A quarterly international newsletter on sexuality, sexual health, and sexuality education.
Volume 2, Issue 1 - Winter 2001/2002
Educational and Fellowship Opportunities in Sexuality
The following fellowships and educational opportunities are for activists, educators, researchers, and students who wish to enhance their understanding of sexuality, sexual rights, and gender. All provide unique opportunities for individuals to pursue their academic interests in sexuality and also meet colleagues and activists from around the world working on issues of sexuality and human rights.
The Program for the Study of Sexuality,
Gender, Health, and Human Rights
Columbia University
Division of Sociomedical Sciences
School of Public Health
This is a residential fellowship program which invites applications
from postdoctoral scholars, advocates, and activists
conducting innovative interdisciplinary work on the
intersecting themes of sexuality, gender, health, and human
rights in the United States and around the world.
The program provides a dynamic and intellectual arena to further discussions on the often separately discussed issues of sexuality, gender, health, and human rights.Though some advances have been made in the field to integrate human rights frameworks into feminist agendas and activism as well as framing health as a human right, innovative scholarship and activism about sexuality, health, and human rights remain less explored.The program provides an opportunity to examine the lessons and challenges posed by integrating sexuality, gender, health, and human rights in theory, research, and advocacy.
Fellows are selected for various lengths of study, from one year, one term, and shorter residencies from two to six months. Fellows attend weekly seminars and interdisciplinary forums that bring together scholars, researchers, and advocates. The program provides fellows with a fellowship stipend, access to libraries, computer facilities, office space and equipment, and health insurance while in the program. Fellows also have access to a full range of teaching and research resources at Columbia University. Professor Carole S.Vance directs the program, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
For more information and application materials, contact:
Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender,
Health, and Human Rights
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University School of Public Health
617 West 168th Street,Third Floor
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212/305-5656
Fax: 212/305-6832
E-mail: rock-sms-sph@columbia.edu
Web site: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/gender
The Sex, Race, and Globalization Project
University of Arizona
The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Studies at the University of Arizona houses the Rockefeller
Humanities Residency Fellowships that provide an opportunity
for scholars and researchers to advance the study of the
links between sexuality, race, and globalization.
The Sex, Race, and Globalization (SRG) project explores the intersection of sexuality, gender, and race with economic, political, and informational processes across local, regional, national, and transnational boundaries.The program seeks to explore the links between exploitative economic processes and structures of sexual, gendered, and racial inequality.
Seeking to broach the boundaries between studies of culture and studies of economic, social, and political processes, the program invites applications from interdisciplinary scholars or those trained in any discipline interested in pursuing interdisciplinary work.While the SRG project supports the commitment of lesbian/gay studies to recognizing the significance of sexuality, it also seeks to develop alliances among identity and area study fields and welcomes applications from scholars who have not worked in the context of lesbian/gay studies.
Fellows, who study in residence for an academic year, receive a stipend of $35,000, travel/research funds ($5,000), a moving allowance ($2,000), an office, and full access to university libraries, computer systems, recreational facilities, and the many scholarly and cultural programs offered at the university.
For more information and application guidelines, contact SRG Director Miranda Joseph at:
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Studies
University of Arizona
1731 E. 2nd Street
Tucson,AZ 85721
Phone: 520/626-3431
E-mail: lgbs@u.arizona.edu
Web site: http://w3.arizona.edu/~lgbcom
The Summer Institute on Sexuality,
Culture, and Society
International School for Humanities
and Social Sciences
University of Amsterdam
The Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society is an intensive
four-week summer program at the University of
Amsterdam, which focuses on the study of sexuality across
cultures and which is taught by an international faculty from
different countries and disciplines.
The aim of the program is for students to explore and study
the social and cultural dimensions of human sexuality and
gain training in areas of sexuality research, both theory and
method, not commonly available in educational institutions.
The participation of an international multidisciplinary faculty and students from different educational and cultural backgrounds provides a diverse and challenging atmosphere to study sexuality through both formal and informal mechanisms and settings. Students have opportunities for dialogue and exchange during seminars, lunches, weekly “get-togethers,” conversations, and other social and academic activities. Course offerings have included An Introduction: Sexuality, Culture and Society; Sexuality in the Political; Culture of State and Nationbuilding; Diversity in Women’s Sexual Cultures; and Sexuality and Human Rights.
Students with a focused interest in sexuality research, and holding a M.A. or Ph.D. degree are invited to apply. Participation in the program should give seven credit points on the basis of at least 36 contact hours. Participants must also submit a paper and read assigned literature. Professor Han ten Brummelhuis of the University of Amsterdam is the program director, and Professor Carole S.Vance of Columbia University (New York, United States) is co-director.
For more information or an application, contact:
Mirjam Schieveld, Program Manager
The Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Oude Turfmarkt 129
1012 GC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: 31.20.525.3776
Fax: 31.20.525.3778
E-mail: SummerInstitute@ishss.uva.nl
Web site: http://www.ishss.uva.nl/summerinstitute/
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Web Master: siecus@siecus.org