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International Consortium
for Graduate Studies in Women and Gender
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About Us
 The International
Consortium for Graduate Studies in Women and Gender
is an informal cooperative endeavor among eight member
institutions
from around the world. It is designed as an egalitarian and
collaborative body to support joint projects, facilitate the
transnational exchange of ideas and knowledge, and contribute to the
evolutions of women's and gender studies, especially at the graduate
level.
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A Brief
History
The International
Consortium was esatblished in July 2003 by representative of its member
institutions who were participants in a conference hosted by the
University of Maryland. The conference grew out of three prior summer
institutes at UM involving faculty and graduate students from women's
and gender studies programs in China and Korea, South Africa and the
Caribbean, Hungary and Israel, and the United States.
The
graduate women’s and gender studies programs of the participating
institutions
are enhanced and strengthened
by their affiliation with
the International Consortium. Women’s
and/or
gender studies as a
location of knowledge
production can only profit
from its elaboration
across borders
rarely crossed in academia, borders
not only of
nation but between north and south,
east and west; between
privileged research
universities and relatively under-resourced
institutions; between secular and religious contexts; among capitalist,
communist, and post-communist locations.
The International Consortium
for Graduate Studies in Women and Gender can serve as a model for
academic democracy, a structure suitable for the next stage of an
enterprise that has always linked the
production of knowledge with the hope for progressive social change.
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Participating
Institutions
Gender
Studies Program,
Bar-Ilan
University, Israel
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Women’s
Studies Department,
Ewha
Women’s University, Korea |
Center
for Women’s Studies,
Peking
University, China |
Center
for Gender &
Development Studies,
University
of the West Indies |
Department
of Gender Studies,
Central
European University, Hungary |
Gender
Studies Program,
Makerere University, Uganda |
Women’s
Studies Department,
University
of Maryland, United States |
Women
and Gender Studies Programme,
University
of the Western Cape, South Africa |
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