GEXcel news

The Swedish Research Council’s investment in gender research

bjorn — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:13:01 +0200

A Success
The Swedish Research Council’s evaluation of the three excellent gender research milieux in Linköping/Örebro, Umeå, and Uppsala shows that the investment has produced very positive results. The scientific quality is ranked as ‘good to outstanding’ and the milieux are given credit for establishing new and internationally recognized gender research.
- It has been the case that these kinds of investments not necessarily always result in excellent research. But we have succeeded in doing this; our research is both internationally important and at the forefront in many areas, says Margareta Fahlgren, research leader of Uppsala University’s excellence program GenNa.

The Research Council’s evaluative panel emphasizes the investment’s added value of enabling more resources for doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers and also that all the milieux have established organizations which enable junior researchers to develop as leaders and researchers.
- The most important is, that we have secured a new generation of gender researchers who are able to continue the work we have started, says Nina Lykke, research leader for Linköping/Örebro Universities excellence programme GEXcel.

The productivity within the milieux is mirrored in the many international conferences that have been organized, the networks and strong research groups that has been established, the increased international publication, the book series with the Routledge publishing house in New York, and the many international guest researchers that the centres have attracted. The research performed has shown societal relevance and concerns fields such as democratic development, health, science education and practice, love, sexuality and violence, and cultural systems of norms, among other things.
- Strategic leadership with different models has been the foundation that has led to this fantastic result. Even though we have been organized differently, we have all focused on continuity and sustainability when building our research programs, says Britta Lundgren, research leader of Umeå University’s program ‘Challenging Gender’.

The economic support from the Research Council will end at the end of year 2011.
- We hope for a continued investment in our research milieux, from the Research Council, this has been the case in other excellence investments, say the three research leaders.

Background
The Research Council Vetenskapsrådet appointed, in 2006 , three Swedish milieux of gender research as Centres of Gender Excellence: the research programs of GEXcel at Linköping/Örebro Universities, GenNa at Uppsala University and Challenging Gender at Umeå University/Mitt University. The final evaluation that has now been conducted has focused on evaluating the funding model, the quality of the research and the development within the research milieux and it will among other things work as a ground for future funding models.

International Conference: Gender Paradoxes in Academic and Scientific Organisation(s) – Change, Excellence and Interventions

Lena Gunnarsson — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:24:08 +0200

INFORMATION ON ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY and how to get there (see especially under the link Visitors)

ACCOMMODATION

PROGRAM

Wednesday 19 October

19:00 - 21:00 Get-together and welcome Rosengrens skafferi, Engelbrektsgatan 3 (city centre, see map)

Thursday 20 October

08:30 – 09:30 Coffee and registration Örebro university, Forum building

09:30 – 09:45 Welcome co-director Anna Jónasdóttir, Örebro University

09:45 – 10:15 Introduction by Liisa Husu, Örebro University

10:15 – 11:00 Plenary session 1. Gender Paradoxes in Organizations
Chair: Teresa Rees, Cardiff University, UK
Discussants: Marieke van den Brink, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, Jan Currie, Murdoch University, Australia; Jeff Hearn, Linköping University, Sweden

11:00 –11:30 Coffee and tea

11:30 – 12:00 Workshop groups A, B and C: Introductions

•   Change. Workshop group A
•   Excellence. Workshop group B
•   Interventions. Workshop group C

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 15:00 Workshop groups A, B and C

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee

15:30 – 16:15 Plenary session 2. The Paradox of Excellence
Chair: Liisa Husu, Örebro University
Discussants: Teresa Rees, Cardiff University, UK; Helen Peterson, Linköping University, Sweden; Irina Nikiforova, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

16:15 – 17:00 Plenary session 3. Misogyny Posing as Measurement: The Feminization Paradox in Academia. Louise Morley, University of Sussex, UK

17:00 – 17:30 Wrap up discussion

18:00 Conference Dinner, Faculty Club

Friday 21 October

08:30 – 09:00 Coffee and tea

09:00 – 11:00 Workshop groups A, B and C continue

11:15 – 12:00 Plenary session 4. The Paradox of Change and Interventions
Chair: Louise Morley
Discussants: Heike Kahlert, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany; Jen de Vries, University of Western Australia; Helene Schiffbaenker, Joanneum Research, Austria

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 15:00 Workshop groups A, B and C continue

15:00 – 15:45 Plenary session 5. Feedback from the groups

15:45 – 17:00 Plenary session 6. Final panel on the future

17:00 Farewell mingle

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ACCEPTED PAPERS
(download abstracts here)

1. Gender, Science and Education in the Contemporary Azerbaijan Society
Kifayat Jabi Aghayeva, Azerbaijan University of Languages, Baku, Azerbaijan

2. New Gendered Division of Labour in the Entrepreneurial University?
Kristina Binner, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria & Lena Weber, University of Paderborn, Germany

3. Academic Drama and Gender Performance
Gunilla Carstensen, Högskolan Dalarna, FALUN, Sweden

4. Comparative Analysis of Pay Reviews in Australian and Swedish Universities
Jan Currie, Murdoch University, Australia

5. Professorship: Gender Selection Hidden by Criteria of Excellence?
Farinaz Fassa, Lausanne University, Switzerland & Sabine Kradolfer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain and Université de Genève, Switzerland

6. Gender Uncertainty in Academia
Anna Fogelberg Eriksson, Linda Schultz and Elisabeth Sundin, Helix Vinn Excellence Center, Linköping University, Sweden

7. Politics and Knowledge: Beyond the University Reforms
Federica Giardini, Department of Philosophy, University “Roma Tre”, Italy

8. Research Funding, Impact Assessment and Gender
Inger Jonsson, Uppsala University/FAS, Sweden

9. Revisiting the Concept of “Cooling-Out” in Scientific Careers of Young Academics
Heike Kahlert, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

10. “What Do Pigs Have to Do with Gender?” Experts, Expertise and the Education of Transnational Feminists
Kristy Kelly, Southeast Asia Postdoctoral Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, USA

11. The Promise of Excellence: Building up a Feminist Pedagogy Institution in Finland
Kirsti Lempiäinen, University of Lapland, Finland

12. Staying with the Limit
Mia Liinason, Lund University, Sweden

13. Gender Equality Agents in Higher Education: Changing Structures and Professionalization
Andrea Löther, Center of Excellence Women and Science, Germany

14. Review of Ethiopian University Senate Legislation from a Gender perspective
Yemisrach Negash Mengstie, University of Kassel, Germany

15. Profiling of Research, Differentiation and Excellence: Structures of Inequality in The New Research Landscape
Paula Mählck, Department of Education, Stockholm University, Sweden

16. Academic Feminism’s Engagement with University Corporatization: Counter-weight or Collaborator?
Janice A Newson, Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar, Department of Sociology, York University, Canada

17. The Paradox of Excellence: Merit and Occupational Attainments of Women in Computer Science
Irina Nikiforova, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

18. Boundary-Work That Does Not Work: Gender and Epistemic Authority in Changing Scientific Organisations
Maria do Mar Pereira, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

19. ‘The Men Next in Line Aren’t Interested Anymore’: Is Academic Management Becoming ‘Women’s Work’?
Helen Peterson, Linköping University, Sweden

20. Engendering Higher Education and Research: A Gender Perspective on Openings and Closures within a Natural Science University
Stina Powell, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

21. After Bologna: Gender Studies in Entrepreneurial Universities as ‘Institutional Hybrids’?
Anja Rozwandowicz, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

22. Constructions of Gender Equality and Possibilities of Political Change
Malin Rönnblom, Umeå University, Sweden

23. Academic and Industrial Organizations Compared by Those Who Know: Discussions with Industrial PhD Students and Their Supervisors
Minna Salminen, Uppsala University, Sweden

24. Female Dropouts in Industrial Research and How to Design Political Interventions to Reduce Them
Helene Schiffbaenker, Joanneum Research, Germany

25. Structural Transformation to Achieve Gender Equality in Science
Evanthia K. Schmidt, Aarhus University, Denmark

26. Inflating and Down Playing Strengths and Weaknesses: Gendered Competence Frameworks in Sweden and the Netherlands
Marieke van den Brink, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Charlotte Holgersson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Sophie Linghag, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

27. Paralysis and Fantasy – Handling Resistance when Conveying Feminist Knowledge
Anna Wahl and Charlotte Holgersson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

28. Tackling the Theory Practice Gap: Pursuing Gendered Organizational Change through a ‘Bifocal Approach’
Jennifer de Vries, University of Western Australia, Australia

29. Women in Corporate Boards in the UK: The Paradox of Interventions
Monica Wirz, University of Cambridge, UK

30. How to Change Gender Biased Mental Maps? The Importance of Watchdogs in Appointment Procedures for Full Professors in Austria
Angela Wroblewski, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Austria

GEXcel evaluated

ulrica — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:58:19 +0200

The Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet, recently published their evaluation of GEXcel and the other two Swedish centers of gender excellence. Here, GEXcel is said to have a 'notable position in the international context of gender research' (p. 16), and the center’s publications are assessed as 'very good to outstanding' (p. 35) ('outstanding' being the highest mark). The evaluation in PDF

Accommodation

Lena Gunnarsson — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:52:32 +0200

The following hotels in the Örebro city centre have rooms prebooked for
the conference for a reduced rate. Note: the rooms will be held until
September 19, 2011 for the participants in the conference. The
participants are to cover their accommodation costs themselves.

To make a reservation, please contact the hotel you prefer and give
the hotel the booking reference when you make your reservation. After
September 19 you can still make a reservation if there are rooms
available.

HOTELS

First Hotel Örebro
Storgatan 24
SE-703 61 Örebro
Tel: +46 19 611 73 00
E-mail: boka@hotellorebro.se
Web: www.hotellorebro.se
Booking reference: GEXcel
Single room: SEK 802 breakfast incl.

Elite Stora Hotellet Örebro
Drottninggatan 1
SE-702 10 Örebro
Tel: +46 19 15 69 00
E-mail: reservations.orebro@elite.se
Web: www.elite.se
Booking reference: GEXcel
Single room (superior): SEK 1073 breakfast incl.
Single room (standard): SEK 971 breakfast incl.

Hotell Göta
Olaigatan 11
SE-703 61 Örebro
Tel: +46 19 611 53 63
E-mail: info@hotellgota.nu
Web: www.hotellgota.nu
Booking reference: GEXcel
Single room: SEK 790 breakfast incl.

HOSTELS

A less expensive accommodation alternative is the hostel Livin located in the city centre of Örebro. Please check the hostel’s website for information: http://www.livin.se/

Conference call: Gender Paradoxes of Changing Academic and Scientific Organisation(s)

Lena Gunnarsson — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:32:38 +0200

We invite abstract submissions for the conference from scholars at all career stages whose research addresses one or more of the following sub-themes:

The paradox of CHANGE: rapid “non-gendered” change, and gender inertia in academic and scientific organizations; gendering “non-gendered” change processes; gatekeepers promoting and preventing change.
The paradox of EXCELLENCE: gendering new and emerging stratifications of academic and scientific organizations, disciplines and professions; gender impact of different excellence programmes and initiatives; critical policy analyses of excellence promotion.
The paradox of INTERVENTIONS: gender dynamics of gender equality promotion, resistance and change in academic and scientific settings; gender equality change agents in science and academia; gender fatigue; gender impacts of seemingly non-gendered interventions such as reforms in governance, appointment, evaluation, funding or salary systems.

For a full description of the Theme see here.

Each of these themes raises complex questions and contradictions for current critical theorizing on gender, academia and science. Papers are also invited more generally on theorizing and methodology in this research area: theories and methodologies, power, dominance, hegemony, deconstruction, centres and peripheries, relations of knowledge/policy/practice.  

PROVISIONAL SPEAKERS include: Jan Currie (Murdoch University, Australia), Suzanne de Cheveigné (CNRS, France), Jen de Vries (University of Western Australia), Maria do Mar Pereira (London School of Economics, UK), Heike Kahlert (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany), Mia Liinason (Lund University, Sweden), Louise Morley (University of Sussex, UK), Paula Mählck (Stockholm University, Sweden), Irina Nikiforova (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Helen Peterson (Linköping University, Sweden), Teresa Rees (Cardiff University, UK), Helene Schiffbaenker (Joanneum Institute, Austria), Marieke van den Brink (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Monika Wirz (University of Cambridge), Angela Wroblewski (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna).

 FORMAT: This conference will begin with a get-together on Wednesday evening (19 October 2011). Thursday and Friday (20-21 October 2011) will be based on small-scale conference format, with workshop meetings (on each of the four sub-themes), a few plenary sessions and a final plenary panel on 21 October. Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in progress related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among scholars at all career stages. Each sub-theme workshop will have about 10-12 participants, with short pre-circulated papers from presenters.  Each sub-theme will be assigned a coordinator and rapporteur, 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 electronically 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, and full contact details.  

ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSIONS: GEXcelTheme11-12@oru.se, with a cc to mia.fogel@oru.se. All applications must be clearly marked in the subject of the email: Abstract GEXcel conf 2011.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 25, 2011

 NOTIFICATION: A committee will review applicants and notify candidates selected for participation by September 5, 2011.  

INQUIRIES: Please send all inquiries to liisa.husu@oru.se.

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

Gunnel Karlsson — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:20:03 +0200

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

Fellows for Theme 11-12 selected

Gunnel Karlsson — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:54:39 +0200

The Fellows are:

Suzanne de Cheveigné
Jan Currie
Jen De Vries
Heike Kahlert
Mia Liinason
Louise Morley
Paula Mählck
Irina Nikiforova
Maria do Mar Pereira
Helen Peterson
Teresa Rees
Helene Schiffbaenker
Marieke van den Brink
Monica Wirz
Angela Wroblewski

Call for papers and participation “Men and Masculinities Moving On Again!"

ulrica — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:20:40 +0100

Location: Linköping University 25-27 May 2011

Following the successful “Men and Masculinities Moving On” 2009 Conference, GEXcel’s current Theme “Gendered Sexualed Transnationalisations, Deconstructing the Dominant: Transforming Men, “Centres” and Knowledge/Policy/Practice” invites scholars, at all career stages, to apply for a workshop conference in May 2011.

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 2011, one research theme of GEXcel is “Gendered Sexualed Transnationalisations, Deconstructing the Dominant: Transforming Men, “Centres” and Knowledge/Policy/Practice,” directed by Jeff Hearn, Linköping University. See a full description of the Theme http://www.genderexcel.org/?q=node/211.

We invite applications for the conference from scholars at all career stages whose research addresses one of the following sub-themes:

 MOVEMENTS and FLOWS: migration, social movements, transnational sociality, spatiality, transport, travel, tourism, energy, the environment.

 TECHNOLOGIES and VIRTUALITIES: current and future impacts of multi- mediation, cyberspace, information and communication technologies, and other
technologies.

 INSTITUTIONS and ORGANISATIONS: institutional aspects of globalisation and transnationalisation, transnational organisations, supranational governance, multinational corporations, international finance, militarism, sex trade, organised crime, transnational work-life relations. 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 and DOING METHODOLOGY: theories and methodologies, power, dominance, hegemony, deconstruction, centres and peripheries, relations of knowledge/policy/practice.

Provisional speakers include: Sofia Aboim (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Chris Beasley (University of Adelaide, Australia), Sırma Bilge (University of Montreal, Canada), Marina Blagojević (Altera MB, Budapest, Hungary), Tetyana Bureychak (National University of Lviv, Ukraine), Richard Collier (Newcastle University,UK), Manisha Desai (University of Connecticut, USA), Fataneh Farahani (Stockholm University, Sweden), Karen Gabriel (Centre for Women’s Development Studies, Delhi University, India), Tonya Haynes (University of the West Indies, Barbados), Jeff Hearn (Linköping University, Sweden), Richard Howson (Wollongong University, Australia), Helen Longlands (Institute of Education, London, UK), Nil Mutluer (Central European University, Hungary; and Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey), Marie Nordberg (Karlstad University, Sweden), Winifred Poster (Washington University, St Louis, USA), Ernesto Vasquez del Augila (University College Dublin, Ireland), PK Vijayan (Institute of Social Science, The Hague, Netherlands; and Delhi University, India).

Format: This conference will begin on Wednesday afternoon (25 May 2011) with
keynote addresses. Thursday and Friday (26-27 May 2011) 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 27 May. Workshops are designed to be a forum
for discussion of research in progress related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among scholars at all career stages. Each sub-theme workshop will have about 10-12 participants, with short pre/circulated papers from presenters. 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 tocontinued 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, and full contact details.

Address for Applications
Alp Biricik, alp.biricik@liu.se

Application Deadline
04 March 2011

Notification
A committee will review applicants and notify candidates selected for participation by mid March 2011 at the latest.

NEW BOOK: Sexuality, Gender and Power. Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives

Gunnel Karlsson — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:24:48 +0100

Bringing together essays by a distinguished international group of leading and emerging scholars of sexuality and gender, this stimulating and accessible collection explores a range of theoretical and "real world" perspectives current in the field. Treating these approaches as complementary, Sexuality, Gender and Power fosters critical conversations about sexuality across disciplinary, cultural, national and ideological boundaries.

Underpinned by a broad editorial commitment to intersectionality, the chapters deploy approaches that range from historical materialism to queer theory, and from contract theory to theories of the gendered sexual self to address recurrent questions around agency, power, identity and self-hood. Theoretical debates inform and are informed by more empirically oriented chapters focusing on topics such as gay identity in contemporary Croatia, sexual politics in the Commonwealth Caribbean, western "tango tourists," sexual violence in war, prostitution, femme fashion, changing sexual norms in China and Taiwan, and feminist politics in the 2008 US presidential campaign.

Each chapter is interesting and important in its own right; taken together, they advance gender theory and research by developing a complex conception of sexuality that explores intersections between and amongst theories, levels of analysis and identities, linking case studies to international trends and theoretical debates to everyday experiences.

Discount Flyer

Link to publisher's web site

GEXcel Fellowships Theme 11-12: Gender Paradoxes in Academic and Scientific Organisations

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:13:10 +0100

GEXcel theme 11-12, Gender Paradoxes in Academic and Scientific Organisations, is going on all academic year 2011. The theme is directed by Liisa Husu, Guest Professor in Gender Studies at Örebro University. There are two peak periods, May 2011 and mid-September-October 2011, with a number of joint workshops and events.

The theme has three subthemes:
1. Paradox of change
2. Paradox of excellence
3. Paradox of interventions.

Proposals are invited from doctoral students outside Sweden for fellowships in late spring or autumn 2011. Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing doctoral salary), housing stipend and travel costs to Sweden. Up to four doctoral fellowships of 1-2 months are available. Fellows selected for the program will be expected to participate in a research workshop in May 16-17, 2011 in Örebro and return to their residency in autumn.

Proposals are invited from postdoctoral scholars (priority given to applicants from Europe, including Sweden) for up to four fellowships of two to six months’ duration. Fellowships include salary (with a deduction for existing salary), housing stipend and travel to Sweden. Fellows selected for the program are expected to participate in a research workshop in May 16-17, 2011 in Örebro and in the joint programme in October 2011. The residency period is otherwise negotiable.

Proposals must include a current cv, an abstract of the proposed project, a 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 and the subthemes (see here).

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: GEXcelTheme11-12@oru.se. All applications must be clearly marked in the subject of the email: Application for GEXcel RT 11-12.

All inquiries should be sent to Liisa Husu, liisa.husu@oru.se.

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

Application Deadline: 31 January 2011 (Awards to be announced by 15 February 2010)

“Rethinking Transnational Dominance: Men and Other Creatures”

ulrica — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:27:26 +0100

Announcing GEXcel Theme 9 Symposium
“Rethinking Transnational Dominance: Men and Other Creatures”

Participation is free. Please register by 21st January with your name and dietary preference by emailing alp.biricik@liu.se

Place: Temcas, Tema Building, Linköping University
Date: Wednesday 26th January 2011.
Time: coffee from 9, starting 9.30, ending with Mingel from 17.00.

The symposium opens GEXcel (Centre of Gender Excellence, Linköping and Örebro Universities) Theme 9 on “Gendered sexualed transnationalisations, deconstructing the dominant: Transforming men, “centres”, knowledge/practice”.

Presentations will be made by Jeff Hearn (LiU), Chris Beasley (Adelaide, Australia), Karen Gabriel (Delhi, India), Marie Nordberg (Karlstad), Sofia Aboim (Lisbon, Portugal), Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila (UC Dublin, Ireland), and Richard Collier (Newcastle, UK).

On the following day, 27th January there will be a small invitation seminar; if you are interested in that, please contact jefhe@tema.liu.se with title line – GEXcel Theme 9 Roundtable Seminar.

Love in Our Time – a Question for Feminism: Open lectures at Örebro University

Gunnel Karlsson — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:14:14 +0100

If you want to have coffee/tea, please email monica.wettler@oru.se by 29
November.

THURSDAY 2 DECEMBER
(Location: BIO, Forumhuset)

11.15-12.15
“Love Studies in Our Time – Mapping the Field”
Anna G. Jónasdóttir,
Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Örebro University

13.30-14.15
“Bread and Roses in the Commons”
Rosemary Hennessy, Professor, Department of English and Director, Center for the Study of Women, Gender and
Sexuality, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA

14.15-15.00
“Love, Social Change and Everyday Heterosexuality”
Stevi Jackson, Professor, Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York, UK

FRIDAY 3 DECEMBER
(Location: BIO, Forumhuset)

11.30-12.15
“A Return to Love: A Caribbean Feminist Explores an Epistemic Conversation between Audre Lorde’s ‘the Power of the Erotic’ and Anna Jónasdóttir’s ‘Love Power’”
Violet Eudine Barriteau, Professor of Gender and Public Policy, University of the West Indies, Barbados

13.30-14.15
“Love and the Issue of Solidarity”
Ann Ferguson, Professor Emerita, Philosophy and Women’s Studies, University of Massachusetts, USA

Welcome to the conference VIOLENCES AND SILENCES October 12th - 14th

bjorn — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:57:59 +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 and artists will be arranged.

Violences and Silences: Shaming, Blaming – and Intervening

12 - 14 October, 2010 Room Temcas, T-House, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Violences and Silences is a culminating event of subtheme 7. Here, the focus will be on the role of silences and silencing, shame and blaming for maintaining violence. In this vein, an important part of the conference is to explore ways of expanding the concept of “perpetrator”, and discussions on intervention strategies will be based on including such possible mechanisms. During the conference, key note addresses will be given by internationally reputed researchers and artists:

Susan Edwards, Professor of Law, University of Buckingham, UK
”The Aetiology of Women's Silence in Violence - Lessons from the legal field”

Dubravka Zarkov, Associate Professor in Gender, Development and Conflict Studies, The International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands
"Feminist Analysis as Transformative Intervention: Transnational Feminist Writing on Sexual Violence Against Men in the 'War on Terror'"

Ann Heberlein, Associate Professer in Etichs, University of Lund, Sweden
"Hypermasculinities. On men, boys, shame and honor"

Ka Schmitz, Artist, illustrator and queer feminist activist, Berlin, Germany
Sandra Klauert, Graduated social worker and queer feminist activist, Germany
“Getting in Touch – Comic and Activism”

Lotta Samelius Dr, psychology, the National Swedish Police Academy, Sweden
Christa Binswanger, Dr phil, Gender Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland
Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Government, University of Uppsala, Sweden
“Turning points and the 'Everyday': Exploring Agency and Violence in Intimate Relationships”

Åsa Wettergren, Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
“The humiliation and shaming of helper interactions - how good intentions undermine agency”

Barbro Wijma, Professor of Gender and Medicine, University of Linköping, Sweden
"Violence - Silence - Shame in Health Care: Mechanisms and Options for Intervention"

See the preliminary programme.

Junior as well as senior scholars are invited to present papers in the conference workshop streams. Send an abstract of the proposed paper to coordinator[at]genderexcel.org of up to 250 words demonstrating how research connects to the theme of the conference. Please also include a brief biographical note of up to 150 words outlining your current research interests, most recent publications, academic affiliation and status. Deadline for submissions are 15 September. Those who are accepted to present a paper will be notified shortly thereafter.

The deadline for registration is 24 September. Register to participate by sending an e-mail to coordinator[at]genderexcel.org. The registration fee is 400 SEK (about 40 Euro), and includes the conference dinner, lunches and coffee. Those who are accepted to present papers will be exempted from the registration fee.

This page will be updated with furhter titels, and the conference program. If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to coordinator[at]genderexcel.org

New GEXcel Fellows

bjorn — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:14:49 +0200

In late May and early June, 2010, several postdoctoral scholars and doctoral students have been selected to participate as Visiting Fellows in GEXcel research themes.

To Themes 3 & 6, Distinctions and Authority; Power Shifts and New Divisions in Society, Work and University, Özlem Ezer, Giulia Garofalo, Katarzyna Gawlicz, Paula Mählck, Sabrina Marchetti and Dorthe Staunes have been selected for post doc positions, and Vera Galindabaeva, Thamar Heijstra, Karolina Rzepecka and PK Vijayan have been selected to PhD students’ positions.

Six post docs, and five PhD students were selected for the Sub-theme Gendered Violence, of Themes 7 & 8, Teaching Normcritical Sex – Getting Rid of Violence; Halimah DeShong, Sara di Palma, Mathabo Khau, Sunil Kumar Joshi, Lotta Samelius and Katarina Swahnberg will all visit GEXcel as postdoctoral scholars, and Maria Helena Bastos, Rana Jaleel, Elena Panican, Shirin Saeidi and Nicola Steffen have been granted PhD students’ fellowships. A call for fellowship applications for a second sub-theme, Critical, intersectional studies of sexualities, will open in the autumn of 2010.

To Theme 9, Gendered Sexualed Transnationalisations, Deconstructing the Dominant: Transforming Men, “Centres” and Knowledge/Policy/Practice, Sofia Aboim, Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila and Winifred Poster have been selected for post doc fellowships. PhD students’ fellowships have been granted to Tonya Haynes, Helen Longlands and Nil Mutluer. Moreover, Marie Nordberg has been appointed Open position scholar, affiliated with Theme 9.

Since March, two postdoctoral scholars and four doctoral students have been selected to participate as Visiting Fellows in Theme 10, Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism. The two postdoctoral student selected for four-month positions at Örebro University were Anna Adeniji and Ewa Majewska. The doctoral students, were Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty, Kaye Quek, Alyssa Schneebaum, and Eleanor Wilkinson.

In the autumn of 2010, two calls for fellowship application will open;
- Theme 7 & 8, sub-theme 2: Critical, intersectional studies of sexualities
- Theme 11 & 12: Gendered Paradoxes in Changing Academic and Scientific Organization(s)

Welcome to the Conference "Power Shifts and New Divisions in Society, Work and Universities"

bjorn — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:09:23 +0200

Welcome to the kick-off conference for GEXcel Themes 3 & 6:

Power Shifts and New Divisions in Society, Work and Universities

June 14-16, 2010 at GEXcel Gender Excellence Center, Linköping University

Venue: Temcas, T-house, Campus Valla, Linköping.

The conference is organized around three subthemes with speakers and workshops to which papers are invited to be presented.

Speakers include:
Professors
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, USA
Sylvia Walby, University of Lancaster, UK
Ursula Apitzsch, Frankfurt University, Germany
Elin Kvande, Univ of Technology and Natural Sciences, Norway
Kate White, Monash University, Australia
Marieke van den Brink, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands
Anita Göransson, Linköping University, Sweden

You may find more information about the speakers here

The conference will be opened on Monday June 14 at 10:30 by Vice-Chancellor Mille Millnert , Linköping University. (Registration from 10 a m.)

A detailed program is now available

THE CONFERENCE IS STILL OPEN FOR REGISTRATION

Participation registrations should be sent electronically to: coordinator[at]genderexcel.org

WELCOME!