The VIU Summer School on Migration and Gender: Legal, Sociolinguistic and Literary Perspectives offers a legal-literary approach to the ways in which migration influences gender. Gender is a constitutive element of migration. The course discusses both this idea, and reversing the formula, it examines the role of migration in shaping gender, understood as relational and performative. A particular focus is on identity in relation to human rights and law, labor and culture. The course is innovative and combines the contribution of three scholars in legal studies and literature.
The program is particularly timely in this moment of history in which migration is transforming societies and shaping gender.
The course models the ways in which the humanities and the imagination might inform legal processes or contour legal decisions. This plays out in two ways: first through the integration of literature and law in class discussions, and second, through the students’ experiences of rewriting a legal decision from the perspective of what they have learned and discussed. In short, we hope that this course educates a young generation of lawyers, academics and activists by raising awareness of many issues at the intersection of gender, migration and law.
2nd Edition | September 18-22, 2023 | Migration and Gender: Legal, Sociolinguistic and Literary Perspectives
Faculty
Sara De Vido, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Laurie Shepard, Boston College, USA
Francesco Goglia, University of Exeter, UK
1st Edition | May 16-21, 2022 | Migration and Gender: a Legal and Literary Perspective
Faculty
Sara De Vido, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Laurie Shepard, Boston College, USA
Tamio Nakamura, Waseda University, Japan
For further information: summerschools@univiu.org
