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Junior Fellows selected for Theme 10
March 11 | 0 comments
Two postdoctoral scholars and four doctoral students have now been selected to participate as Visiting Fellows in Theme 10, Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism.
GEXcel Themes 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9: Invitation to apply for visiting fellowships
March 08 | 0 comments
Conference of Workshops: Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism
February 22 | 0 comments
GEXcel’s research theme Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism, directed by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University, invites junior and senior scholars to apply for a conference of workshops. The conference will be held at Örebro University on December 2-4, 2010.
Work in Progress Reoprt Volume VII now available
January 15 | 0 comments
The GEXcel Work in Progress Reoprt Volume VII is now available for download. Click here!
December 1 & 2: Two open lectures by Prof. Johan Galtung
November 26 | 0 comments
GEXcel: Gendering EXcellence Themes 4 & 5 is proud to announce two open lectures by Prof. Johan Galtung
Work in Progress Report Vol. VI now available
October 23 | 0 comments
The GEXcel Work in Progress Reoprt Volume VI is now available for download. Click here!
GEXcel Seminars this Autumn
October 16 | 0 comments
Sheila Jeffreys, Toni Calasanti and many more will visit GEXcel Theme 2 in November and December. If you wish to hear them talk, you can find out where and when in our seminar series programme.
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(What's this?)International Conference: The War Question for Feminism
By Malena Gustavson on 21 Feb | 0 comments
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