Participants from Seminars on Gender, Sexuality and Politics 2006-2007
 (Images will be uploaded soon)  Next Seminar will run from: 5 - 26th June 2008


Background

The African Gender Institute (AGI) was established in 1996 with the aim of developing theoretical and practical understandings of gender and its importance in the process of social transformation in Africa. The AGI facilitates links between intellectuals, policymakers and practitioners working towards the attainment of gender equity in Africa, and achieves this through academic teaching, research work and applied project work.

The AGI has received funding from the International Development Research Centre and from the Ford Foundation to support a programme of intensive capacity-building for African-based researchers, with an interest in feminism, gender and sexuality. The aims of the programme are to stimulate strong, African-based, research which takes issues of sexuality and gender seriously and to support current African research initiatives through offering in-depth opportunity to develop conceptual and methodological tools for African feminist writers and researchers relatively new to issues of sexuality.  

The Researcher Associateships

Research Associates will be hosted for a short period (3 weeks) at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town. During this period, Associates will participate in an intensive teaching seminar, in which they will be offered (a) in-depth exploration of contemporary theories concerning issues of feminism, gender, and sexuality with African contexts (b) sustained engagement with issues of research methodology relevant to work in sexuality and gender in diverse contexts. The seminar will be conducted in English, and led by experts in the field, including Professor Jane Bennett, of the African Gender Institute, and Dr. Charmaine Pereira of the Network for Women’s Studies in Nigeria.