The recent formation of the mono-disciplinary program groups in the AISSR has been an important incentive to create an interdisciplinary research centre for Gender and Sexuality.
The new Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS) seeks to provide a forum for synergistic research and teaching at the University of Amsterdam, tapping on the state-of-the-art research that current staff member across disciplines are already engage in, and generating new collaborations.
It builds on the productive and innovative gender studies tradition of interdisciplinarity and is situated institutionally at the heart of the social sciences, primarily sociology, anthropology, political science, social geography, and science and technology studies. It will situate UvA in an international academic context, enabling new international scholarly collaborations, providing intellectual visibility to current research, attracting new students at all levels, enabling timely interventions in public debates in the Netherlands, Europe, and beyond, and producing a lively intellectual community that integrates research and teaching.
The ARC-GS will be affiliated with approximately 15 courses at the BA level, the minor GS&S, the MA Gender, Sexuality, and Society, Ph.D-level teaching (such as Short Intensive Courses, summer & winter schools), in addition to the time-honoured Summer Institute on Sexuality, Society and Culture. At this moment, approximately 25 colleagues (see attachment II) have indicated that they wish to participate in the activities of the ARC-GS.
In the attachment the intiators invite AISSR Staff to join the ARC-GS.
Invitation to join interdisciplinary research centre gender and sexuality