GEXcel news

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)

Up-coming conference, 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 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 for 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.

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!

Extended deadline to apply for visiting fellowships GEXcel themes 7 & 8

bjorn — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:36:23 +0200

Positions for doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars to participate in research are still open for competition in GEXcel themes 7 & 8 - 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" EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 3 May 2010.

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 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 1 are 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 see 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’.

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Application instructions

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

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

Application Deadline: 3 May 2010

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

Gunnel Karlsson — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:42:16 +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

Junior Fellows selected for Theme 10

Gunnel Karlsson — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:55:45 +0100

The two postdoctoral student selected for four-month positions at Örebro University are Anna Adeniji, Södertörn University College, Sweden, and Ewa Majewska, University of Warsaw, Poland.

The doctoral students, who are invited for one-month visits, are Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, Kaye Quek, University of Melbourne, Australia, Alyssa Schneebaum, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States, and Eleanor Wilkinson, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

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

Katherine Harrison — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:14:08 +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

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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

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 see click here

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:

- impact of transnationalisations on privileged “centres”
- transnationalisations of knowledge
- 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

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)

Conference of Workshops: Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism

Gunnel Karlsson — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:18:34 +0100

We invite applications for this conference of workshops from junior and senior scholars whose research directly addresses one or more of the topics presented in the two main parts of the theme description: I. Love Studies – mapping the field; or II. Love Studies – remaking the field. For the latter, we invite contributions, both critical and reconstructive, that specifically approach one of the following three sub-themes:

(1) Gendered interests in sexual love, for instance how (if at all) care practices relate to erotic agency

(2) Temporal dimensions of loving and love activities, preferably as compared with temporalities of working, or labour activities; or with thinking and action time. Is there a philosophy and politics of time that should be distinguished and developed about love, to understand better the social conditions, cultural meanings and political struggles of love in our time?

(3) Love as a strong force in the intersection between politics and religion and also as a useful key concept for a new political theory of global revolution. What is to be said and done from feminist points of view about postmodern revitalising of pre-modern ideas of passionate love?

Conference Workshop Format

The conference will begin on Thursday morning (2 December 2010) with three keynote addresses from leading scholars in the field (to be announced), followed by workshop meetings in the afternoon. Friday (3 December 2010) will be organized similarly with both plenary sessions and parallel workshop meetings. A final plenary will be held on Saturday morning (4 December 2010), 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 workshop will go on for two days and involve ten participants from several institutions. Only those scholars currently working in the field addressed by the workshop will be accepted to participate.

The workshop format is intended to enhance participation in a collegial atmosphere. Each participant 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. 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.

Application Requirements

Send an abstract of the proposed paper demonstrating how your 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.

Address for Applications

GEXcelTheme10@oru.se

Application Deadline

May 10, 2010

Notification

A committee will review applicants and notify candidates selected for participation by mid-June 2010.

Work in Progress Reoprt Volume VII now available

Katherine Harrison — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:16:00 +0100

December 1 & 2: Two open lectures by Prof. Johan Galtung

Katherine Harrison — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:41:07 +0100

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/

Work in Progress Report Vol. VI now available

Katherine Harrison — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:08:51 +0200

Download the Work in Progress Report from the Örebro Conference

Gunnel Karlsson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:18:21 +0100

The conference rounded off the main activities of GEXcel’s Research Theme 1, Gender, Sexuality and Global Change, run from August 2007 through August 2008.

The conference was arranged in workshop format and gathered scholars like Cynthia Cockburn, Ann Ferguson and Kimberle Crenshaw.

Download the report here!

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

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