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Conference launching GEXcel Theme 11-12: Gender Paradoxes in Changing Academic and Scientific Organisation(s)

Launching GEXcel Theme 11-12: GEXcel Conference Gender Paradoxes in Changing Academic and Scientific Organisation(s), at Örebro University, FORUM house, Bio, May 16, 2011 at 10-17. Participation is free but participants need to register before May 9 by email to Mia Fogel, mia.fogel@oru.se. Inquiries: Liisa Husu, liisa.husu@oru.se.

Program

10:15  Welcome, professor emerita Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Örebro University, Co-chair of GEXcel

10:30  Gender Paradoxes of Changing Academic and Scientific Organisation(s) – Introductory Remarks
Professor Liisa Husu, Örebro University, Chair of GEXcel theme 11-12

11:00  Science Policy in Europe as a Tool for Change towards Gender Equality: Ten Years after the ETAN Report     
Professor Teresa Rees, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

12:00  Lunch, Restaurant Kraka, Långhuset

13:00  Sex, Grades and Southern Theory: the Impact of Feminist Research on Higher Education Globally
Professor Louise Morley, Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER), University of Sussex, UK

14:00  Gender Scholars and Gender Change Interventions in Academia: a Sustainable Approach?
Dr. Marieke van den Brink, Radboud University Nijmegen, Holland and Dr. Jen de Vries, University of Western Australia

14:30  Coffee         

15:00  French Gender Paradoxes in Changing Academic and Scientific Organisations
Dr. Suzanne de Cheveigné, CNRS, Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille, France

16:00  Concluding discussion and closing remarks  
Professor Liisa Husu, Örebro University