The Feminist Pedagogies Circle (FemPeC) is a network of teaching staff at Radboud University who (want to) teach on topics that fall within, or are closely related to, feminist studies (e.g. gender, sexuality, race, post-colonialism, intersectionality) and/or who are interested in feminist pedagogies.

About five times a year, the members meet to discuss the challenges of teaching gender studies, critical race theory or disability studies, the dilemmas in dealing with “anti-wokeness” outside and inside the university, and share our joyful experiences and painful encounters in the diverse classrooms in which we all teach. Our mission is to improve our teaching and mentoring through the exchange of knowledge and ideas, and to forge new relationships between like-minded colleagues.

Special Issue for the Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies What is a ‘feminist’ classroom in the university? Is it a classroom in which feminist topics or authors are discussed? Or one in which a specific feminist approach to teaching and learning is practiced? How do teachers and students create and maintain the university classroom as a feminist space? How is such a classroom affected by larger regressive social trends – importantly, ‘anti-woke’ discourses that dismiss gender studies as an ideological hype? And how is the feminist classroom constrained by institutions – notably, the neoliberalisation of universities?

Such questions are at the heart of the special issue on ‘The Feminist Classroom: Contestations, Pedagogies, Horizons’ published in the Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies.

This event is open to students and staff members from within and outside Radboud University. Please find more information and sign up using the form