GEXcel Fellowships for Junior Scholars Spring 2008

Stine Adrian — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:47:50 +0200

Application Deadline:
15 October 2007 for Spring 2008

Örebro University and Linköping University, Sweden, are pleased to announce the launch of a five-year project supported to establish a Centre of Gender Excellence-- Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment. With support from the Swedish Research Council, GEXcel will carry out new research and become the foundation for a more permanent Sweden-based European Collegium for Advanced Transnational and Transdisciplinary Gender Studies.

A Visiting Fellows Programme has been organized to attract excellent senior scholars as well as promising younger scholars from Sweden and abroad with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. They will carry out thematically organized, joint gender research, under the direction of one of the six professors in Sweden who are responsible for the programme.

In 2007-08, the theme of research is “Gender, Sexuality, and Global Change,” directed by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University. Positions for junior scholars (doctoral students and postodoctoral scholars) to participate in “Gender, Sexuality, and Global Change” thematic research are now open for competition.

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for a one-month fellowship (one fellowship in Spring 2008). Fellowships include salary (deducted salaries from home universities), housing stipend, one travel to/from Sweden.

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for one fellowship of six months’ duration in Spring 2008. Fellowships include salary (deducted salaries from home universities), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

Proposals must include a current cv, an abstract of the proposed project, a narrative description (maximum: five pages) of the project to be undertaken during the fellowship, and a short bibliography. Applicants must explain specifically how the work will contribute to understanding at least one of the sub-themes of the “Gender, Sexuality, and Global Change” research theme (see detailed description at www.genderexcel.org). Doctoral Candidates must include the name and contact information for their research supervisor. Postdoctoral applicants must also include two samples of their work (published or unpublished) on the topic.

All proposals and supporting materials should be submitted electronically to Professor Anna G. Jónasdóttir, GEXcel Research Theme I Director (anna.jonasdottir@sam.oru.se) and Prof. Kathleen B. Jones, GEXcel Advisory Board Member (profjones@cox.net). A committee will evaluate all applications and select finalists.

Application Deadline:
15 October 2007 for Spring 2008 (Awards Announced in November 2007)

One Day Opening Seminar of the GEXcel Theme 1, Örebro University, October 17, 2007

Stine Adrian — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:06:46 +0200

Program

10.00 – 10.15 Welcoming to the Seminar by Janerik Gidlund (rector)

10.15 – 10.30 Introduction to GEXcel by Nina Lykke, Director of GEXcel

10.30 – 11.15 Presentation of Theme 1: Gender, sexuality and global change by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Chair of GEXcel Theme 1

11.15 – 11.30 Coffee

11.30 – 12.30 Presentation of paper: A materialist discursive approach to sexuality, sexual violence and sexualing globalisation: the case of ICTs by Jeff Hearn

12.30 – 13. 45 Lunch

13.45 – 15.00 Presentation of paper: From making tools to making love: Marx, materialism and feminist thought by Valerie Bryson

15.00 – 16.15 Presentation of paper: Globalization and its Mal(e)contents: Masculinity and Sexuality on the Extreme Right by Michael Kimmel

16.15 – 16.45 Coffee

16.45 – 17.30 Plenary Session, chaired by Kathleen B. Jones

GEXcel Conference of Workshops - Call for participation

Stine Adrian — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:51:52 +0200

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council Centre, Örebro University and Linköpings University launched a project to establish a European Center of Gender Excellence based in Sweden--Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment. In 2007-08, the theme of research sponsored by GEXcel has been “Gender, Sexuality, and Global Change,” directed by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University. See full description of the theme.

We invite applications for this conference of workshops from junior and senior scholars whose research directly addresses one of the following three sub-themes: 1) Sexuality, Love and Social Theory; 2) Power and Politics: A Feminist View; and 3) Common and Conflicted: Rethinking Interest, Solidarity, and Action.

Conference Workshop Format
The conference will begin on Thursday afternoon (22 May 2008) with three keynote addresses from leading scholars in the field. Friday and Saturday (23-24 May 2008) will be full days of workshop meetings. A final plenary will be held on Sunday morning (25 May 2008), where summaries of major research and discussion themes will be presented.

Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in progress precisely related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among junior and senior scholars. Each sub-theme will have 10 participants from several institutions, lasting 2 days. Only those scholars currently working in the workshop's field will be accepted to participate.

The workshop format is intended to enhance participation in a collegial atmosphere. Each participant (10 per sub-theme) presents a paper or research document for discussion, and takes part in the discussion of the other sub-theme papers presented. In addition, each sub-theme participant will be assigned the role of formal discussant on one paper all sub-theme participants will participate in open discussion in their group. Each sub-theme will be assigned a coordinator, whose tasks will include maintaining the group’s schedule of presentation, summarizing research and discussion themes and presenting these summaries at the closing plenary.

We expect these workshops to lead to publications, as well as to continued collaboration between members.

Dates and Location
Conference will be held at Örebro University and begins on Thursday afternoon 22 May 2008 and ends at noon on 25 May 2008. See programme here.

Application Requirements
Send an Abstract of Proposed Paper demonstrating how research specifically connects to one of the sub-themes. Include a Brief Biographical Note of no more than 250 words outlining your current research interests, most recent publications, academic affiliation and status.

Adress for Applications
gexcelmay08@oru.se

Application Deadline
10 January 2008

Notification
A committee will review applicants and notify candidates selected for participation by the end of January 2008.

Invitation to apply for visiting fellowships

Malena Gustavson — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Linköping and Örebro Universities, Sweden, are the base for the “Centre of Gender Excellence - Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment”. With support from the Swedish Research Council, GEXcel is carrying out new research and seeks to become the foundation for a more permanent Sweden-based European Collegium for Advanced Transnational and Transdisciplinary Gender Studies.

A Visiting Fellows Programme has been organized to attract scholars at different career stages from Sweden and abroad with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, who will carry out thematically organized, joint gender research, under the direction of one of the 6 professors who are responsible for the programme and working in collaboration with invited senior researchers.

In 2008-09, one of the research themes is “Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities” directed by Jeff Hearn, Professor of Gender Studies (Critical Studies on Men), Linköping University. For information on the Department of Gender Studies, see: http://www.tema.liu.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=8103&a=55198, and on the area of critical studies on men and masculinities there, see:
http://www.tema.liu.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=8103&a=57818&l=en

Positions for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to participate in thematic research on Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities are now open for competition. Postdoctoral researchers may or may not have graduated recently.

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for up to five one-month fellowships (2-3 in November/December 2008; 2-3 in April/May 2009). Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for at least two fellowships of up to 6 months’ duration (from September 2008, including 12th Nov-26th November; or in Spring 2008, including 15th-29th April 2009). Applications for periods less than 6 months are also welcome. Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

It is also possible for successful doctoral and postdoctoral candidates to extend their stay at Linköping with their own funding.

Proposals must include a current CV, an abstract of the proposed project, a description (maximum: 5 pages) of the project to be undertaken during the fellowship, and a short bibliography. Applicants should explain how the work will contribute to understanding at least one of the sub-themes (body/ageing/disability; transnationalisation; virtuality/ICTs) of the Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities research theme (see detailed description at: http://www.genderexcel.org/node/101).

Doctoral Candidates must include the name and contact information for their research supervisor(s). Postdoctoral applicants must also include two samples of their work (published or unpublished) on the topic in their application.

All proposals and supporting materials should be submitted electronically to:
Professor Jeff Hearn, GEXcel Research Theme 2 Director (jefhe@tema.liu.se)

A committee will evaluate all applications and select those who are successful, with the approval of the GEXcel Board.

Application Deadlines:
March 14 2008 for Autumn 2008 (Awards Announced in May 2008)
October 14 2008 for Spring 2009 (Awards Announced in November 2008)

Theme 2: Theme-leader: Prof. Jeff Hearn

Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities: Contradictions of Absence

This research program approaches empirical inquiry and theorizing on gender relations, intersectionality and embodiment through a focus on hegemony in relation to men and masculinities. The place of both force and consent of men in patriarchies is illuminated by a concept like hegemony that can assist engagement with both material and discursive gender power relations. Recent conceptual and empirical uses of hegemony, as in ‘hegemonic masculinity’ in the analysis of masculinities, have been subject to a variety of qualified critiques over the last 10 years or more (e.g. Hearn, 1996, 2004; Howson, 2006). Instead this program examines shifts from masculinity to men, to focus on ‘the hegemony of men’. It addresses the double complexity that men are both a social category formed by the gender system and collective and individual agents, often dominant agents. It examines through textual (official, media) and material (organizational, private) data how the category ‘men’ is used in national and transnational gender systems. These uses are both intersectional and embodied in specific ways. Dominant uses of the social category of men have often been restricted by e.g. class, ethnicity/racialization and (hetero)sexuality; these issues have been explored in e.g. postcolonial and queer theory. Less examined is the construction of the category of men in terms of assumptions about i) age, (dis)ability, ii) nationality/national context, and iii) bodily presence. This program examines how the hegemony of men is being (re)defined in relation to 3 intersectional, embodied arenas: in terms of older age, transnationalization and virtualization. These 3 aspects and ‘exclusions’ are problematized as the focus of this program over the 5 years of GEXcel. In each case these are arenas that can be seen as forms of absent presence (Hearn 1998), by marginalization by age/death, disconnection from nation, and disembodiment respectively. Each of these presents reinforcements, challenges and contradictions, to hegemonic categorizations of men.

(i) The Body, Older Men and Disability project: An under-explored area is the frequent exclusion of older men, men with certain disabilities and dying men from the category of ‘men’. (Older) Age is a contradictory source of power and disempowerment for men. This sub-theme links with qualitative/discursive doctoral research on older men and other ongoing research.

(ii) The Men of the World project: Transnationalization problematizes taken-for-granted national and organizational contexts, and thus men in those contexts in various ways, in. One interesting case here is transnational businessmen in large transnational corporations, but other relevant foci, such as militarism, and migration, are also welcome.

(iii) The Virtual Men project: Virtualization processes present sites for contestations of hegemony in terms of bodily presence/absence of men. One example is the positive, negative and contradictory effects of certain uses of ICTs upon men’s, and women’s, sexual citizenships, as men act as producers and consumers of virtuality, and are being represented and representing women in virtual media.
All these structural and agentic differentiations, with and without force, may suggest multiply differentiated (trans)patriarchies that are stable and changing, fixed and flexible. Charting the particular, changing forms of these rigidities and movements of and around the taken-for-granted social category of men may be a means of interrogating the possibility of the abolition of ‘men’ as a significant social category of power.

References: * Hearn, Jeff Is masculinity dead?? A critical account of the concepts of masculinity and masculinities, in M. Mac an Ghaill (ed.) Understanding Masculinities: Social Relations and Cultural Arenas Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1996, pp. 202-217 * Hearn, Jeff Theorizing men and men's theorizing: men’s discursive practices in theorizing men, Theory and Society, Vol. 27(6), 1998, pp. 781-816. * Hearn, Jeff From hegemonic masculinity to the hegemony of men, Feminist Theory, Vol. 5(1), 2004, pp. 49-72. At: http://fty.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/5/1/49 * Hearn, Jeff and Parkin, Wendy Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations: the Unspoken Forces of Organization Violations, Sage, London, 2001. * Hearn, Jeff and Pringle, Keith European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities: National and Transnational Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2006. * Howson, Richard Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity, Routledge, London, 2005. * Zalewski, Marysia and Palpart, Jane (eds.) (1998) The ‘Man’ Question in International Relations, Westview Press, Oxford.

Professors Directing Project

* Anita Göransson is Professor of Gender Studies with special reference to economic change and organizations. She is an economic and social historian and has done extensive work on an inter- and transdisciplinary basis. Her general research interest is how the gender order and other social hierarchies affect and interact with the formation of societies and their power orders. She has worked with extensive empirical materials and used the results in developing a theoretical approach that combines poststructural and materialist elements and stresses the analytically primary role of masculinity. Her dissertation studied the transition from the household-based to the market-based society and how the old gender order affected the transformation of society in the 19th century. She has also done work on the modern labour market, on social stratification in history and today, and on the role of kinship and other networks, as well as on gender theory. Her most recent research focuses on the Swedish power elite and how different combinations of class, gender and ethnicity affect a person’s access to power in various social fields.
* Jeff Hearn is Professor of Gender Studies, with special reference to Critical Studies on Men. He has a background in geography, urban planning, sociology, social policy and organization studies, leading onto inter- and transdisciplinary gender researches, including studies and collaborations with law, history, social psychology and medical science/gerontology. His doctoral dissertation examined social planning and social theory, with special emphasis on patriarchy theories. He has researched and published books on such areas as sexuality in workplaces, gender and oppression, children and child abuse, information society, men’s violence to women, late 19th century socio-economic change, social welfare, consumption and cultural studies, political change, management, business, European comparative studies - with a focus on empirical inquiry and intersectional theorizing.
* Anna G. Jónasdóttir is Professor of Gender Studies. Her background is in political science, sociology, economic history and psychology with social and political theory as the main field of interest. Her doctoral dissertation developed a novel approach to feminist theory of patriarchy in which she sketches three distinct but related theories: an alternative way of using historical materialism for feminist aims; a historically specific explanatory theory of contemporary patriarchy in Western societies; and a theory of gendered interests which establishes a theoretical space that allows for both common concerns and different needs and preferences. Patriarchy is theorized in terms of how love as sociosexual practices is politically organized and love power exploited. Later she has elaborated further some of the main arguments of her thesis and she has published books and articles on ongoing international feminist theory debates, governance and gender equality politics in Sweden, and feminist theory and research in Nordic countries.
* Nina Lykke is Professor of Gender Studies with special reference to Gender and Culture. From a background within literary theory and cultural studies, she has devoted her academic career to the field of inter- and transdisciplinary gender research. This has led her to an outspoken interest in feminist theory and epistemologies. Her doctoral dissertation developed a new feminist-marxist-psychoanalytical conceptual framework for analysis of embodied subjectivities and sexualities, based on literary material. In recent years, she has researched and published books and articles on feminist cultural studies of technoscience and studied relationships of sex/gender, bodies, nature, animals, science and technologies in a transnational and cultural perspective. Another current research focus is theorizing of diversity and difference in gender studies through genealogical explorations of conceptualizations of intersectionality and their reflections in feminist theorizing.
* Christine Roman is Professor of Sociology. A main area of research is continuity and change in gender relations in work and family. Her doctoral dissertation, which examines gendering processes in the so-called new economy, addresses questions concerning relations between working life and family life, as well as intersections between class and gender. She has conducted several studies within this research field, including in-depth studies of negotiations between heterosexual couples, studies of the interplay between the social sciences and family policy, and studies on feminist theory on intimate relations. Another of her research interests is social movements, with a focus on how redistribution and recognition claims are balanced, both vis-à-vis the state and vis-à-vis groups within movements, i.e. how major social divisions such as gender, sexuality, disability, and ethnicity intersect in claims for social justice.
* Barbro Wijma is Professor of Gender and Medicine, a medical doctor with gynaecology as her area of specialization, and a psychotherapist. Her thesis 1982 approached “Fear of childbirth in pregnant women” from a quantitative and a qualitative approach, and was at that time pioneering. Combining feminist perspectives on sex/gender with her medical expertise has led her to explore interdisciplinary ways of bridging the gap between natural science approaches (with focus on biology and quantitative methodology, e.g. epidemiology) with ethical, philosophical and sociological ones. Her research includes studies of women’s and men’s experiences of violence and violations in various context e.g. partner relationships and in health care, and based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, and on theories from ethics and sociology. Another field of interest is empowerment of women vis-à-vis gynaecological examinations and methods of teaching medical students how to do gynaecological examinations in a caring, sensitive and empathic way. To take control over the body, in particular in relation to sexual practices, is a related research area. Among others she leads a project about young women who feel pain during intercourse, reflected as an effect of dominating attitudes to sex and gender relations.

International Advisory Board

Elzbieta Olesky, Prof., Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Lodz, Poland
Raewyn Connell, Prof., University of Sydney, Australia
Rosi Braidotti, Prof., Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Karan Barad, Prof., Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Kathleen B. Jones, Emerita Prof., Women’'s Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
Birte Siim, Prof., Gender Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark
Leonore Davidoff, Emerita Prof., Sociology, University of Essex, UK
Berit Schei, Professor of Women’s Medicine, The Technical University of Norway, Norway

Seminar with Eudine Barriteau: "Coming, Coming, Coming Home"

Gunnel Karlsson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:14:29 +0100

Coming, Coming, Coming Home: Applying Anna Jónasdóttir’s Theory of Love Power to Theorising Sexuality and Power in Caribbean Gender Relations

Eudine Barriteau is one of the visiting fellows of GEXcel Theme 1.

Seminar with Xingkui Zhang: "Bao Ernai in China – a Contemporary Form of Polygamy or Sexual Exploitation of Women?"

Gunnel Karlsson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:18:16 +0100

Xingkui Zhang is one of the visting fellows of GEXcel Theme 1.

Seminar with Ann Ferguson: "Global Gender Solidarity and a Feminist Paradigm of Justice"

Gunnel Karlsson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:20:38 +0100

Ann Ferguson is one of the visiting fellows of GEXcel Theme 1.

Seminar with Stevi Jackson: "Materialist Feminism, the Pragmatist Self and Global Late Modernity"

Gunnel Karlsson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:22:53 +0100

Stevi Jackson is one of the visting fellows of GEXcel Theme 1.

Seminar with Kimberlé Crenshaw: "The Curious Resurrection of First Wave Feminism in the US Elections"

Gunnel Karlsson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:25:10 +0100

Kimberlé Crenshaw is one of the visting fellows of GEXcel Theme 1.

GEXcel Conference of Workshops May 2008 - Programme

Gunnel Karlsson — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:38:56 +0100

Conference Workshop Format

The conference will begin with three keynote addresses from leading scholars in the field. Friday and Saturday will be full days of workshop meetings. A final plenary will be held on Sunday morning where summaries of major research and discussion themes will be presented.

Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in progress precisely related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among junior and senior scholars. Each sub-theme will have 10 participants from several institutions, lasting 2 days.
Only those scholars currently working in the workshop's field will be accepted to participate.

The sub-themes are:
1. Sexuality, Love and Social Theory
2. Power and Politics: A Feminist View
3. Common and Conflicted: Rethinking Interest, Solidarity and Action

We expect these workshops to lead to publications, as well as to continued collaboration between members.

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Thursday May 22
11.00-13.00 Registration

Plenary Session
Location: BIO, Forumhuset

13.00-13.10   Welcome to GEXcels first thematic conference, by Prof. Nina Lykke, director of GEXcel
13.10-13.20   Presentation of the conference theme “Gender, Sexuality and Global Change”
                    by Prof. Anna G. Jónasdóttir, theme leader
13.20-15.00   "Contract, Gender and Global Change"
                    Carole Pateman
                    Professor of Political Science, UCLA/ University of California, USA
                    Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of European Studies,
                    Cardiff University, UK
                    Charles W. Mills
                    Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
15.00-15.30   Coffee
15.30-16.30   "The Politics of Prostitution Revisited"
                    Joyce Outshoorn
                    Professor of Women’s Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands
Evening         Dinner

Friday May 23
Workshops in three groups arranged by sub-theme
Location: Room F105, P105, P114 , Forumhuset

09.00-10.10   Workshops
10.10-10.30   Coffee
10.30-11.30   Workshops
11.30-13.00   Lunch
13.00-15.00   Workshops
15.00-15.30   Coffee
15.30-16.30   Workshops
Evening         Dinner free for everyone to arrange

Saturday May 24
Workshops in three groups arranged by sub-theme
Location: Room L146, L144, L142, Långhuset

09.00-10.10   Workshops
10.10-10.30   Coffee
10.30-11.30   Workshops
11.30-13.00   Lunch
13.00-15.00   Workshops
15.00-15.30   Coffee
15.30-16.30   Workshops
Evening         Dinner and entertainment

Sunday May 25
Plenary Session
Location: BIO, Forumhuset

10.00-11.00   Reports from workshops
11.00-12.00   Discussion
12.00            Lunch

See abstracts

New invitation to apply for visiting fellowship

Malena Gustavson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:28:00 +0200

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for up to five one-month fellowships (2-3 in April/May 2009). Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for at least two fellowships of up to 5 months’ duration (Spring 2009, including 15th-29th April 2009). Applications for periods less than 5 months are also welcome. Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

It is also possible for successful doctoral and postdoctoral candidates to extend their stay at Linköping with their own funding.
Proposals must include a current CV, an abstract of the proposed project, a description (maximum: 5 pages) of the project to be undertaken during the fellowship, and a short bibliography. Applicants should explain how the work will contribute to understanding at least one of the sub-themes (body/ageing/disability; transnationalisation; virtuality/ICTs) of the Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities research theme (see detailed description at: http://www.genderexcel.org/node/101).

All proposals and supporting materials should be submitted electronically to:
Professor Jeff Hearn, GEXcel Research Theme 2 Director (jefhe@tema.liu.se)

A committee will evaluate all applications and select those who are successful, with the approval of the GEXcel Board.

Application Deadlines:
October 14 2008 for Spring 2009 (Awards Announced in November 2008)

Theme 2: Theme-leader: Prof. Jeff Hearn

Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities: Contradictions of Absence

This research program approaches empirical inquiry and theorizing on gender relations, intersectionality and embodiment through a focus on hegemony in relation to men and masculinities. The place of both force and consent of men in patriarchies is illuminated by a concept like hegemony that can assist engagement with both material and discursive gender power relations. Recent conceptual and empirical uses of hegemony, as in ‘hegemonic masculinity’ in the analysis of masculinities, have been subject to a variety of qualified critiques over the last 10 years or more (e.g. Hearn, 1996, 2004; Howson, 2006). Instead this program examines shifts from masculinity to men, to focus on ‘the hegemony of men’. It addresses the double complexity that men are both a social category formed by the gender system and collective and individual agents, often dominant agents. It examines through textual (official, media) and material (organizational, private) data how the category ‘men’ is used in national and transnational gender systems. These uses are both intersectional and embodied in specific ways. Dominant uses of the social category of men have often been restricted by e.g. class, ethnicity/racialization and (hetero)sexuality; these issues have been explored in e.g. postcolonial and queer theory. Less examined is the construction of the category of men in terms of assumptions about i) age, (dis)ability, ii) nationality/national context, and iii) bodily presence. This program examines how the hegemony of men is being (re)defined in relation to 3 intersectional, embodied arenas: in terms of older age, transnationalization and virtualization. These 3 aspects and ‘exclusions’ are problematized as the focus of this program over the 5 years of GEXcel. In each case these are arenas that can be seen as forms of absent presence (Hearn 1998), by marginalization by age/death, disconnection from nation, and disembodiment respectively. Each of these presents reinforcements, challenges and contradictions, to hegemonic categorizations of men.

References: * Hearn, Jeff Is masculinity dead?? A critical account of the concepts of masculinity and masculinities, in M. Mac an Ghaill (ed.) Understanding Masculinities: Social Relations and Cultural Arenas Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1996, pp. 202-217 * Hearn, Jeff Theorizing men and men's theorizing: men’s discursive practices in theorizing men, Theory and Society, Vol. 27(6), 1998, pp. 781-816. * Hearn, Jeff From hegemonic masculinity to the hegemony of men, Feminist Theory, Vol. 5(1), 2004, pp. 49-72. At: http://fty.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/5/1/49 * Hearn, Jeff and Parkin, Wendy Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations: the Unspoken Forces of Organization Violations, Sage, London, 2001. * Hearn, Jeff and Pringle, Keith European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities: National and Transnational Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2006. * Howson, Richard Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity, Routledge, London, 2005. * Zalewski, Marysia and Palpart, Jane (eds.) (1998) The ‘Man’ Question in International Relations, Westview Press, Oxford.

Professors Directing Project

* Jeff Hearn is Professor of Gender Studies, with special reference to Critical Studies on Men. He has a background in geography, urban planning, sociology, social policy and organization studies, leading onto inter- and transdisciplinary gender researches, including studies and collaborations with law, history, social psychology and medical science/gerontology. His doctoral dissertation examined social planning and social theory, with special emphasis on patriarchy theories. He has researched and published books on such areas as sexuality in workplaces, gender and oppression, children and child abuse, information society, men’s violence to women, late 19th century socio-economic change, social welfare, consumption and cultural studies, political change, management, business, European comparative studies - with a focus on empirical inquiry and intersectional theorizing.

* Anna G. Jónasdóttir is Professor of Gender Studies. Her background is in political science, sociology, economic history and psychology with social and political theory as the main field of interest. Her doctoral dissertation developed a novel approach to feminist theory of patriarchy in which she sketches three distinct but related theories: an alternative way of using historical materialism for feminist aims; a historically specific explanatory theory of contemporary patriarchy in Western societies; and a theory of gendered interests which establishes a theoretical space that allows for both common concerns and different needs and preferences. Patriarchy is theorized in terms of how love as sociosexual practices is politically organized and love power exploited. Later she has elaborated further some of the main arguments of her thesis and she has published books and articles on ongoing international feminist theory debates, governance and gender equality politics in Sweden, and feminist theory and research in Nordic countries.

* Nina Lykke is Professor of Gender Studies with special reference to Gender and Culture. From a background within literary theory and cultural studies, she has devoted her academic career to the field of inter- and transdisciplinary gender research. This has led her to an outspoken interest in feminist theory and epistemologies. Her doctoral dissertation developed a new feminist-marxist-psychoanalytical conceptual framework for analysis of embodied subjectivities and sexualities, based on literary material. In recent years, she has researched and published books and articles on feminist cultural studies of technoscience and studied relationships of sex/gender, bodies, nature, animals, science and technologies in a transnational and cultural perspective. Another current research focus is theorizing of diversity and difference in gender studies through genealogical explorations of conceptualizations of intersectionality and their reflections in feminist theorizing.

* Christine Roman is Professor of Sociology. A main area of research is continuity and change in gender relations in work and family. Her doctoral dissertation, which examines gendering processes in the so-called new economy, addresses questions concerning relations between working life and family life, as well as intersections between class and gender. She has conducted several studies within this research field, including in-depth studies of negotiations between heterosexual couples, studies of the interplay between the social sciences and family policy, and studies on feminist theory on intimate relations. Another of her research interests is social movements, with a focus on how redistribution and recognition claims are balanced, both vis-à-vis the state and vis-à-vis groups within movements, i.e. how major social divisions such as gender, sexuality, disability, and ethnicity intersect in claims for social justice.

* Barbro Wijma is Professor of Gender and Medicine, a medical doctor with gynaecology as her area of specialization, and a psychotherapist. Her thesis 1982 approached “Fear of childbirth in pregnant women” from a quantitative and a qualitative approach, and was at that time pioneering. Combining feminist perspectives on sex/gender with her medical expertise has led her to explore interdisciplinary ways of bridging the gap between natural science approaches (with focus on biology and quantitative methodology, e.g. epidemiology) with ethical, philosophical and sociological ones. Her research includes studies of women’s and men’s experiences of violence and violations in various context e.g. partner relationships and in health care, and based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, and on theories from ethics and sociology. Another field of interest is empowerment of women vis-à-vis gynaecological examinations and methods of teaching medical students how to do gynaecological examinations in a caring, sensitive and empathic way. To take control over the body, in particular in relation to sexual practices, is a related research area. Among others she leads a project about young women who feel pain during intercourse, reflected as an effect of dominating attitudes to sex and gender relations.

International Advisory Board

Elzbieta Olesky, Prof., Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Lodz, Poland
Raewyn Connell, Prof., University of Sydney, Australia
Rosi Braidotti, Prof., Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Karen Barad, Prof., Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Kathleen B. Jones, Emerita Prof., Women’'s Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
Birte Siim, Prof., Gender Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark
Leonore Davidoff, Emerita Prof., Sociology, University of Essex, UK
Berit Schei, Professor of Women’s Medicine, The Technical University of Norway, Norway

Seminar Series Autumn 2008

Malena Gustavson — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:22:27 +0200

GEXcel Theme 2 and Tema Genus Open Seminars

August 28, Thursday 13.15-15.00
Professor Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney, Australia): 'Globalisation and Gender Relations'
Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn

September 17, Wednesday 13.15-15.00
Professor James Messerschmidt (University of Maine, USA): 'Masculinity, G.H.W. Bush and the First Gulf War' (provisional title)
Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn

October 16, Thursday 13.15-15.00
Professor Robert Morrell (University of KwaZuluNatal, South Africa): 'Reflections on hegemonic masculinity in African context: Zulu masculinity and stickfighting'
Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn

GEXcel mini conference: Men and masculinities in transnational contexts: Power, hegemony and deconstruction

If you wish to attend, please inform Dr Malena Gustavson, Email: malena.gustavson@liu.se

November 20, Thursday
Click here for full programme

• Professor Jeff Hearn (Linköping University, Sweden): ‘Deconstructing the hegemony of men and masculinities’

• Professor Sheila Jeffreys (University of Melbourne, Australia): ‘Male buyers in the global sex industry: Outsourcing women’s subordination in business and leisure prostitution’

• Dr Winifred Poster (Washington University in St Louis, USA): ‘Subversions of techno-masculinity in the global economy’

• Dr Niels Ulrik Soerensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark): ‘Detours for heterosexuality. Young boys viewing male bodies in pornography’

Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn

GEXcel Theme 2 symposium: Men, age and embodiment: Power, hegemony and deconstruction

If you wish to attend, please inform Dr Malena Gustavson, Email: malena.gustavson@liu.se

December 2, Tuesday
Please click here for full programme

• Professor Toni Calasanti (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA): ‘Aging bodies, constructions of masculinities, and the anti-aging industry’

• Dr Niels Ulrik Soerensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark): ‘Young, male and experiences of aging’

• Anna Boden (University of Lancaster, UK): ‘Performing grandfatherhood: The intersections of age and masculinity’

• Associate Professor Neal King (Virginia Tech, USA): TBA

Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn

GEXcel Theme 2: internal seminars

November 19, Wednesday 13.15-17.00
TEMCAS, T-building

• 13.15 Professor Sheila Jeffreys (University of Melbourne, Australia): `Transgenderism and male domination: The social and political implications of a harmful traditional practice’

• 15.30 Dr Winifred Poster (Washington University in St Louis, USA): `Multi-level challenges by Indian professionals to US ICT hegemony’

Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn

December 4, Thursday 13.15-17.00
Location: Faros, T-building

• 13.15 Professor Toni Calasanti (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA): ‘Old men, masculinity, and spousal care work’

• 15.30 Anna Boden (University of Lancaster, UK): ‘Older men and ageing: gendered performance, intersectionality and identity’ (provisional title)

Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn

**All speakers at GEXcel events are attached to GEXcel Theme 2 Deconstructing the hegemony of men and masculinities, Linköping University & Örebro University) as professorial, postdoctoral, doctoral or open position fellows, or, in the case of Professor Connell, member of the GEXcel International Advisory Board.
For more information on Theme 2, see: http://www.genderexcel.org/node/101
These Theme 2 events also build on ongoing work of the Research Group on Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities formed at LiU in 2006.

International Conference: The War Question for Feminism

Malena Gustavson — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:50:15 +0100

The War Question for Feminism: Gender Aspects on Militaries, Armed Conflict and Peacekeeping

22-23 September, 2008, Örebro University, Sweden

Gender aspects on militaries, armed conflict and peacekeeping and anti-war activism, 22-23 September, 2008, Örebro University, Sweden
Convenors are Erika Svedberg at Gender Studies, Örebro University and Annica Kronsell at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. The conference is organized in close collaboration with The Institute of Thematic Gender Studies, which is a new two-campus milieu for gender research at Linköping University and Örebro University in Sweden, led by Professors Nina Lykke and Anna Jónasdóttir. The institute is connected with GEXcel - Gendering Excellence (www.genderexcel.org), a five-years Visiting Fellows Programme which started in 2007 supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council. GEXcel gathers prominent senior as well as younger scholars from all over the world.

The full two-day conference will consist of a mixture of speeches by prominent scholars, panel debates and workshops with papers divided according to the three themes outlined below. There will also be a number of social events facilitating informal exchanges between conference participants. Although it is a scholarly conference based on research papers, a limited number or professionals working for governments, the EU as well as international non-governmental organizations have been invited to participate.

Speakers at the conference are:
Helena Carreiras, Cynthia Cockburn, Carol Cohn, Maud Eduards, Zillah Eisenstein, Jeff Hern, Paul Higate, Sophia Ivarsson, Annica Kronsell, Christine Sylvester, Tarja Väyrynen, Dubravka Zarkov.

Please find the programme and more info on the conference at: www.oru.se/sam/genderandwar

Theme 1: War as a Feminist Issue

The central argument for this theme is that war is a feminist issue/question. There is a long-standing and historical split within the women’s movement on whether to be pro-nation or pro-peace which seem to have made feminists somewhat uncomfortable with the war question. War is a feminist concern because conflict relations between states or organized groups affect women as well as men, violence used in violent conflict is often sexualized and because militaries and arms is a substantial part of public resource spending. If there would ever be a truly feminist state, would this state have a military organization? Would it have an army, weapon production and military spending? War is an economic issue and feminist researchers should not ignore the military/defense budget as part of the (welfare) state budget? Arms production and trade is also connected to military budgets and what would a feminist analysis of the arms trade come up with? The means used in the waging of contemporary wars – like rape, forced prostitution and other forms of sexual violence seem to be an integral part of the organized forms of violence. It shows that the means used in war-making are gendered. The trend for some militaries of western democratic states is to engage in the war on terror while another trend is to move much more into international peace-enforcement and peacekeeping. Is the trend to train militaries for peacekeeping tasks a way to de-militarize the military? Are the efforts of gender mainstreaming peacekeeping a way to feminize the military?

Theme 2: Militarism and Masculinities

This theme takes the starting point in that the military organization historically has been exclusively male and part of nation building. Nation building is highly interconnected with militaries with conscription as an illustrative example. Norms relevant for military practice like hierarchy, group cohesion and organized violence as problem solving, have been tied to norms of heterosexual masculinity. How is masculinity related to the task of the military organization? What is the relationship between masculinity and the role of the warrior, in the ‘war on terror’ militaries, insurgency, and guerrillas or in peacekeeping? Are UN peacekeepers real men or ‘sissies in arms’? Sexuality has been an integral aspect of the military organization with the wide use of pornographic material, sexualized language, sexual harassment within bases and prostitution as well as rape near military bases. As we are seeing sexualized violence in war being used against both civilians and soldiers as part of strategic warfare we might ask; what is the relationship between patriarchy, militarism and misogyny in different contexts in contemporary warfare? What does this tell us about the relationship between military violence and sexuality? Can the military be democratized? Is it possible to think of a military where men and women serve side by side as comrades, without sexism? Is it possible to move beyond the heterosexual masculinity norm as an organizing
principle of the military?

Theme 3: Feminist concepts travelling into the area of security, the military, violent conflicts and peacekeeping operations

The focus of this theme is on travelling concepts. The idea of travelling concepts was developed in the Women’s Studies/Gender Studies project Athena with the aim of considering how concepts introduced and developed by feminist scholars are used for particularly educational but also research purposes in different European contexts. A central question is how feminist concepts may be translated across linguistic and cultural barriers while still conveying the same meaning. What happens when concepts travel? When feminist concepts are put into practice, do they acquire new meanings? When new meanings develop, how can they be understood? What does it tell us about the context in which they are being used? In this theme we are particularly concerned with the translation and implementation of feminist concepts into political, policy and administrative settings. Central questions are how have, for example, the concepts of gender/gender mainstreaming/gender perspectives been used or put into practice in security, defense and military understandings and settings. One example here is the UN Security Council Resolution 1325. We want to look at how concepts from feminist research and activism travel from one setting to, for example different national settings of security policy and military strategy.

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The title of this conference was inspired by the work of Christine Sylvester. Convenors are Erika Svedberg from the Institute of Thematic Gender Studies and Örebro University and Annica Kronsell from the Department of political science at Lund University. The convenors were part of a group organizing the international conference at Lund University: A World in Transition. Feminist Perspectives on International Relations, in May 1996. A selection of papers and summaries of workshop discussions were published as a special edition of Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, 1997.This conference is a follow-up of that successful event.

The War Question for Feminism-conference is organized within the Institute of Thematic Gender Studies a new two-campus milieu for gender research at Linköping University and Örebro University in Sweden, led by Professors Nina Lykke and Anna Jónasdóttir. The conference is connected with GEXcel – Gendering Excellence (www.genderexcel.org), a fiveyears Visiting Fellows Programme which started in 2007 supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council. GEXcel gathers prominent senior as well as younger scholars from all over the world.

Mini conference: Men and masculinities in transnational contexts: Power, hegemony and deconstruction

Malena Gustavson — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:13:52 +0200

If you wish to attend, please contact: Malena Gustavson, malena.gustavson@liu.se before 9 November

Programme

9.15-10.15 Coffee & registration

10.15-10.30 Welcome
Prof. Nina Lykke (Linköping University, LiU)

10.30-11.00 Deconstructing the hegemony of men and masculinities
Prof. Jeff Hearn (LiU)

11.00-12.00  Male buyers in the global sex industry: Outsourcing women’s
                   subordination in business and leisure prostitution
                   Prof. Sheila Jeffreys (University of Melbourne, Australia)

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-13.30  A bedroom of his own: Intersections of webcams, surveillance
                   and male sexuality in the transnational context
                   PhD student Alp Biricik (Linköping University)

13.30-14.30  Detours for heterosexuality:
                   Young boys viewing male bodies in pornography
                   Dr Niels Ulrik Soerensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

14.30-15.00 Coffee

15.00-16.00 Subversions of techno-masculinity in the global economy
Dr Winifred Poster (Washington University, St Louis, USA)

16.00-17.00 End panel

17.00 Mingling

Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn

Symposium: Men, age and embodiment: Power, hegemony and deconstruction

Malena Gustavson — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:49:21 +0200

If you wish to attend, please contact Malena Gustavson, malena.gustavson@liu.se before 1 December

Programme

12.30-12.45 Registration

12.45-13.00 Introduction Prof. Nina Lykke and prof. Jeff Hearn (Linköping University)

13.00-14.00 Aging bodies, constructions of masculinities, and the anti-aging industry
Professor Toni Calasanti (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA)

14.00-14.30 The slackening self: Concepts of agency in old manhood
Associate Professor Neal King (Virginia Tech, USA)

14.30-15.00 Coffee

15.00-15.30 Performing grandfatherhood: The intersections of age and masculinity
PhD student Anna Boden (University of Lancaster, UK)

15.30-16.00 Young, male and experiences of aging
Dr Niels Ulrik Soerensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

16.00-16.30 Getting intimate: Old Age, Masculinity and new(?) Heterosexual Morphologies
PhD student Linn Sandberg (Linköping University)

16.30-17.00 Break

17.00-18.00 Roundtable

Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn

GEXcel Conference “Men and Masculinities, Moving On! Embodiments, Virtualities, Transnationalisations”

Malena Gustavson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:25:00 +0100

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, Linköping University and Örebro University launched a 5 year project to establish a European Centre of Gender Excellence based in Sweden--Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment, directed by Nina Lykke. In 2008-09, one research theme of GEXcel is “Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities,” directed by Jeff Hearn, Professor of Gender Studies, Linköping University. See full description of the Theme.

We invite applications for the conference from junior and senior scholars whose research addresses one of the following sub-themes:

• Embodiment: The body, ageing, older men, disability.
• Virtuality: Current and future impacts of information and communication technologies.
• Transnationalisation: Multiple aspects of globalisation and transnationalisation, such as multinational corporations, international finance and migration.

Each of these raises complex questions and contradictions for current critical theorising on men and masculinities.

Papers are also invited more generally on the sub-theme:
• Theorising men and masculinities: On power, hegemony, deconstruction and related debates.

Provisional speakers include: Christine Beasley (University of Adelaide, Australia), David Bell (University of Leeds, UK), Marina Blagojević (Altera MB, Budapest, Hungary), Toni Calasanti (Virginia Tech, US), Fataneh Farahani (Linköping University, Sweden), Karen Gabriel (Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, India), Jeff Hearn (Linköping University, Sweden), Richard Howson (Wollongong University), James Messerschmidt (University of Southern Maine, US), Winifred Poster (Washington University, St Louis, US), Niels Ulrik Sørensen (Aarhus University, Denmark).

Format: This conference will begin on Monday afternoon (27 April 2009) with keynote addresses. Tuesday and Wednesday (28-29 April 2009) will be based on a small-scale conference format, along with some workshop meetings (on each of the four sub-themes), and a final plenary panel on 29 April.

Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in progress related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among junior and senior scholars. Each sub-theme workshop will have about 10-12 participants.

Each sub-theme will be assigned a coordinator, whose tasks will include summarising research and discussion themes and presenting these summaries at the closing plenary. We expect the conference and workshops to lead to publications, as well as to continued collaboration between members.

Costs: Meals and hospitality will be provided by GEXcel. Costs for accommodation and travel will normally be paid by participants. Very exceptionally, some contribution may be made.

Application Requirements: Send an Abstract of Proposed Paper of up to 250 words demonstrating how research connects to one of the sub-themes. Please also include a Brief Biographical Note of up to 150 words outlining your current research interests, most recent publications, academic affiliation and status.

Address for Applications
coordinator@genderexcel.org

Application Deadline
20 January 2009

Notification
A committee will review applicants and notify candidates selected for participation by early February 2009.

New invitation to apply for GEXcel visiting fellowships

Malena Gustavson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:04:39 +0100

The research theme is "Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment. Bridging Epistemological Gaps" (Theme 4-5), jointly directed by
* Nina Lykke, Professor of Gender and Culture, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden,
* Barbro Wijma, Professor of Gender and Medicine, Division of Gender and Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden.

EXTENDED DEADLINE - February 1, 2009 (for Spring and Autumn 2009)

See detailed theme description at: http://www.genderexcel.org/node/107

Announcement:

A Visiting Fellows Programme has been organized to attract scholars at different career stages from Sweden and abroad with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. The visiting fellows will carry out thematically organized, joint gender research, under the direction of one or two of the professors, responsible for the programme, and collaborate with invited senior researchers.

In 2009, one of the research themes is “Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment. Bridging Epistemological Gaps”, directed by
* Nina Lykke, Professor of Gender and Culture, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden,
see also: http://www.tema.liu.se/tema-g
* Barbro Wijma, Professor of Gender and Medicine, Division of Gender and Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden,
see: www.hu.liu.se/ike/genus_medicin/amnet

Positions for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to participate in thematic research on “Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment. Bridging Epistemological Gaps" are now open for competition. Postdoctoral researchers may or may not have graduated recently.

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for up to 8 one or two-month fellowships (in Nov-Dec 2009, including Nov 23-Dec 6, 2009, and a shorter 1-2 weeks stay in Spring 2009, including June 15-17, where a joint kick-off conference for all fellows of Theme 4-5 will take place). Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

Proposals are also invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for at least 3-4 fellowships of up to 6-8 months’ duration (preferably starting May-June 2009 including June 15-17 + Nov 23-Dec 6, 2009). Applications for periods less than 6 months are also welcome. Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

It is also possible for successful doctoral and postdoctoral candidates to extend their stay at Linköping University with their own funding.

Proposals must include a current CV, an abstract of the proposed project, a description of the project (maximum: 5 pages) to be undertaken during the fellowship, and a short bibliography.

Applicants should explain how their project will contribute to the understanding of at least one of the three sub-themes of the “Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment. Bridging Epistemological Gaps" research theme. The three sub-themes are:
* sex education and sexual empowerment
* critical sexology
* gendered violence

Preferably, applicants should also reflect on the ways in which their contribution will interact with the cross-cutting theme:
* cross- and transdisciplinary, feminist approaches to gendered, sexualised and racialised bodies and ethics.

Doctoral Candidates must include the name and contact information for their research supervisor(s). Postdoctoral applicants must include two samples of their work (published or unpublished) on the topic in their application.

All proposals and supporting materials should be submitted electronically to:
GEXcel Academic Coordinator Katherine Harrison application@genderexcel.org , marked application for GEXcel Research Theme 4-5.

A committee will evaluate all applications and select those who are successful, with the approval of the GEXcel Board.

Application Deadlines:
Feb 1, 2009, for 2009 (Awards Announced in March 2009)

GEXcel Theme 2 Conference – Call for participation

Katherine Harrison — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:48:02 +0100

Sub-themes for this conference are:

Each of these raises complex questions and contradictions for current critical theorising on men and masculinities.

Attendee registration is now open for this conference. Please register to attend by emailing coordinator@genderexcel.org no later than 13 April 2009.

Provisional speakers include: Christine Beasley (University of Adelaide, Australia), David Bell (University of Leeds, UK), Marina Blagojevic (Altera MB, Budapest, Hungary), Toni Calasanti (Virginia Tech, US), Fataneh Farahani (Linköping University, Sweden), Karen Gabriel (Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi, India), Brendan Gough (Nottingham Trent University), Miklós Hadas (University of Budapest), Jeff Hearn (Linköping University, Sweden), Richard Howson (Wollongong University), David Jackson (Nottingham), Katarzyna Kosmala (University of West of Scotland), Marie Nordberg (Karlstad University, Sweden), Irene Ryan (Auckland University of Technology), Gurchathen Sangera Singh (University of St Andrews, Scotland), Niels Ulrik Sørensen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Suruchi Thapar-Björkert (Bristol University), Jutta Weber (University of Uppsala, Sweden).

Costs: Meals and hospitality will be provided by GEXcel. Costs for accommodation and travel will normally be paid by participants. Very exceptionally, some contribution may be made.

Address for Registration:
coordinator@genderexcel.org

Deadline for Registration:
13 April 2009

GEXcel Symposium: Men/masculinities, Transnational, Spatial, Virtual: Hegemony, power and deconstruction

Katherine Harrison — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:36:04 +0200

A one-day GEXcel Symposium on "Men/masculinities, Transnational, Spatial, Virtual: Hegemony, Power and Deconstruction" will be held at Temcas room, T Building-Linköping University, Tuesday 5 May, 2009. The event is organized as part of GEXcel Theme 2, "Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities: Contradictions of Absence" (for more information) with a special focus on transnational and transdisciplinary studies of gender relations, intersectionalities and embodiment at which the following current GEXcel scholars present their work:

Dr. Chris Beasley, University of Adelaide, Australia: "The Challenge of Pleasure: Let's Talk about Sex in Gender Masculinity Studies"
Dr. David Bell, Leeds University, UK: "The Gays and the Geeks"
Nil Mutluer, Central European University Budapest, Hungary: "The Role of Transnational and National Networks in Internally Displaced Men's Everyday Life"
PK Vijayan, Hindu College, Delhi University, India: "The RSS and the Cultivation of the National Man"

To participate, please register with Alp Biricik (alpbi@tema.liu.se) before April 30, 2009.

GEXcel Themes 4&5 Kick-off Conference

Katherine Harrison — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:46:13 +0200

GEXcel Themes 4&5 Kick-off Conference
for GEXcel scholars and CritSex Network

”Critical Feminist Dialogues on Sex Education, Violence and Sexology: Between Agency, Pleasure, Shame and Pain”: a kick-off conference for GEXcel Themes 4&5 “Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment: Bridging Epistemological Gaps”

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, Linköping University and Örebro University launched a 5 year project to establish a European Centre of Gender Excellence based in Sweden--Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment, directed by Nina Lykke. Taking place during 2009-10, Themes 4&5 will be jointly headed by Nina Lykke, feminist cultural studies scholar and Prof. of Gender and Culture, Linköping University. and Barbro Wijma, feminist Gynaecologist and Prof. of Gender and Medicine, Linköping University. See full description of the Themes

Conference subthemes:
Sex education
Critical sexology
Violence

Keynote speakers include: Kathy Davis (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Jeff Hearn (Linköping University, Sweden), Janice Irvine (University of Massachusetts, USA), Margrit Shildrick (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland), Suruchi Thapar-Björkert (University of Bristol, UK).

Format: This conference will begin on Monday morning (15 June 2009) with keynote addresses and an Introduction to GEXcel Themes 4&5. Tuesday and Wednesday (16-17 June 2009) will include further keynote addresses combined with parallel workshop meetings (on each of the sub-themes), and a final plenary panel on 17 June. Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in progress related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among junior and senior scholars. Each sub-theme workshop will have about 10-12 participants. Each sub-theme will be assigned a coordinator, whose tasks will include summarising research and discussion themes and presenting these summaries at the closing plenary. We expect the conference and workshops to lead to publications, as well as to continued collaboration between members. Click here for full programme

For more information contact:
coordinator@genderexcel.org

See below for pictures from the June 2009 conference:

GEXcel Symposium:"Distinctions and Authority. New Trends in Gender, Work and Power"

Katherine Harrison — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:40:08 +0200

A two-day symposium on "Distinctions and Authority. New Trends in Gender, Work and Power" (previously titled: "Distinctions and Authority: Specifying and Contextualizing the Orders of Distinction and the Recognition of Authority") will be held on October 8-9 2009, at T Building, Linköping University (please see below for programme). The event is organized as part of GEXcel Theme 3: Disinctions and Authorization (click here for more details on Theme 3).

The emerging new global division of labor is both gendered and based on ethnic divisions. It is also creating new class structures which are complicated by regional difference and educational stratification, as well as the gender division of labor and migration. This development coincides with the tertiarization of work and new employment arrangements that could be connected with the shift in power relations between socioeconomic groups.

This development calls for a more intensive discussion of the new distinctions or social categories of various kinds and how to study them simultaneously. The analytical value of the gender concept has increasingly been problematized in gender research and debate. Today this relativizing may be said to have reached new depths in the call for systematic analysis of intersectionalities and of contextualities. Do we need a new understanding of the class concept adapted to today's multicultural, gendered and service dominated information society? Have life styles and consumption become so important as to affect our evaluation of social groups and strata - more or as much as the occupational position and economic possibilities of a person or a group? What is the role of equality policies in the interconnections between different power orders/inequality regimes?

To participate, please register by September 21 by email to: coordinator@genderexcel.org

Programme:

Thursday October 8

13:15-13:30 Welcome (Anne-Li Lindgren, Prefect, Tema Institute, Linköping University)

13:30-14:15 Welcome and Introduction: Power Shifts in the Service and Knowledge Society (prof Anita Göransson, Linköping University, Sweden)

14:15-15:15 Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities (prof Sylvia Walby, Lancaster University, UK)

15:15-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-16:45 Eduscapes. Gendered Imaginaries. Educational Biographies and Speaking Positions. (prof Ulf Mellström, Luleå Technical University, Sweden)

19:00 Symposium Dinner

Friday October 9

9:15-10:15 Care, Migration and the Gender Order (prof Ursula Apitzsch, J W Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany )

10:15-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-11:45 Work Life Balance for Fathers in Globalized Knowledge Work. Some Insights from the Norwegian Context (prof Elin Kvande, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

12-13:15 Lunch

13:15-14:45 Concluding panel debate

GEXcel Themes 4&5 Conference – Call for abstracts and participation

Katherine Harrison — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:11:39 +0200

November 24-26
Linköping University, Sweden

GEXcel’s current theme, Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment: Bridging Epistemological Gaps invites junior and senior scholars to attend a workshop conference 24-26 November 2009.

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, Linköping University and Örebro University launched a 5 year project to establish a European Centre of Gender Excellence based in Sweden--Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment, directed by Nina Lykke. Taking place during 2009-10, Themes 4&5 will be jointly headed by Nina Lykke, feminist cultural studies scholar and Prof. of Gender and Culture, Linköping University. and Barbro Wijma, feminist Gynaecologist and Prof. of Gender and Medicine, Linköping University. Click here for full description of the Themes.

Conference subthemes:
Sex education
Critical sexology
Violence

Keynote speakers include: Kathy Davis (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Ann Pelligrini (New York University, USA) and Nina Lykke (Linköping University, Sweden), with panel presentations by the GEXcel Themes 4&5 visiting scholars (for more details on the scholars, click here).

Abstracts are now invited for this conference. Please send abstracts (max 250 words in English) and a brief biography (max 150 words) no later than 23 October 2009 to coordinator@genderexcel.org

Attendee registration is now open for this conference. Please register to attend by emailing coordinator@genderexcel.org no later than 23 October 2009. Places are limited.

Format: This conference will begin on Tuesday morning (24 November 2009) with keynote addresses and an Introduction to GEXcel Themes 4&5. Wednesday and Thursday (25-26 November 2009) will include further keynote addresses combined with parallel workshop meetings (on each of the sub-themes), and a final plenary panel on 26 November. Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in progress related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among junior and senior scholars. Each sub-theme workshop will have about 10-12 participants. Each sub-theme will be assigned a coordinator, whose tasks will include summarising research and discussion themes and presenting these summaries at the closing plenary. We expect the conference and workshops to lead to publications, as well as to continued collaboration between members.

Costs: There is no conference registration fee. Lunches, welcome reception and coffees will be provided by GEXcel. Costs for accommodation and travel will normally be paid by participants. (The cost of the conference dinner on November 25th will be covered for GEXcel scholars and members of the Network on Sex Education and Critical Sexuality Studies. All other participants will be asked to contribute SEK 400 if they wish to attend the dinner).

Address for Registration and Abstract submission:
coordinator@genderexcel.org

Deadline for Registration and Abstract submission:
23 October 2009

Invitation to apply for visiting fellowship

Katherine Harrison — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:55:41 +0200

Örebro University and Linköpings University of Sweden are pleased to announce the continuation of the five-year project supported to establish a Centre of Gender Excellence-- "Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment". With support from the Swedish Research Council GEXcel is carrying out new research as part of its development of a more permanent Sweden-based European Collegium for Advanced Transnational and Transdisciplinary Gender Studies.

A Visiting Fellows Programme has been organized to attract scholars from Sweden and abroad with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, who will carry out thematically organized, joint gender research, under the direction of one of the six professors in Sweden who are responsible for the programme and working in collaboration with invited senior researchers.

In 2010, one research theme will be “Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism,” directed by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University. Positions for doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars to participate in this research are now open for competition. For more information on this theme, please click here.

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for one-month fellowships in Fall 2010 (one or two fellowships will be available). Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden. Fellows selected for the program will be expected to participate in a workshop launching the theme of research in late May 2010 in Örebro, and then return in Fall 2010 for their residency.

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for one or two fellowships of four – eight months’ duration (Fall 2010). Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden. Fellows selected for the program will be expected to participate in a workshop launching the theme of research in late May 2010 in Örebro, and then return in Fall 2010 for their residency.

Proposals must include a current cv, an abstract of the proposed project, a narrative description (maximum: five pages) of the project to be undertaken during the fellowship, and a short bibliography.
Applicants must explain specifically how the work will contribute to understanding the research theme (http://www.genderexcel.org/node/220). Doctoral Candidates must include the name and contact information for their research supervisor. Postdoctoral applicants must also include two samples of their work (published or unpublished) related to the research topic.

All proposals and supporting materials should be submitted electronically to GEXcelTheme10@oru.se
A committee will evaluate all applications and select finalists.

Application Deadline:
10 January 2010

Two open lectures by Prof. Johan Galtung

Katherine Harrison — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:38:55 +0100

GEXcel: Gendering EXcellence Themes 4 & 5 is proud to announce two open lectures by Prof. Johan Galtung:

9 – 12, December 1, 2009
Conciliation, Mediation and Peace building – with examples
(Location: BERZELIUSSALEN,Ingång 65, Campus US, Linköping)

9 – 12, December 2, 2009
A Theory of Violence: Direct, Structural, Cultural – with examples
(Location: BL32/NOBEL-salen, ingång 23, B-building, Campus Valla, Linköping)

No registration required. Limited seating on a ‘first come, first
seated’ basis. Lectures will start at 9.00 sharp.

For more information on GEXcel, see:
http://www.genderexcel.org/

GEXcel Themes 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9: Invitation to apply for visiting fellowships

Katherine Harrison — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:31:27 +0100

Positions for doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars to
participate in this research are now open for competition in five of
the GEXcel themes:

•    GEXcel Themes 3 & 6 - Distinctions and Authority: Power Shifts
and New Divisions in Society, Work and Universities. EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR
APPLICATIONS: 9 APRIL 2010.
•    GEXcel Themes 7 & 8 - Teaching Normcritical Sex - Getting Rid
of Violence. TRANSdisciplinary, TRANSnational and TRANSformative
Feminist Dialogues on Embodiment, Emotions and Ethics. DEADLINE FOR
APPLICATIONS: 16 APRIL 2010.
•    GEXcel Theme 9 - Gendered sexualed transnationalisations,
deconstructing the dominant: Transforming men, “centres” and
knowledge/policy/practice. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 16 APRIL 2010.
•    Please read on for full details of all five themes.

Background to GEXcel

Linköping and Örebro Universities, Sweden, are the base for the “Centre
of Gender Excellence - Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a
European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary
Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and
Embodiment”. With support from the Swedish Research Council, GEXcel is
carrying out new research and seeks to become the foundation for a more
permanent International Collegium for Advanced Transnational and
Transdisciplinary Gender Studies.

A Visiting Scholars Programme has been organized to attract scholars at
different career stages from Sweden and abroad with a variety of
disciplinary backgrounds. The visiting scholars will carry out
thematically organized, joint gender research, under the direction of
one or two of the professors, responsible for the programme, and
collaborate with invited senior researchers.

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Information on the Themes

Themes 3 & 6

In 2010 there will be a joint theme titled “Distinctions and Authority:
Power Shifts and New Divisions in Society, Work and Universities”. This
joint theme will be directed by Anita Göransson, Professor of Gender,
Organization and Economic Change, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty
of Arts and Social Sciences, Linköping University. Positions for
doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars to participate in this
research are now open for competition. For more information on this
theme, please click here for Theme 3, and here for Theme 6

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for
one-month fellowships in 2010. Fellowships include salary (with a
deduction for existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to
Sweden. Scholars selected for the program will be expected to
participate in a workshop launching the theme of research in mid-May in
Linköping and then stay on and/or return in the autumn for their
residency.

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to
applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for fellowships of 1-4
months’ duration in the late spring and/or early autumn of 2010.
Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing salary),
housing stipend and travel to Sweden. Scholars selected for the
programme will be expected to participate in a workshop launching the
theme in mid-May 2010 in Linköping and then stay on and/or return in
autumn 2010 for their residency.

Applicants to this joint theme (Themes 3 & 6) should explain how
their project will make a contribution to the understanding of at least
one of the three sub-themes of the “Distinctions and Authority”
research theme. The three sub-themes are:

1.   Rethinking Class in an Intersectional Perspective
2.   Gender, Class and Ethnicity in Care and Knowledge Work
3.   Shifting the Power over and within Universities

Themes 7 & 8

In 2010/2011, there will be a joint research theme titled, “Teaching
Normcritical Sex - Getting Rid of Violence. TRANSdisciplinary,
TRANSnational and TRANSformative Feminist Dialogues on Embodiment,
Emotions and Ethics”. The research will be carried out with a focus on
two sub-themes:

1. Gendered violence – will be in focus in the FALL/WINTER of 2010/11.
2. Critical, intersectional studies of sexualities – will be in focus in SPRING of 2011.

This joint theme will be directed by Barbro Wijma, Professor of Gender and Medicine, Division of Gender and Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden, and Nina Lykke, Professor of Gender and Culture, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden.

Positions for doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars to participate in sub-theme 1are now open for competition.
Positions for doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars to participate in sub-theme 2 will be announced later this year.

For more information on the themes, please click here

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for one- to
four-months fellowships in the Fall/Winter of 2010/11 and with a ‘peak
period’ Week 41-42 (October 11-24), where all scholars are expected to
be in residence and participate in joint seminars. Up to four
fellowships will be available. Fellowships include salary (with a
deduction for existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to
Sweden.

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to
applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for one- to six-months
fellowships in the Fall/Winter of 2010/11 with a ‘peak period’ Week
41-42 (October 11-24), where all scholars are expected to be in
residence and participate in joint seminars. Up to nine fellowships
will be available. Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for
existing salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.

Applicants should explain how their project will make a transnationally
informed contribution to the understanding of the overall theme
“Teaching Normcritical Sex - Getting Rid of Violence TRANSdisciplinary,
TRANSnational and TRANSformative Feminist Dialogues on Embodiment,
Emotions and Ethics” with a particular focus on the subtheme ‘Gendered
violence’.

Theme 9

In the academic year 2010-2011, there will be a research theme on
“Gendered sexualed transnationalisations, deconstructing the dominant:
Transforming men, “centres” and knowledge/policy/practice” directed by
Jeff Hearn, Professor of Gender Studies, with special reference to
Critical Studies on Men, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts
and Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden. This builds on previous
Themes 1 “Gender, sexuality and global change” & 2 “Deconstructing the
hegemony of men and masculinities” . Positions for doctoral students
and post-doctoral scholars to participate in this research are now open
for competition. Theme 9 has three sub-themes:

1. impact of transnationalisations on privileged “centres”
2. transnationalisations of knowledge
3. deconstructing the hegemony of men and masculinities

For more information on this Theme 9, please click here.

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for
one-month fellowships in late May/early June 2011 (up to 4 fellowships
will be available). Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for
existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.
Scholars selected for the program will be expected to participate in a
workshop launching the theme of research in the week commencing 24
January 2011 in Linköping, and then return in in May/June 2011 for
their residency (all scholars must be in Linköping for the key period
23 May 2011 - 3 June 2011).

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to
applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for up to 5 fellowships of
1-4 months’ duration (May/June 2011). Fellowships include salary (with
a deduction for existing salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden.
Scholars selected for the programme will be expected to participate in
a workshop launching the theme of research in week commencing 24
January 2011 in Linköping, and then return in May/June 2011 for their
residency (all scholars must be in Linköping for the key period 23 May
2011 - 3 June 2011).

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Application instructions for Themes 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9

All proposals must include a current CV, an abstract of the proposed
project, a narrative description (maximum: five pages) of the project
to be undertaken during the fellowship, and a short bibliography. We
welcome applications (focusing on one or more of the sub-themes of the
chosen theme), to become part of this thriving research environment.

Doctoral candidates must include the name and contact information for
their research supervisor. Postdoctoral applicants must also include
two samples of their work (published or unpublished) related to the
research topic.

It is also possible to make an application to participate in the theme
as a self-funded GEXcel Open Position Scholar. Applications for this
should include similar materials.

All proposals and supporting materials should be submitted electronically to:
GEXcel Academic Coordinator
Email: application@genderexcel.org
All applications must be clearly marked in the subject of the email:
Application for GEXcel Research Theme 3/6/7/8/9 (delete as applicable).

A committee will evaluate all applications and select those who are successful, with the approval of the GEXcel Board.

Application Deadlines:
Themes 3 & 6: EXTENDED TO 9 April 2010
Themes 7 & 8: 16 April 2010 (Awards Announced by mid- May 2010)
Theme 9: 16 April 2010 (Awards Announced by end of May 2010)

Opening Seminar of Theme 10: Love in Our Time – a Question for Feminism

Gunnel Karlsson — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:35:30 +0100

Please, register here by May 3!

Program

Location: Örebro University, Hörsal G (Lecture Hall G), Gymnastikhuset

9.30–10.15
Coffee

10.15–10.30
Welcoming
by Jens Schollin, Rector of Örebro University

10.30–11.10
Presentation of Theme 10: Love in Our Time – a Question for Feminism
by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Örebro University

11.10–11.50
Affective Equality: Love, Care and Solidarity as Productive Forces
by Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin

11.50–12.30
Equalize Love! Intimate citizenship beyond marriage
by Eleanor Wilkinson, University of Leeds

12.30–13.45
Lunch

13.45–14.25
Love and Bodies: Shouts or Whispers? A look at discursive representation of body in Iranian love blogs
by Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty, Lancaster University

14.25–14.50
Coffee

14.50–15.30
Reading Hannah Arendt’s Life Writing: An Intimate Political Biography of Love
by Kathleen B. Jones, San Diego State University

15.30–16.00
Concluding discussion

GEXcel Themes 3 & 6 Conference

bjorn — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:12:28 +0100

GEXcel Themes 3 & 6 Conference
14-16 June 2010
Linköping University, Sweden

CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION

POWER SHIFTS AND NEW DIVISIONS IN SOCIETY, WORK AND UNIVERSITIES

GEXcel Themes 3 & 6, “Distinctions & Authority” and “Gender, Class and the Power over Immaterial Production”, invite junior and senior scholars to apply for a joint international conference 14-16 June 2010 at GEXcel Gender Centre of Excellence, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden..

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, Linköping University and Örebro University launched a 5-year project to establish a European Centre of Gender Excellence based in Sweden--Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment, directed by Nina Lykke. Taking place during 2010, Themes 3 & 6 will be headed by Anita Göransson, Professor of Gender Studies with special reference to economic change and organizations, Linköping University.
See full description of the Theme 3
See full description of the Theme 6

Conference subthemes:

1) Rethinking Class in an Intersectional Perspective
2) Gender, Class and Ethnicity in Care and Knowledge Work
3) Shifting the Power over and within Universities

Keynote speakers include (confirmed so far):

Professors
Joan Acker, USA
Ursula Apitzsch, Germany
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, USA
Elin Kvande, Norway

Format: This conference will begin on Monday morning (14 June 2010) with keynote addresses and an Introduction to GEXcel Themes 3&6. Tuesday and Wednesday (15-16 June 2010) will include further keynote addresses combined with parallel workshop meetings (on each of the sub-themes), and a final plenary panel on 16 June. Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in progress related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among junior and senior scholars. Each sub-theme workshop will have about 10-12 participants. Each sub-theme will be assigned a coordinator, whose tasks will include summarising research and discussion themes and presenting these summaries at the closing plenary. We expect the conference and workshops to lead to publications, as well as to continued collaboration between members.

Application Requirements: Send an Abstract of Proposed Paper of up to 250 words demonstrating how research connects to one of the sub-themes. Please also include a Brief Biographical Note of up to 150 words outlining your current research interests, most recent publications, academic affiliation and status.

Address for Applications
coordinator@genderexcel.org

Application Deadline
Abstracts should be emailed no later than April 16, 2010. The result will be announced later in April.

Participant Registration: Attendee registration is now open for this conference. Please register to attend by emailing coordinator@genderexcel.org no later than May 1, 2010.

Theme 7 & 8 Seminar

bjorn — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:03:50 +0200

On the Wednesday afternoon, Oct 6th Neloufer de Mel, professor from Colombo university, Sri Lanka, will talk on: Re-thinking Gender, Ethnicity and Development in Post-War Sri Lanka , which will deal with contemporary events in Sri Lanka.

Additional speakers will be announced later.

Up-Coming Conference, October 12th - 14th

bjorn — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:31:08 +0200

During the peak period, in October 2010, for Subtheme 7 "Getting Rid of Violence," part of Theme 7 & 8: "Teaching Normcritical Sex - Getting Rid of Violence. TRANSdisciplinary, TRANSnational and TRANSformative Feminist Dialogues on Embodiment, Emotions and Ethics", a conference with internationally reputed researchers is planned.

The preliminary title is:

Violences and Silences: Shaming, Blaming – and Intervening

During the conference focus will be on the role of silences and silencing, shame and blaming for maintaining violence, thus expanding the concept of “perpetrator”. Discussions on intervention strategies will be based on including such possible mechanisms.

The program of the conference will be continuously updated on the GEXcel home page and call for abstracts from participants who want to present during a seminar will be launched together with registration forms in the late half of August.

Theme 7 & 8 Seminar

bjorn — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:07:17 +0200

GEXcel scholars Shirin Seidi, and Katarina Swahnberg and Sunil Kumar Joshi will present their research projects.