UNU-GEST Lecture Series 17 March - Feminist communities as epistemic communities; knowledge production and hidden hierarchies
Milica Minić, Gender and development specialist and researcher will give the lecture "Feminist communities as epistemic communities - knowledge production and hidden hierarchies" on 17 March at 12 o’clock in The National Museum’s lecture hall.
Milica has worked on gender equality issues for over 20 years and is a lecturer at UNU-GEST in the modules of gender, peace and security, and Theories, systems and concepts of gender. She has worked mainly in the Balkan region, in various grassroots initiatives, civil organizations and international agencies. She earned her M.A. degree in critical gender studies at the University of Utrecht and Central European University in Budapest. Originally from Belgrade, she currently lives in Reykjavík.
The lecture will address knowledge production, exchange and reception within feminist epistemic communities of Iceland and Serbia. In order to better understand this process, several questions will be explored. First, how does the location inform and shape feminist knowledge production? More precisely, is there specificity in the semi-peripheral position of Iceland and Serbia that impacts the ways in which the knowledge is produced, ex-changed and received? If the countries draw on a range of cultural, political and symbolic influences, what are the formative factors in determining which knowledge paradigms are dominant, and how do epistemic communities in the semi-peripheral sites of Iceland and Serbia construct their own identity and positionality?
Drawing on world systems analysis, I situate my research within the theoretical framework of critical trans-national feminist praxis and sociology, and the larger banner of the “politics of location”.
The lecture is given in English, is open to everyone and admission is free. The event is on Facebook.
The lecture series in the spring semester 2016 is held in collaboration with RIKK – Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference at the University of Iceland.