International Conference: The War Question for Feminism

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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