac.at/gender-kolleg ), and the Department of Gender Studies, Central European
University, Budapest, Hungary ( http://www.gend.ceu.hu/ ). The meeting is scheduled for 3rd to
6th May in “Purbach am Neusiedlersee,” situated at the Hungarian/Austrian border. The
workshop is financed by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture.
Description:
• PhD students from both universities will meet at the Hungarian/Austrian border.
• While the PhD students will come from two universities (and many countries!) and
from several disciplines from the humanities and social sciences, the shared interest
in Gender Studies will build the common ground for the exchange process.
• As a town at the Hungarian/Austrian border in Austria Purbach am Neusiedlersee
will be a nice location for this event.
• Time and duration of the workshop: 3rd to 6th May 2007
• Workshop language is English
• Participants: 14 PhD students (7 from each university), 6 faculty members (3 from
each university) and 2 organizers from Vienna
• The “state of the arts” in Gender Studies will be presented and discussed in the
beginning of the workshop by the faculty members. A discussion on the future of
Gender Studies, based on teamwork on this subject, will close the meeting.
• Exchange will take place within the setting of a workshop: each participating stu-
dent will present her/his PhD project (max. 20 minutes). This presentation will be
followed by 40 minutes of comments and discussion.

Interested students may apply for the participation of the workshop. The admission of the
participating students will be handled by the two institutions involved.

NÁDOR U. 9 TEL: (36-1) 327-3034

1051 BUDAPEST FAX: (36-1) 327-3296
HUNGARY E-MAIL: GENDER@CEU.HU
Schedule for applications and preparation

15th of January 2007:

Deadline for application
31th of January 2007:
Decision making re applications
Announcement of the Workshop Programme
31th of March 2007:
Deadline for the written papers by the PhD-students
6th to 8th of April 2007:
Reader with all written papers will be sent out to all participants of the workshop
3rd to 6th May 2007:
Workshop „Gender at the Border II“ in Purbach am Neusiedlersee

Contact:
Budapest: Natalia Versegi, versegin@ceu.hu