GEXcel news

GEXcel Seminars this Autumn

Malena Gustavson — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:07:51 +0200

GEXcel Theme 2 (LiU/ÖU) will give several seminar series this Autumn. Open Seminars (together with Tema Genus, LiU), a GEXcel mini-conference 20 November, a GEXcel symposium 2 December, and the GEXcel internal seminars. You will find the seminar series here: http://www.genderexcel.org/node/171

If you wish to attend the conference and the symposium please contact Malena Gustavson, Email: malena.gustavson@liu.se

New invitation to apply for visiting fellowship

Malena Gustavson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:43:12 +0200

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 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).

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

For full description for the invitation, click: http://www.genderexcel.org/node/169

Read the work-in-progress report from GEXcel's spring seminars

Gunnel Karlsson — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:00:22 +0200

Photos from Theme 1 Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Global Change

Gunnel Karlsson — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:02:17 +0200

Charles W. Mills and Carole Pateman.

Conference participants.

Cynthia Cockburn.

Ann Ferguson, Bih-Er Chou and Stevi Jackson.

Valerie Bryson and Anita Göransson.

Joyce Outshoorn.

Cheryl Auger and Richard Howson.

Sarah Scuzzarello and Malena Gustavsson.

Carole Pateman and Cynthia Cockburn.

All photos by Lena Gunnarsson

Visiting Fellows hold seminars at Örebro University

Gunnel Karlsson — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:21:54 +0100

International Conference: The War Question for Feminism

Malena Gustavson — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

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

22-23 September, 2008, Örebro University, Sweden

Submission of abstracts: April 15, 2008
Paper submission: September 1, 2008

The conference papers will be organized into three overarching themes:

I. War as a Feminist Issue
II. Militarism and Masculinities
III. Feminist concepts travelling into the area of security, the military, violent conflicts and peacekeeping operations

Please see Call for Papers for a more detailed description of the themes.

Confirmed Keynotes/Commentators

1 Cynthia Cockburn, Professor, City University, London
2 Carol Cohn, Director of the Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, Tufts University, Boston
3 Christine Sylvester, Professor, Lancaster University
4 Paul Higate, Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol
5 Jeff Hearn, Professor, Linköping University
6 Inger Skjelsbaeck, Researcher, The Int’l Peace Research Institute at Oslo
7 Sophia Ivarsson, The Swedish National Defense College, Stockholm
8 Maud Eduards, Professor, Stockholm University
9 Helena Carreiras, Professor, Lisbon University
10 Dubravka Zarkov, Associate Professor, Inst of Social Studies,The Hague

More information regarding the conference will be posted at the GEXcel - Gender Excellence Center's homepage www.genderexcel.org

The conference is being organized by:
Erika Svedberg, Centre for Feminist Social Studies, Örebro University, erika.svedberg@sam.oru.se
Annica Kronsell, Department of Political Science, Lund University, annica.kronsell@svet.lu.se

Read the work-in-progress papers of Theme 1

Gunnel Karlsson — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:50:04 +0100

New invitation to apply for visiting fellowship

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

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).

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)

For full description fo the invitation, click: www.genderexcel.org/node/144

Xingkui Zhang accepted for two-month scholarship

Gunnel Karlsson — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:32:11 +0100

The GEXcel board has decided to accept Xingkui Zhang, PhD student at the University of Sydney, Australia, for a two-month GEXcel scholarship.

He will spend the months of April and May at Örebro University to work within Theme 1 - Gender, Sexuality and Global Change.

Xingkui Zhang's research project is titled “Bao Ernai” in China — a Contemporary Form of Polygamy or Sexual Exploitation of Women? Towards a New Approach of Sexuality and Gender. See more about the project here.

GEXcel Conference of Workshops Örebro University 22-25 May 2008

Stine Adrian — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:08:42 +0200

The conference is organized around three sub-themes:
1) Sexuality, Love and Social Theory
2) Power and Politics: A Feminist View
3) Common and Conflicted: Rethinking Interest, Solidarity, and Action

The conference sets off with open lectures held by Carole Pateman, Charles W. Mills and Joyce Outshoorn.

See the conference programme

Download abstracts

Download poster

Read the announcement

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

Stine Adrian — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:10:27 +0200

Program

10.00 – 10.15 Welcoming to the Seminar by Janerik Gidlund (Rector, Örebro University)

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

The seminar wil take place at Hörsal G, Gymnastikhuset, Örebro University